I usually enjoy a good, easy beach read and Erin Hillenbrand is one of my favorite authors from this genre. This book definitely was not one of her best.
The story is about Tess and Greg MacAvoy, their lives, their loves, their friends and ultimately their deaths. Greg and Tess go for a sail to celebrate 12 years of marriage and never come back. There is some mystery involved - a chunk of her hair missing, toxicology reports coming back with unexpected results, etc.... Hillenbrand does a good job of selling the mystery. The reader wants to know what happened on that boat and why. The trouble is, you have to wade through 300 pages of crap about miscellaneous characters that you never truly care a thing about, to get to those answers.
What a let down.
Monday, June 25, 2012
The Beginning of the Summer Reads
I usually enjoy a good, easy beach read and Erin Hillenbrand is one of my favorite authors from this genre. This book definitely was not one of her best.
The story is about Tess and Greg MacAvoy, their lives, their loves, their friends and ultimately their deaths. Greg and Tess go for a sail to celebrate 12 years of marriage and never come back. There is some mystery involved - a chunk of her hair missing, toxicology reports coming back with unexpected results, etc.... Hillenbrand does a good job of selling the mystery. The reader wants to know what happened on that boat and why. The trouble is, you have to wade through 300 pages of crap about miscellaneous characters that you never truly care a thing about, to get to those answers.
What a let down.
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