Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #461050 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 733 pages

Customer Reviews

Lack of story
The main story happens within the first 100 pages of the book. You can save yourself reading even the first 100 pages by reading the book flap instead. Kim Edwards struggles for the next 300 pages to add substance to the story. She is a very descriptive writer and can write for a half page or more on how lint looks on a shirt. I felt that she used her creative descriptions to compensate for a lack of story in the book. I found myself distracted by her writing style and skimming entire pages hoping to find some substance in the story.

save yourself some time, read the cover...it tells the whole story
This could have been a compelling story. Sadly, the author appears to have spent most of her writing energy looking up adjectives to endlessly describe shafts of light or leaves falling. In the end, I simply did not care what happened to her characters, I found myself skimming pages in search of anything that would push the story forward...never found much.

The Most Talked Book Today
The most talked about book today. A phenomenal first novel by Edwards. The choice of a father to hide the birth of one of his twins has far reaching consequences."