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Summary: If you enjoyed Like Water For Chocolate, avoid this book
Review: I loved Like Water For Chocolate and was excited to find that Laura Esquivel had written another book. The synopsis inside the book jacket sounded very interesting to me. However, after the first chapter of this book, I was put off by the disjointed plot.The author employs much the same style as in her first attempt, but the book disintegrates into a disjointed science fiction story filled with violent images. I took this book out of the library (thank goodness I didn't waste good money on buying a copy) and thus did not hear the CD that came with it to complete the multimedia assault; I may have missed an integral part of the experience, but I doubt it. The drawings included in the book were pointless, in my opinion. I finished this book only for pride. I applaud Ms. Esquivel's efforts to produce a wide variety of works, but this book was just bad.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I was so looking forward to reading this book and I can only say, now that I am finished, that I am saddly disappointed. With her book, Like Water for Chocolate, Esquivel proved herself as a wonderfully imaginitive and passionate writer. I'm not sure what happened with this, her latest book. The basic premis was good, but for whatever reason, Esquivel was unable to pull it together. It was sloppy and boring and sappy. The only good thing about this book was the wonderful CD of music that came with it. With all this said, I do look forward to reading her next book. This woman has talent! She needs to rely less on gimmicks and more on her own magical story-telling abilities.
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Summary: One of the best novel I've ever read!
Review: It is the story of a passion that survives from the fall of Montenzuma's empire to the Mexico City of the 23rd Century. Azucena is an atroanalyst, a sort of a highly evolved psychotherapist, who ministers to the kermically challenged. The most interesting part that I felt connected to was when, Azucena has finally caught the brass ring of reincarnation as an enlightened soul: She is allowed to meet her twin soul, her true love, Roderigo. But after one night of supreme passion, the lovers are unfortunately seperated, and Azucena must search for Roderigo acorss the galaxy and through 12,000 lives. My first reaction towards this title "Law of Love" actually made me think,and felt some connection to it. When you read this book, "Law of Love" it could show you that there is a rule that you must to obey for your love, which may sound little nonsense, but can be happened in reality as well. I strongly recommend this book to anybody, but more for people who are in love with someone. It is wonderful, romantic, and passionate novel that no one can possibly hate. I personally do not enjoy any romatic novels, but this book made me think about what the true love is and how it can change one's life.
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Summary: the author has a wonderful imagination.
Review: This story gave a vivid concept of love through a messenger of spanish decent. A romance that captured a life from the city of atlantis to the year 2300. This book covered the bible ,reincarnation ,love and evil,the devil and angels of God. It showed us the future and how it could be,the past and all the past lives of the souls involved. How love always win,and evil never wins.The legends of the twin souls united forever in the end and restored harmony to the galaxy.The lives of a young soul being transformed to an old wrinkled body and with the final act of showing pure love to her enemy she was still the victor.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I absolutely LOVED this novel! Esquivel is an excellent author. Most people who read this book believe it to be unrealistic; however, it is not all that far fetched. If someone in a previous century were reading a book set in 1999 that described all the amazing technology we take for granted, they probably would have seen it as unrealistic, also. This novel is a wonderful escape from the harshness of reality. It also teaches the important lesson of karma. The people who gave this book bad reviews are obviously very close minded. I recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: Maybe the worst book I have ever read.
Review: I can find nothing of value in this book except perhaps the nice drawings. Since this review is to be less than 1000 words, I cannot hope to list all that I found lacking in the book. I will list a couple of problems, however. First, the book is a poor imitation of the magic realisim genre typified by Garcia Marquez. Second, the characters are as flat as central Illinois. Third, the book contradicts itself in several places (when the author is trying to be serious). Fourth, there is no plot, just a sequence of events. Fifth, the philosophical attempts are poorly done, relying on catch phrases and nice sounding words rather than on substance. Sixth, it shares much with the fairy tales of youth in that nothing bad can ever happen to the characters without some solution dropping out of thin air. I would not recommend this book to anyone. Well, maybe to potential authors to see how not to write a book.
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Summary: Creative format; bad story
Review: As with her previous book, "Like Water for Chocolate" (which is much better), the author tries to break convention by introducing a multi-senses experience to her story with the music on the provided CD which you are suppose to play when you're reading. However, creative expression is no excuse to neglect the storytelling. As with her previous book, she uses shock value to keep you reading, which isn't necessarily bad. However, while the book starts out on solid ground, the quality quickly degrades as she uses New Age ideologies to explain events, that by the end of the book, I felt she wasted an interesting beginning by sloppy writing to quickly end the book.
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Summary: INTERESTING!!!
Review: JUGGLING FUTURISTIC SCI-FI AND ROMANCE ISNT EASY. THE REAL MESSAGE COMES FROM ANACREONTE, THE GUARDIAN ANGEL, IT IS AS IF MS ESQUIVEL READ MY MIND AS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. THANK YOU MS ESQUIVEL FOR PUTTING IT IN WRITTING FOR ME
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Summary: a good book, but that is all
Review: this book was a quick decent read, but i expected more. i liked the way ms. esquivel mixed scien fiction with romance, but it was hard to grasp her message when you are not taking the plot seriously
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Summary: Not worth the time of reading. It lacks everything.
Review: I agree with some other reviewer. Probably the only part that has some value, little though, was the CD.It is a shame that after " Like water.." she published a worthless work.
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