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Solace (2011)

by Belinda McKeon(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0330529846 (ISBN13: 9780330529846)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Picador

review 1: This book probably deserves another star except that, not being Irish, I found the first third a bit hard on my knowledge of the different common words used by this Irish author. Yet, after a while I did get involve in the characters and their lives. Maybe I am changing because I really thought I liked happy endings yet this one could not be considered happy, just hopeful, and that seemed to fit the story. I loved the child's name, Aoife (pronounced ee-fah, on good Irish authority!). The author is speaking at Hofstra on 12/3 and I am going to try to go.
review 2: I did not like this book. I found it very dry and boring. I almost gave it one star but decided to go with two because there were a few chapters here and there that held my interest. I found myself... more at first skipping sentences, and then glossing over paragraphs because in my opinion, there was more description than dialogue and the description was overdone and much of it unnecessary. Without giving anything away, I would have preferred the tragedy take place earlier in the book and have more story on how Tom and Mark deal with the tragedy. I feel the way the author dealt with the tragedy was hurried. less

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