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Summary: Holy Cow!!
Review: Holy Cow!! Break out the tissues, bc this book WILL make you sob. It was a feel-good book about the endurance of love. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys love stories, and boy will it make you cry! I LOVED IT!! I want a Martin in my life!!
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Summary: Rooms with a view
Review: A kind of halfway house between civilization and nature, a gazebo is the ideal outpost from which to gaze inward. In this protecteed yet open-air shelter, far from phone and fax, it's possible to hold on to the insights that otherwise end up tossed with yesterday's unread papers.
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Summary: Touching
Review: THE GAZEBO is a lyrical tale about love, exploring it in several forms: Young love, true love, and whether true love ever can be lost.Emily Grayson's writing is graceful and compelling, and the novel engages its readers while these issues are resolved. This touching story will stay with a reader long after the book is completed.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: This books is truly terrible. I advise anyone who likes good contemporary fiction to stay away from this implausible, silly story. The plot is unrealistic in so many, many areas that it is difficult to keep going. It was only because I was on a car trip and was listening to the book on tape that I didn't quit after the first 50 pages.
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Summary: Thoroughly Enjoyable!
Review: I enjoyed this book so much, I am awaiting the sequel to arrive! A wonderful story of a man and a woman who as young lovers realize that they must sacrifice everything they hold dear for their families. They each live out their lives separate, in their own marriages, but meet once each year in The Gazebo. Now at the end of their lives, the man passes the secret on to another person ( a reporter), hoping that their true story will be shared. A quick read, with a nice story.
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Summary: A Beautiful Romantic Story
Review: This book is a cross between "West Side Story" and "Same Time, Next Year" Martin and Clair are truly in love despite the many obstacles that face them. Due to family obligations Clair stays home while Martin runs his restaurant in London. They agree to meet each other every year at the gazebo where they first met on the anniversary of that day. I truly loved this book and would highly recommend it.
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Summary: as pre-packaged as it gets
Review: I have nothing against "fluff" novels and am in no way trying to hold this book up against weightier peers. However, even in the fluff genre, this book was disappointing. I have to admit that I read this book because I really enjoyed Greyson's second book, The Observatory, which was much stronger overall and less predictable. This book felt contrived from the beginning: a man shows up in Abby's office with a briefcase and a story to tell. Plus, the whole novel is supposed to take place while Abby is sitting in her office listening to Martin's tape of his story of eternal love, but the narration is not written anything like a recording. In other words, this book is no "tape" -- it is just a novice author's attempt at trying to come up with a novelistic device to narrate a story in typical prose very much unlike a tape. Although the devices used have a pre-packaged feel, I did enjoy much of the plot. Who doesn't take some joy in the rich boy overthrowing his autocratic parents (talk about stereotyping though!) and moving to Europe where he achieves his lifelong goal of becoming a famous chef? If you are looking for a quick read and a nice story, you won't be disappointed. I would recommend Greyson's second book though much more strongly than this one which I found dull by comparison.
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Summary: A great Beach read!
Review: I loved the story and thought it is an excellent choice for a fast, enjoyable read. I did however, not enjoy the character of Abby. The author did not seem to make the reader attached to her therefore causing her to become a dreaded part of the book. I thought this idea was very creative but she needed to make the reader more emotionally attached to her character. I felt that this was a fabulous story of romance and devotion through two lives and highly recommend it to all!
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Summary: Emotionally frustrating story
Review: The story of Martin and Claire's lifetime romance. It begins some 50 years back, when they were teens, through their romance as they run to Europe, then as they part and go their seperate ways. I've read less plausible story lines, but as passionate as they seemed about one another, I found it frustrating that they would have ever seperated. With as large a love as that, wouldn't one of the two have figured a way to stay together? Of course then we would have lacked conflict in our plot, and it wouldn't have been too interesting. Does anyone else find it a stretch that their passion would have remained strong enough to meet once every year for one day? Especially in light of the fact that they lived an ocean away and each married and raised a family? Still, a nice romantic escapade. It was a pleasant, quick read, but Ms. Grayson won't win any prizes for plot, prose or much else. If you have lots of Hemingway, Irving, or Conroy and Michener on you reading list, skip this. If you like fast-food novels, go for it.
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Summary: Touching and Sentimental Treat!
Review: THE GAZEBO plucks heartstrings and makes the reader sigh with longing as the ill-fated romance between the two main characters follows its course. Rather a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, this book is sure to please readers of romance who don't mind their emotions being shamelessly manipulated. Put aside reality and your troubles and lose yourself in - THE GAZEBO.
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