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 Paradise House - Erica James
Newest Review: ... from her perspective, so we get quite an insight into her thought processes, which makes her seem very real. It's exactly ... more  ... the kind of book I usually enjoy thoroughly, and by the time I was half-way through I was completely absorbed. Some of the characters are movingly portrayed, and by the final climax of the book I found tears coming to my eyes more than once.
On the other hand, it was quite an effort to get to the stage of being half-way through. The first few chapters grated. They felt almost as if they were a first draft, where the author wrote down all the details about Genevieve's surroundings, friends, family, and past hist...more |
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Paradise House - Erica James: Not Quite a Family Saga (980 words)
by - written on 02/03/06 (Very useful, 166 readings)
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This is the story of Genevieve Baxter: thirty-something, dyslexic, recovered anorexic, and still nursing a broken heart from a teenage romance. As the novel opens she is almost single-handedly running her parents' country hotel, Paradise House. Her mother recently had some kind of mid-life crisis and disappeared across the world, and so when Genevieve's previous job came to an unpleasant end, she returned home to help her father - temporarily, she hopes. She has two younger sisters but neither of them is much help. So, a good basis for one of Erica James' village-style romance novels. The three sisters have quite distinct characters, and their father is a ... Read the complete review
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