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Angel Landing

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Although this was not my favorite novel by Alice Hoffman, it had the well-realized characters and description of place which always makes me unable to tear myself away from the stories and really care for the people in them. I did note one error in your synopsis which states that Natalie feels neglected by her husband and takes up with her patient. The character, Carter Sugarland, is her long time boyfriend, not husband, who will never make a commitment to Natalie. The synopsis makes it sound as though Natalie left her husband. This sort of review misrepresents the book and leads me to believe the writer of the synopsis did not read the book.

I recently picked up Here on Earth and was really impressed. So I rushed out to get more Alice Hoffman books. I picked up Turtle Moon, Angel Landing, and The Drowning Season. I dove into Angel Landing and thought, why did I buy these?

After the intense characters in Here On Earth these characters were pretty blase. Finn was a bit textbook for my taste. I think we were supposed to base all of his adult behavior on his childhood woes and that just doesn't work for me. The only one I really liked was Minnie. She was quirky but had a real heart and conviction for things.

I am disappointed that I didn't get the good vocabulary in this book. I like to be challenged as a reader and I wasn't with this book. It won't keep me from reading another book by Alice Hoffman. There are too many good reviews of her other works to sway me from my pursuit of finding good material to fill my days.

I have read a number of Alice Hoffman's books and consider her work "high quality brain candy" - easy to digest but more thought provoking and interesting than a lot of the bestseller junk. Angels Landing was a quick read, but disappointing. I thought the characters, particularly Finn, were contrived and predictable. They all felt like caricatures. On the other hand, I can't be too hard on the book ... I did read it through in an afternoon.

This is the worst book i've read by ALice hoffman.All her other novels were brilliant,but this was disappointing.The characters in the book are weird and they are not likeable.The story just doesn't seems real.....

This was my first Alice Hoffman book and, hopefully, it won't be my last. If her other books are better than this--as noted below--then I have to be in for a serious treat! Why does the above reviewer have to regard this story as outdated? So are stories like the awful "classic" Catcher in the Rye, but that's okay?

Everyone agrees on one point: the character Minnie is strong, funny, delightfully pure of heart and full of honest conviction, but I found the dark love story of Natalie Lansky and Michael Finn equally moving and with a sweet ending full of promise. I was too young to understand the era from which stories like this came, but found the characters touching and the story involving to the end. Sure, Natalie was a horrible therapist, but that was pretty much implied from the first chapter of the book, and her unethical conduct with Finn only pointed that fact out more. Beside that, if you've ever seen the awful movie The Morning After, the novel looks a lot better in comparison. Knowing something about the era in which this book was written and regarding it as a historical period piece would most likely help increase your pleasure with this particular work.

I have read a number of Alice Hoffman's books and consider her work "high quality brain candy" - easy to digest but more thought provoking and interesting than a lot of the bestseller junk. Angels Landing was a quick read, but disappointing. I thought the characters, particularly Finn, were contrived and predictable. They all felt like caricatures. On the other hand, I can't be too hard on the book ... I did read it through in an afternoon.

This is a silly book. The magical realism that is the hallmark of Alice Hoffman's
style is apparent, but none of the attributes of her writing are evident in this
book. The premise of the book is ignorant, bordering on repellant.

A young welder causes an explosion at a power plant and seeks therapy. The
therapist falls in love with him and initiates an affair. No boundaries exist. As
if the affair wasn't enough, the therapist also breaches confidentiality. Hoffman
treats this all as okay.

The relationships are shallow and the dialogue simplistic. I expect much better
from a writer of Alice Hoffman's caliber. I recommend skipping this book and
reading one of her better ones such as 'Illumination Night' or 'Second Nature'.

Is there a software program that scans handwriting and transcribes the text to arial font? That's the only explanation for the many, many typos in this book that are far too odd to have been made by even the most illiterate human; hum instead of him, |)lease instead of please, 1 instead of I, and periods instead of commas. I'm not even halfway through the book and I'm fed up with these ridiculous errors. Maybe it's only the Kindle version and maybe Amazon could run spellcheck on books before releasing them.