Customer Reviews

Bride Island

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Bride Island is the kind of book I love to find, evoking a place so real I want to go there. Set in the state of Maine, it features narrator Polly, a single mother who doesn't have custody of her daughter, but is beginning to want to. Her troubled past and difficult family hamper her attempts to mature and emancipate, but Polly hangs in with the occasional slip that turns into a slide, and then back out again. Very gently, Enders slips myth and legend into the underpinnings, never enough to scream out but rather to tease out the notion that we humans, like the Greek gods, are flawed and learn slowly if at all. She also kindles that deep fascination some of us have with islands as well. And I loved the cover! Good book, one I will buy for friends. Looking forward to her next offering.

This is a beautiful story about how flawed people...flawed families...move forward. The best kinds of books for me are ones that elicit the full range of emotion. Bride Island certainly achieved this. I read an interview the author gave where she talked about confronting the things (through writing) that frightened her the most. In facing her personal fears, Ms. Enders has created a veracious and provocative piece of fiction. I really liked this book.

I wasn't really sure about this book just based on the description, but it was chosen by our book club. Honestly, once I got through the first chapter I was hooked and couldn't put it down. I loved the book and the characters probably because I relate to their life issues. Some of the people in our book club weren't as enamoured by this book, but I simply loved it and have read it again since. I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever had hurdles in their life to get over and not necessarily had anybody in their corner. Great book!

I was going on vacation and picked this book from the reviews I was glad I purchased it. It was a easy read and interesting to boot.

I just finished Bride Island after purchasing it at a used book store. It was pretty slow and not much of a story line. I considered not even finishing it, but I wanted to see if she got her daughter back. I wouldn't read it again and I won't be recommending it to my friends and family who read.

This book just didn't do it for me. It dragged on and I don't really think it even had a real ending. The focus was on Polly, the main character, and her turning her life around. Not much changed about the character from the beginning to the end of the book so I was kind of like "I read all this for nothing to happen?". I also think the author gave Polly's daughter Monroe way to much credit. Her actions and intelligence was more representative of a tween or teenager. Not of a 6 or 7 year old (I can't remember exactly how old she was.)