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Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally-syndicated “moral and spiritual counselor” as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby’s father, is a woman whose past is just about to catch up with her – in the form of blackmail by a former lover.
After an accident (an attempted suicide?) Ruby returns to care for her stricken mother – bitterly resenting the fact that once again her mother’s life has colonized hers. When she is approached by a publisher to write a biography of her mother, Ruby is desperate for the princely sum offered. Yet her research into her mother’s past reveals a woman very di… More >>
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Dull unimaginative novel that kept me bored the whole way throw, I was expecting a climatic ending… and I got a dumb dumb book all together!
Rating: 1 / 5
Started out looking to be a good enjoyable (easy?) read.
Characters needed to be better developed. All problems, questions answered too neatly, easily.
After 10 years absence from each others lives the characters are given the ability to set everything right in just a few days.
The ending was predictable, the last line nonsense. Give readers some credit, even a leisure “easy” read should offer more.
Rating: 2 / 5
on books like this. Geez, the whole book is full of characters “feeling” about the past. This kind of drivel makes me sick. It’s an insult to my intelligence. DON’T waste your money on this pulp.
Rating: 1 / 5
I received this book for free, and I’m glad I didn’t pay anything for it. It was boring and predictable. Very drawn out. This is the first book I’ve read by Kristin Hannah. I surely hope her others are better and deeper than this one. Very disappointing.
Rating: 1 / 5
If I could ignore contrivance, unrealistic plots, and stupid dialogue, this would have gotten 5 stars from me. It is a great book to sit and read on the beach. But since I nit-pick every little detail in books, I have to tell you that this book will probably never be opened again.
First, where to start. Maybe I’m a cynic, but I’m trying to picture all of America caring if Dr. Phil or the late Ann Landers had some dirt dug up on them about an affair from years earlier. I have a hard time imagining anyone caring. And if people did, I have a hard time imagining it ruining a career like it did for main character Nora Bridge. But somehow, she goes from being some huge celebrity to someone who has to hide out from the press. Because there is no celebrity gossip better than some B list radio show host who did something naughty. Anyhow, I digress. It is stupid, but it is integral to the entire book.
I really liked the daughter Ruby at the beginning. She reminds me of a couple people I know, how they had made some bad choices, and their lives hadn’t turned out the way they had wanted. But I was disliking the evolution the character took by the end of the book. Healing 11 years of anger and resentment with her mother was so nice to read, and made the story enjoyable. But it happened within a period of a couple of days. It seemed so unrealistic to me, but it was well-written and enjoyable. I wish the same could be said with her so called relationship with Dean. Ruby is reunited with Dean, who she hadn’t seen for 10 years, when they were TEENAGERS, they basically have a couple of really short, shallow, unrevealing conversations, and end up declaring their love for each, having sex on the spot, then a post-coital decision to get married. Nothing was written about either of these two characters seems to suggest that they would impulse and get married to someone who they hadn’t seen since childhood just because they happened to have good sex. It was a very weak part of the story and should have been thought through more.
Finally, I have to be critical of one last point. The author describes a sailboat in terrible disrepair, and then Dean decides that his project is to restore it. Which he does in a matter of a day or two. Seriously. Why throw [stuff] in the story that is totally unrealistic? The boat she described would not have been a job for Dean to say, “Hmm, let’s do this for an afternoon”. It just bugs me. It was unneccesary to the story and unrealistic, which are two things I hate when I am trying to read a stupid beach novel to take my mind off of things for awhile.
Rating: 2 / 5