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Title: Confession by Elizabeth Gage ISBN: 1-55166-496-8 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Gage Pens a Mediocre read
Comment: Elizabeth Gage is a writer that I have been slowly reading more and more of lately. I have come to enjoy her writing. Elizabeth Gage mixes mystery, danger, suspense, lush descriptions, and erotic encounters into her writing. The women are detailed right down to their ordinary features, or not so ordinary talents. The men are detailed right down to their habits. It's this attention to detail, and description that can get me entirely lost in her books.
Elizabeth Gage offers in Confession a story about a marriage that was plagued with blatant infidelity, and a complete lack of affection. Although the marriage appears solid and steady, appearances can be deceiving.
Rebecca married Damon two decades and some change ago. They were young and in love, well possibly. Rebecca after twenty years of marriage starts to wonder if it was more love, or stability that brought the two to the altar. Rebecca settles into suburban life, and the facade of keeping appearances up. She doesn't feel beautiful anymore, and certainly doesn't feel loved. Her husband only stirs his passion around in her when he wants to, or when he thinks she might be getting fed up with him.
Rebecca and Damon's daughter Dusty is finally off at college as well. Rebecca doesn't know whether this is a relief to her, or a bad thing. The idea that Dusty is grown and independent makes her proud. The last thing she wants is for Dusty to marry early and for the wrong reasons like she did. But Dusty does bring home Tony, who it seems is the man she wants to marry.
Damon comes home one day and finds Rebecca has disappeared. Damon can't decide what to tell their daughter Dusty. When he finally does tell her that it seems her mother has run off, Dusty has a revelation of her own. This is where the story could have gotten really interesting...well could have!
This wasn't a favorite Elizabeth Gage novel for me, I can't recommend it. Why? Well it was a good read, had some great material to work with but it fell short of my expectations. The prologue pretty much tells you the ending(I know this is common but this one REALLY ruins the story), and makes it even more predictable then ever. Spend your money elsewhere.
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of money
Comment: As a previous Elizabeth Gage fan, I was extremely disappointed by both this and Hourglass. This book has potential, and that is both the meanest and nicest thing I can say about it. Gage likes giving the last scene as the first chapter, and having you guess at the ending, but it is usually a surprise because all the characters have the motivation to do as was detailed. In this book, however, it seemed as if she was just slapping in a character to make it surprising (I won't go into more detail than that).
This book, had it been a few hundred pages longer and involved more insight, would have been good. Unfortunately, she seems to have gotten tired of the plotline (with some good reason), and dropped it before it was quite done. If you really want a book that will stay with you (instead of just a quick read), get her early works instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Confession
Comment: I had never read any of the books by Elizabeth Gage until I bought Confession. I thought it was excellent and I couldn't put it down. Since reading it I have purchased two more of her books. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Intimate by Elizabeth Gage, Claire Zion ISBN: 0671897063 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Pandora's Box by Elizabeth Gage ISBN: 0671703048 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING : A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING by Gage ISBN: 0671677241 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hourglass (Trade Size) by Elizabeth Gage ISBN: 1551665034 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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