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Summary: Charming, light, delightful!
Review: "Meeting Lilly" is one of my favorite books. Somehow I never get tired of reading it again. It is a charming story that takes you away to a quiet quaint Italian village. It is also a story of subtle awakenings. Reading "Meeting Lilly" is a bit like watching a foreign film. The style of the writing is unique and fairly abbreviated. Sarah Woodhouse doesn't waste alot of words. She tells her story with details. It is easy for me to see why Rosamunde Pilcher chose to add this book to her "bookshelf". If you enjoy Rosamunde Pilcher's books, I'd be amazed if you didn't also love this one. The story is simple and is more about the small goings on of life and interactions between people than it is about any major plot. Absolutely worth reading!!! (more than once)
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Summary: A nice little story
Review: A nice story, which is easy to read if you are looking for something simple to amuse you. Since I am into "clean" reading, this is a good choice if you feel the same.
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Summary: Boring Story Plods Slowly, Goes Nowhere
Review: An English lady running a bed & breakfast in beautiful northern Italy sounded promising and could have been had the author played fair with the reader. Instead she created many subplots and by the last page had not tied up all the loose ends. There were many questions left unanswered and I wondered if perhaps the printer had deleted the last chapters by error. Surely, no author would leave everything up in the air the way Sarah Woodhouse did. What writer would have two murders committed and leave the reader not knowing who committed them? Another major flaw in this novel is that none of the characters were well-defined or likeable. Only with Nan, the protagonist, did we get an inkling of why she was such a spineless, weak-willed person. How lovely it would have been if something had happened to let her begin to grow into a stronger person. But, no. Sorry to say, by book's end Nan had shown zero growth. Many other characters played into numerous sub-plots, but none were well-defined enough to care about. Their stories were left hanging in mid-air and the reader was left with more questions than answers. I would love to ask the author how she selected "Meeting Lily" as the title of her book. Who got to meet this woman who was alluded to on a few occasions? Certainly not any reader who shelled out money for this book or hung around for 277 pages. If you're looking for an interesting story rich with the local color of Italy, look elsewhere. With the exception of a couple of Italian words, this one could have been set in Anytown, USA.
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