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Summary: Great book!
Review: Harvest Moon is a great book. The story and the pencil illustrations brought back memories of the summers I spent at Long Lake. McKinnon (Pelletier) really has a way of taking me back to my younger days in Aroostook County. I truly appreciate the author's ability to stir up some wonderful memories.
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Summary: I couldn't put this book down!
Review: I am a young married women who rarely reads a romance novel. I had no problem relating to Maggie. In fact, I found myself seeing myself there at The Harvest Moon. I recomend this book to women of ages 21- life
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Summary: Ugh! The Worst Book I've Ever Read
Review: I bought this book thinking it would be a touching love story, but it was unbelievable and boring. The writing seemed rushed and rough-hewn, like the author hadn't spent a lot of time polishing. The author's comtempt for the genre was obvious. It was almost like she sat down and said, "I'm writing these wonderful, underrated literary novels, and it's getting me nowhere! Nobody has ever heard of Cathie Pelletier! And I want to be famous more than life itself, so I'll just whip up another BRIDGES and those stupid romance readers will rush out and buy it. Then all of my respected literary novels will get read, and I'll finally get my just rewards." If you want a good love story, read an author who has love and respect for her characters (and doesn't look down on her audience). I can't recommend this book to anyone. What a disappointment!
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Summary: It will take you away
Review: I enjoyed this book about a woman's "mid-life crisis." It was refreshing to find a story with a female lead character who was a mature woman, who re-evaluates her life, who finds love, who accepts love. It reminds us that we deserve to be fully alive even as we get older, even when we think we have to be held back because we are role models to younger people, to our children. I enjoyed the story and I'm not in that age range (I'm much younger). While the author sometimes stopped me with her writing style (I would've been marked down in college for using some of the grammar and punctuation that she did), her overall style is gentle, flowing. It makes for a sweet story, a relaxing read. I've already sought out other books by her.
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Summary: It will take you away
Review: I enjoyed this book about a woman's "mid-life crisis." It was refreshing to find a story with a female lead character who was a mature woman, who re-evaluates her life, who finds love, who accepts love. It reminds us that we deserve to be fully alive even as we get older, even when we think we have to be held back because we are role models to younger people, to our children. I enjoyed the story and I'm not in that age range (I'm much younger). While the author sometimes stopped me with her writing style (I would've been marked down in college for using some of the grammar and punctuation that she did), her overall style is gentle, flowing. It makes for a sweet story, a relaxing read. I've already sought out other books by her.
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Summary: Overrated and poorly written.
Review: I feel that Harvest Moon was one of the most poorly written books I have ever read. It was superficial and trite. The plot was predictable and simple, and left nothing to the imagination. It was a cheap imitation of Bridges. It was insulting to my intelligence, and my teenage daughter could have written a more complelling storyline.
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Summary: Wonderful escape reading
Review: I know that many of the reviewers are right...the plot was a bit thin and I did get tired of the repetition of the name "Robert Flaubert", but I had to give this book 5 stars because the love story just drew me in. I loved it. Sure, it was a fantasy and I highly doubt it could happen in real life, but not every book has to hit the reader with the harsh reality of life. The relationship between Maggie and Eliot was very powerful and I don't care if Robert was perfect, I still fell in love with him, and with Eliot too. So, if you're looking for some good escape reading for a beautiful fall day, take this book along.
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Summary: Yuch!
Review: I listened to the audiotape of this book. The reader did the best she could with the incredibly cornball dialogue and trite descriptions, but it was still barely tolerable. If I heard the words "Little Bear Lake" and "Robert Flaubert" one more time I would have screamed. Who told the author that constant repetition was a GOOD thing? Somehow she must have the idea that it is somehow romantic to constantly repeat names and places. Not only is the story trite and predictable, but the bigger than life protagonist and his idolicized dead father are annoying as hell. If Robbie was so perfect then why on earth did Maggie dump him? And the wize words that come out of 25-year-old Elliot's mouth are ludicrous. Quoting the Great Gatsby? How pretentious! Romance followers will still probably swoon over this pap, but literature lovers will barf.
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Summary: HARVEST MOON was a great book!
Review: I loved this book, it touched my heart and made me cry. Not many books could touch the heart the way Harvest Moon touched mine. It shows true love really does exist and you find it when you least expect to.
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Summary: Okay, could've been better...
Review: I purchased the unabridged audio version of "Dancing at the Harvest Moon," hoping for a light funny romance. Instead it was rather maudlin. Heroine Maggie Macintire is experiencing a mid-life crisis after her husband divorces her for a much younger woman, and spends most of the novel moping about responsibility and wringing her hands about her relationship with a much younger man. Okay, its not the age difference, its really not, but I didn't find the romance between Maggie and Robbie's son to be that believable. For one thing, they didn't seem to have a huge amount in common except their mutual love of their father. Second, for a forty-six year old woman Maggie was shockingly immature. She never seemed to know what she wanted, and when she figures it out, she 'denies herself' out of worry about what other's might think. Feh. Robbie's son seemed to be a restless dreamer with no real life, and an almost weirdly obsessive love for Maggie, his father's ex-girlfriend. From my perspective these two characters were just NOT in a healthy relationship. Maggie seemed to be living in the past, and Robbie's son, just didn't seem normal. Overall, I was disappointed in "dancing," especially the ended abruptly, which left many questions unanswered.
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