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Book Review of The Summer Garden

The Summer Garden
The Summer Garden
Author: Paullina Simons
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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I had a different opinion than that of other readers of this last sequel to THE BRONZE HORSEMAN. I thought it didn't need to be written; that the story of Tatiana and Alexander ended very well with "Tatiana and Alexander". Frankly, I found this slow moving; the story is weak, with a segway into the Vietnam War that feels tacked-on and weird, and, the same things that bothered me about The Bronze Horseman and Tatiana & Alexander bothered me in THE SUMMER GARDEN, namely, that the only two characters who are really developed as characters are Tatiana and Alexander.

My advice is, stop reading about these characters after "Tatiana & Alexander". That book brings this love story to a great closure.