I'm not sure I understand why this book got so many bad reviews. It seems a lot of people thought the storyline was unrealistic. Well, the way I saw it, ofcourse it's not 100% realistic but it's fiction and I think we read it assuming there would be a happy ending. I found it an easy read, the st...
I wanted to sit on the porch of the Salty Dog cottage on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina with Annie (the wacky mother), Jackie (Annie's daughter who served as an Army nurse in Afghanistan), Buster (Annie's husband who returned after 11 years apart), Steve (the handsome, widowed, doctor who live...
Another delight from Dorothea Benton Frank. I enjoy reading her descriptions of Sullivan's Island and the Lowcountry. Not to mention her descriptions of all the mouthwatering food to be found there. After reading her books, I always feel like I want to go there and see the places she mentions fir...
I enjoyed this book, especially the interaction between the family members. Things fell into place a bit too neatly, but it was still a good read. It doesn't surprise me that Cate was not mourning the suicide of her late husband because I think she had mourned the end of the marriage years ago, w...
I enjoyed this book as I have enjoyed other books by Dorothea benton Frank. There are great characters, a good story, and most of all I love the low-country and the references to places I know. But there were also several things I didn't like about the book. The beginning starts off awkwardly wit...
Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite writers!!! I was visiting a bookstore in Charleston, SC and came upon one of her novels. There was a nice blurb by Pat Conroy (one of my other faves) so I decided to pick it up. That book was, luckily for me, Sullivan's Island which started the journ...
Read this on the plane to California for my mother's Memorial. She died a month ago frommetastatic breast and colon cancer.I'd heard this book was a bi different from Dotty Frank's usual books. Yes and no. A woman of a certain age still runs home to mama and finds her own brand of truth and hones...
Somewhere around page 478 of 583 (mass paperpack edition), I slammed the book shut. Done. I read it. If it were my own book and not the library copy it would have hit the wall flying at 40 miles an hour. This book is snarky and syrupy so I am giving it right back.Dear Dorethea, I recently read...
I give this a book a meh, it was ok, hand wave. The parts I loved: the description of the area, the creek itself, the beach, the lifestyle the characters led, the cute boathouse on the water they lived in. I fell more in love with the idea of this book, I think, than the actual book itself. Wh...
I enjoyed the story. It was well-written with believable, well developed characters. However, I was somewhat disappointed in the book. Having lived in Pawleys Island for ten years, I was really excited to read this book. I had read _Porch Lights_ and could absolutely visualize Sullivan's Island s...