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Basim Eleskndrany _advertising — A really excellent book in terms of the information presented, but the presentation is incredibly frustrating for the reader. This is a dense, dry book, despite the interesting material it contains.

Shereendar Chhabra shereendar — This is a three and half. Why am I rounding down and not up? Not sure... This is a historical fiction based (loosely, I suppose) on the life of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, who was briefly Henry VIII's second wife. Turns out Mary was the king's mistress before he got rid of his first wife to marry Anne. It was a good read and Gregory did a good job of creating a sense of the period. What I didn't like was that the sisters were portrayed as all good (Mary) or all bad (Anne). But still, it was enjoyable. I have another book of Gregory's sitting on my dresser and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Joanne Yenko joanneyenkowee — yeay a oldie but a goodie!

Bruno Fonseca kyren_krn — Tucker's outstanding novel (after Shout Down the Moon) is as structurally dextrous as it is emotionally satisfying, boasting a chorus of extraordinary voices and assured parallel plot lines separated by four decades. In the present day, 23-year-old Dorothea has left her overprotective father's secluded 35-acre New Mexico estate, called the Sanctuary, where she and her brother, Jimmy, had been sheltered from current news and all modern-day innovations. Searching for her runaway brother in St. Louis, Dorothea meets a recently widowed doctor-turned-cabbie, who introduces her to the vibrant outside world he's been trying to escape. A parallel tale set in the 1970s follows the budding romance between a successful film director and the waif who becomes his muse, his wife and the object of his obsessive control. The tour de force resolution that ties both stories together is a lyrically poignant reminder of the necessity of hope. An exceptionally empathetic storyteller, Tucker has created a haunting, gripping novel that brims with graceful writing and fragile characters. This should be catnip for book clubs, whether they devour it as a page-turner about parenting and family or discuss its subtle meditations on fate and coincidence, wealth and poverty, freedom and safety, fairy tales and American dreams. THE UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK: Tucker's complexly structured novel could be a tight wire act for a reader because the story has multiple narrators and follows two compelling story lines separated by almost two decades. Fortunately, Joyce Bean is a dexterous performer who is more than up to the challenge. She does an admirable job, not only reading chapters in alternating character voices but also enlivening dialogue within those chapters with subtle, compelling and entertaining voices for each character. She adapts a higher, airy lightness to portray Dorothea, who is thrust out into the modern world to discover family secrets after having been sheltered from the outside world for decades by her overprotective father. Bean portrays Dorothea's emotionally damaged brother, Jimmy, with a scratchy, raw rasp and her cab-driving protector, Stephen, with the laid-back ease of a lower register. (The only voice that seems off is Dorothea's father, who sounds like a robotic Hannibal Lechter.) Tucker's tale is a twisty one filled with surprising revelations and multiple emotional payoffs, and Bean maneuvers the terrain with ease.