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Title: Islands by Anne Rivers Siddons ISBN: 0-06-621111-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Vintage Siddons
Comment: I am not going to summarize the book, amazon does that quite well! So just my review...
I am a huge fan of Ms. Siddons', I have been reading her books from the first. She is the type of author that you take her book and not just read it, but wrap it around you, and you become a part of her story. This book was no exception. I really liked the characters. Of course the setting, as in so many of her books, was another character.
I gave it four, (really wanted to give it four and a half), instead of five only because of the ending. Something happens at the end,that I think needed a little more story. I felt like maybe her editor told her to hurry up. Overall though, a really good read, and well worth the time.
Rating: 3
Summary: Siddons Fails To Maintain Intensity Of Her Usual Novels
Comment: I have read all of Siddons' books over the years and some were better than others. One expects an author to become more adept at suspension of disbelief and capturing the reader in a web of tendrils from which we do not want to be let go, even to not putting the book down till we are finished.
Not so this time. The first half of the book literally sings with Siddons' usual command of our senses as we experience Charleston and the low country once again. She makes one yearn to be there with her, to feel the warm sand under bare feet and to experience the heat and humidity as well as the graceful and langourous people she populates her books with.
But something goes wrong in the second half of the book: one begins to sense what is coming; what the secrets are, and it is hard not to see the comparison between Anny and Maud in COLONY, as well as the same scenes simply reworded but not entirely disguised. This is expecting the reader to have forgotten a plot turn of another book or else to agree it is fine to use it again.
I found Siddons' best works to have been FOXES EARTH, COLONY, and OUTER BANKS. This book is good but not great, in my opinion. I will continue to read each new book of hers and hope to find again the one that holds me in her spell till the last word.
Rating: 1
Summary: Who cares about any of the characters?
Comment: I have read most of Anne Rivers Siddons previous books and was looking forward to this one. I was extremely disappointed in the lack of character depth. I never felt any compassion for or real interest in any of the characters. Often I found myself saying, "this is ridiculous".
Actually I didn't think the ending was any worse then the rest of the book, which isn't saying much.
I bought the book to read and share with my daughter, another Siddons fan, but I told her not to waste her time. I recommend the other Siddons books, but not this one.
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