Helpful Score: 3
A truly well-written story detailing the many paths a marriage can take, and how we got there to begin with..... This was especially well narrated with a Southern accent to match the locale of the story. Two thumbs up!
Helpful Score: 2
I love to read, and it's been a very long time since I've written a bad review on any book. I'm pretty easy to please, but I don't have a lot of good things to say about this book. I was extremely disappointed.
I guess I could say that it was "well written," but the author did very little to protect her main charater. As a devoted young Catholic wife and mother, I should have identified with her, but I have very little sympathy for a woman who would cheat on her spouse...with a monk, no less (don't get me started on him)! I kept thinking the heroine would do something to redeem herself. But, as I turned the last page, I felt an overwhelming sense that I would never get back the time I spent reading this lousy book.
To be fair, the book is written against a beautiful backdrop, and it certainly is a good scandal. If you're not ethically offended by the storyline you may really enjoy it.
I guess I could say that it was "well written," but the author did very little to protect her main charater. As a devoted young Catholic wife and mother, I should have identified with her, but I have very little sympathy for a woman who would cheat on her spouse...with a monk, no less (don't get me started on him)! I kept thinking the heroine would do something to redeem herself. But, as I turned the last page, I felt an overwhelming sense that I would never get back the time I spent reading this lousy book.
To be fair, the book is written against a beautiful backdrop, and it certainly is a good scandal. If you're not ethically offended by the storyline you may really enjoy it.
Helpful Score: 1
9 CD set. Part family drama, part love story, part mystery, and part coming of age when your only child leaves for college. Why did her mother mutilate herself now? Why was her father's accidental death never quite a settled issue? Why doe her marriage feel empty and unfulfilling? Why has she stayed away from the island for so long? And why does she only now feel compelled to put all these matters straight? A good long story to help with the commute.
Kristine W. (krissywhite) reviewed The Mermaid Chair (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 4 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is a story of a woman who had always defined herself as a wife and mother. When her daughter went off to college, she started to look at her life and ask herself if she was truly happy. She didn't come face to face with it until her mother, whom she hadn't seen in several years, had an accident. She was asked to come back to the coastal South Carolina home of her youth to help her mother, and forced to face the demons that haunted her since her father's death some 30 years before.
While taking care of her mother, she develops a relationship with a monk in the local monastery. She is forced to come to terms with her past, her present, and how she wants to spend her future.
Filled with an abundance of rich characters, this is a well-written story that pulls you in and makes you care.
While taking care of her mother, she develops a relationship with a monk in the local monastery. She is forced to come to terms with her past, her present, and how she wants to spend her future.
Filled with an abundance of rich characters, this is a well-written story that pulls you in and makes you care.
