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Summary: The sub plot was better and wish there was more....
Review: The story started very promisingly. It intrigued me to read on and find out what happened. Then Jill got increasingly paranoid and neurotic. She kept behaving in ways that she soon hated herself for, which was annoying to read. Alex was mysterious, why he fell in love with Jill was mysterious too. The problem with the story was that there were not enough reasons for readers to understand why Jill and Alex cared about each other.It was the sub-plot that shone. The story between Kate and Edward was moving. In fact, Kate was the most vivid and haunting character in the entire story. She got most of the best lines too. I wish the author could devote the same talent to the character development of Jill, Alex and Edward. Kate was so heartwrenchingly steadfast in love and friendship, yet her death was so tragic and haunting. The image of how she suffered fear, hunger, cold, helplessness, hopelessness, pain and yet still keeping her faith of love and friendship was too moving and haunting. After the fierce quest of Jill to find justice for Kate, I found it hard to accept that there was not. There were many flaws in the story. It did not make sense that Kate sent her son away because she felt something might happen to her and yet left no trace about who she was meeting. I finished the book without feeling satisfied. I could not get enough of the tale between Edward and Kate, Edward and Anne. I wished I could read more about Edward in the years after Kate. Somehow, the relationship between Jill and Alex was not important at all.
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Summary: Another good work from Brenda Joyce
Review: My sister gave me this as a must read and now I have recommended it to many friends. It started out a little slow but then I got caught up in the circumstances that this young girl must endure after her fiance is killed in a car accident. It mixes contemporary fiction with a bit of historical fiction as well. I was constantly trying to figure out who the bad guy was and enjoyed her many twists along the way. I was thoroughly entertained.
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