Downtown

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is the first book I've read by Siddons and I've just finished reading it for the second time tonight. I have to say I enjoyed it just as much as I did the first time, even with knowing the "surprise" ending. The characters were loveable, the hate-able ones immensely so. Her descriptions of the south during this particular point in history was fascinating, the book a true page turner. I couldn't put it down! Perhaps I'm just a young idealist with low standards but I found Smoky (the heroin, as it were) to be refreshing (if a little unbelievably naive, but hey I didn't grow up in a strict Irish Catholic home in the sixties so i really wouldn't know)and I found myself relating to her on many different levels. I laughed right out loud and often cried with the characters. I can't wait to read more!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is the first book I've read by Siddons and I've just finished reading it for the second time tonight. I have to say I enjoyed it just as much as I did the first time, even with knowing the "surprise" ending. The characters were loveable, the hate-able ones immensely so. Her descriptions of the south during this particular point in history was fascinating, the book a true page turner. I couldn't put it down! Perhaps I'm just a young idealist with low standards but I found Smoky (the heroin, as it were) to be refreshing (if a little unbelievably naive, but hey I didn't grow up in a strict Irish Catholic home in the sixties so i really wouldn't know)and I found myself relating to her on many different levels. I laughed right out loud and often cried with the characters. I can't wait to read more!

Rating:
Summary: The greatest book I ever read
Review: This was the greatest book I ever read. Anne Rivers Siddons is an amazing writer and I could not put this book down from page one! I can honestly say, without a doubt, that I don't think I will ever read another book in my lifetime that will make me feel the way this book did.