Caroline Leavitt
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 3.44 | 7572 Users | 976 Reviews
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| Title | : | Pictures of You |
| Author | : | Caroline Leavitt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | January 25th 2011 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (first published December 29th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary |
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Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but also must go back and deal with the devastated husband and fragile, asthmatic son the other woman left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why. By turns riveting and unsettling, Pictures of You looks at the choices women make-the roads they choose-to be loved.Present Books Concering Pictures of You
| ISBN: | 1565126319 (ISBN13: 9781565126312) |
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Ratings: 3.44 From 7572 Users | 976 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books Pictures of You
Not a big fan of this book. I thought that the story started out well, but took a turn toward melodrama. I just couldn't connect with these characters. I thought April's character was inadequately developed. Maybe that was the way the author intended--the reader didn't know her very well just like her husband didn't know her very well. The jump forward 20 years in the last chapter seemed a cheap way to tie everything up with a bow. In fact, the last 75-100 pages seemed like a race to the finish.This was a very readable book, and it was easy to get into and follow. Like a Jodi Picoult, it had a few unexpected twists, and it was full of characters and unique plotlines. HOWEVER-- and this is essential, in my opinion-- when you have such a character-laden story, those characters have to be believable no matter what their actions or their words are. And I just didn't believe in the way the characters inevitably ended up. I didn't believe in their final destinations, I didn't believe in
Caroline Leavitt captures the effects of a random moment of incredibly bad luck that could happen to any of us along with the fall-out from it SO well . There are too many moments to admire in this book to even begin a list. The idea that Sam would see Isabelle as an angel who might connect him to his mother is just brilliant, and so perfectly handled. And the relationship between Isabelle and Charlie ... in less talented hands, this story might have lapsed into smaltzy-ness, but this one ends
Melodramatic, waaay too long and full of unlikable characters. I found pretty much every aspect of the story unbelievable, starting with the aftermath of the wreck and the way people treated Isabelle like a criminal. The romance between two of the protagonists? Fake and kind of creepy.The characters very inconsistent. When describing his upbringing, Charlie refers to his parents' chilly, distant relationship, but when we meet those characters 50 pages later they are the wuvy-dovey model of a
This book was pretty good, but there were several things that I found distracting, and that really frustrate me in a book. Beware of possible spoilers below:Sequencing of events, and logistics wasn't always correct. At the end of the book Sam and Lisa meet when he's 25. They would have been too young to have been practicing on their own. There are probably a dozen or so issues like this in the book. The book portrays April as an almost overbearing mother, she's so attentive. Other times when
This is the second time I have tried to write this review. There is so much I want to say, so many things I want to touch upon, and I dont even know where to begin.Pictures of You was fantastic, beautifully written, beautifully structured, unique and familiar and completely overwhelming. It wasnt flawless, but it was pretty close to it, and Caroline Leavitt has owned her spot on my shelf.I have been putting off reading this book. I knew it was going to knock me down, and it did, and I read this
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