Helpful Score: 3
Outer Banks is a page turner! It is a well-crafted tale with twists and turns! I absolutely loved it! The characters are wonderful and unforgettable. If you are looking to be completely enveloped in a saga, this is the book for you!
Helpful Score: 2
This is one of the best books I have ever read. It helped that I have visited the outer banks twice now but even if you are not familiar with the banks, the author just makes it appear in you mind as beautifully as an artist could paint it. The story is a heart wrenching and enjoyable tale of four friends and a man and how they all are wrapped in each others lives from collage to there elderly days. I enjoyed every word of it. Please read this book and you won't be sorry. Enjoy!
Helpful Score: 2
Another wonderful book by Siddons with an idyllic setting in the Outer Banks on the North Carolina coast. It takes you away to the grand old weatherbeaten houses on the edge of the sea.
Absolutely love this book! Read it 20 years ago and realized when I wanted to re-read it that I didn't own a copy. What Anne Rivers Siddons manages to do in these pages is create an atmosphere in which you feel like you are in the story experiencing everything right along with the narrator. It brings to life all the feelings that you experience in college and the strong friendships that you find while you're there.
And, to top it off there's an interesting twist at the end of the story that I wasn't expecting. Well worth the read.
And, to top it off there's an interesting twist at the end of the story that I wasn't expecting. Well worth the read.
Helpful Score: 2
Betrayal, and madness, love, and redemption- they meet that summer on the Outer Banks.... 3 months on the New York Times Bestseller List!
Helpful Score: 1
Wow - just seeing the title again brought the story rushing back in detail, and makes me want to reread it. Loved this book.
Helpful Score: 1
Good novel.
Helpful Score: 1
I haven't read much by this author, but I really enjoyed this book. It is about friendship and romance through the eyes of one character. It kept my attention and I read it very quickly. This was a great book to read while lying by the pool.
Helpful Score: 1
Good story... Quick read.
Helpful Score: 1
This is a fabulous book. I couldn't put it down once I started, staying up until the wee hours of the morning. It brought laughter and tears. Treat yourself!!
Helpful Score: 1
You won't be able to put this southern novel based in NC's Outerbanks down for very long. No one is better than Anne Rivers Siddons in writing about compelling relationships in a southern setting.
Helpful Score: 1
Betrayal and madness, love and redemption - they meet that summer on the Outer Banks.
Helpful Score: 1
This was on the best sellers list for three months. Great Summer reading. It's about betrayal and madness, love and redeption. A wonderful saga, if you want to sink into a novel and be entirly enveloped by it...THIS is the ONE!!
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one of my all time favorites!!!!!!!1
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I'm a big fan of this author and haven't read one I didn't like a lot.
Helpful Score: 1
A bit slow in the beginning, but picked up and turned out to be a very good book
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Blech! A story about friendship? Um, no. Four self-absorbed girls grow up into self-absorbed women, with a "shocking" ending that I won't spoil. But it was an OK book until then.
This is the story of four college friends who don't see other for 30 years and then reunite for one week.
The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the women and the first half of the book is mostly looking back on those younger years. The end was definitely an unexpected turn of events.
I like Siddons' writing style and, even though this book is not a favorite, it was still worth reading.
The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the women and the first half of the book is mostly looking back on those younger years. The end was definitely an unexpected turn of events.
I like Siddons' writing style and, even though this book is not a favorite, it was still worth reading.
Helpful Score: 1
Awesome book. Many twist and turns and characters who come alive
A story that begins with 4 sorority sisters and ends 30 years later when they come back together in the south to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain and betrayal that made them into the woman they have become.
An emotionally gripping novel about four sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the 1960's; very different in many ways but bound together by their past.
I just couldn't really get into this book! Not what I expected I guess...!
not my favorite siddons book, but worth a read
This is large print
Betrayal & madness, love and redemption that meet one summer on the Outer Banks.
I love Anne Rivers Siddons. I read a review of one of her books that said, "One doesn't just read Anne Rivers Siddons, you dwell in her books." And this is so true. I lose myself in her writing...love her use of descriptive language. This book is on exception. Wonderful read.
So good! Very absorbing! Couldn't put it down!
The story follows 4 ladies through the travil of college romance and sisterhood, then picks them up 28yrs. later and resolves their major psychiatric problems, some happilyh, others not so. If you like the last minute convolutions Ms.Siddons is known for, you will enjoy this novel. It would make a good summer vacation read.
This was not my favorite ARS book. It started out slow, and the end was a bit unsatisfying and not very plausible.
This book is located in Nag's Head, NC; about a reunion betwwen 3 girls who are now grown, their lives today and the relationships between them. A great book.
On NY Times bestseller list for 3 months!
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Figthey came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendshipthey spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks
wonderful chick story!
They came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the 60's: four young women bound by friendship and devotion....they spent two idyllic spring breaks on the Outer Banks, the isolated strip of barrier islands along the North Carolina coast where grand weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly at the edge of a storm tossed sea. Now, thirty years later, they will meet again to recapture the exquisite magic of their youth....
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies; Cecie, self-contained, sensitive and sensible; Ginger, the sexy, vibrant, richer-than-sin heiress and poor, hopeless, brilliant Georgina, nicknamed Fig - came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the 1960s. Four women bound by rare, blinding and early friendship. They spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weather beaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of rugged cliffs overlooking a storm tossed sea. Now, thirty years later, they are coming back - back to recapture the magical memories of those early years, to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain and cruel betrayal that shaped these four young girls into vibrant young women and set them off on the courses of their lives.
I really enjoyed this book. I think that Anne Rivers Siddons is perhaps one of my favorite authors and I give this book an A+! A definite 5 and a half actually! :)
I really enjoyed this book. I think that Anne Rivers Siddons is perhaps one of my favorite authors and I give this book an A+! A definite 5 and a half actually! :)
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies....sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin... and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig they came together as sorority sisters on a southern campus in the '60's Four young women bound by rare, blinding,early friendship--they spent two spring breaks at Nag's Head, N.C. Now 30 years later they are coming back .
Betrayal and Madness, Love and Redemption-they meet that summer on the Outer Banks.
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig-they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60's. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship-they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly at the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel betrayal that shaped four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the ... OUTER BANKS.
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig-they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60's. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship-they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly at the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel betrayal that shaped four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the ... OUTER BANKS.
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies... sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie, Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin... and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig - they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the 60's. Four young women bound by a rare, blinding, early friendship - they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly at the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years ... to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel betrayal that shaped four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the ... Outer Banks.
From cover:
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks.
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks.
(the cover of my copy looks different). Picked up at the Sherman Oaks, Ca. Public Library's Book Sale for the purpose of releasing. I met Miss Siddons once at a booksigning and she was just lovely - Southern charm personified. We shared our warm feelings about the city of Charleston, from which I had just returned. This is my favorite ARS book so I wanted to pass it on to an appreciative reader.
