Robin M. (robinm) reviewed Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod on + 57 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Reads like "First Year Creative Writing Students Gone Wild!" Please! Here are a few examples of how she tries to use colors to foreshadow or heighten suspense...remember, this is NOT a poetry book:
"...I sidestepped a little mess on the sidewalk, a broken jar of jelly. I stared at the sugary tumble...Its blood-red pectin stained a deep scallop on the fresh-swept paving stone..I tasted it. Sweet with a sharp aftertaste." (MAYBE GLASS???)
Then later:
(The author finds unexplained blood dots in her home)"Climbing roses drop their blooms and circle like briers. Headstones, in so many sunken cemeteries in Truro, shift and tilt and rise up from nowhere with the first frost heaves. Or blood appears without explanation. These jewel spots remind us of Christa." ????
The book probably would have been a lot better if the author had not been trying so hard to make her prose the main attraction. I have to say that there were lot of interesting details about the case that I am sure would have been hard for other authors to pry out of the principles. This book got the local DA in a LOT of trouble for his comments and the decidedly tawdry details he supplied the author (who is a native of Truro).
"...I sidestepped a little mess on the sidewalk, a broken jar of jelly. I stared at the sugary tumble...Its blood-red pectin stained a deep scallop on the fresh-swept paving stone..I tasted it. Sweet with a sharp aftertaste." (MAYBE GLASS???)
Then later:
(The author finds unexplained blood dots in her home)"Climbing roses drop their blooms and circle like briers. Headstones, in so many sunken cemeteries in Truro, shift and tilt and rise up from nowhere with the first frost heaves. Or blood appears without explanation. These jewel spots remind us of Christa." ????
The book probably would have been a lot better if the author had not been trying so hard to make her prose the main attraction. I have to say that there were lot of interesting details about the case that I am sure would have been hard for other authors to pry out of the principles. This book got the local DA in a LOT of trouble for his comments and the decidedly tawdry details he supplied the author (who is a native of Truro).
Patricia H. reviewed Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod on + 83 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is a true story and was researched and presented in a manner that made you feel as though you were there as part of the investigation... you came away understanding in part why a beautiful and talented woman chose to leave behind a world of "glitter" to live a quiet, simple life in a remote town on Cape Cod.
