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Summary: CAPTIVATING!
Review: A beautiful story, and also full of suspense at the same time. Really transfer me to another world.Well done!
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Summary: One of Binchy's best
Review: I do enjoy reading Maeve Binchy, but most of her books are only worth reading once. The plots and characters often seem to repeat themselves. Often several main characters are little more than cardboard cutouts or, worse yet, cariactures of themselves. She doesn't seem to know what makes them tick. In "The Glass Lake," however, she has managed to create a believable and sympathetic cast. There is, of course, the typical Binchy dyed-in-the-wool villain: loving but weak, insensitive, self-centered; in essence, a handsome spoiled child. With the other characters, however, Binchy has avoided this sort of easy answer. Kit, her heroine, is, as always, a triumph (it is not her heroines Binchy has trouble writing). But she also manages to make Helen, Kit's mother, a heroine herself. The dilemma Helen faces is entirely real, her sadnesses entirely sympathetic, and yet the pain caused by her "solution" is undeniable. Martin, Helen's husband and Kit's father, is unusual for Binchy, who often seems to have difficulty writing men. He is a loving man, a beloved father, yet an unloved husband. Binchy shows us these things in such a way that they seem entirely inevitable, and without taking sides. You cannot condemn Helen for not loving her husband, but neither can you condemn Martin for not being loved. Equally unusually for Binchy, she manages to create a romantic hero who proves to be neither unfaithful nor unbelievable. Minor characters are dealt with in a more sympathetic light than Binchy often uses: mean people are often so because of private miseries, bad people can reform, and those who are not good can still be happy. There is a happy fairy-tale ending that somewhat stretches credibility. But it is, after all, a Maeve Binchy book. One I highly recommend to all her fans.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is the second Binchy novel I have read and I loved it! My only complaint about Glass Lake is the rushed end. I think Binchy took the easy way out for the ending, I turned the last page expecting more and found that it had ended. However, despite the ending I really did enjoy the book. I have found myself thinking about the characters and what could have happened. And I finished the book three days ago! The characters are very realistic and I really felt connected to them. All Binchy fans should give it a try.
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Summary: Great Story for my Three Miles a Day
Review: Maeve wrote a great story. The plot moved quickly. The characters were excellent. Was a great tape to listen to while I walked or drove in the car! Sort of brought me back to the old radio soap operas of many years ago!
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Summary: A story with real detailed characters
Review: I enjoyed this book a great deal. I felt that while I read this book I was getting to know the characters in the story.
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Summary: So Tedious!
Review: This book is annoying. Normally, I love Binchy and her wonderful characters. This time, I had to force myself to finish the book. I simply could not get into it. I felt that Kit McMahon, one of the main characters, was not developed well, until near the end of the book. By that time, it was almost impossible to get to know her. HOWEVER, being that Binchy, a favorite author of mine, wrote the book, and the fact that the story is somewhat poignant, I still give it three stars.
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Summary: Great story - shame about the rushed end
Review: As with other older Maeve Binchy novels, this is mostly a rites-of-passage novel set in a small Irish country town, Lough Glass. One day the young Kit's unhappy mother disappears, leaving a note which Kit destroys, not wanting to upset her father. Everyone assumes that she drowned in the lake, and life for Kit and the others goes on, but not without heartache as she grows up. I was really engrossed in this book as it developed, looking forward to finding out the solutions to the various mysteries Binchy had set up. But as I got closer and closer to the end, with seemingly no real resolution to some of the issues, I found myself wondering how Binchy was going to tie up the book. Then, in the last thirty pages, she rushed through several very major plot developments, reintroduced some characters and dealt with some serious emotional issues... in a very rushed and unsatisfactory manner. The pace had been leisurely throughout the rest of the book, and as such this really looked to me as if Binchy had suddenly realised that she was over her word limit and needed to tie up all the loose ends as briefly as possible. It didn't work, and really spoilt for me what could have been a wonderful book.
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Summary: A great read
Review: No one weaves characters like Maeve Binchy. This book hooked me from page 1 and I didn't want to put it down. That's the only problem with Binchy books... you want to read them in one sitting! This book is all about sacrifices and how decisions by one person impacts all the people around them. It's a great book about relationships between family members. Her books are always colorful, the images wonderful and the characters memorable.
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Summary: The best so far
Review: I have read most of her books and so far this is the best! I highly recommend this if you like a good romance and characters you really care about.
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Summary: This book is incredible!
Review: You HAVE to read this book...it was absolutely fantastic! Definitely one of her best. It usually takes me a few pages to get into a book, but with The Glass Lake I was drawn in at the first page and stayed that way throughout the whole book. Maeve Binchy is simply amazing. She has yet to disappoint me.
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