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Summary: Not as good as Almost Paradise
Review: After reading Almost Paradise, I wanted to read more of Susan Isaacs right away. Lily White was the first book I chose. It really was hard for me to get through this one. It dealt with way too much specifics on the law and such and not enough on developing the charachters like she did in Almost Paradise.I made myself finish it, but was disappointed. It just didn't do that much for me.
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Summary: Not as good as Almost Paradise
Review: After reading Almost Paradise, I wanted to read more of Susan Isaacs right away. Lily White was the first book I chose. It really was hard for me to get through this one. It dealt with way too much specifics on the law and such and not enough on developing the charachters like she did in Almost Paradise. I made myself finish it, but was disappointed. It just didn't do that much for me.
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Summary: Not up to her usual standards
Review: Although I usually enjoy Isaacs' books immensely, this one lost my interest early on, and I found myself plugging through it in the hope that it'd get better (it never did). The plot is full of enough interesting twists to keep you going, and the characters are (as usual) well drawn and complex. Also, she's very good at dissecting the complications of family relationships, and Lily's family was horrifyingly believable. What spoiled it for me, I think, was her device of alternating first-person narrative by Lily herself, and third-person narrative by some eye-in-the-sky (Lilycam?). What "makes" Isaacs' novels for me (and I suspect for a lot of other readers) is the feisty, funny narrators -- and every time the Disembodied Voice started in, I found my attention wandering. I hope Isaacs goes back to what she does best; this isn't it.
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Summary: Great read!
Review: Although the first chapters are a little slow in developing the character, the author eventually succeeds at riveting the reader to Lee's plight. My favorite elements of this book are the way Ms. Isaacs incorporates the present(Norman Torkelson)with Lee's past (family history and relationships.) . I enjoyed this book immensely.
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Summary: Great twists & turns in the lead's law and love lives
Review: As a lover both of books dealing with relationships and suspense novels with unexpected events, I was totally engrossed with Lily White. There are many frustrating but exciting moments but however they turn out you know it will be fulfilling.
If you read this book, picture Tim Robbins asNorman Torkelson. And hopefully if it gets made into a movie I can influence him into starring in it! I've read a couple other Isaacs novels and liked this the best.
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Summary: satisfying junkfood
Review: funny how one reviewer was offended by depiction of "emasculated" gay black man: I thought his character was too perfect. He's like the noble black man with no faults. Being gay only makes him more wonderful. ps i know a man like him: black,gay republican, smart and sweet.
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Summary: You'll trash this review, but it really needs to be said
Review: I am a black woman, mother and wife. A black woman/mother/wife who is sick and tired of white writers' portrayals of emasculated black men. My book club friends are also black women. They are also TIRED of white writers carelessly using THEIR ideas of black men as vehicles in their writing, with so little realism. Face it, homosexuality is a big negative with most people (though it's not politically correct to admit so) especially when the ONLY black character is gay. Ms Isaacs' use of a gay black man (however dignified) as a main charachter in Lily White, was senseless and insensitive. Especially when it adds no value to the story, but takes away from what shreds of dignity we have left. This is not to pick on, or single out one writer. It's that so MANY of them are kicking us simultaneously! Enough already. If you can't leave us in our natural element, leave us alone. Maybe a bunch of black women readers has no value to the author. But I sincerely hope someone will read this and pass it on to her. Other than the modern day "Uncle Tom Fetchit," Lily White was a fine, interesting and insightful read
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Summary: Susan Issacs Never Fails
Review: I am a great fan of Susan Issacs. She spins fine mysteries, keeps me in suspense and keeps me amused. Lily White is no exception. This is a "worth reading" for sure
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Summary: Very entertaining.
Review: I didn't think the author was trying to emasculate anyone; I think she was trying to throw the reader a major curve. There were some nice, unpredictable twists towards the end.
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Summary: Very entertaining.
Review: I didn't think the author was trying to emasculate anyone; I think she was trying to throw the reader a major curve. There were some nice, unpredictable twists towards the end.
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