Rescue
A Novel

My Take: This book is a tricky one to review. Tricky because Anita Shreve is an incredibly gifted writer. Her style is unique and her voice clear. But this book was not interesting to me. Summary: Small town young man saves trashy but sexy drunk stranger. Before developing any kind of meaningful rel......more

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman, Sheila Arsenault, from her totaled car. She's obviously inebriated but Peter falls for her instantly. Soon they are involved in an intense love affair and Sheila becomes pregnant. They marry and baby Rowan is born. All along, Peter was......more

I would have rated it just a single star, but I feel the need to reserve that for books that I truly can not stand, not books that I just found dumb and boring. Rescue is the story of a young paramedic who responds to a car crash. He finds a woman who has managed to run her car off the road and into......more

Phenomenal writing and character development but predictable and at times boring plot. I've read much better from this author. Would recommend some of her other books rather than this one.......more