The Sonnet Lover
A Novel

This is one of those books I wanted to like a great deal more than I actually did. The premise was very interesting to me: Rose Asher, a lit professor who specializes in Renaissance sonnets, finds herself drawn into a controversy surrounding the discovery of a cache of new work that might have been......more

The Sonnet Lover Perhaps I write and live in a bookstore because of the feeling this book gives me. Or to be exact page 350. That feeling of my heart filling up, cara, completely satisfied with the writing (and I have been told I am too picky about that), story, ending, plot, characterization, pace,......more

Normally, I can't read Goodman's books fast enough but this one took some work. The beginning was slow for me. I had to work hard to get into the story. Then, the author introduces a flood of characters all at once. It took me a while to figure everyone out and the lawsuit that runs throughout the b......more

This ended up being my least favorite of Carol Goodman's books. All of the others were completely absorbing, but I found my attention wandering while reading this one. I wasn't very interested in the mystery from the past, which revolved around the identity of the Dark Lady in Shakespeare's sonnets.......more

The Sonnet Lover is a very flawed but interesting read. I worked out early on that there were problems with the first person narrator Rose Asher and that she was not analytical enough to work out what actually happened to her student Robin Weiss. However, like other reviewers I was entranced by Vill......more