Review:I was initially attracted to this book because of the author, and then I thought, what an intriguing title..then I saw the cover and said...hmmm...I've GOT to try this one. I was NOT disappointed!

This series of stories about the different inhabitants of the same house on the Cape is fascinating. Her writing style is, as usual, lyrical! To see so many lives tied to the same plot of land...how their stories intertwined was fascinating. How many people have wondered about the families t... Read more

Review:Please be aware this is one oversized large volume. The title "boxed" threw me off and I thought it was a boxed set of three novels. hovever that said, this set is RECOMMENDED! I just finished this large volume of all 3 works: Claus, Jack, and Flury. You need to read them all, all though you could skip the middle one (but why?). The first one, Claus, is the necessary key to the others. Rated G for all audiences. Teens may enjoy it as well. Perfect for reading on cold snowy nights and for those ... Read more

Review:Definitely worth the read. The book was a great set up to a great story. I hope that it continues to be just as good as the promise of this first book. I really enjoyed how it juxtaposed our current society and the problems therein. The philosophical questions and statements were lovely and the set up of the fantasy world was bang on. It was a bit convoluted to begin with but I got the hang of the style pretty quickly. I liked how I was sucked into the story and just wanted to know what happened... Read more

Review:Loved the characters in this series!! The world's I visited in these books were fantastic!! So sad when it was over!! I felt like the ending left alot unanswered!! What happened to Terry? What happened to Lena? Did Mei and John have kids? That's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5!! Read more

Review:I have a strong interest in the persecuted church and persecuted Christians, so I found this fascinating. Although it is fiction, this story of a persecuted believer in North Korea demonstrates the strength of faith exhibited by so many Christians in places where to simply state your faith is to risk your life. Read more

Review:I was so long forward to this book and had high expectations for it. It was supposed to be the last of the series, and given that the hero is into his late forties, it had the potential for being a different kind of HEA. So I was pretty disappointed with this book. Very flat, very repetitive, a strange, out of the blue twist.... Not a great end to a very good series. Read more

Review:Loved the storyline, the characters, and the setting in this book. Can you imagine your believed to be dead husband showing up during your engagement dinner? I really liked the part of the story about Tyson being a changed man and proving it to her. It would be so easy to fall in love with a man like him. However, he is running for Senate and is in need of a wife by his side...hmmm... makes you wonder if he has really changed?

This is a cute story with such likeable characters. Hatcher is... Read more

Review:If you read my review before reading the book let it be known there is spoilers. I love to read books and this is one book that touched my heart and soul the most. There has only been 2 authors that have written books that have made me cry. Amy this is one book that I cried several times while reading. Mattie's loss of Jacob brought back memories of when my son Alexander was stillborn. I had the same feeling that Mattie did and blamed myself. Just like Mattie's son having the cord wrapped around... Read more

Review:If you hate yourself and if you hate the world, if you want everything to end and nothing last except for one thing that is doomed anyways, you must read this book. It will uphold your beliefs that the world is a bad place and then it will reinstate it as the world is not a bad place. But you will not believe it, you will seek a friend. Your friend will not betray you, maybe it's just you. It is all you, you hate the world, the world is you, you hate yourself. The world dies when you di... Read more

Review:Demian, as described by Hesse in the original title, is the "story of a youth." The book relates the experiences of Emil Sinclair, a boy at the beginning of the 20th century whose model childhood is tranformed through his encounter with Max Demian.
The novel reflects Hesse's fascination with mythology and religion. An extensive symbolism drawing on both Christianity and the theories of C. G. Jung permeate the work. The central message of the novel is a powerfully affirming one: that amids... Read more