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Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Review: I was surprised this was a choice for Oprah's Book Club. I have read some of her other recommendations and been completely entertained. I expected the same with The Pilot's Wife.I felt the characters should have been more developed. Kathryn's husband has been married for five years to another woman and she didn't have a clue? Didn't she ever need to call him at the crew apartment before? Whatever happened to a woman's intuition? It was a little frustrating to follow the plot from past to present, but the most frustrating for me was the ending. Did I miss something? I did read it in two days because I kept thinking it would get better, but it didn't. I would give the author another chance however. Not every literary attempt can be a huge success.
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Summary: Good, but VERY predictable
Review: I really enjoyed the book although I do feel that it was very predictable. I didn't care for the past/present chapter changings, in fact, I was lost for 2-3 pages of the 2nd chapter, not realizing we were now in the past! I feel like Kathryn is a very weak person - to let her daughter walk all over her as well as the investigators etc. As for the ending, I'm not sure what she meant by "I just wanted to make sure the children were allright" (or something like that). Robert & her weren't even talking about Jack's kids and then she makes the statement and the book ends. Did I miss something?
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Summary: Implausible
Review: When I say the book is implausible, I am not talking about the bigamy. That was the most believable part of the book. I just couldn't believe this woman would let all these people take over her home and her life. And that she should end up with the guy doing the investigating--come on. That's soap opera stuff.
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Summary: Made me feel lucky
Review: This story was one that was fast paced until the end. The end became a little slow but I enjoyed the book. While you can predict what her husband was up to the story still manages to cast a few little surprises here and there that you did not expect. I loved how the story went back and forth from present to the past. The author also was able to weave the characters into the reader so that you could feel the emotions of Kathryn and actually feel yourself pulling for the relationship between kathryn and her daughter and for her new friendship with Robert. I really liked the book.
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Summary: An unfortunate waste of good writing
Review: I've never read any of Shreve's other books, but have heard good reviews. The Pilot's Wife, however, is little more than an empty box wrapped in fancy paper. Shreve does a remarkable job portraying grief and its aftermath - but the book never moves beyond that. The first one hundred pages are beautifully written, almost moving, but do nothing to advance the plot. When the story finally does get underway, the reader is carried along on a thoroughly predictable, emotionally unsatisfying journey. In fact, the most shocking thing about the book is that it turns out exactly the way you expect it to with an ending that is very depressing, formulaic, and altogether stilted. It's a shame that a writer like Shreve, who clearly knows how to turn a nice phrase, had to write such an empty saga. I wouldn't hold it against her in the future: but I wish I'd chosen one of her other books to start with.
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Summary: Ugh.
Review: Ugh. Helpless female character's life is ruined by husband's actions, only after he goes down in fatal plane crash. I think Shreve meant to write her heroine as a strong, inquisitive, contemporary woman, but I only read her as bumbling and ordinary. This book came highly recommended from a trusted friend (her name is not Oprah), but I have no desire to pick up another Shreve book again. Sorry!
Rating: 
Summary: A MUST READ BOOK
Review: From the moment I picked up this book until I finished I was held spellbound..its the kind of story where you find yourself putting off other things in your life...like feeding the kids...just to sneak in another page or two. This is by far one of the best books I've read in a long time.
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Summary: Initially engages, then goes limp
Review: I started this book and was hooked--I couldn't stop. Shreve has a nice way of building tension as the story unravels. About halfway through the book, I began feeling impatient with the characters and the action. True, eventually she literally goes to the ends of the Earth to figure out what happened(it's too late by then, of course). But what kind of wife NEVER calls her husband at what is essentially his second home (the airline apt. in London)? That stuck out as incredibly unlikely(almost laughable). This could have been a point Shreve was making; an example of the breakdown of intimacy. I think it's a mistake, because it made me think Kathryn was an absolute fool, and my sympathy for her waned considerably. Shreve had led me to believe that Kathryn was a warm, loving and sharply intelligent woman. As the book went on, I felt that she was naive, married too young, someone who felt that her husband "knew best", and never pushed him regarding her needs in the relationship. I think there is a good final message in this book about the importance of intimacy and trust, but I believe it comes at the expense of the central character. I don't think that was Shreve's intention, because she seems too accomplished to allow that to happen.
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Summary: Waiting for the heart stopping plot twist....it never came.
Review: This was not what I expected. Characters were not developed, description of the emotions too "bubble-gum", the whole middle could heve been left out and you would have had the story anyway. Perhaps if they make a movie out of this, it could be doctored up to be SOMETHING like the "Horse Whisperer" was. Should have bought Memoirs of a Geisha.
Rating: 
Summary: Pilot's Wife
Review: Liked the book very much. One Question......What does the ending mean? It has a perplexing completion!
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