The commercial reviews use words like "lush" and "sexy". I found nothing lush or sexy in the fact that the sex in the book occurred between teenaged cousins and and teenager and a 30-ish year old man. It might have redeemed itself if in the end she finds a man who truly loves her. It started o...
I managed to get slightly more than halfway through before I gave it up, which is very uncharacteristic for me. Normally if I've invested myself into half of a novel, Im going to power through and finish. If you make it that far into the novel, perhaps you will be able to glean why I did chose to...
Along with Dorie’s face. And Joan’s. Always Joan’s. I told myself, just as I’d done when I’d first noticed Dorie gone all those years ago, that servants came and went all the time. Dorie’s absence, and now her reappearance, might mean nothing. Yet I knew things were being kept from me. I was sure...
The mountain air is better for you than the air here, I’m sure. And all those girls for you, all those horses. Are your teachers teaching well? You haven’t sent a letter in almost a month. I hope that your silence is a sign of how busy you are, at the camp. &nb...