This started out so strong, but lost some of its appeal for me about 100 pages in. Not that I didn't enjoy the book; it was a compelling story, albeit a bit of a soap opera, but it drew me in. First off - the writing...so very good. Conroy's prose is exquisite. His descriptions and metaphors so beautifully drawn and rendered, like paintings. It was the over the top nature of some of the characters that let me down a bit; there was the cliche factor. Too predictable at times; I knew how things were going to turn out. Sine "Prince of Tides" is such a favorite of mine, I didn't expect to feel this way about this book.
But, heck....it's summer and you need some good soap opera fiction for the beach. And I did read a lot of this at the beach. On to more page turning for my week in San Diego. Gotta go pick something up so I can enjoy the incredible beach at Carlsbad this week!
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