The Collected Novels Volume Two: The Foretelling / White Horses / Angel Landing / Seventh Heaven

by Alice Hoffman

Whether in an ancient tribe of female warriors or a sleepy Long Island suburb in the late 1950s, the novels in this collection carve out a piece of that uniquely Hoffmanesque landscape—somewhere between magic and reality, hope and disappointment, the mythical and the mundane—where we are surprised but delighted to rediscover mercy and our humanity.

The Foretelling:
Determined to win her mother’s love and take her rightful place as the next queen, Rain becomes a brave and skilled fighter. But the dream of a black horse clouds her future, portending death. Peace, mercy, and love are forbidden words in her people’s language—can Rain teach her sisters to speak in a new tongue before it’s too late?

White Horses:
When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of fearless heroes on white horses, the romantic outlaws who populated the stories her mother told her. As an adult, she is irresistibly drawn to her brother, Silver, even as he recklessly pursues a life of crime and danger, captivated by the belief that he may be the night rider of her dreams.

Angel Landing:
An explosion at a nuclear power plant under construction on Angel Landing changes the lives of Natalie, a therapist; her activist boyfriend, Carter; her eccentric aunt Minnie; and the man who walks into her office with an incredible confession to make.

Seventh Heaven:
In this New York Times bestseller, the arrival of a free-thinking divorced mother, Nora Silk, and her two young sons transforms a Long Island suburb during the summer of 1959.

Genres: Fiction

802 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2018

About the author

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here on Earth, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and the Practical Magic series, including Practical
Magic; Magic Lessons; The Rules of Magic, a selection of Reese’s Book Club; and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.

Reviews

[Eliz Griffith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection showed a great deal of the range Alice Hoffman has mastered with her writing... including the dark side... the interestingly-weird side... and even the "I don't like it because I don't really 'get it'" side. Glad to have read it, not sure I'd want to read a similar collection... although to find some of her jewels, I probably would. ;-)

[C.S. Wilson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not finish. I've loved almost everything I've read by Alice Hoffman, except this collection. I was dreading opening my kindle to read, so I knew it was time to give it up. I can't put my finger on why I didn't like any of these novels in the collection, but they just didn't engage me.

[Jeannette · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love Alice Hoffman, this is a series for you

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't believe I read all four books. Mostly YA fare but then she threw in some shockers like incest and other atrocities which takes it out of that category.I need some Maalox.

[Bonnye Reed]

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