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Title: The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux, Melissa Hughes ISBN: 0-7927-9928-3 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $94.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (112 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Change your life!
Comment: When Madison (model-gorgeous, with brains to match her beauty), Leslie (ex-dancer, timid wife and mother), and Ellie (writer fighting depression) agree to meet again after almost 2 decades, none of the women is sure what to expect. The three friends have only met once before, but that first meeting has stayed with them the past 19 years. Deveraux does a good job of making the women's friendship believable, even though they haven't spent much time together... their unique bond is just one of life's rare gifts: Sometimes you just happen to meet someone you just "click" with (whereas with some people, you spend years trying to form a bond to but sometimes it's just never as strong as you'd like). The best parts of the book involve the idea of being able to change your life if you are unhappy. Cleverly, Deveraux not only employs the time-travel idea as a way to change things, but also she illustrates through one of the women (I don't want to give away too many details and spoil it for anyone so I'm trying to be vague) that a person can choose to change his or her life (without any fantastical elements) if only he or she can take the first brave step toward following his or her heart. To summarize, this is an excellent book that makes one think on what he or she might like to change in his or her life; it's also a novel that will make you laugh (and cry) out loud. Worth reading!
Rating: 4
Summary: A bittersweet summer read
Comment: The only major complaint I have about Jude Deveraux's _The Summerhouse_ is this: Now that Jude Deveraux has written it, I can't write it. I've been obsessed with alternate pasts/futures ever since I saw the Back to the Future movies as a kid. I loved the movie Sliding Doors, years later. So, of course, I enjoyed this fairy tale of three women who get the chance to change their pasts and find out how the present would have been different.
Leslie, Ellie, and Madison are middle-aged and unhappy; all of them wonder whether they could have avoided their present problems by making different decisions in the distant past. They are all led to the mysterious psychic Madame Zoya, who offers them an incredible chance. Each woman gets to return to the past for a three-week period of her own choosing. At the end of three weeks, she will find herself again in Zoya's parlor, with the knowledge of both the known life and the "alternate" one. She can then choose which life she wants, with the option to remember or forget "the road not taken".
Admittedly, this novel is a romance novel, and as such, falls into a few old romance cliches. Inner transformations often are heralded by weight fluctuations or new hairstyles. And even the "good" men have slight chauvinistic streaks.
But, all in all, I enjoyed this book. It was light reading and yet thought-provoking. You might shed a tear or two, and you will certainly consider, afterwards, which three weeks *you* would choose, in your own life.
Rating: 3
Summary: I was disappointed by the middle/ending of the book
Comment: I was really very excited to read this book because it sounded similar to the plot of my favorite movie "Sliding Doors". I even got my girlfriend who is a devote of that movie psyched about the title, however I am not sure if I want to give it to her now, I don't want to disappoint her. This is a new author for me, I have never read one of her books, and I really hate it when people give away the whole storyline of the book. However, I will say that the book had a great beginning and even the middle where they get to go back to their past lives was pretty good. My complaint with the book is that the author spent too much time focusing on the beginning of the book and not enough on what happened to the characters during their three week period or what happened to them after they came back and why they made the choices they did. I don't know whether she ran out of pages or time, but I was really disappointed in Part Two and Part Three of the book. It was a major let down after building up the characters so much. I will read another title by this author, however as most people I hate to be disappointed and love a good book to "sink my teeth into". But if I am disappointed again I can't bring myself to read another title by her. She needs to focus on the characters in the middle and end of book as she does in the beginning.
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Title: The Mulberry Tree by Jude Deveraux ISBN: 0743437640 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Invitation by Jude Deveraux ISBN: 0671744585 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Forever... : A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope by Jude Deveraux ISBN: 067101420X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Wild Orchids : A Novel by Jude Deveraux ISBN: 0743437128 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: High Tide by Jude Deveraux ISBN: 067101417X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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