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The Silver Boat (2011)

by Luanne Rice(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670022500 (ISBN13: 9780670022502)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pamela Dorman Books

review 1: Oh, how I loved this book! I loved the setting, loved the characters, loved the way the story kept me interested! The main character especially stole my heart. I could relate with the way she was feeling throughout the book. When her heart soared, mine soared, when her heart was breaking, mine was breaking too. This is a beautiful story of family, friends and the way they all come together during times of uncertainty. If you want to be swept away into a beautiful coastal setting and to times of worlds past, this is the book to do it.
review 2: After reading The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson, I needed something that was light and not too taxing. Having read and enjoyed a number of Luanne Rice novels, The Silver Boat fitted the bill. It didn’t requir... moree me to think too much but was a light bit of escapism, what I needed at the time.It tells the story of three sisters Dar, Delia (why choose two main characters starting with the same initial unless there was an obvious reason for it? There wasn’t. ) and Rory who come back to pack up the family home. As they do, memories and old hurts surface, especially for Dar who has always found it hard to accept her father’s disappearance when she was twelve. At the time he had sailed to Ireland to try and prove an inheritance claim. They know he reached Ireland and then nothing after that. I liked the setting and the characters but a couple of things bothered me. One was the amount of alcohol consumed in front of a recovering alcoholic. I thought that showed a lack of care and concern for the fight the alcoholic has been though. The second was that no-one followed up on the father’s s disappearance before this time.While I enjoyed this book, I didn’t think it had the emotional impact of some of Luanne Rice’s other books. But it was a light easy read and that’s all I was looking for at the time. less

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