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The Letter takes you through a mixture of emotions, it is very much a compelling read that once you've started you will struggle to put down. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. Jenny is a first-person narrator who speaks directly to the reader. How authentic did you feel her voice was? How well do you feel the author depicted the horrors of the war in Italy and the treatment of Italians living in Britain at that time? The novel asks the question, how far would you go for someone you love? How do you think you’d react in the same situation as any of the main characters?
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Beth is faced with a great deal of emotional stress in extraordinary circumstances in the novel. Which of the characters did you most sympathise with and why?
Joanne on #Review: No. 23 Burlington Square by Jenni Keer @JenniKeer @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #blogtour #publicationday #BoldwoodBloggers #histfic #romance #RespectRomFic Am iubit-o pe Chrissie pentru felul în care a iubit un om despre care știa că a părăsit-o în momentele sale cele mai grele. This story contains many of the aspects I love about the art of fiction writing: love, loss, time-travel and brilliantly developed characters. I thought the modus operandi was inspired; I love it when an author can confidently jump between time periods to deliver a beautifully interwoven story. I really wanted to love it – it’s the kind of story I usually adore – but it never really engaged me emotionally. The characters were too stereotypical for meto ever fully believe in them – angels or devils, and very littlein-between. Some of the plot twists were signalled in neon letters before they happened, and then unfolded so desperately slowly that I really just wanted to move on and found myself skipping chunks. There was an awful lot of telling rather than showing, sometimes with quite lengthy bits of rather unrealistic dialogue where people seemed to tell each other their life stories. And on top of that, there were frequent recaps in the dialogue of things that hadn’t happened long before – I foundmyself thinking “I know, I know – just move on!”.
Her Last Promise: An absolutely gripping novel of the power
U ovoj se knjizi isprepliću poglavlja o životima dviju žena, jedne iz 70-ih godina prošlog stoljeća i jedne sa samog početka Drugog svjetskog rata. Beth did not know who her father was, and her mother did not say much about him. However, now more than ever, she needs to find him and see whether he could provide the organ her son needed to survive. When Beth comes across a newspaper cutting in her mother’s stuff, her world starts to fall apart. Secrets about the past come to the surface, and while the truth shakes Beth to the core, it somehow makes her understand her life better. That secret that Mary chose to keep forty years ago has such an impact on the one person she held so dear. Will Beth find a perfect donor for her son’s kidney? What does Beth do with the information she just uncovered now that her mom is not alive to answer her questions? Y luego personajes como el padre de Christina y las monjas que despertaron en mí el más absoluto de los desprecios. The book moves between two timelines. In modern day, an old letter, never posted is discovered in an old coat left for a charity shop to sell. The letter, once read sparks a curiosity and a journey to find out more about the story with it and to return it to its intended recipient. What do you consider to be the major themes of The Secret and how are they explored? Which theme stood out particularly strongly?In his search abroad, William runs into Tina working at the library, and tells her of his search for his birth mother and father. She has The Letter which will connect the two stories. The two of them, strangers, begin the search for the owners of the letter, William’s parents to solve the mystery of a past life. Kathryn Hughes’ new ebook The Letter offers readers a chance to absorb themselves in the lives of two women, born decades apart but whose lives share a number of parallels. The novel explores two historical strands, bringing together an abused housewife from the 1970s and a young girl from the early 1940s in a story of love, loss and unexpected consequences. THE LETTER tells the story of two women, born decades apart, whose paths are destined to cross and how one woman’s devastation leads to the other’s salvation. Taking the reader on a journey from the east coast of America, the rustic farmlands of Southern Ireland and the bustling streets of Manchester, I was gripped from start to finish. I even unashamedly wiped away a tear or two on more than once occasion!
The Secret: A gripping World War Two historical fiction novel
Tina gyvena nesaldų gyvenimą. Jos vyras Rikas ją muša. Ji vienintelė išlaiko jų šeimą kai tuo tarpu Rikas leidžia pinigus alkoholiui ir lošimams. Tačiau vieną dieną Tina dirbdama labdaros parduotuvėje randa seną voką ir jame laišką. Palikusi savo vyrą pradeda aiškintis, kam buvo skirtas tas laiškas. Tačiau netikėtai Rikas pasikeičia, o Tina sužino esanti nėščia... ji grįžta pas Riką.... Tačiau ar tai laiminga pabaiga?We learn that even the smallest of oversights now, can sometimes count in the larger scheme of things, enabling the possibility of a later action which can have equally profound effects. Jenni Keer on #Review: No. 23 Burlington Square by Jenni Keer @JenniKeer @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #blogtour #publicationday #BoldwoodBloggers #histfic #romance #RespectRomFic Wonderful! First book I have read by Kathryn Hughes and will now read her previous stories. I loved it *****'
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