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[butterbobbin]

Book 7: Land of a Thousand Dreams, 395 pp

One-word review:

MELODRAMA.



More than one-word review:

Entertaining melodrama, at any rate.

Despite the redundancy factor of Casey saving Kerry from a factory fire/Arthur saving Michael from warehouse fire.

Despite the fact that Finola has amnesia, muteness, rape, regaining of her voice, and a baby all in a few short months.

There are quite a number of things I had forgotten about this book - probably because of my focus on the Fitzgerald drama. I had no recollection of Alice Walsh becoming a more important character already or the warehouse thing until I read it.

All in all I would say I did not enjoy this as much now as I once did, but it still held my attention. There is certainly no lack of drama to bore one.

On to the next one.

Comments

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Alice is really an interesting character, isn't she?

Oh, about what you said regarding Michael in your other post - I was the same way. When I was a teenager reading them, I didn't care much about Michael, but reading them as an adult? He really grew on me. I like his brash Irishness. :)

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

I think Alice is a very real and understated character... there are no doubt lots of women who could relate to her, dealing with marital deception and so forth. I like that she acts, not just thinks. She's not as forceful as Sara is, but she seems so willing to do what she can too.

I think Michael grows better as the series goes on. His possessiveness bothered me in the first two books, but it seems that after he lets go of Nora and Tierney and marries Sara, he grows into a more likeable person - still strong and stubborn, but less irritating.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

She seems so soft and vulnerable on the surface, but I like how the story gradually reveals that at her core, she's as strong as steel. I think that's the way with a lot of people - they're much stronger than they look. Sometimes it takes unpleasant events to reveal that even to themselves.

YES on Michael. He was raw-ther overbearing to begin with! Sara does a lot to soften him up. :)