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Summary: Excellent!
Review: When I bought this novel, I expected it to be about love and romance. Well, it wasn't. It was about love gone wrong. I loved the complexity of the relationship between March and Hollis; it helps others understand the mixed feelings and sometimes strange actions of a victim of domestic violence. The detailed description of the characters helps us identify ourselves with the minds and souls of each character and why each one acts the way he or she does. The story is so intense, I couldn't put it down!I urge everyone to read this book. This novel is great!!!!!
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Summary: This book dragged be back into the enjoyment of reading.
Review: Over all a well written book. Story line at times got off track with the dating of cousins. But over all, worth spending the time to read.
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Summary: What Was So Special About Hollis And March?
Review: I had a mixed reaction to this book. Many of the characters were fascinating and the subplots were interesting enough to keep me glued to the novel whenever I picked it up. However, the main storyline and the characters of Hollis and March just left me cold. I found myself wondering what on earth anyone saw in the creepy, cruel Hollis, and just plain disgusted by weak, selfish March. In the first few chapters, the author makes vague references to Hollis' horrible childhood, but does not go into enough detail to generate any sympathy or understanding of why he turned out the way he did. She also wants to portray him as charming enough for March to have pined away for him her whole life, finally giving up her loyal husband, and virtually abandoning her daughter, to be with him. That didn't come through either. I found myself impatient to get through the chapters centered on March and Hollis, so that I could get back to the far more interesting subplots involving Alan, Gwen, and the Justice family, all of whom held my attention and made for some of the best novel characters I've ever come across. I've read other books by Alice Hoffman, and think she is a wonderful writer. Unfortunately, this time her protagonists just didn't make me care about them.
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Summary: Hoffman's best book to date!!!!!!!
Review: Hoffman has written a story that should be a lesson to all of us who have read too many romance novels and tried to apply them to our own relationships. Through the main character "March" we learn that love sometimes is not enough to get you though a tortuous relationship. Hollis exemplifies the man that some of us believe we can change if only we give enough love. This latest novel is one that may truly touch your heart and rip it in two at the same time.
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Summary: Not worth the price I paid for it
Review: After buying the book on a friend's recommendation, I was greatly disturbed to find it nothing but a modern version of Wuthering Heights, which was not particularly enjoyable to begin with. In Hoffman's book as in Bronte's, I found very few of the characters even remotely likeable. I thought it was a shame to call March and Hollis' dark obsession 'love', when it seemed to me to be anything but. Hollis was a stereotypical abuser who attempted to control and isolate March merely to give himself a sense of power. I didn't feel that March's feelings and obsession with Hollis were very developed and I found myself unconvinced of her 'love' for him. Nor did I feel that the initial relationship between Gwen and Hank was particularly well developed. All in all, just a trashier, more violent version of Wuthering Heights.
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Summary: Close to home
Review: I enjoyed this book, I'm not an avid reader but this book grabbed me... I didn't know why I bought it in the first place, while I was at the supermarket at 3 AM. This book hit me close to home... I know this book, and I know Hollis far to well...
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Summary: Read Wuthering Heights instead.
Review: It appears Alice Hamilton must have enjoyed Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. This book is obviously similar with a few sex scenes added to please the 1990's crowd. Hollis is similar to Heathcliff, March is a parallel to both Catherines, and Hank and Hareton are also identical. Hollis is the abandoned orphan brought home by the wealthy family. The oldest son, like Hindley Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights, is jealous and cruel. March Murray can't settle her reason and passion conflict and her daughter is even involved in a first cousin love affair. Unlike Emily Bronte, Alice Hamilton cheapens the novel with trashy sex scenes and downplays the institution of marriage. For those who are conscious of grammar, Hamilton's use of "you" is especially irritating.
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Summary: simply a wonderful book
Review: How can anyone give this book less than 5 stars? Must be jealous writers who only wish they could do as well as Ms. Hoffman. This is a wonderful book. I had to force myself to slow down and read it carefully because I knew it would be over way too soon for me. The characters were very well drawn, interesting and colorful. Impossible to guess ending, hated to get there anyway, yet I was compelled to finish. I loved this book.
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Summary: PULLS YOU IN FROM PAGE ONE
Review: A deep story about abuse. I liked the teenage daughter in this one, sort of like a carbon copy of March...nice subplot to follow. Hehe, I find these reviews a hoot to read. 1 stars, 5 stars, people who want to give no stars. This is one of the most diverse group of reviews. I'm wondering, just wondering, if it's one person writing these trying to distract would-be buyers from reading and buying a copy of this book. If that's what it is I'm sorry to say but that's why I bought this book! I read books with reviews of all sorts, and oddly enough I found this particular book worth 5 stars. Hmm, just don't compare it to WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Is it even necessary? Hmph!
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Summary: Nothing special
Review: I found this book enjoyable at the beginning. However, the relationship between March and Hollis was not sufficiently developed. Additionally, the author's treatment of Gwen's relationship with her cousin was distracting. Luckily, it only took me two days to read.
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