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Solace

Belinda McKeon

Start date: October 1, 2011

Finish date: October 31, 2011

Discussion: MONTHLY GROUP READS

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MONTHLY GROUP READS

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Sep 26, 2011 Kevin rated it liked it

Shelves: group-reads

It was ok. Nice story, but generally not my genre. I was more interested in Mark and his father as opposed to Mark and Joanne. This was possibly because the story itself began with Mark and Tom, so everyone else served no interest in me.

The story itself is beautiful, and was pretty much easy to read once you get into it (the key being 'getting into it')

The characters seemed real to me. In fact, I could easily visualise the characters, and relate with them. And I love how the story switches my im ...more

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Sep 02, 2011 Iuliana Naughton rated it liked it

Shelves: book-club

This is a very easy book to read and i really enjoyed the first half of the book. I liked the characters of Tom and Mark, but didn't care much for Joanne. I found the wrong parts of the story were developed, i.e. Joanne's case, Mark's thesis as well as the story around Joanne's former lecturer. I found these didn't serve as much purpose as possibly intended, and i found myself wanting to skip through to the parts where something actually happens.

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