Monday, December 13, 2004
Book Review: "Fortune's Rocks"
This book is written by Anita Shreve which I like it better compared to the other one she wrote titled "The Pilot's Wife". The latter is supposed to be No. 1 bestseller in US. However the plot in Fortune's Rocks develops more steadily and has more substance. Fortune's Rocks is set in 1899, where social decorum is much revered. It talks about the development of an impossible love between a teenage Olympia with a respected doctor/writer who is a friend of Olympia's father. After a chanced meeting in the summer beach house of Olympia, the two fell deeply in love despite all odds, changing their lives and people around them. The 2 parts I liked were in the development of their love affair, and later on when Olympia decided to fight alone for her child as a single mother (which was frowned upon in that era). This book offered a different perspective that defied the expected behaviour of people from that period of time.
NB: try not to read her books together as the author tends to set the stories in the same places, and also explore similar themes.
Super Pig mused on 2:53 pm
