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An Absence So Great (2010)

by Jane Kirkpatrick(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1578569818 (ISBN13: 9781578569816)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

WaterBrook Press

series

Portraits of the Heart

review 1: Jessie Gaebele's life couldn't be better. Armed with the knowledge to run her own photographic studio, she decides to help owners run their studios while they are sick with mercury poisoning. She steps closer and closer to owning her own studio, and she scrimps and saves until her goal is within her reach.Despite Jessie's good intentions, it seems as if she is an impasse in her life. She cannot move forward with her studio plans, nor is she making progress with overcoming her infatuation with her tutor and mentor, F.J. Bauer. Is she truly a woman in a man's world, or is she capable of becoming her own person?While this novel is better enjoyed after the first book, A Flickering Light, it stands well on it's own as well. While the end is predictable, the resolution and peace... more that is found by the characters is quite astounding considering the subject matter. F.J. Bauer's great lengths to pursuit of a woman he could never have is a little far-fetched to my mind, but some stories are too crazy to be made up. And this one was as close to the heart of the truth as Kirkpatrick could get. I commend her for tackling on such a feat; a fictional depiction and account of the true to life events surrounding her grandmother's life. A work well done.
review 2: I didn't realize this was the second book in the series and now that I've read it I feel I should read the 1st but I don't feel like it!!!! I LOVE Jane Kirkpatrick but I was so disappointed in this book. I imagine that to her it made for a good read, a good memorialization of a beloved family member, but It has taken me 2 weeks to finish thus book and I've so NOT enjoyed it. Maybe it was the fact that her love interest was a married man, I don't know, but it was so long and so tedious to read that I'm just greatful to be done w/ it. less

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