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I couldn't warm to this book. I think it tries too hard, it feels affected, insincere. It's mostly told from the perspective of Jean. She's a photographer sent to get photographs of Smuttynose, Maine, part of the Shoal Islands near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1873, it was the setting of a gruesome double murder, so she visits the island accompanied by her husband, five-year-old daughter and her brother-in-law and his girlfriend. The novel is mostly written in a first person present voice that
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This book is 2 stories interwoven into one. The first is about a modern family vacationing off the coast of Rhode Island. In the main character is researching a double murder that happened in the area in the 1800's. The second story is the story of the double murder, what life was like leading up to the "night in question". Very well written as the stories parallel each other in ways you don't realize until the end.
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Yet another remarkable novel by Shreve. So far I've loved everything I've read by her and now she's become one of those authors of who I MUST acquire all of their works.
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2.5 stars. Good, but not very good.
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