false 4489833 2 Madeleine Shaye is an over-achiever with a dual career as concert pianist and TV arts-correspondent. She adores her college-age daughter, adopted as an infant under murky circumstances, and has a blissful relationship with Nick Ashcroft, scion of a mega-rich, old-money family whose lives have intertwined with hers since college. In short, she is the woman with all the luck. Then her life unravels, and Maddy loses her footing. Her daughter announces she s leaving college to work in Guatemala, hinting darkly at mysterious trouble. And Maddy discovers that Nick has betrayed her in a way she never could have imagined. Mixing heartbreak and Gothic atmospherics with an often comical satire that casts a sardonic eye on high-fliers in New York s artsy set, Erica Abeel has created an intimate drama of a family shadowed by the past. Set in part at Nick s crumbling family estate, Conscience Point is also a mystery that uncovers buried secrets while it plumbs the touchingly human nostalgia for the sort of youthful passion that is seldom equaled in later life. Conscience Point captures the struggles of accomplished baby boomers scrambling to stay afloat in a post-literate age. It offers smart, enlightening descriptions of the world of music and satisfies our prurient hunger to eavesdrop on the almost-too-decadent, consequence-free lives of the super rich. But it s Maddy s tough resilience and her ability to love and sacrifice while making moral choices that remain the emotional core of this taut, clever novel. 4758774 14 10 2008 Conscience Point total:14|5:2|4:5|3:4|2:2|1:1| 14 47 34 4 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 09:33:55 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 09:34:06 -0700 2009
Conscience Point is the first Romance book I have ever read. Erica Abeel, the author, sent requested that I review her book and I agreed, willing to give any genre a try. In this novel Madelaine Shaye, or Maddy, has everything...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 19 06:24:46 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 14:04:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false true Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:20:51 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:15:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 17 06:54:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 07:18:40 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 10:48:52 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:48:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 06:22:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:22:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 29 09:56:31 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 09:56:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 28 04:51:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 04:51:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 26 08:11:55 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:11:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 22 05:44:49 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 05:44:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 12 18:54:53 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 18:54:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun May 03 18:00:38 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 18:00:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 12:38:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 12:38:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 17:09:55 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 15:52:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Mar 25 13:17:39 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 13:17:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 08:47:22 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 08:47:22 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 06:50:41 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 06:50:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 05:23:16 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:23:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 11 20:46:26 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 20:46:35 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Nov 03 04:53:15 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:00:37 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 04:15:41 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3607694