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Rescue

Anita Shreve

3.33 · Rating details · 14,650 ratings · 1,822 reviews

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage.

Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in Sheila's troubled world.

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Published June 27th 2011 by Back Bay Books (first published January 1st 2010)

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Dec 01, 2010 Nancy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

My Take: This book is a tricky one to review. Tricky because Anita Shreve is an incredibly gifted writer. Her style is unique and her voice clear. But this book was not interesting to me.

Summary: Small town young man saves trashy but sexy drunk stranger. Before developing any kind of meaningful relationship with her, they have a quick wham, bam, and thank you ma'am. And then some more. And then she announces she's pregnant. She's still trashy and he (Webster, the protagonist) gives up his dream My Take: This book is a tricky one to review. Tricky because Anita Shreve is an incredibly gifted writer. Her style is unique and her voice clear. But this book was not interesting to me.

Summary: Small town young man saves trashy but sexy drunk stranger. Before developing any kind of meaningful relationship with her, they have a quick wham, bam, and thank you ma'am. And then some more. And then she announces she's pregnant. She's still trashy and he (Webster, the protagonist) gives up his dreams because now he's going to be a daddy.

Baby comes. It's a girl. Honeymoon phase and everything's peachy. Did I mention that Sheila, the new mother is trashy? The history on her is vague and sparse. Essentially, hard childhood, one living sister, Sheila learns how to play pool and thus hustle. Angry men losing to a hustling woman, history of a bad relationship with a cop that she owes money to and she's a drunk. Oh, and she's still trashy. And a drunk.

Fast forward into Rowan's teenage years. She's struggling and may not get into college because... wait for it... she's a drunk. Webster is single parenting because Sheila is gone. That particular conflict is described. Bottom line: Sheila is a trashy girl and a drunk. Catalyst = Webster finding Sheila and then a big drama regarding Rowan.

The story was just uninteresting to me. Shreve details the life saving techniques EMT's use every day. Interesting but not interesting enough to comprise so much of the book. The story of Sheila, Webster and Rowan is incomplete. The past 15 years is summed up in one paragraph for Sheila. Who is Sheila? I have no idea. Webster is a little more developed but, by the end of the book, I still didn't even know him. Rowan is a confused teenager who may be a drunk. Maybe she's trashy, too.

Writing style is clearly Shreve. She writes well. It's just not a story I cared about. Language is moderately offensive. Just in case you missed it, Sheila is a trashy mystery. And a drunk. Sex is limited but random.

If you love Anita Shreve, you'll like the book. I like Anita Shreve. I feel nothing for the story. ...more

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Jul 21, 2018 ☮Karen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, overdrive, read-in-2018

This wasn't especially a book I looked forward to reading, having put it off for years, until finally the audio book became available. The reviews weren't exactly helping. But with the recent passing of Ms. Shreve, I wanted to read her again and this is about her only book I haven't read. I think there are two more I'll need to finish off one of these days.

I thought this unique for Shreve in that the main character was a man, and he is utterly middle class, struggling in life but more than conte ...more

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Feb 13, 2011 M rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shreve is a mixed bag. I really liked a book of hers (Pilot's Wife), then picked up an awful one (Wedding in December), and would've sworn off her altogether except I then ended up really loving another one of hers (Testimony), then couldn't even get through her recent one (The One Where They Are on a Mountain) - anyway that all being said I was in a rush to find SOMETHING to read (step it up, goodreaders, I am short on recommendations!) and so I just went for it.
Well, it's pretty bad. The novel Shreve is a mixed bag. I really liked a book of hers (Pilot's Wife), then picked up an awful one (Wedding in December), and would've sworn off her altogether except I then ended up really loving another one of hers (Testimony), then couldn't even get through her recent one (The One Where They Are on a Mountain) - anyway that all being said I was in a rush to find SOMETHING to read (step it up, goodreaders, I am short on recommendations!) and so I just went for it.
Well, it's pretty bad. The novel is about a man named Webster (this is actually his last name but for some reason that's all he's called) who is a paramedic and while he's off being a hero he saves a woman who nearly got herself killed by driving drunk (how charming) and because she's beautiful Webster ignores the fact that there is absolutely nothing else to recommend her and decides, as per the author's request, to fall madly in love with her. Pretty quickly. And stupidly.
They have a kid and get married, in that order, and SHOCKINGLY the marriage begins to fray. Also pretty abruptly. Sheila, the incredibly unlikable woman, gets back into drinking. Webster, the sap, refuses to fall out of love for her and proves himself to be even duller and less interesting than he appeared initially.
Eventually Webster has to ask Sheila to leave, though she does so quite willingly, but of course Webster will always blame himself (really? what's the loss here? and she nearly killed her daughter so, yea) and then Rowan, the daughter, is just about perfect until she decides she's supposed to alcoholic too.
I guess this was supposed to be a book about rescuing - ie, Shreve weaves her story against the backdrop of seemingly unrelated missions Webster goes on as though I am watching ER and having a soap opera story alongside a lot of sirens. Well, it worked well enough on TV, here it was just irritating and distracting. And rescuing as a theme is pretty lame. And then there's the painful writing:
"He wipes a spill of water with the ail of his cotton shirt. He'll stick it in the laundry when he goes upstairs. He has on the beat up slippers Rowan gave him two Christmases ago. They have fur inside and are too warm for this time of year. He'll have to find his boat shoes."
Seriously?? Did I need this? This book was a combo of me thinking, 'well that was fast' and 'thanks for sharing' and 'ok, we get it, she's nasty/he's nice/this is sad/this is meaningful.'
Shreve - you disappoint. Somewhere you decided to trade in talent for mass production ala Piccoult. Blech.
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Jul 10, 2011 Georgina rated it it was ok · review of another edition

My least favourite Anita Shreve. I am happy to read books about small lives,with small stories, ( I loved, and understood the thinking behind, 'Something Happened', for example)but this was too small. Whilst I appreciate any avoidance of a narrative driven by unlikelihoods and exaggeration, I just couldn't 'get' why this particular story had been written. The blurb in my edition used the word 'seismic' to describe events. My seismograph must be unplugged as I detected nothing other than the cons ...more

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Jun 12, 2011 Jonetta rated it liked it · review of another edition

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman, Sheila Arsenault, from her totaled car. She's obviously inebriated but Peter falls for her instantly. Soon they are involved in an intense love affair and Sheila becomes pregnant. They marry and baby Rowan is born. All along, Peter was aware that Sheila never really stopped drinking. But, when Rowan is two, Peter is called to the scene of an accident involving Sheila and another driver. She was driving under the influence and both ...more

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Jan 29, 2012 Darci rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This book would have been more accurately titled if they'd gone with "Don't Bother". Sometimes I like to read brain-candy books, which is where Anita Shreve comes in. I came expecting no literary work, but this book??!! Truly, it is a stupid book. Unfortunately, it's an easy enough read that I didn't stop reading it altogether, but this is one of those books that I finished and thought, "Someone actually PUBLISHED that?!" Not because it is smut. Not because the main characters are unlikeable. It ...more

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Feb 24, 2011 Cheryl rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I would have rated it just a single star, but I feel the need to reserve that for books that I truly can not stand, not books that I just found dumb and boring.

Rescue is the story of a young paramedic who responds to a car crash. He finds a woman who has managed to run her car off the road and into a tree. A drunk driving incident. Sounds like a catch doesn't she. Webster, the paramedic, peruses her, she ends up getting pregnant and they marry. The marriage unravels and Webster is left to raise ...more

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Sep 06, 2018 Bookworm rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, general-fiction-read

Phenomenal writing and character development but predictable and at times boring plot. I've read much better from this author. Would recommend some of her other books rather than this one. ...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Lee Anne rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I was glad this book was over when I turned the last page, but I was extremely unhappy with the way I felt about the characters. I gave it two stars because I did read it in one afternoon, trying to find out what the big secret was that the book flap hinted at. I didn't give it three stars because I still don't know.

I felt I knew more about Webster, the main character / father / husband, and his skills as a medic than I did as a person. What made him want to pursue this girl who was selfish enou I was glad this book was over when I turned the last page, but I was extremely unhappy with the way I felt about the characters. I gave it two stars because I did read it in one afternoon, trying to find out what the big secret was that the book flap hinted at. I didn't give it three stars because I still don't know.

I felt I knew more about Webster, the main character / father / husband, and his skills as a medic than I did as a person. What made him want to pursue this girl who was selfish enough to drive drunk? Her "glossy" hair? And forget getting pregnant; I cringed at the thought of his not using a condom on general where-has-she-been-before grounds. I mean, seriously?

And why did Sheila get involved with such a man with a plan? One or two statements about him being safe didn't convince me that she wanted to try domesticity.

Rowan's personality change wasn't explored well enough for all the hints that were dropped about it, either. Again, one or two comments about learning she was an accident did not flesh out this storyline. Her friends' allowing her to get in trouble again after being so upset the first time rang false to me as well. Helping afterward was great, but where were the questions about why she was drinking in the first place? Why were they at such a dangerous place at that time of night? Why let some unnamed boy exert so much influence over your girlfriend? Someone Tommy's size could have put Rowan in the back seat and taken her home, or somewhere. I know we needed drama, but have it make sense! And the audience at graduation applauding the scar on her head? Really?

I just don't know what the point of this book was. That they could have been a family if Webster had acted differently? Oh, that's right; the mom would have gone to jail! They probably would still be paying lawyers and damages rather than college tuition.

Can you tell I'm frustrated after reading this book?! I couldn't stand Sheila or Rowan, and I had no respect for Webster. I think I'll go back to a Shopaholic book. I need a book with some wisdom and common sense in it. ...more

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Jan 02, 2013 Rebecca rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a story of a young EMT man who falls in love with a patient of his following an accident as a result of her drunk driving. The story starts in the present and then takes the reader back 18 years to give the reader the opportunity to understand how it is just Webster and his daughter Rowan we read about in the beginning. I am a huge fan of Anita Shreve because of the way she is able to write characters vividly and entwine the reader with their every emotion. This book does not fail or dis ...more

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Feb 22, 2011 CC rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I've got mixed feelings about this one. The writing started out as the lovely sort of tone and flow that Anna Quildlen can do, but then veered into obvious, on-the-nose dialogue and plot points that led the book into melodrama worthy of Nicholas Sparks.

At 23, Pete Webster, working as an EMT, rescues a drunk Bostonian (named Sheila) from a car accident. Though she's an alcoholic (and pool hustler?) and he exists in a Mayberry sort of world in Vermont, he inexplicibly falls in lust. She gets preg I've got mixed feelings about this one. The writing started out as the lovely sort of tone and flow that Anna Quildlen can do, but then veered into obvious, on-the-nose dialogue and plot points that led the book into melodrama worthy of Nicholas Sparks.

At 23, Pete Webster, working as an EMT, rescues a drunk Bostonian (named Sheila) from a car accident. Though she's an alcoholic (and pool hustler?) and he exists in a Mayberry sort of world in Vermont, he inexplicibly falls in lust. She gets pregnant on purpose and they get married. She continues drinking, gets in another accident, and under his urging, flees the state rather than face criminal charges. Thus, she abandons their daughter.

Fast forward fifteen years later, Webster suspects their seventeen year-old daughter, Rowan, is "going off the rails." Why? Because she went to a party and HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK ONCE. He then reads her diary, where she questions her mom's absence. So after fifteen years, Webster travels to Boston and finds Sheila. You know, just like that. And, lo, Sheila hasn't had a drink for ten years. Also, she's become a gifted painter. The fact that very few artists, much less painters, can make a living from their work seems to bear no matter in this tale. Around here is where it lost me, really.

Rowan gets drunk again. She falls, busts her head, and becomes comatose. Webster tells Sheila and she comes running to Rowan's bedside. Rowan wakes, has a chat with her newly discovered mom, and all's well. They all go to Rowen's graduation. Of course, even though Rowan was conveniently "failing all her classes" a mere twenty pages prior, she's magically taken her finals in her hospital bed and yes, she's headed off to college come fall.

Cue a singing of Kum-bah-ya here...

I think this book pissed me off because some of the early chapters were really quite good (I debated between two or three stars). They were vivid and held no easy solutions. Shreve can write, it's almost like she chose not to in certain places. Also, there was an odd lack of character development. In alternating chapters, Webster goes about his daily work as an EMT (all episodic, with no arc) but there's nothing else to show who he is. He didn't date anyone in fifteen years? Didn't have a best-friend? Have a hobby? Buy a dog? Take a long drive in the country? Anything? He's just sitting around, waiting for Sheila to return? Gah!!! ...more

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Nov 25, 2010 Mary Gramlich rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

RESCUE by Anita Shreve
November 30, 2010 - Little, Brown & Company - Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-13: 9780316020725

Can you save someone else from their demons?

Peter Webster was 21 when he literally saved Sheila Arsenault’s life. His EMT team was responding to the call for medical assistance and they met. While these were less than ideal circumstances a relationship was formed and Sheila grabbed on with both hands to Webster’s lifeline. Webster had the one and only thing Sheila craved – normalcy.

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Sep 07, 2013 Mary rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Anyone who likes contemporary fiction

Recommended to Mary by: Library Book Sale

Shelves: my-library, 2010-2029, paperback, 96-100, bought-at-a-library-book-sale, contemporary-fiction, review-revisited

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a totaled car - a wreck that should have killed her. It's Peter's first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma - streetwise and tough talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely.

Sheila haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroile ...more

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Dec 02, 2010 Barbara H rated it liked it · review of another edition

Much to my frustration, this is the second review that I am writing about this book. Despite my instructions to SAVE ,the first has vanished into cyberspace.

I enjoyed reading Anita Shreve's most recent contribution, but I have found others that she has written more satisfying. I will not create any "spoilers" here. Further plot descriptions are readily available elsewhere.

Shreve's narrative skills are evident and she has created a degree of tension, but the novel did not require that the read ...more

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Nov 15, 2010 Julia rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I have loved most of Ms. Shreve's books. I was so looking forward to this one. Can I be honest? I thought it read like a Harlequin. (O.K., i've only read 1 Harlequin for a Book Club experiment.) The entire story was just so corny. Most of Shreve's books have an edge to them that keeps me intrigued. This one was so different. For instance, Webster is a young 21 year old EMT. He responds to an accident where the victim, a young women is unconsious and has a metal something stuck in her stomach and ...more

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Jul 22, 2019 Barbara Carter rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My first introduction to Anita Shreve work was through a friend who had recommended The Pilot’s Wife, many years ago.
Since then I’ve read quite a few of her books, but not all.
Usually I pick up a well written work of fiction to escape into at a time when I’m looking for a break from an intense stretch of non-fiction reading. And I trust Anita Shreve to give me what I’m looking for!
There are characters of hers who have stuck with me long after finishing the book; feeling as if I knew them in real ...more

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Dec 15, 2019 Ginger rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-book, read2019, chick-lit

This was so good! I read quite a few reviews in which readers gave this book only 1 or 2 stars. I know not everyone is going to like or love the same book, but I honestly think this deserves more stars and credit than people gave it. I could’ve read this in a day, it was that good but I had to sleep sometime!

The only problem I had while reading it is that the MC, Pete Webster, was always referred to as Webster. Never Pete, except maybe once. I thought it was strange and I’m not sure why the aut ...more

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Mar 25, 2019 Bridget rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I’m a fan of Anita Shreve and having just learnt that she died last year may have influenced my opinion of this book. I don’t believe it’s her best but it was an enjoyable read with engaging characters with lessons to be learnt.

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Aug 21, 2011 Ms.pegasus rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Anita Shreve fans

Shelves: fiction

There are brief moments of perfect balance in life. Looking at your sleeping children, nestled with your spouse, having a beer with your friends.... You wish you could freeze that perfectly ordinary, perfect safe moment of contentment forever. But life moves on. We make choices, relationships change, and mortality moves from the abstract to the concrete.

RESCUE moves in and out of such moments. It opens with a rural Vermont EMT and his daughter, a high school senior, at breakfast. The EMT is Web There are brief moments of perfect balance in life. Looking at your sleeping children, nestled with your spouse, having a beer with your friends.... You wish you could freeze that perfectly ordinary, perfect safe moment of contentment forever. But life moves on. We make choices, relationships change, and mortality moves from the abstract to the concrete.

RESCUE moves in and out of such moments. It opens with a rural Vermont EMT and his daughter, a high school senior, at breakfast. The EMT is Webster (referred to by this surname) and his daughter is Rowan. No mother is present, and we quickly feel the tension as Webster tries to deal with the moody temperament and guarded privacy of an adolescent daughter. In flash-back, Webster's relationship to Rowan's mother, Sheila, is recounted. Like his parents, the reader is both happy and apprehensive for him. At that moment, Webster reflects: “Their time together had been a secret....[he] was afraid that something precious was in jeopardy now....He longed to be back in that moment in the B and B, stroking Sheila's arm before she woke up.”

Webster is a quiet, methodical presence. As an EMT he is well-rehearsed in the mindset of triage. Shreve uses this fact as the tacit structural foundation for the course of her novel. She alternates the reflections on Webster's family life with vignettes of rescue calls. Webster, himself, tries to separate these two parts of himself: He removes his EMT uniform when he comes home: “He didn't want any part of his job to touch the baby. Taking off the uniform was a way of putting aside one life and taking up another.” Yet, the two lives define him, and the trajectory of the book demonstrates how the two parts will come to fit together.

I was attracted to this book by the EMT context, and in this respect it does not disappoint. We view the disciplined relationship between Webster and a trainee, the camaraderie with his seasoned partner, the teamwork that goes into a multiple injury rescue scene, and the acronyms Webster uses to hone his reflexes in each emergency.

Structurally, this book is a gem. More difficult was the contrast of stoicism and decisiveness that defined Webster. ...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Karah rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels

While Anita Shreve is usually an author I can count on, I was not a fan of this book. Part of it may have been that I listened to this book on CD and wasn't thrilled with the reader. His voice and intonations were all wrong-- and his inability to pull of a Boston accent made some of the dialogue tough to listen to.

But aside from the narrator, I just didn't love the story. It followed the life of a young EMT, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman he meets on an accident scene one night. ...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Diane rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Webster, an EMT, meets Sheila at the scene of an accident due to her drinking and driving. For some inexplicable reason, he tracks her down and gets to know her better. Shortly after this, she gets pregnant with their daughter, Rowan. While he tries to make a good life for them, Sheila begins drinking again and leads them all on a downward spiral. Webster makes the decision to ban Sheila from their lives and raises Rowan on his own. When his daughter starts to act differently, get bad grades and ...more

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Jul 04, 2011 Kaci rated it liked it · review of another edition

I went to the library looking for a different book that they didn't have, so I picked up this one instead. When this first came out earlier this year it was everywhere. It seemed like I couldn't walk into a book store without seeing a thousand copied of this book in some kind of pyramid-shaped display. So the book stuck in my head and when I saw it on the shelf, I decided to give it a try. I don't really know how to review it other than to say it was okay. It kept me entertained, I didn't begrud ...more

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Jul 11, 2011 Marcy Sue rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was drawn to this book by the promise of a well written EMT based novel. It was as fair an interpretation as a writer with no personal EMS history could write. Even in a small town, the coincidence of our protagonist being on the scene for both accidents involving his daughter seemed repetitive and almost beyond belief.

I wanted to like this book more. I wasn't expecting the dark cloud to be constantly present. Some burst of a sunlit uplifting scene could have made all the difference instead o ...more

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Jul 12, 2011 Leigh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads

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Dec 06, 2010 Elizabeth Sulzby rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shreve is always a good read, with high human interest, I thought. Alas, on p. 163- of 288 pages, I wrote in the margin: Show me, don't tell me to death. Shortly after that point, the story focus began to move to the current time. The ending action was well executed and should have grabbed my heart, but it just didn't. And the ending came so abruptly and with such a letdown. Perhaps it was my mood, but not for those first 163+ pages. There is a lot of detail about the work of EMT's, but too much ...more

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May 20, 2016 Amy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: made-me-look-something-up

This is the first book by Shreve I've read in a few years, after being disappointed by a book or two. This one had the story-telling and writing I like and expect from her, and the complex relationships that happen in families. It also gave a good picture of life as an EMT. From reading the cover flap, I knew that a mother who'd abandoned her child and husband would come back, but just how that abandonment occurred, and what caused the contact after 15 years, was much more dramatic than I'd anti ...more

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Mar 28, 2016 Ann rated it it was ok · review of another edition

2.5 as enjoyed the descriptions of EMT and ER scenes. Hadn't read any of Shreve's works since "The Pilot's Wife", saw this book by her and picked it up solely on the basis of who wrote it. Must say it kept me a trifle more than mildly entertained, mostly because of it's medical content and my admiration for the EMT and his loyalty to his daughter who he raised as a single dad. Overall, neither the story nor the characters were very memorable. ...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Rachael rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I liked this book. I enjoyed that it was down to earth and focused on some of life's real issues. Believe it or not, there are not actually demons, vampire and witches taking over the unsuspecting humans. ;) Even though I do enjoy those books as well. ...more

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Sep 30, 2017 Denise rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This book was so simple, trite and predictable! Why would anyone read books like this? If you want something so mindless, you might as well watch TV, it would be more visually stimulating, at least. Don't waste your time on this. ...more

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Sep 19, 2020 Els rated it liked it

I’ve read some of the reviews of this book and I must say, I think the negative ones are quite harsh.
Thinking about this read now: I recall feeling that the first, historical, section of the book went on a bit long; Webster is a very focused man, dedicated to and defined by his career; he has obviously been a very good father for 17 years; Rowan sounds like a ‘good girl’ who at 17 (that difficult age) feels unloved and unwanted and is struggling to deal with her mother’s abandonment of her.
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Anita Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. Shreve's novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. She attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, (published in 1975) was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976. Among other jobs, Shreve spent three years working as a journalist ...more

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“Voltage crossed the distance between Sheila and Webster. A current composed of anger and remorse and something else-the last flicker of attraction” — 3 likes

“Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.

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