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Title: For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0-553-56127-8 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.72 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Obviously an early George and not as strong as the others.
Comment: While this story doesn't stack up to George's later books, her characters are well developed and believable. Readers like me who are enchanted with Havers (particularly) and Lynley will enjoy getting to know them in this book. The real story behind Lynley and Lady Helen's long-standing engagement. Anyone dealing with elderly parents will understand Haver's dilemma with her mother. George's characters always seem to be real people with real problems. I'd advise starting with her later books -- "Deception on His Mind" is a good place to start -- then work backwards.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dismal, depressing, dreary...
Comment: ...all of which would have been OK if the plot had been able to keep one's interest: it doesn't. Elizabeth George's characters are a dysfunctional and improbable bunch, not one of them seem remotely realistic. The murder mystery disappears in a would-be psychological character study, and the result is frankly trashy and boring soap-operatic novel. George has a very bad understanding of English society, her portrayal of it is strangely quaint and doesn't reflect any England I've ever come across.
Rating: 5
Summary: Complex, Convoluted Mystery for the Modern Times
Comment: Elizabeth George is an incredible writer that enfuses both her plots and her characters with realism. She constantly seeks to address the human condition, whether it is muscular distrophy, racism, senility or, in this case, deafness.
George specializes in giving us the thoughts of the characters and in this way drives the story forward. This novel is no different as we seem to slowly approach the heart of the story in a circular, closing motion. The insights into deafness and the many ways everyone reacts to it are simply phenomenal. This is a difficult book to read with a slight touch of amorality but in this case, the story and the writing appears "correct". Once again, the reader is slowly drawn into the web, entering yet another of George's mysterious and quixotic worlds. A winner
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Title: Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553566040 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Suitable Vengeance by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0553295608 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553287346 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Payment In Blood by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553284363 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Playing for the Ashes by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0553572512 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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