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Summary: The Search
Review: "The Search" by Grace Livingston Hill is the first book that I have read that I did not thoroughly enjoy. (And I have read probably 36 of her books) The struggle that Ruth MacDoanld and John Cameron had to be together and find happiness was not compelling, and not up to the standard of Mrs. Hill's other wonderful books. This was a book I found easy to put down.
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Summary: Check out some of her other stuff - Stay away from this one.
Review: I like GLH because I enjoy the pictures of the early century life as described by this novelist. Her stories are simplistic and seldom have a great deal of depth, but they are usually entertaining and lighthearted. This is not one of her better efforts. Ruth MacDoanld is the heroine of the tale. She is a wealthy privileged young woman who has blithely lived her life with little or no thought to others. One day she catches a glimpse of a former childhood friend going off to war and her eyes begin to open to the needs of others. John Cameron is the young hero off to fight in WWI. John goes off to war and begins a correspondence with Ruth, but the letters were too few and stopped before any real insight or depth of feeling between the couple could be established. Then on the basis of these letters and some actions that John performed when they were both children, the two begin to form an attachment that I could never believe. The characters were detached and hard to really care about. The actions taken by all of them were strange and difficult to follow. The action is slow and spaced out. GLH uses several of her usual plot devices: separation of the H&H, devotion to the sweet little mother character and villains, but none of them could save this novel.
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