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A Violet Season (2012)

by Kathy Leonard Czepiel(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451655061 (ISBN13: 9781451655063)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: I really enjoyed this book, and read it in 2 days. It was well-written and I really felt the overall frustration and sadness of the plight of women in this time. Seeing the story from both sides - the mother and daughter - really hit home how stuck they were, and how their lives and future were held in the hands of one man. It's interesting to note that it didn't seem to matter what your social or economic status was, a woman still was to some degree at the mercy of the men in their lives. My only (slight) letdown was the ending. ***Spoiler*** I felt that after everything Frank did to to his family to save his share of the farm, to just walk (or run) away and leave it all seemed a bit off. I suppose there was no other way after manipulating everyone the way he did, a... morend to such an extreme, and certainly his family shed no tears for his leaving.
review 2: I loved this novel about life in the late 19th century. I read it by flashlight and candlelight due to Hurricane Sandy, and this may have enhanced the feeling of the period that's so well evoked by the author. I could see, smell and hear the New York City and Hudson Valley 1899. The two main characters, Alice and Ida, realistically reflect the issues and problems facing women at that time, against a background of the family business, growing violets. Yet I wsasn't reading for the issues, just wanted to know how it turned out! less

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