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Summary: A good read.
Review: I really enjoyed this book - almost loved it. It was a quick read and the author easily draws you into a beautiful and serene setting along with memories of first love that we all have. My only criticism -- and maybe I'm a little too "New England" prudish -- would be the almost incestuous-feeling love that develops between Maggie and Eliot. I can accept the age difference, but falling for the son of my first love who looks just like him ... I don't know ... feels a little weird and I had a tough time shaking that feeling. But, the drawings, the writing, the setting all were enough to pull me in and keep me reading to the end.
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Summary: entertaining
Review: I really enjoyed this book. But for some reason I didnt have a hard time getting past the age thing but did have a hard time getting past the fact that Eliot seemed to be a replacement for Rob and also the fact that Eliot had read all of his fathers letters and therefore was in love with Maggie..before he even met her....yet...still found it to be a good book
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Summary: BREATH TAKING
Review: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY WHOLE LIFE. MY FEELINGS WHERE WITH MAGGIE ALL THE WAY, THANK GOD YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED. AND K.C. I GIVE YOU A ROUND OF THANKS FOR RIGHTING A GREAT BOOK. IT IS TRUELY ONE I WILL NEVER FORGET.
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Summary: A reader
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I saw the t.v. movie special on this story and went out to look for this book afterward. This was my first K.C. McKinnon book and she did a great job. I read it in one day. It was truly romantic and refreshing. I hope to see more/read more stories like this one. Good job!
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Summary: Featherweight romance novelette
Review: I wanted to read this book because I absolutely LOVE Cathie Pelletier's work, "The Funeral Makers," etc., and I was curious to experience another facet of her writing under the pseudonym K.C. McKinnon. Let's just say I'm glad I only spent so little on the paperback version.Early on I knew I would have to work at reading this book, especially when faced with a bogus simile such as this: "Bricks had fallen from the chimney and lay on the ground like small red bales of hay." Huh? The book is rife with similar literary bungles. It is a nice story, as other readers have remarked in this forum, but the writing disintegrates into useless blather time and again. Go ahead, skip a few paragraphs, it won't matter. All you want to do is find out if she gets the guy in the end. The main character, Maggie, is on a journey of self-discovery that is rooted in her past. Abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she is looking for a guy she regrets dumping 25 years ago. But instead of character-building dialogue or self-examination, we get paper-thin chat and starry-eyed navel-gazing. A typical passage: "How could she forget him? How could she ever let him go, if she didn't breathe his air, sit by his lake, listen to his loons, and then, hopefully, exorcise him forever. And maybe, in the scuffle, she would discover who she was and what she wanted. Would she be a professor of comparative literature? Or would she be like "Gunsmoke's" Miss Kitty, tending bar night after night, waiting for Matt Dillon to finally kiss her? But Robbie would never kiss her again. Robbie was gone, like the migrating hawks, and he wouldn't be back." I can't say whether this book is overwritten or underwritten. Maybe the auther drew herself a bubble bath and let the Calgon take her away. She certainly lost touch with the wonderful, in-depth characterization and original writing style she displays as Cathie Pelletier. I was disappointed.
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Summary: I really enjoyed this book
Review: It is set in an area I am very familiar with, and love. McKinnon sets the scenes so well, you feel you are there. I loved it.
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Summary: A excellent, must read..loved the "illustrative"
Review: It's about time to read a book weaving an"illustative"..."narrational" quality within the storyline.
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Summary: Wonderful Book!!!
Review: It's been a very long time since I've read a book as well written as this one is!! I finished the book in less than a day, unable to put it down, needing to know how Maggie would deal with all of turmoil in her life, especailly over Robbie. When Maggie found out about Robbie after 25 years, I cried! I loved this book from beginning to end! I would strongly, strongly recommend it to anyone and everyone I know. I've already started!
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Summary: An enjoyable story
Review: Maggie is a forty-five year old woman with two children that are on their own, and a husband that has abandoned her for a much younger woman. Her life is falling apart. Then she finds them. The letters are all bound together and still smell like her first loves cologne...the one person whose heart she broke. The letters bring back all the memories of their past together and the time they spent at Harvest Moon during the summers. She decides to go back to Canada, back to her first love, Rob. However, things are not as she thought they would be. After buying the Harvest Moon and deciding to remodel, she finds out that her first real love has died. But he lives on in his son, Eliot, and soon Maggie is wondering how she is falling in love with her first love's son, and what she should do. I enjoyed the book and recommend it for others who have enjoyed other books by K.C. McKinnon (who is Cathie Pelletier). It is a book about love and relationships and has a very happy ending.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Ms. McKinnon did a great job conveying the heartache a woman feels after a painful divorce. Instead of the character wasting her life away by crying about it, Ms. McKinnon gives a beautiful example of how one woman kept her life together and the suprises that she encountered. Beautiful scenery that makes you want to be there, especially if you love autumn.
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