The Embers

I really love the cover for this, but unfortunately the story itself didn't live up to it. The book started off really slow, and there were some time jumps that really confused me and made everything a bit muddy. There was closure at the end, but by that point I didn't really care - and I also thoug......more

I really didn't enjoy the characters in this book; however, the plot was good. A family torn apart by infidelity of the husband/father brought back into the home because his oldest son is ill. There is a lot of animosity between all the family mambers and Thomas the ill son is the only one who can o......more

Some of the writing is confusing, some of it painfully real. Some of the characters are flat, some are achingly real and so are their foibles. Sometimes you want to slap the characters in the face, eh, most of the time you want to do that actually. I often found myself a little lost when jumping for......more

I really enjoyed reading this book, and I was pleased to have been selected as a first reader for it. The characters' complexities made it difficult for me to say whom I liked and did not like. They all seemed to be basically good, but as their deeds were revealed in the course of reading, I bounced......more