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The Widow's Season (2009)

by Laura Brodie(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0425227650 (ISBN13: 9780425227657)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Berkley Trade

review 1: Spoiler Alert!!!! Warning!!!Hated this book! She's a good writer, great word play, grammatically speaking, but this story was such a mess and so wrong on so many levels it's hard to even conceive of such crap. Granted its fiction, ok fine but come on banging your brother in law while the spirit of your husband watches from a window so you intensify the sex cause he is watching?? Is it a dream was she imaging him and trying to punish him for dying and/or that he left her purposely to start a new life and abandoned her although he disappears without a trace after going kayaking and a storm hits? Who knows...The author never clarified whether she was hallucinating or he lingered. It was left to the reader to decide after muddling through chapter after chapter of who what wher... moree and whys. Also, a shopping spree while the your dead husbands spirit lingers in a cabin? Yet she describes the couple having dinners together. Convoluted piece of shit. Marriage is hard but when one goes missing no one is that cold to the presumed dead/missing person to live in such a perpetual state of selfish "me me me" and blame especially when not knowing if your loved one suffered in the end or could be out there somewhere dying ... unless there was never love and/ or an ounce of compassion in that human soul. In this book that wasn't the case, she was angry, bitter and confused. He's missing and all she does is cast blame on his failings never taking an ounce of responsibility. Stupidly written like a bad soap opera. I rarely take to bashing books out loud but I bash this book each chance I get. I'm an avid reader and rarely do I spend my time writing scathing reviews but this book justifies it. :-)Maybe it's because I spent two years of my life not knowing if my husband would get killed overseas and if I'd have to identify his body. I'm sure no I know that's why I hate this book because stupid me decided to read it while he was in Afghanistan. Was just left disgusted and waste of my money. I bought it used on eBay and that brought tears to my eyes that I spent over 99 cents. I cried alright, cried over that I clicked "buy now". ;-)
review 2: This is a perfect example of a book where the title and the cover art do not do it justice. It seems to be marketed as one more sentimental wife book, but it's much more. A friend recommended this to me and at first glance, I wasn't particularly compelled toward it. Even the first 1/3 of the book felt pedestrian, not emotionally engaged, and I was certain I knew what was coming. Maybe that's why I liked the last 1/3 so much.Ms. Brodie has written an unusually insightful novel about grief and regret. I wasn't surprised to find that she'd done extensive research into widows and that the book sprung from that body of work. The plot decisions she made may seem implausible - how does the guy show up in a grocery store and nobody recognizes him? - but I would tell you, keep reading. Choose to take the ride with her, and you will appreciate what she's done by the end. It's a great mix of dreams, ghosts, regrets, and ultimately, about rising from the dead. Well worth it. less

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