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Wish You Well

Wish You Well

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent book
Review: Anything that David Baldacci writes is well worth reading. I find it difficult to write a review without giving away good parts of the story, and at the same time without being vague. However, I feel that after reading such a good book the least I can do is try my best to inspire others to read this excellent book.

If you are familiar with David Baldacci's work this book may surprise you. This is a story about human relationships and love, struggle and injustice. The story is filled with unexpected developments that keep intensifying the situation as you get deeper into the pages. The characters are well developed and as their troubles continue to escalate you start to care more and more about what happens to them, which makes the book hard to put down. Furthermore, the story is so intense that made me want to jump right into the imaginary world and help the characters through their struggle.

Although the story does have a happy ending, it is by any means not a cheap Hollywood-style corny tearjerker ending. In fact I find it that it is the best ending for this story, as it would not work the other way around.

The book is well worth your time. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A look at the Virginia Mountains
Review: Baldacci has changed his writing style for "Wish you Well". I must say that I purchased the book with doubt. I have read every book that he has written, and reading what this one was about, I thought it would be boring and dull. His published works have had mystery and violence, but never giving a clue to the answers until the last chapter. This undertaking has a wonderful, gentle style, that reviews the hardships and problems of life in the Virginia mountains in the era portrayed. It has the drawing power from page to page, to find what happens next in the life of the characters. The character of "Diamond", revealed intellegence, whimsy, fun and survival skills that came from knowledge beyond "book learning." One chapter lead to another to discover if our characters could the hardness of life in the mountains. I believe it is a book for all ages.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!!
Review: Heart and soul truly pours from every page of the book. By the time I was done I wanted to meet all the characters and wished I could go up on that mountain. I was emotional when I read the end my daughter is now reading it! And she hates books like that!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: We all knew Amanda was going to wake up in the last chapter.
Review: Hello David Baldacci, what happened to character development!!?! To begin with, it seems as if a lot of authors seem to get entirely too caught up with surroundings, that they seem to forget about the characters.

I read this book for my senior A.P. Literature class and I wanted to throw it out the window after the first 50 pages. Has anyone other than myself noticed that David Baldacci writes novels parallel to how I wrote descriptive essays in the third grade?!

This novel stars a twelve-year-old girl named Lou and her brother Oz... and I knew that from the beginning. Yet, throughout the book I wondered if Baldacci forgot what it was like to be twelve. Most adults in their late 30s aren't even on the level of thinking that "Lou" is.

Overall, the story is meant to play off of human emotions. In today's society, anything that people can relate to or pity, they love.

Thumbs down.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Life on the Mountain...
Review: I enjoyed this book, I really did, however I thought there were too many parts that droned on to long. The author paints such a vivid picture of life on a Virginia mountain in 1940...but he put so much effort into his discriptions, that a bunch of times I found myself getting annoyed that I wasn't learning more about the characters themselves.

The book starts out with a car accident that leaves Lou (12) and Oz (7) pretty much parentless. Their father is killed, and their mother is in a coma of sorts. They move from the busy streets of New York City to the VERY rural mountains of Virginia to be with their great-grandmother Louisa. From there Lou and Oz learn to work the land, befriend some unexpected people, and learn to really believe in their family and each other.

Overall, a good story, I only gave it 3 stars though cause the beginning is very slow, far to much discription going on, not enough character build-up. Also, at times these children seemed WAY beyond their years. For only being 7 years old, Oz spouts out some pretty profound stuff, and Lou is even more mature! Not very believable, but aside from that, this was a good read, one that I would recommend for a rainy day, or if your between books. I don't think I'll be rushing out to read more by this author though.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: How Predictable
Review: I have never read Baldacci before, and I don't plan to read him again. I was forced to read this sappy, pat story because it was my book clubs book of the month. Lou, the little girl in the story is twelve years old, and I believe Baldacci was confused by this too often. He wrote her thoughts, and contemplations as though she were a very old, very wise adult. So much of this book was the author's dribble. He tried much too hard to describe the sceneries, and left too much lacking in his characters. His characters were way too predictable. I think he may even have copied some of them from other stories, Huck Finn perhaps. Don't waste your time, or your money reading it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: How Predictable
Review: I have never read Baldacci before, and I don't plan to read him again. I was forced to read this sappy, pat story because it was my book clubs book of the month. Lou, the little girl in the story is twelve years old, and I believe Baldacci was confused by this too often. He wrote her thoughts, and contemplations as though she were a very old, very wise adult. So much of this book was the author's dribble. He tried much too hard to describe the sceneries, and left too much lacking in his characters. His characters were way too predictable. I think he may even have copied some of them from other stories, Huck Finn perhaps. Don't waste your time, or your money reading it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: So-so
Review: I picked this book up and put it down several times before really getting into it. It just didn't hold my interest in the beginning. In the end, I was glad I read the book. It got more interesting as it went along, especially if you're from the Virginia mountains and can relate to the life style and scenery.

The story centers around two children and their paralyzed mother who go to live in the Virginia hills after a car accident kills the father and damages the mother. There they meet their grandmother who lives off the land and life is much tougher than it was in the city. In the meantime, a court battle ensues over the grandmother's land, which causes the reader to keep reading just to find out how this will all end.

Emotionally it seemed a little calculated and over done, but all-in-all, not a bad book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Different for Baldacci
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I got the feeling reading it, that this was Baldacci's dream novel. The one he always wanted to write. It's beautiful and touching. A great read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wish you well review
Review: I've never read David Baldacci before so I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading this book. I was a little unsure when I bought this book and left it in the bag for a couple of weeks before I pulled it out to read. I'm glad I did because I could not put this book down.

Lou and Oz live in New York city with their parents, until an accident kills their father and leaves their mother in a deep coma from which the doctors don't think she will recover from. They have to move from the big city to the country in Virginia to live with their grandmother, whom they have never met. Lou and Oz first resist the new setting but soon learn they better adapt or the struggle will only get harder.

Lou learns that even though she will always be a big sister, she needs to let her brother be his own person. Oz learns he needs to grow up, in the sense that he is the youngest but he's not a baby any more.

I look forward to reading other books by Mr Baldacci and hope they are a good as this one.


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