Wow! Now I understand why there's a lot of controversy with this book. A lot of mixed reviews but as for me... I truly enjoyed this book. I gave it 4 stars because it got some boring parts. SOME SPOILER PART!!!But it was an easy read for me and I sympathize with Susan and her predicament (along w...
Meh. *Slight spoilers.* Not my genre. Flipped through it on a two or three hour flight. Not bad, but very family drama where it all ends up improbably well in the end, tied up in a neat little bow. The mother character was a witch on wheels in the beginning, with no concept of common sense or dec...
Meh. I don't really care about the herbs that are at the center of this book. The story takes place on a fictional island off the coast of Maine. Two friends, Nicole and Charlotte are coming together again after 10 years apart. They come together to help each other write a cookbook. Obviously the...
Carly Kelly has just been presented with a life-changing business opportunity for tiny nursery and flower store, Plant People. But she only has four days to decide, which means she will most likely have to cancel her weekend trip away. She dials her friends to let them know, and excitedly launche...
My overall impression of this book is that it is beautifully written and evocative in many ways. The description of the water birds as seen from a canoe by a patient and world-weary John Kipling creates a backdrop of peace which promises restoration, no matter what drama should occur in the live...
This is a story about Claire, who has worked very hard to build her own business into a very successful one, while raising two children, and loving her husband, even through his failing business dealings. While on a business trip, she walks into the front door, soon to be served divorce papers, ...
This book was bad on so many levels, I'm not sure where to begin. The characters were flat, unsympathetic, and completely stereotypical. (A bit ironic, given that I *think* the point was an observation of race relations and perceptions.) The writing was ok at best, with the dialog often coming ac...
I actually first read Looking for Peyton Place several years ago. I had just finished reading my latest book on the beach, and my mom had what was Barbara Delinsky's latest novel in her bag. I had never read (or heard of) Delinsky before, but it was the middle of a summer afternoon on the beach a...
In the middle of the night, the FBI appear at Heather Malone's home with an arrest warrant claiming she is actually a woman named Lisa Matlock. Lisa Matlock is wanted for a 15 year old murder.The town of Lake Henry is shocked. Nice, gentle Heather could not possibly be this woman that they are ta...
I have read a few Barbara Delinsky- and in the few I have read, admire her for taking on wounded women. Let me amend that and say: wounded but strong women. In this book, Rachel is in a coma. Her best friend Katherine is a breast cancer survivor. In other books, one was in a wheelchair from a sno...
I can't properly say how bad this book is. The female lead is a waitress in a small New England town who has done nothing with her life and plans to spend the rest of her life there as a waitress, with no family and no romantic prospects.The male lead is a world famous author and lawyer. Tall, ha...
At their own homes Assistant DA Savannah Smith, her twin sister Susan Gardiner and their friend Society Wife Megan Vandermeer are all listening to the crooning sound of Jared Snow in the heart of the night on 95.3 WCIC Providence. Each of them has their own fantasies about Jared, what he looks li...
I plucked this audio out of the bag I keep in my car. It’s been in there a while but I figured now was as good a time as any to finally give it a listen. I’ve been on a horror binge lately and needed a bit of a breather from all of the bloodshed.At the midway point, I have to admit, I was hoping ...
Julia Bechtel believes a trip away from her home in New York City will give her time to determine where her marriage to her husband Monte truly stands. Knowing things haven't been good between them for quite a long while, now that their daughter, Molly, is in her twenties, Julia feels the possibi...
Main character, Casey, was flat and one dimensional. Delinsky tried to give her depth, but there was still something flat and one dimensional about the writing. Just didn't much connect with her except in the beginning scenes when she was talking with her Mom. I thought those were quite creative....
24. "Not something that the president of a large chain of successful department stores is used to asking for - and certainly not from her best friend's older brother. But then, Jenna McCue's never gone looking for "stud" services before. And yet, when you think about it, is it really such a big f...
