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Summary: A wonderful read!!!
Review: I love this book!!! This is the first book I have read by Barabara Delinsky. The story was absolutely captivating. I was glued to this book, and could not put it down until I finished. I highly recommend getting this book and becoming lost in the story.
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Summary: Pretty good, but not the best...
Review: I thought this was an ok book. I liked the idea of it, and the two stories in one, but it just didn't grab me and hold my attention. Don't get me wrong, the book is pretty good, I just never felt a real connection with any of the characters or events.
The book is mainly about Casey Ellis, whose father Connie Unger passed away. She always knew who he was but never met him, and resented him for not trying to find her. Well, he leaves her his townhouse on Beacon Hill, and she proceeds to try to find out all about Connie, his life, who he was and ect. She stumbles upon a story about a young girl named Jenny Clyde and her struggles with an abusive father, a town where no one talks to her, and how she goes about overcoming her troubles (this is the second story). But Casey gets only parts of the story at a time. She must figure out how to put all the pieces together and and solve the puzzle that she believes her father left her.
Now, I figured out the big secret about half-way through the book, so once it was revealed, I wasn't very surprised. All the clues the author gives you, I almost wonder if that was the intent. It was about that time I started losing interest. I love Barbara Delinsky, and have read a bunch of her books, but this one just wasn't one of my favorites. I'll definitely continue reading her stuff, but this will not be at the top of my list. All I can say is that I hope you have better luck with it than I did.
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Summary: A Summer Delight!
Review: It was very creative to weave two stories together. My husband made a comment this morning. "You finished the book? Man, you hardly put it down. Addicting huh?"
Delinsky has the talent to take you into the sights and feelings of her locations and characters.
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Summary: A Summer Delight!
Review: It was very creative to weave two stories together. My husband made a comment this morning. "You finished the book? Man, you hardly put it down. Addicting huh?"
Delinsky has the talent to take you into the sights and feelings of her locations and characters.
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Summary: Flirting with Success
Review: Just loved this latest Delinsky novel - it ranks with my all time favorite Coast Road! Her literary style - a fragmented journal within the main story made for an interesting scenario. Characters in both were essentially trying to conquer their own demons and the author delved into their minds and souls. Jenny and Pete, Casey and Jordan and the other relatives and friends added to the emotional environment. The added touch of mystery was equally enjoying. Several tears were shed over the relationship of Casey and her mother which resonated personally. To see how the journal and the story complemented and evolved and came full circle was satisfying. If I had one complaint it would be about the descriptions of the abundant flowers in the gardens. I am a budding gardener and did pick up some tips but thought the story would have been fine without the excessive descriptions of the flowers.Flirting with Peter was a quick read, entertaining and interesting as the reader starts to fill in the blanks with the subtle clues. A character study is one of my favorite genre to read and Barbara Delinsky did a superb job in this one. I'd sure like to meet a Pete or a Jordan!
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Summary: AN ASSURED READING
Review: Popular voice artist Linda Emond gives an assured reading of Barbara Delinsky's latest heart-tugging tale in which the lives of two women seeking answers are interwoven. Casey Ellis is a successful young professional woman who has always sought to know her father, famous psychologist Cornelius Unger. Her birth was the result of an almost passing relationship between her mother and the father she has never known. Now, her mother lies comatose, the result of an accident, and her father has died. Surprisingly, he generously remembers Casey in his will, leaving her an elegant townhouse on exclusive Beacon Hill. Not only is the townhouse luxurious, it also comes with a full staff. Shortly after taking possession of her new home Casey comes across a puzzling journal among her father's papers. It was written by a young woman, Jenny Clyde, who detested her father, a man in prison for killing Jenny's mother. He will soon be released and Jenny fears further abuse from him. The journal and the story it tells baffle Casey. Is it a true account or fiction? And, very importantly, what does it tell her about the father she would like to know? Of course, there's romance mixed with the mystery, which is always an irresistible combination. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: AN ASSURED READING
Review: Popular voice artist Linda Emond gives an assured reading of Barbara Delinsky's latest heart-tugging tale in which the lives of two women seeking answers are interwoven. Casey Ellis is a successful young professional woman who has always sought to know her father, famous psychologist Cornelius Unger. Her birth was the result of an almost passing relationship between her mother and the father she has never known. Now, her mother lies comatose, the result of an accident, and her father has died. Surprisingly, he generously remembers Casey in his will, leaving her an elegant townhouse on exclusive Beacon Hill. Not only is the townhouse luxurious, it also comes with a full staff. Shortly after taking possession of her new home Casey comes across a puzzling journal among her father's papers. It was written by a young woman, Jenny Clyde, who detested her father, a man in prison for killing Jenny's mother. He will soon be released and Jenny fears further abuse from him. The journal and the story it tells baffle Casey. Is it a true account or fiction? And, very importantly, what does it tell her about the father she would like to know? Of course, there's romance mixed with the mystery, which is always an irresistible combination. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: memorable work of women¿s fiction
Review: Therapist Casey Ellis is attending the funeral of renowned psychologist Cornelius Unger, a respected person in his field. Casey feels melancholy because Cornelius is the father who never acknowledged her and never made any effort to talk to her even when she enrolled in one of his classes. At the end of the funeral, his lawyer tells Casey that her father left her his Beacon Hill townhouse with the request that she keep on the maid and the gardener. At first Casey doesn't want anything to do with the home out of loyalty to her mother who has been in a coma for the last three years and is not expected to wake up. When one of her partners in her group practice absconds with the rent money, Casey decides to open a solo practice at her father's townhouse. There she meets the handsome gardener Jordan; they start a relationship. She also becomes involved with a manuscript her father left for her about a woman who he treated as an outcast by the town she lives in and is afraid of the father who is coming home from prison after six years for killing her mother. Barbara Delinsky has written a moving tale of two women having to cope with severe traumas, one fighting her demons alone and the therapist having a support system that carries her through each crisis. One of this author's greatest talents is to write about people who immediately establish rapport with the audience so that readers care what happens to them. FLIRTING WITH PETE is a memorable work of women's fiction. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: This book was wonderful!!
Review: This book had it all! Romance, mystery, heartache, happiness, etc., etc. I couldn't get enough of this book. I am a big fan of Barbara Delinskys, but this was one of her best! She describes things with such detail that you feel you are there. The characters in this book were great, Casey, Jordan, Meg, Caroline and Connie. This story is set in Boston, Massachusetts most of the time and the descriptions there are right on. Don't miss this one!
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Summary: Wonderful Read
Review: This book is wonderful. Interesting characters, interesting and surprising storyline. Nothing predictable. I always like Delinsky's books, but this one is a new direction for her. Her characters are well rounded, her book well researched. She has a way of making the reader live through the experiences and emotions of the characters.
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