Outer Banks
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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Book Reviews of Outer Banks
Book Review: Four Sorority Sisters Come Together Again
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, I enjoyed this book fine. It speaks of four sorority sisters from a Southern campus in the 60's. They are bound by a rare, early friendship-spending two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly at the edge of a storm-tossed sea. The characters in the book are elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies. Cecie is the sensitive, sensible, self-contained one. Ginger was the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin, and Fig, the eccentric character, very brilliant yet poor.
The book is very good. Very richly written with a lot of detail and description.
Book Review: Pretty good, just not quite my taste...
Summary: 4 Stars
I really tried and wanted to have a positive outlook about this novel. I enjoyed getting to know the characters, but the over-detail of everything else was a little much, for my taste. The character development was very good, except I didn't feel like I knew much about how the characters looked (and that is important to me, since I play books like movies in my head).I found a lot of this book very unrealistic (especially the romances), and didn't like how it ended. It could have been a lot better, or at least more attractively dramatic.
I don't feel like I wasted my time reading this novel, I just wish I had picked another one to begin with...
Book Review: my review
Summary: 4 Stars
Another great succes from Anne Rivers Siddons. This time she mixes four girls from different backgrounds, who decide to meet after almost 30 years since they were together. What happens to them?Only this author has the style to make you live their anxiety at meeting again. She makes you understand that everybody in life goes through changes that affect your personality and your future. She makes every character a real-life one, with good things and, sometimes, with mostly bad things!
This plot and the place it is set in is a great combination. Kuddos to the author!
Book Review: Siddons shows brilliance with character development
Summary: 4 Stars
Outer Banks was the first book I have read of Ann Rivers Siddons', and I was not disappointed. The story was long and drawn out, however it kept my interest well enough that I didn't mind. It would make great summer/beach reading.The very best part about reading this work was the character development. Siddons does a brilliant job in creating and describing several different and distinct characters. They weave in and out of each others lives in believable and interesting ways.
As I mentioned, this was my first reading of Siddons' but it will not be my last.
Book Review: A beautiful description of adult life and mid-life crisis
Summary: 4 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed Outer Banks. Ms. Siddons transported me into someone else's life for a couple of weeks. The friendship between Kate and Cecie contained elements common to many deep female friendships: talking endlessly about nothing in particular, laughing effortlessly, and finding enjoyment in the same activity, in their case poetry. Ms. Siddons' description of mid-life crisis, on several fronts at once, was especially moving as I am in that phase myself. It's a book about real-life sentiments carried through 30 years. I highly recommend it.