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I give this book 2.5 stars really. It wasn't bad, but I don't know that I would recommend it. As my friend described it to me, the book is quite tragic. I'm sad with how it ended and feeling unresolved for one of the characters. It was also extremely slow moving in the beginning. I had to switch to the audio version just to get through it. If I wasn't reading this for a book club, I may have given up.
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Beautiful, absorbing,felt the joy and sorrow. depicts what happens when good people make bad decision leading to irresolvable outcome.
The story takes place in the town of Point Partageuse, Australia during the 1920s. The story begins when a light house keeper and his wife find a life boat containing a live baby (and dead man) on the shore of their isolated island. Through a mixture of misplaced intentions and unsupported superstition they decide to raise the child as their own -- deciding not to ...more
The story takes place in the town of Point Partageuse, Australia during the 1920s. The story begins when a light house keeper and his wife find a life boat containing a live baby (and dead man) on the shore of their isolated island. Through a mixture of misplaced intentions and unsupported superstition they decide to raise the child as their own -- deciding not to ...more
Oh this book....this book killed me inside. I really loved it. So beautiful and so sad, such a tale of forgiveness and loss and love.
What I love about Tom and Isabel is that it wasn't all love and devotion and mush. It was love, of course, and undoubtedly devotion, but there was betrayal, secrets, anger, hatred, despair. It was all parts of a marriage, especially tested by tragedy and loss. Each was wonderful, and flawed. I couldnt get enough of them.
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What I love about Tom and Isabel is that it wasn't all love and devotion and mush. It was love, of course, and undoubtedly devotion, but there was betrayal, secrets, anger, hatred, despair. It was all parts of a marriage, especially tested by tragedy and loss. Each was wonderful, and flawed. I couldnt get enough of them.
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This is basically a Nicholas Sparks book, except set in Australia instead of North Carolina.
Book was OK. Definitely a chick lit type book. Not my favorite genres, but I will read them occasionally.
Book was OK. Definitely a chick lit type book. Not my favorite genres, but I will read them occasionally.
This was an interesting read. I was not too big on the ending. It just seemed a little too far fetched for me but the whole lighthouse portion of the book was interesting to me since I have never read about it before.
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Melissa Mitchell
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