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Title: Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0-425-16870-0 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 13 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: quite depressing
Comment: When I first started reading the book I did not know what to expect but I felt the book got worse as I read more and more. I found the book to be quite depressing none the less. The story is about a young woman named Rae and a fortune teller name Lila. Rae had run away from home and an early age with her boyfriend Jessup. When Rae tells Jessup that she is pregnant he decides that he is not ready to be a father and leaves his pregnant girlfriend so he can pursue his job in the movies. Lila the other character is a tea leaf fortune teller who had a rough time growing up. She became pregnant at an early age by her boyfriend who like Jessup left her. She did not tell her parents she was pregnant until her mother found out when Lila's water broke. Lila's parents would not even take her to the hospital because they were too ashamed of her and called Lila's cousin who was a nurse to help with the pregnancy. Lila's parents made Lila give up the baby for adoption and after that Lila fell in to depression. Lila is sent to her aunts to live with and meets her future husband Richard. These two women cross paths and build a relationship. Rae reminded Lila of how she was at that age, young, unmarried, and pregnant. Rae becomes depressed and ends up hurting her marriage because she is in search of her lost child. She hallucinates that she sees her daughter and so she has somewhat of an invisible daughter she believes is there. The end left me kind of disappointed because I wanted to know more of what would happen to these two women. I think Alice Hoffman writes in great detail and has a nice descriptive artistic flow to her writing. I still honestly found the book to be depressing because of Rae's dysfunctional relationship with Jessup and then Lila's depressive attitude. Details of Lila's labor I found were quite graphic and painful for me as the reader. Even her depressing incident of slitting her wrists was very disturbing. I would not recommend this book unless someone really is interested in disturbing and depressing stories or into fortune telling then you may enjoy it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Mystical
Comment: Fortunes Daughter is about Rae, a young, unmarried girl who is awaiting the birth of her child and Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future who lost her child when she was a young, unmarried girl.
Rae and Lilas lives, fates and futures intertwine as each tries to make peace with the past and become a better person for the future.
Not knowing the what the book was really about, Lilas fortune telling, visions, nightmares, spirituality stuff was different then what I would normally read. I didn't like how Lila was so emotionally torchered all her life and never fully found peace.
Without spoiling the storyline, I can say that as an Adoptive Mom I REALLY didn't like how one element of the book was treated. At all.
All in all, it was an OKAY read. I read it in a weekend and like all of Hoffmans other books, she pulls you in with her ability to turn everyday events into enchanting words.
Rating: 4
Summary: Review of Fortune's daughter
Comment: Fortune's daughter was a novel that I found myself reading as often as possible. Each woman's story was touching and realistic. I could feel the emotions that Rae went through when her boyfriend left her pregnant and lonely. I cried for Lila as she revisited her painful past. This book was very well written and tied two woman together who needed each other whether or not they were ready to admit it. They were able to find strength in each other when no one else understood what they were going through. The outcomes of their situations were suprising and touching. I would definitly recommend this book to my girlfriends.
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Title: The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425184757 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425183262 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: White Horses by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425139808 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425188485 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0385507607 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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