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Hemingway Point (2000)

by Nora Carroll(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: Kindle2.5 stars, maybe 3. I might change it after some thought.First, I have to admit something. I chose to read this book based on the cover alone. My favorite colors and my favorite shoes. That cover is my dream of summer. A reminder of Cape Cod, a calming and relaxed feeling. It helped that I could read it for free via Kindle Unlimited. The cover doesn't belong with the book at all. The house in the book would not have those shingles and nobody talks at all about flip flops.Another confession: When the description of a book says anything about a woman that returns to her summer vacation spot after years of avoiding it because something tragic happened the last time she was there (usually as a teen that involved love, violence, rape, death, love triangles, blah blah), bu... moret now has to wrap up an estate or take care of a family member and finds (letters, papers, an old trunk, the confessions of a dying woman.....) stuff that helps her find out the 'secrets' of her past I RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!!!! What can I say, I should have run. The cover sucked me in.This story was pretty good. I did't love Jess, the protagonist, much. For most of the book she is the poster child for a passive, stepped on woman. Every thought she had was about letting her 'boyfriend' make the decisions, never really stopping to think for herself about what she really wants.The writing was fair. Some sentences were horrible and the editing was not much better.All in all, I kept thinking that this story would have done so much better under the pen or keyboard of Kate Morton. She would have fleshed out the characters so much better and painted a more cohesive and detailed story.
review 2: this is a wonderful book of 3 generations of women with a common thread. They all belong to the cottage Journey's end. It is very interesting and also at times very sad. It describes the culture at the time and how it changed through the years and the succeeding generations as these women grow up and experience the love and tragedy of living. Excellent read with an ending that is surprising but totally logical. Loved every story and the experience of these lovely ladies and how they all blend together. less

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