El personaje es agradable, dulce y algunas veces simpático. Algunos se identificarán con esta historia; otros simplemente la...
Gift narra la historia de como una mujer ante tanto dolor por la infidelidad de su esposo logra sobreponerse y vuelve a ser feliz.
Mariana Casanova es una mujer de 43 años de edad, dominicana, casada por 25 años, tenía la familia perfecta (por así llamarlo), hasta que un día sin esperárselo Mariana descubre que su esposo le ha sido infiel y, por ende, su matrimonio se fue al suelo. Gift presenta a este personaje como una persona agradable, dulce, pero a su vez fuerte y decidida, una persona que toma en cuenta los valores familiares. El personaje de Mariana al principio es muy reservado, no puede aceptar lo acentecido, ni siquiera comparte su sufrimiento con sus mejores amigas Tania y Dominique. La vida de Mariana toma otro rumbo cuando ésta decide buscar ayuda professional. Entre su doctor, psicólogos y ayuda propia, Mariana comienza a aceptar poco a poco su realidad. Gift te sorprende al transportarte en medio de la historia, a su país natal, La República Dominicana. En cada detalle se puede apreciar lo que fue su niñez, la sencillez, la hospitalidad que te brinda esta cultura y hasta cierto punto, la nostalgia, pero una vez de regreso a la historia en Nueva York, ya de ante mano sabes que esperar. Al Mariana aceptar su realidad pone más interés en su vida y conoce por medio del web del amor a Fernando Guerrero. Fernando, peruano, de 48 años de edad, es un hombre maravilloso, inteligente y como Mariana, también, en busca de una segunda oportunidad en el amor. Un hombre que hasta cierto punto es exageradamente bueno. Gift no abunda mucho en la relación de Mariana para con sus tres hijas, pero dentro de lo que se menciona está claro que sus hijas la apoyan y cabe mencionar que la comunicación con sus hermanas era excelente. Queda muy claro que Gift se asegura que Mariana recibe lo que se merece, un nuevo amor. Un amor tierno, apasionado, hasta cierto punto muy fantástico, se podría decir que demasiado fantástico.
El personaje es agradable, dulce y algunas veces simpático. Algunos se identificarán con esta historia; otros simplemente la encontrarán un poco predecible.Pub Date: June 9, 2011
ISBN: 978-1463302733
Page Count: 188
Publisher: Palibrio
Review Posted Online: Nov. 9, 2011
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.
Sisters work together to solve a child-abandonment case.
Ellie and Julia Cates have never been close. Julia is shy and brainy; Ellie gets by on charm and looks. Their differences must be tossed aside when a traumatized young girl wanders in from the forest into their hometown in Washington. The sisters’ professional skills are put to the test. Julia is a world-renowned child psychologist who has lost her edge. She is reeling from a case that went publicly sour. Though she was cleared of all wrongdoing, Julia’s name was tarnished, forcing her to shutter her Beverly Hills practice. Ellie Barton is the local police chief in Rain Valley, who’s never faced a tougher case. This is her chance to prove she is more than just a fading homecoming queen, but a scarcity of clues and a reluctant victim make locating the girl’s parents nearly impossible. Ellie places an SOS call to her sister; she needs an expert to rehabilitate this wild-child who has been living outside of civilization for years. Confronted with her professional demons, Julia once again has the opportunity to display her talents and salvage her reputation. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love, 2004, etc.) is at her best when writing from the girl’s perspective. The feral wolf-child keeps the reader interested long after the other, transparent characters have grown tiresome. Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her.
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.Pub Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-345-46752-3
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
Page Count: -
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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