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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: This is one of the best books I ever read! I couldn't put this book down. I don't read much, if it doesn't grab my attention in the first chapter, I'm done with it. I was hooked on this book from the very beginning.
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Summary: A Great Book to Curl Up With.
Review: This one was a great read. It was hard to put down. If your looking for a good book to curl up to in front of the fire or on a raining afternoon. Or Any Time. This is the book to read.
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Summary: on mystic lake by kristin hannah
Review: I was just wondering if there is a part two to this book if there is what is the name of it. i just love that story and i thinkit should have a part two. thanks kathy mancuso
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Summary: Gripping...
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this one!! It's an easy read which held my interest. At times, I sobbed with every turn of the page. I hope there will be a sequel for this someday.
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Summary: Worth the time..
Review: Brought tears of saddness and laughter....brought anger and joy....brought pain and healing all in one endearing story of love lost, found, and then lost and found again. Tough choices sometimes take great action, but will always be worth the trouble once ended. Read about the struggle(s) no woman should have to face, but fight along with Annie to find her true hearts desire and yours. The love of oneself and from another.
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Summary: Very moving and beautiful...
Review: This is a lovely, often lyrical novel. The characters (except for Blake) are realistic, and learn in the course of the novel, which I think is one of the hallmarks of a good story. The love story is realisitc and strong, and the author's descriptions of the Pacific Northwest are really lovely--her own love for the area shines through. One of the interesting things about this story is that it contrasts a life that seems to have everything (beach house in California, life with enough money never to have to worry, etc.) with life in a poor logging town, and the everyday life of the logging town is the infinitely better and more fulfilling choice. This choice rings true, as does Annie's attempt to stick with the commitments and relationships that she picked so long ago. The only problem is that Blake and the California life become stiff and one dimensional, which is too bad because I think the "rightness" of Annie's choice would still hve been clear even if he was a slightly more attractive character.
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Summary: Very Touching Story!
Review: I've always enjoyed a sentimal story, and this book definitly hit the spot. It was so touching and everything! The story of a women, who is on the brink of menopause, being dumped by her husband for a younger women, and whose child is flying off abroad to study, can make one totally sympathize with Annie. One must also admire her backbone and returning home to her father's, Mystic Lake, and taking back what use to be hers, but had been lost in the marriage with her husband. Throughout the novel, Annie fights her overpowering sense of identity crisis. And coming home, she realizes that her first love, Nick, has just lost his wife, and him and his daugther Izzy, are both trying to survive the shock. So Annie comes into their lives, and helps them reorganize, and in the process, finds herself. This is a powerful moving story of what one loses and can gain back, and to keep near to the heart, what is most important. Read it, it'll will definitly bring a tear to your eyes.
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Summary: GOOD OLD FASHION ROMANCE NOVEL
Review: Having taken on much stronger and weighter subject matter in the last 20 years, it was enjoyable to get lost in a true romance novel. Hannah's writing is rather good, not sappy and unbelievable. The plot was reasonable and the characters very reader friendly. For a day I was wisked to my favorite state in the Union, Washington, and the rain forests I adore. The love triangle of Annie, Blake, and Nick was somewhat predictable, yet cohesive. Looks at more serious matters were also addressed through Izzy, a child ravished by a mother's suicide, and an honest attempt to address bipolar illness. Though wanting, Hannah does breach the issue and makes a brave attempt. All in all, it kept me interested and I even cried at some of the sentiment. That says alot for the decency of the writing. Though I could never linger in this fanciful genre often, it was enjoyable on a hot summer day. It is a beach book; a hammock book; a let me just forget all the tragedy around me book. Sometimes the violence of our culture makes a book like this needed and Hannah rose nicely to the task. Pure pleasurable escapism.
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Summary: Learning to start over
Review: Annie has defined herself as a wife and mother. So when her daughter leaves home for a stay in England and her husband tells her that he's in love with someone else, Annie drifts back to her childhood town, Mystic, where she hopes to re-evaluate herself. Whilst she is there she meets up with Nick Delacroix, a schoolfriend and old flame, who married her best friend. Nick has also had hard times, his wife committed suicide and his daughter Izzy is so traumatised that she has stopped talking. For the first time Annie feels like she can help, and revels in the way she feels useful. She even begins to feel love again, and how it feels to be loved. Unfortunately the past has a way of rearing its head, and when she discovers that she is pregnant to her husband and he wants her back, she feels that she has no other choice but to return and try to hold on to her marriage. But on her terms. She will no longer be the pushover wife who just accepts that her role is to please her husband. Will those terms be acceptable? It takes some words of wisdom from her daughter to realise who she should be pleasing.
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Summary: Couldn't put this one down!
Review: This was a great book. I loved it from the start. While I was reading it I kept thinking... "I'm going to hate to finish this one!" A must read!
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