Joy's review
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind"
by Alexandra Ripley
Joy's review
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" by Alexandra Ripley
Joy's review
rating:
I got this book in hardback for Christmas in 1991, shortly after it was first published. It was highly anticipated and, of course, there were folks lining up on both sides of the issue as to whether it could even hope to be a worthy follow-up to Margaret Mitchell's epic novel or whether it should be judged on its own merits as the continuation of Scarlett's and Rhett's story.
No one who loved GWTW can deny that he/she WANTED to know how the story of Scarlett and Rhett turned out. Margaret Mitchell left us hanging and more than 50 years later, the interest in this sequel was fever pitch. I started reading the book very early in the morning December 26, 1991, in the waiting room of Texas Children's Hospital where my oldest grandchild was undergoing hernia repair surgery. I was more than stressed and the book was the perfect distraction from the agony of waiting.
I enjoyed the continuation of the saga as written by Alexandra Ripley. I think she tuned into Scarlett's more mature sel...more
No one who loved GWTW can deny that he/she WANTED to know how the story of Scarlett and Rhett turned out. Margaret Mitchell left us hanging and more than 50 years later, the interest in this sequel was fever pitch. I started reading the book very early in the morning December 26, 1991, in the waiting room of Texas Children's Hospital where my oldest grandchild was undergoing hernia repair surgery. I was more than stressed and the book was the perfect distraction from the agony of waiting.
I enjoyed the continuation of the saga as written by Alexandra Ripley. I think she tuned into Scarlett's more mature sel...more
