Judith Minthorn Stacy
Auteur van Maggie Sweet
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Maggie Sweet door Judith Minthorn Stacy
Very average book. The writing was not outstanding, the story has been told countless times before. The characters were all flat - it was easy to forget their names, I did not find myself rooting for them to win in the end.
½
A sequel to the charming "Maggie Sweet", this one basically continues the storyline following Maggie's leaving her husband, alternating viewpoints with Maggie, her mother Betty, daughter Jill and Mama Dean. Actually improves upon the first novel, as the supporting characters gain heft and depth as the reader gets to know them.
A charming and engaging first novel, set in the South, about Maggie Sweet, a 30ish married woman settled in a staid, safe and unchanging marriage with a teacher a decade older. When her high school reunion looms and her old boy friend comes back to town, she begins to become awakened to the many ways in which she has locked herself into a loveless and unsatisfying life, and how she might still posess the keys to free herself. Plot a bit hackneyed, but a well-told story with sympathetic characters that draw the reader willingly into their lives. The one exception is the husband Steven, stiff and unyielding to the point of caricature.… (meer)
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- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 96
- Populariteit
- #196,089
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 8