A review by seahorsesister
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert

4.0

Gilbert had written a perfect, old fashioned novel, newly fashioned with her braid of island history and island present--until about page 200. Carefully crafted characters, subtle and loveably strange turned ordinary and it became a race to a predictable finish. I would trade the neat bows she added to the end for the knots and tangle she launched and seemed to steer with carefully crafted lines, thrown abandon in the beginning.