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A Fall Of Marigolds (2014)

by Susan Meissner(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

045141991X (ISBN13: 9780451419910)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

NAL Trade

review 1: Two women, one century apart, two NYC tragedies, one scarf that very loosely ties them together, this book was hard to put down. While Clara's time as a nurse on Ellis Island was interesting, her story of loss wasn't quite as compelling as Taryn's. Maybe because I remember how I felt just watching the Towers come down and cannot imagine having my husband in one? Likely, it's because Clara's 'loved one' wasn't her husband. Either way, Taryn's retelling of the morning of 9/11 wrecked me. I was disappointed in the ending, as it seemed the story just fizzled out.
review 2: I thought this book had a good premise -- one character from 1911 and losing someone in the Triangle Park Shirt fire, the other in 2011 who lost someone in 9/11 and tied together by a marigo... moreld scarf. The book was well written and moved along fairly well. I think the book could have been so much more. It tried to explore loss and opening up to love again but at such a surface level. The woman in 1911 lost someone whom she had been seeing as they rode a work elevator for 2 weeks. She was convinced this guy was "the one". So when he died she was devastated. Then the book spends pages and pages on wondering if love at first sight is "valid" or not. This book could have been so much more discussing love and loss, following the characters as they grow and change. It seemed to paint such a lovely picture of the Ellis Island hospital too. I suspect the Ellis Island hospital of 1911 was not as picturesque and healing as the author suggests. She could have done so much more with the Triangle fire and the losses of 9/11. Good premise but too much of a surface treatment. less

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