While this is not my genre and while I did not love this book, It does do an excellent job of portraying the conflicts and challenges faced by gay men in the 1050’s in France. Baldwin’s central character brings to life the dichotomy of emotions faced as he struggles to come to terms with his undeniable attraction to men while harboring an understanding of society’s expectations for traditional marriage and family. A well written and thoughtful narrative.

Given the title I was worried that this book would have a lot of characters I would have to keep track of. But it turns out it had just the right amount. A group of authors, would-be authors, critics and others meet for a conference, one part of which is a murder mystery adventure on a section of unused train in the everglades. Given the title you can imagine what happens, but given the setting, the story is take to a whole new level And I was fooled as to who the killer was. An excellent mystery.

Even if my life depended on it, I would still be hard pressed to explain what this book was about. There are two sisters who are twins. They are nothing alike and hate each other…except when they don’t. Their mother is dead…or is she? One sister, who is an author, wrote a book about her life with her mother…or did the dead mother write the book? Then at the very, very end of the book, it seems like the sisters’ band together to go back in time to sop their mom and dad from having sex so that they are not born. They want to do this because their lives are so terrible. ??? Not a short book and definitely not worth the time.

Golding’s usage of so many literary devices is phenomenally well done. I also absolutely adore the themes on danger of mob mentality and how easy it is to fall into a mindset that lacks individual thinking. Enjoyable read.

This book opened up a whole new genre for me, namely Historical Fiction Mysteries and what a treat this book was. A well-to-do young man falls in love with a young dancer from England who is not from his social class, but he marries her and they go back to live with his family in New York, But both she and he carry a important secret that when revealed will tear the family apart. And you will never guess who the murder is!

A very good book.Each chapter ends with a Clifhanger. It's a mystery book and you will want to keep reading.

Nice little book illustrating and explaining different ways to make and maintain friendships. Started some good conversations with my almost 5 year old

historical fiction. based on a truestory. A young woman is murdered and two detectives become obsessed with her and the case. In reality the case is never solved. In the book the author gave it a solution but i found the solution convoluted

One of my favorites

Very sweet book, the right amount of spice!