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Summary: From a New Belva Plain Fan
Review: After my mother had given me Fortune's Hand, I went in search of another Belva Plain book and picked up Blessings. What a fantastic book. The worst part about finishing a book as good as this is finding one to compare to it!
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Summary: From a New Belva Plain Fan
Review: After my mother had given me Fortune's Hand, I went in search of another Belva Plain book and picked up Blessings. What a fantastic book. The worst part about finishing a book as good as this is finding one to compare to it!
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Summary: Blessings by Belva Plain
Review: I began reading this book, minding my own business, not having any prior knowledge where it was going and whoa - the adopted daughter shows up on the scene. Since I'm a birthmother who successfully found her daughter I was immensely interested in this take. This book was well done, suspenseful, exciting, and beautiful. It had a great ending!! Loved it! Rosemund and Maeve have always been my favorite authors, but now I have someone else to read. I ordered all the rest of her books.
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Summary: Blessings by Belva Plain
Review: I began reading this book, minding my own business, not having any prior knowledge where it was going and whoa - the adopted daughter shows up on the scene. Since I'm a birthmother who successfully found her daughter I was immensely interested in this take. This book was well done, suspenseful, exciting, and beautiful. It had a great ending!! Loved it! Rosemund and Maeve have always been my favorite authors, but now I have someone else to read. I ordered all the rest of her books.
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Summary: Not Plain's best work
Review: I thought this book, Blessings, was a bit slow and boring. The characters were not very likeable, and the scenes jumped back and forth. I made myself finish it, and I did like the ending.
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Summary: Jay-us ex machina
Review: There are really fine moments in this book when Jennie and Jill struggle to work out a painful relationship and when Peter struggles to make up for his cowardly past. And there are nice descriptions of some of the pricier parts of New York City. But I find that the characters easily lapse into stereotypes. The situations, as portrayed, seem artificial. And the ending is contrived beyond belief. This could have been a serious character study of the pain and pitfalls experienced by a character suffering from low self-esteem who seems to have learned little from her prior experience. Instead, it's a cavil. I suspect that the author knows the difference between what's genuine and what's ersatz but, for some reason, has opted for the latter. I'd like to see her compose the sequel in which Jennie overcomes her fantasies of love and trades her mannequin for a man of some depth and character to be a stepfather to her lovely duaghter.
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Summary: Moving and thrilling
Review: There is only one problem with this novel. You don't want to put it down, you want to know the ending. Which happens to be perfect.
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Summary: An Emotional Roller Coaster!
Review: This book's title is most fitting. You truly feel blessed to have read this one! One of Ms. Plains best! A real page turner that takes you thru a range of emotions. I don't recall ever having such a sweeping wave of emotion and weeping, for any other book, as I had when reading the last 6 pages of this book. This is a must read,you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: An Emotional Roller Coaster!
Review: This book's title is most fitting. You truly feel blessed to have read this one! One of Ms. Plains best! A real page turner that takes you thru a range of emotions. I don't recall ever having such a sweeping wave of emotion and weeping, for any other book, as I had when reading the last 6 pages of this book. This is a must read,you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: So unbelievable
Review: This is a story about a woman who gave up a baby when she was very young. Nineteen years later the child comes looking for her.
So far, so good. I have to admit a bias here. I'm adopted and I have found both my biological parents. In the novel, the bio mother when called by a social worker about her now 19-year old daughter wanting contact vehemently stated she DID NOT want anything to do with the girl. However, the social workers continue to call and tell her that that option is just not possible. What?? That would never happen in real life.
I found my bio mother via an organization that matches you and your bio parent. Both of you have to sign up. You are not STALKED. Further, once the daughter harasses and pursues her bio mother to meet with her, she becomes upset when bio mom makes clear the relationship has to be discreet. Um, the daughter interrupted her bio mom's life. Mom made it clear she wasn't interested. Now the daughter wants to insist on having the relationship on her terms? Things like this don't happen in real life with reasonable, normal people.
The author tries to present all these characters as well-adjusted, but I maintain that if people acted like this in real life, they'd be unhinged. Further, the book had few well-rounded characters and the bio mother's fiance had no flaws. I bet this man never has pimples. Or burps.
This is my first and last Belva book.
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