katymvt's review
3.0
I would give the first half of this book a 2 and the second half of 4. But, having said that, I did find the ending to be a little unsatisfactory. I'm mostly just glad it's over.
msmandrake's review
2.0
I always feel a bit of trepidation when I reread a book I loved at one time but haven't reread for years, and this is one. I remembered nothing of the plot, just the atmosphere, which is Galveston in the late 1800s and the gingerbready Victorian houses on the beach. Unfortunately the story didn't hold up for me. The story is divided into three sections, all with different narrators. I did enjoy the first section. The second was the old saw, a young woman is being thrown together with some boring but proper young man while she lusts after a "bad boy" that she has been FORBIDDEN to see, blah blah. Then the third section jumps to a new location, in the 1920s, and its sort of sad and depressing and I wondered why on earth you would write a book in Galveston that goes up to 1899 and then just skip the hurricane of 1900? It's barely mentioned. Overall, just not sure what I saw in this one.
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