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The Pastor's Wife: The True Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death that Divided a Family
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Review Date: 6/28/2015
Second time I've tried Diane Fanning and, well, fool me twice ...
It's BORING. Fanning puts no life whatsoever into her writing. There is no sense that the people we are reading about are alive, reacting, mourning, scheming, lying, weeping, whatever. It's like reading an insurance report. In fact, I stopped reading the book before its 'super-duper' finale, and I figure I'll live without looking at it. If you are into reading novels that go down like laundry lists, please be my guest.
I learned this same lesson with the Olsen authors, who are brothers: no matter what the title or how interesting it sounds, you always read Jack Olsen and never Gregg Olsen. There's just no comparison. Jack's gifted and Gregg just flails about.
In summation, don't waste your time on this flat and disappointing attempt of Fanning's to cover what should have been a very poignant, emotional story. It's like chewing on cardboard; it ain't never gonna be Chateaubriand.
It's BORING. Fanning puts no life whatsoever into her writing. There is no sense that the people we are reading about are alive, reacting, mourning, scheming, lying, weeping, whatever. It's like reading an insurance report. In fact, I stopped reading the book before its 'super-duper' finale, and I figure I'll live without looking at it. If you are into reading novels that go down like laundry lists, please be my guest.
I learned this same lesson with the Olsen authors, who are brothers: no matter what the title or how interesting it sounds, you always read Jack Olsen and never Gregg Olsen. There's just no comparison. Jack's gifted and Gregg just flails about.
In summation, don't waste your time on this flat and disappointing attempt of Fanning's to cover what should have been a very poignant, emotional story. It's like chewing on cardboard; it ain't never gonna be Chateaubriand.
Review Date: 6/28/2015
Mignon Eberhart delivers. If you've exhausted Agatha Christie as I have, you'll find new blood here.
What was supposed to be a pleasant little cruise is first weighted down with a couple of unwanted guests, and then caught in unrelenting fog and other bad weather. And as the red-faced captain refuses to turn the vessel to port for reasons of his own pride, the travelers begin to get bumped off one by one. Really super mystery!
What was supposed to be a pleasant little cruise is first weighted down with a couple of unwanted guests, and then caught in unrelenting fog and other bad weather. And as the red-faced captain refuses to turn the vessel to port for reasons of his own pride, the travelers begin to get bumped off one by one. Really super mystery!
Review Date: 6/28/2015
Really fine. I'm starting to load my library with Mignon Eberhart. This one was written in 1942, and the female lead(s) actually have blood in their veins: they tell people off, think for themselves, commit breathtaking acts (not like the 1938 lead in her novel "Danger in the Dark", a FANTASTIC mystery but with a heroine as game and alive as a decapitated mannequin, I mean, all the dear does is swoon).
Give Mignon Eberhart a read. I've only read 4-5 of her novels thus far and can recommend them all: The Patient in Cabin C (though again with a slightly limp heroine), Danger in the Dark, this book Wolf in Man's Clothing, and my favorite thus far, Woman on the Roof. (Currently I'm reading "Postmark Murder".)
I know Agatha Christie inside and out, and folks say that Mignon is the American Agatha Christie ... and I've no quarrel with that comparison. DEFINITELY check out Eberhart's many, many titles and choose one whose plot tickles your interest, and you might just win yourself years of new enjoyment at the skillful hands of this author.
Give Mignon Eberhart a read. I've only read 4-5 of her novels thus far and can recommend them all: The Patient in Cabin C (though again with a slightly limp heroine), Danger in the Dark, this book Wolf in Man's Clothing, and my favorite thus far, Woman on the Roof. (Currently I'm reading "Postmark Murder".)
I know Agatha Christie inside and out, and folks say that Mignon is the American Agatha Christie ... and I've no quarrel with that comparison. DEFINITELY check out Eberhart's many, many titles and choose one whose plot tickles your interest, and you might just win yourself years of new enjoyment at the skillful hands of this author.
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