$17 bucks I didn't throw in the garbage by buying "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons. Quite seriously the worst book I have read in a long time and part of the reason why I'm doing so poorly at my 109 books in 2009 challenge thus far. Kept putting this one down but finally finished it out of lack of other new reading material and curiosity about how it ended. Which it did with a real stupid "twist" at the end which I'm sure left many readers saying "ohmigod" but left me with just a WTF feeling.The reason why I picked it was the book jacket made it seem like the book was about a woman who loses her husband and then travels literally and figuratively back to the place where she spent her idyllic summers of her youth where she experienced an earlier tragedy. Kind of true. Except throw in her mother's long drawn out cancer death that we don't actually feel too bad about because she was apparently a useless slut, her brother abandoning the family which is seemingly important for one chapter and then never mentioned again, a very creepy father/daughter relationship.
By the time we meet the husband he's dead two pages later and I really could care less. The last fifty pages were excruciatingly dull with old lady talking to her cat and dead husband. Yawn. I will be more careful with my next selection!
Read: 368 pages
Saved: $16.49 (on sale)
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I had a lot of trouble with the ending. Didn't like that part at all. It was my first book by this author.
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