Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons
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Book Reviews of Outer Banks
Book Review: Correcting an error from comment of 1/21/00
Summary: 5 Stars
The outer banks are in North Carolina....not South Carolina! The book was greatBook Review: Can You Go Back?
Summary: 4 Stars
Anne Rivers Siddons, the author of Outer Banks is comfortable explaining the southern soul, but she also understands the depth of friendships that develop during a young woman's formative years. Many of us can remember the deep friendships we formed when away at college for the first time. We often look at these friendships with idealism and nostalgia. Kate who is fighting a battle with cancer is asked to attend a reunion with her three closest college friends, Cecie, Ginger and Fig. Kate is unsure that she wants to return or see these friends again. There was a time when she loved them dearly, but that time is long past and betrayals bridge that gap.
Siddons presents a book in which things are not what they seem . There are numerous deceptions and undercurrents beneath the surface of the happy reunion. Each participate has developed their own agenda and their perception of their happy college life differs vastly.
The setting of the outer banks is intriguing and the reader feels the attraction of the sun and ocean. Soon the reader also begins to feel the compelling and seductive force of the waves and is effect on the lives of those of the shore dwellers.
I highly recommend this book to those who enjoy stories about complex relationships
Book Review: A larger-than-life story with crisp, emotional characters.
Summary: 4 Stars
This author never disappoints me with her garrulous prose and characters that stay with you well beyond the telling of the tale. The cool, aristocratic Kate, tells us the story of four friends that come together as members of a women's sorority house in college. The tiny, elflike Cecie is closest to Kate's heart, and their friendship becomes the staple of her college existence. Ginger and Fig share the room next door in this campus domicile that fills the hours of all their lives till graduation. Things are not always as they seem and life throws some curve balls that are unexpected by our Kate. These are times of great loves, and friendships, as well as great sorrows. Though devastating as it can be, life must go on and people do survive the disappointment that wreaks havoc with the plans of a lifetime.
It is many years later and the women have decided to come together at Ginger's beach house on the Outer Banks. Who is the perpetrator that has manipulated this situation and what lies ahead for the group? It is an engrossing tale from start to finish. Kelsana 6/4/02
Book Review: Great..until the end
Summary: 4 Stars
I truly enjoyed the book, until Kate decided to go back to the Outer Banks for the reunion. It was amazing to me that she was able to forgive Ginger and Paul for getting married. AND then to cheat on Alan, who had stood by her after everything she had been through - YUCK! And have Alan not even care that she cheated? And we never find out what happens to Cece in those twenty something years, except for a few paragraphs of info. So to sum it up, the first 3/4 of the book was excellent, the last was like watching a soap opera. Sleeping with sleazy Paul-who could STILL control Kate after all those years-was truly poor on Kate's part. She should have given Paul and Ginger a piece of her mind, said farewell and walked away with peace and closure. End of story.
Book Review: Four Sorority Sisters Come Together Again
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, I enjoyed this book fine. It speaks of four sorority sisters from a Southern campus in the 60's. They are bound by a rare, early friendship-spending 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. The characters in the book are elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies. Cecie is the sensitive, sensible, self-contained one. Ginger was the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin, and Fig, the eccentric character, very brilliant yet poor.
The book is very good. Very richly written with a lot of detail and description.