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[fullmoonfiend]

Never read any Anita Shreve books before (though the covers are all very pretty :)) and was pleasantly surprised.
Her books are set on east coast USA. Very atmospheric and languid. Very evocative of small-town America. I found it a perfect book to read in the garden on a hot weekend :)
Enjoyed the slow build-up, and the claustrophobic atmosphere and the element of 'so, what really happened to Eden all those years ago?''
The characters were vivid, and I thought Andrew seemed like a sweetheart from boy to man. But at times I felt the story was a little too slow-paced. Despite this, the climax was worth waiting for, though I had an inkling of how it was going to be!
May be tempted to look for some more Shreve now.

I've read a few by Anita Shreve. 'All He Ever Wanted' is really good, but I would avoid 'The Pilot's Wife' its a tad cheesy.

I have enjoyed most of the Anita Shreve novels I have read , but far and away the most haunting I thought was 'The last time they met'

very very well worth reading

i really like Shreve, but there's one (cna't remember the name) which was a bit too quick a easy - about an abandoned child. of the one's i've read, fortune's rock is best, but i borrowed it from the library. NOT good if you cry easily over losing a child kind of scenarios

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just finished this yesterday.

I didn't think it was for me at all, but I found it strangely compulsive. Aspects of it made me very uncomfortable, but all these issues were dealt with at the close of the book.

the book was very sensually written, a style I am not used to but would read again.

I don't know if I would go outa ndsearch the author, but if one by her came up again i would read it, yes. And before I would have said no way.

peachy, i'm so glad, another convert. shreve has written loads, some are better than others

I'm only half way through at the moment but I'm now enjoying it. I did find it slow going at the start and found some of the images thought provoking - such as the role reversal between mother and son while watching the ambulance, and how he felt his parents age through how they climbed the stairs, and letting them keep the fan. In a way it made feel quite sad.

But I'm looking forward to finding out exactly what happened.

This book was ok. Not fast enough for me.

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