Filled with quirky, heartwarming characters, this novel is a late coming-of-age story shaped by the eternal redeeming power of female friendsh...
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Jan 05, 2010
Ramona
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I’ll go out on a metaphoric limb and say that this is a post-modern gothic novel, in that the heroine is not in actual physical danger, but she is mighty, mighty confused. Brannagh keeps losing key people from her life, and she doesn’t know why they disappear. The story is all about how Brannagh tries to make sense of her life and these losses, now that she is a young adult and many of the people who know the answers are silent and/or dead. Her mother vanished when Brannagh was a child and no on
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Jun 13, 2009
Grady
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LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU may by Kathy-Diane Leveille's first novel, but if this book is any indication of her gifts both as a weaver of fascinating stories and a poet of natural expression then it will most assuredly will not be her last! There is at the core of this novel a finely tuned story that mixes contemporary action with reflective passages of each character's past, a technique that for some can be burdensome in that time frames tend to blur. For the sophisticated reader this tech
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May 15, 2009
Michele
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This is a wondrously written thriller that I couldn't put down. Set in Canada, a young woman trying to escape her violent childhood cons her way onto an environmental research team where she falls in love with the team leader. When he inexplicably disappears into the Canadian wilderness, she returns home to sort out her past and, by default, her future.
The novel traverses three time periods: the protagonist's early childhood, the present, and the not-so-distant past of her scientif More...
The novel traverses three time periods: the protagonist's early childhood, the present, and the not-so-distant past of her scientif More...
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May 02, 2009
Cheryl
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Brannaugh Maloney loved her boyfriend Nikolai "Nikki" Mirsky. Which is a good thing as Nikki also happens to be her boss. Nikki is a wilderness preservationist. Brannaugh works for him as a cataloguer.
Nikki will be going away for a week long conference. Instead of staying at the hotel with the rest of the attendees, Nikki will be staying at a cabin that his assistant, Alex Turner found. It is rumored that the cabin is haunted. Story has it that the cabin was b More...
Nikki will be going away for a week long conference. Instead of staying at the hotel with the rest of the attendees, Nikki will be staying at a cabin that his assistant, Alex Turner found. It is rumored that the cabin is haunted. Story has it that the cabin was b More...
May 28, 2009
Shawn
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Kathy is a fine writer. She can make a mundane observation fresh, original, and relevant with her writing style.
For me this book is about how lives can be changed, damaged, or altered by people being self-centred and corrupted by power.
Kathy's book involves the lives of four women who have been friends since childhood. The story is told through the voice of Brannaugh one of these women. After Brannaugh experiences the mysterious loss of a lover, she is asked to come home More...
For me this book is about how lives can be changed, damaged, or altered by people being self-centred and corrupted by power.
Kathy's book involves the lives of four women who have been friends since childhood. The story is told through the voice of Brannaugh one of these women. After Brannaugh experiences the mysterious loss of a lover, she is asked to come home More...
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Dec 26, 2009
Jeanette
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Another enjoyable first reads win. This was a nice dose of Canadian flavour. ;-)
Several mysteries are braided together here--some present and some past. "Present" in this case being 1970, and past being the 1950s. Each of the mysteries weaves seductively in and out of the narrative as the truth is gradually revealed.
Brannagh Maloney's boss/boyfriend Nikki disappears on purpose from their work site in Northern Ontario. After a long time with no word from him, Branna More...
Several mysteries are braided together here--some present and some past. "Present" in this case being 1970, and past being the 1950s. Each of the mysteries weaves seductively in and out of the narrative as the truth is gradually revealed.
Brannagh Maloney's boss/boyfriend Nikki disappears on purpose from their work site in Northern Ontario. After a long time with no word from him, Branna More...
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Jun 13, 2011
Natalie
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Thank you so much for this great book! Don't know what I did to deserve this.
Again, I am not gonna summon up the story, that I leave to others. Or You can just read the writers summary. I am telling you what I thought of it.
Kathy-Diane Leveille has a very poetic, filigreed yet catchy, articulated and brainy writing style. Lovely!
The story,- and time lines are quite artistically woven together, to keep you want to read and know more. At times it was sad to read More...
Again, I am not gonna summon up the story, that I leave to others. Or You can just read the writers summary. I am telling you what I thought of it.
Kathy-Diane Leveille has a very poetic, filigreed yet catchy, articulated and brainy writing style. Lovely!
The story,- and time lines are quite artistically woven together, to keep you want to read and know more. At times it was sad to read More...
Apr 05, 2011
Julia
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Let The Shadows Fall Behind You
By Kathy-Diane Leveille
iUniverse 2009
Brannagh Maloney is working in Northern Ontario with a crew of wilderness preservationists tracking birds, when her boyfriend Nikki goes missing. Heartbroken over his disappearance, Brannagh travels back to her childhood home in Saint John’s, New Brunswick, where she reconnects with her girlhood friends. There she begins to unravel a bigger mystery from her past: the murder of her mother and her bes More...
By Kathy-Diane Leveille
iUniverse 2009
Brannagh Maloney is working in Northern Ontario with a crew of wilderness preservationists tracking birds, when her boyfriend Nikki goes missing. Heartbroken over his disappearance, Brannagh travels back to her childhood home in Saint John’s, New Brunswick, where she reconnects with her girlhood friends. There she begins to unravel a bigger mystery from her past: the murder of her mother and her bes More...
May 23, 2009
Chelle
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This is an intricate story where the memories of the past and the discoveries of the present weave themselves together to heal wounds and answer haunting questions.
Leveille uses the many seemingly unrelated events of complicated lives to help show how the characters got to where they are today and how the hidden scars of the past have affected them, changed them and molded them..
This is almost a coming of age stgory where the characters learn to undersand themselves and More...
Leveille uses the many seemingly unrelated events of complicated lives to help show how the characters got to where they are today and how the hidden scars of the past have affected them, changed them and molded them..
This is almost a coming of age stgory where the characters learn to undersand themselves and More...
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Oct 30, 2010
Stacy
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When the main character's boyfriend goes missing and she begins to fall apart, she meets up with her childhood best friends in some sort of an "intervention" and she must deal with the events and people of her past in order to move forward.
The story moved cleanly between time periods so there was no confusion, and the story revealed itself at exactly the right pace.
The story moved cleanly between time periods so there was no confusion, and the story revealed itself at exactly the right pace.
May 30, 2009
Tommy
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Only in it a couple of pages, but its already got my attention.
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Jul 23, 2010
Sherry
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The author writes technically very well, but I never cared about the characters or their stories. Too many flashbacks for my taste.
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