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Alone With You (2010)

by Marisa Silver(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416590293 (ISBN13: 9781416590293)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Marisa Silver is a talented writer who notices the quiet details of everyday life. She is adept at bringing disparate situations to life with vivid details and sharp dialogue. In each story, she toggles back and forth between different situations and times, ultimately bringing the two pieces together into one coherent whole to highlight some sort of lesson learned in sharp relief. This technique is more effective in some stories than others. While I thought Silver's observations and dialogue were generally sound and credible, I did wish she had written more action into the stories. In both "Pond" and "In the New World," the climaxes of the stories feel anticlimactic and the reader is left wondering what the characters will do next. Even a sentence or two would have highlig... morehted the impact of the lesson to more devastating effect.
review 2: I couldnt decide whether to give this book 2 or 3 stars. My expectations were high for this book. I felt that I was enjoying it at first, but then realized that the stories became less interesting. None of the characters were gripping and some elements of the plot were repetitive throughout the book. I especially did not like the way most of the stories ended. For the most part they seemed unfinished and wishy washy. less

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