Love Walked In
Plume - Plume
Release date: 2006-11-28
Paperback
Author: Marisa de los Santos
Popular American Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - General, Romance: Modern, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Romance - Contemporary
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Love Walked In
Date undefinedI liked this book, but I wanted more from it. The characters felt... plastic? At times my heart just screamed for them and the situations they were in, but the characters themselves... it was an odd read for me in that respect. The writing and the situations were wonderful, but the characters felt hollow and, well, made up. Yes, it's a fiction book, but I like to forget that while I'm reading.
It's definitely worth a read and might make a good Summer read for a book club. There was a lot of different issues you could talk about, just ignore the characters - they needed something more...
Love Walked In
Date undefinedI didnt like this book at all. I felt like, every character was soo.....I dunno, she tried way too hard to make each character overly interesting.It got kind of boring. I wanted to put the book down right after I got to clares first chapter. I didnt like the change in narration...I didnt like the cheesiness of it...or the predictability. This book was awful. I would never read it again. Also, you'd better be on your p's and q's about old movies...and pieces of literature if you're going to read this
if not, you'll be completely bored with that too. No one told me I had to take a prerequisite course before sitting down to read this.
I wanted to like this book so badly, I loved the cover and the title. I thought for sure that this was going to be my new favorite. Instead, I found myself struggling through sentences,paragraphs, pages, and chapters. This was probably the worst book Ive ever made myself read.
Love Walked In
Date undefinedThis is de los Santos' first novel. She is an accomplished poet and her way with words is evident throughout this charming debut. When I read the dedication, I knew this book and I would get on together. The book is dedicated to her significant other, with the lines, "You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa." Ah, Cole Porter. What follows is essentially an homage to the films and film stars of the 1930s and 40s, particularly The Philadelphia Story. Not far in Cornelia, our protagonist, notes, "Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up." I nod my head, Yes, this is true. I liked Cornelia and the way she viewed her life as a film, waiting for Cary Grant to walk through her door. I liked Teo and his wonderful, warm Jimmy Stewart. I even liked Martin's flawed Cary Grant and the choice Cornelia makes between the two. In this book, refreshingly, the adults manage to take control of things at the right point, so that 10-year-old Clare is not forced to make it all come together herself. Cornelia's tiny hands held onto them all so tightly, how could they not come to love each other? I did.
