Rate this book

The Home Place (2014)

by Carrie La Seur(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

006232344X (ISBN13: 9780062323446)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: The Home Place is a well-written first novel about a woman, Alma, a high-powered attorney working in Seattle, who returns home to Montana when her younger sister, Vicky, is found dead, apparently from exposure. It quickly becomes clear that Vicky may have been murdered. So the novel is a whodunit. But there's a lot going on in The Home Place. Besides Vicky's murder and Alma's homecoming, there's also the question of what will become of Vicky's adolescent daughter, Brittany; a rekindled romance; and the tensions surrounding a corporation's campaign designed to scare the locals into signing away their mineral rights. All that action, oddly, sometimes made the pace flag. But overall, The Home Place succeeds. I thought it did so especially as a depiction of Alma's search f... moreor own metaphorical home place as she reckons with the guilt she's felt since turning and fleeing from her family's literal home place and the choices she made there, as well as what her sister's death will mean for her future.
review 2: The accolades and reviews for this book has left me bewildered and confused. I am unsure why this book received so much praise, cause this book was extremely forgettable, trite and typical. Despite the poor character development,nothing about this novel made me want to continue reading after the first chapter. All of the paragraphs jumbled together without no sense of direction, felt like I was reading a long movie script without including the character names. Most importantly that contributed to the low rating was the undefined plot, it just kept going on and on and on and on about useless information that did not add anything significant. It just was not cup of tea or choice of beverage , two for effort but that is about it. less

Download links for: The Home Place

Advertising