Books by Alice Hoffman
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review 1: Having never read any of Alice Hoffman's books, I grabbed this from the Library shelf as it looked interesting. I was certainly not disappointed! This is such a wonderfully different story - actually two unique stories that end up being intertwined into a creatively done ending...
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review 1: this is not the kind of book i would ordinarily read - on first glance, it seems like the kind of touchy-feely sentimental stuff i tend to avoid because i am a robot and all, but it was sent as part of a care package from the kind kind people of goodreads when i was going through...
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review 1: Lovely is a word I cannot use enough to describe Alice Hoffman’s dystopian fairy tale of Green, a brave and resilient young woman who survives her loss of family, love, and community. If you enjoyed Green Angel, you will be pleased to follow Green’s rebirth with this sequel. Ov...
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review 1: The story revolved around three sisters who shared a secret language and fantasy world in their younger years . This was all created by the older sister, Elv, who was traumatized as a child. This was alluded to as the very bad day but never totally Explained.. Elv developed man...
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review 1: THE DOVEKEEPERS by Alice Hoffman (2011) is her first historical novel. I think some popular novelists reach a point in their careers where they no longer must write, but may choose to write. Marian Zimmer Bradley, after a career of pot-boiler fantasy wrote The Mists of Avalon. Do...
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review 1: The writing of these books is very different for me, you need to read behind the lines. Don't judge until you have walked in the shoes of the person you are judging. A young girl loses her whole family to a tragedy, which a whole city has suffered from a fire storm, will she or...
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review 1: It would be so easy for a mediocre writer to completely mess this format up, but Alice Hoffman is very skilled. Spanning over 200 years, she writes little vignettes, about a chapter a generation, from the start of a little town to the present day, from parent to children to great...
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review 1: The red Garden by Alice HoffmanI enjoyed the way Ms Hoffman chose to tell the facinating history of a small old town in Massachusetts, first called Bearsville and then Blackwell. Telling the story through the generations that lived there and how they connected with a special g...
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review 1: Teresa Jane Fowler (nicknamed Twig because of her affinity for climbing trees and getting messy) is used to being alone. Her family lives isolated in their ancestral farmhouse where her mother makes locally-famous apple pie from their orchard. Her family carries secrets: an ancie...