Off Season
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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Author: Anne Rivers SiddonsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-13
ISBN: 0446527874
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: I would have rated it a 3 until the last 5 pages - worst ending EVER!
Summary: 1 Stars
I enjoyed reading the book all the way up until the very end, but the ending was horrible. The entire book is built on the development of various relationships between the main character, Lilly, and other people in her life. Most of the relationships are clearly painted and the interactions between the characters helps the reader to bond. Despite the fact that Siddons sets up the relationship between Lilly and her husband as being one of the most critical to the book, she hardly deals with their adult relationship at all. Towards the end the reader just starts to get a glimpse of what their life together was like, but it is a foggy picture. Clues start dropping that there might have been trouble in paradise, but it was all very subtle. Then the book ends quite abruptly and mysteriously opening up new questions without answers and not answering the questions that were already developed. It was like the cliff hanger at the end of a soap opera instead of the satisfying end to a complete novel. Unless there is a sequel I don't know about, I don't recommend this book because of how frustrating it is to leave the reader in the dark after all the effort she spent to get to know these characters.
Summary of Off Season
Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss.
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.
It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.
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