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The Summer Of The Bear (2010)

by Bella Pollen(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0230748708 (ISBN13: 9780230748705)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Mantle

review 1: Initially found this book too whimsical and nearly abandoned it after a few pages. Then had another stab at it and enjoyed it. The bear did not really come alive for me but I enjoyed both being in the Outer Hebrides and the Bonn, Berlin, London interludes.The structure of the book worked well - better than the content which was OK but a bit sentimental. James was written very well the whole way through, Georgina came alive eventually, but Alba and the mother Letty sounded like two sides of the author herself and probably suffered from a lack of insight.
review 2: This is the story of a family struggling to cope with the death of Nicky, their father and husband, a British diplomat stationed in Bonn, Germany during the Cold War. The family returns to the mother's... more childhood home on an island in Scotland and struggles with their grief and their new norm. I found the mysteries to be engagingly a week as the mystical aspect of the bear. The characters were well crafted. Even if I could not identify with their behaviors, I found myself caring about them. Although the plot was engaging, I found the ending to be too pat. It did, however, wrap everything up. less

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