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Chargement... The Matchmaker: A Novel (édition 2015)par Elin Hilderbrand (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreL'entremetteuse (Romans étrangers) (French Edition) par Elin Hilderbrand
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Read 3.2024 and left in Opatija Croatia I enjoyed this heaps. An interwoven past and present story of lives interwoven, chiefly Dabney, Agnes, Box and Clendenin. There were moments I was utterly absorbed, the situations and sentiments were so involving and touched on my life. There is a phrase used, "a generous spirit" - in relation to Riley, a young man in love with Agnes. I love this idea and what it offers another human being, and the novel has many demonstrations of generous spirits. This novel has that most gruelling of experiences, a love triangle. I don't think there was any answer to this, but Hilderbrand's exploration was brave enough. The story is haunted by Dabney's love of the movie "Love Story", and the author falls back on "Love Story" to resolve the dilemma she has set up with the love triangle. A cute idea but not a brave or inventive way to end the book. The novel was published in 2014, but it seemed from an earlier period of the romance novel. It was sweet, set in a pretty place, among well-off people, and nothing steamy! I haven't read a Hilderbrand novel before. It was a good story, good characters, but the qualifier you hear after a work of fiction - "no resemblance to actual persons" - definitely fits! and I'm not so sure I'll read another. I like something a little more real, if that's not an oxymoron when it comes to the romance novel! Nah! I retract that. I'm not a cynic! I really wanted to like this book, but the characters made it too hard. Our heroine, Dabney Kimball Beech, is described as the most beloved citizen of Nantucket. Everyone wants to be her friend, or try to be her. She is kind to everyone and makes everyone's world better. The only problem is, as the reader follows Dabney throughout her days and months, we see none of this. Other characters talk about how great she is, but all we see are her neurotic habits and phobias, waspy traditions, and continual lying to everyone she cares about. As a result I shed no tears when she came to her unfortunate end. The only things I did like were the charming descriptions of Nantucket. I am ready to attend their Daffodil and Cranberry Festivals! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her. Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending twenty-seven years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive. But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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