Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Off Season
Book Review: Like Old Times . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a fan of Anne Rivers Siddons and I look forward to her new novels. I have been disappointed
in her last few so I wasn't expecting to like "Off Season". Well, I did! It reminded me of her earlier
works. I was involved with the characters and engrossed in the story line. My only complaint - too short.
I love her lengthy novels that give me more time to enjoy them.
Book Review: Liked it, didn't love it
Summary: 3 Stars
I wanted to love this novel as I have others written by this author. And there are certainly elements in it that I did enjoy a great deal - her description of her childhood was particularly appealing and reminded me of my own special summer place at the beach. I was also moved by the description of her mother's illness and death, and Lilly's reaction. I cried when Wilma died - I am still recovering from the death of my beloved first dog over two years ago. I also appreciate reading a novel about a woman in her fifties since I'm one of those people!
But there was a lot in this novel that didn't really ring true. I was turned off by the ethereal relationship between Cam and Lilly... it just wasn't realistic - his courting her was particularly odd. Maybe there was just too much mysticism to it, I don't know. But they didn't seem very real to me - or maybe that's the point. She was looking back at their relationship and sometimes, memories don't always accurately reflect the reality.
Maybe I just wasn't reading closely enough, but the ending totally caught me by surprise. I didn't particularly like it and don't think it fit the characters... at all. I suppose that's life, right!
Overall, though, this story has stayed with me for a few days, and I re-read the last few chapters to see if I "got" it any better. I did not.
Book Review: Long build up,instant ending
Summary: 1 Stars
It took a long time to read all the descriptions while wanting to know the rest of a dialogue, here and there. Instead of describing a moment in time, I wanted to know Kitty's answer. I have just discovered ARS books and have found them very appealing. But not this one. After five books in a row, I am tired of beautiful women in the extreme, redheads, quotes from the Jungle Book, architects, Princeton and rump sprung sofas. I do not believe a girl not having one date between 11 and 17. Only two boy friends and each a great love of her life. C'mon . . . Really? Nothing in this book was believable. Her brother at a computer camp in 1960's? PC's came along in the '80's! A saracastic cat - cute! I took my sixth ARS book back to the library without reading it . . .maybe later.Book Review: Ludicrous
Summary: 2 Stars
After critical acclaim from Colony, Peachtree Road, and a few others, Anne Rivers Siddons has become a caricature of herself. Every book, and Off Season is no exception, has some type of shabby chic beach house in it with "rump sprung" chairs, an elegant though somewhat icy husband, and a plain talking galpal who tells the lovely but troubled heroine how it is. Falcons also make their unteenth appearance in this tome. The life affecting love affair of this book, between a couple of "tweeners" back in the '60s is absolutely ludicrous and implausable. I'll give it to Siddons, her books are great escapist light reading now, but not nearly in the class of quality writing her earlier books were.Book Review: MYSTICAL MOMENTS.
Summary: 4 Stars
Anne Rivers Siddons is one of my all time favorite authors and I have read and enjoyed every one of her novels.
This one, however, won't go on my list of VERY favorites because the ending was confusing, eerie and unnecessary - also, her cat played too big a role in the story. In my opinion, Lily and Jon were not very
believable because their situations were more suited to teenagers. Cam possibly having had an affair or a one
night stand with Peaches Davenport is believable because perhaps her habit of screeching became appropriate
and he was flattered. Lily, overall, gave Cam too much credit.