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A Summer Affair
By Elin Hildenbran,
Little Brown and Company
Release Date: July
2, 2008
Book Room Review
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Claire
Crispin Cook has it all - A handsome husband named Jason, four beautiful young
children, and a
career as a nationally renowned artist of glass sculptures. In fact, she has too much on her plate when
she agrees to co-chair the Summer Gala, a benefit for the poor children of
I found the
first few chapters hard to believe because Claire jumps into the affair with
Lock without the author really explaining why or developing her motives. She does not seem to be unhappy in her
marriage and the book lacks a build up to why Claire would be so attracted to
another man. But then the book suddenly
goes in another direction by switching narrators.
Now, we get Sibohan’s story and the problems she has going on in her
life as well as how she starts to notice Claire’s affair. Then, quick change, we get Lock’s point of
view as well. I really liked getting the
different points of view of all the characters.
I only wished we would have heard Jason’s point of view. It would have been more interesting. Once I
started to feel like I understand more about Claire’s reasons for jumping into
the affair, things abruptly change again, which was disappointing.
I will say,
the author, Elin Hilderbrand,
is a talented storyteller, but the story jumped around a bit much. I would have liked to have seen Hilderbrand focus more on Claire’s marriage to learn why
she was so unhappy, at least to the point that she was open to an affair. I was especially curious as to why she would
have an affair with a man who was older and not as good looking as her
husband. The author seems to have done a
lot of research about the art of glass blowing and that part was very
interesting to read. In the end, I would
recommend this book because the story kept me intrigued to the end and at the
end there is a surprise twist, and I like surprises.
Book Room Grade
C
Review Posted: June 9, 2008
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