Susan M. (susyclemens) reviewed The Summer Garden (Tatiana and Alexander, Bk 3) on + 158 more book reviews
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THE SUMMER GARDEN begs the question: How much is too much when it comes to a great love story? I loved The Bronze Horseman (magnificent love scenes and page-turning readability); was 50-50 on Tatiana & Alexander (several of the subcharacters, and Tatiana's wanderings in America, really got on my nerves), but as for THE SUMMER GARDEN, this was stretching out the story just a bit too far.
It's not a bad book -- bad in the sense of being unreadable -- but, I had a hard time picking it up again once I put it down. Especially toward the end, when the chapters begin to speak to what's going on with the couple's children and grandchildren, it just became... very methodical, very slow. It wasn't a novel anymore, it was a list: Grandchild A married B, and had 3 children, C D and F... I honestly thought TATIANA & ALEXANDER did a better job of closing out this couple's story. Personally speaking, I didn't need any more.
It's not a bad book -- bad in the sense of being unreadable -- but, I had a hard time picking it up again once I put it down. Especially toward the end, when the chapters begin to speak to what's going on with the couple's children and grandchildren, it just became... very methodical, very slow. It wasn't a novel anymore, it was a list: Grandchild A married B, and had 3 children, C D and F... I honestly thought TATIANA & ALEXANDER did a better job of closing out this couple's story. Personally speaking, I didn't need any more.
