On a small-town golf course, two girls and a boy say goodbye, making a solemn vow to meet there again in fifteen years. Not one of them thinks they'll ever feel any differently about each other, but when only the boy and one of the girls show up on the appointed day, the adults they've become see each other in a completely different light. Suddenly a teenage friendship turns into a very grown-up passion -- and "three's a crowd" takes on a whole new meaning....
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Fans of Gage (Confession) are apt to be divided on her tale of three friends whose pubescent pact of lifelong "threeness" defines their lives. In this novel, her prose is uncharacteristically heavy, and the narrative meanders. The action derives from a promise made on a moonlit golf course in a small Maine town when the three are 13 years old and vow that, 15 years hence, they will meet in the same spot. The promise is kept by coincidence, only one of the romantic plot devices here that stretch believability. Not that there's much for the reader to believe in the male member of the threesome: Jordan Brady is a rich guy out of central casting, without sufficient distinguishing marks. But Gage, typically, has created two interesting female protagonists who don't quite inhabit their own skins: the gallant but troubled Lily France and the orphaned narrator, Kate, whose last name is never given. Gage's pacing is artful, however, as she uses flashbacks to reveal first one and then another of the many hidden truths about those two freighted nights. Alas, there's so much darkness in the twisted tunnel, so much loss, sorrow, misdirected love and tragic death, that only readers who prefer a good cry before the bittersweet ending will make it through.
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A Touching Quick Read,
This review is from: The Hourglass (Paperback)
On the eve of their separation three lonely adolescents, two girls and a boy who have been friends since childhood, make a promise to meet at their favorite spot in fifteen years. Two of the three keep their promise with surprising, unpredictable results. Elizabeth Gage only gets better and better!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A Truly Real Look At Life,
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This review is from: The Hourglass (Paperback)
When Kate, an orphan comes to live with her adventurous friend Lily France, she feels at last like she belongs to a family. Although Lily and Kate also belong to another family, that one between the two girls and a boy named Jordan Brady. When they all are last together in their childhood this is the night before Jordan is sent to boarding school. During this night they all make a promise to meet again in 15 years in the exact spot. When they are all adults, Kate and Lily lose touch with Jordan. He is a very succesful business man, featured in magazines constantly. Lily is a housewife in her hometown raising 2 little girls. Kate moves to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist. When the 15 years finally passes, Kate returns. She meets Jordan there and even though she dosen't know it, Lily is there watching from the sidelines, ironically the way Kate was the night before the 3 were seperated. The next day the 3 continue with their lives as though the night never happened, until Kate learns she is pregnant with Jordan's child. She doesen't contact Jordan. When Nick (Kate and Jordans baby) is 4 years old, Kate and Jordan run into each other at Central Park. The both know what happenned that night. Jordan asks Kate to move in with him. This is after she had done a 50,000 word article on him and he had a fiance. Kate agreed. THey were very happy for a long time. But Kate always felt that Jordan had always loved Lily. Later Nick contracts lukemia and eventually after a long battle passes away. (ironically the three meet at a funeral of a classmate who died of lukemia) Jordan moves out nad continues his life and so does kate but only to find out that Jordan loved her the most all along.I enjoyed this book because it gave a real life look at life, everything didn't work out just as planned, at that made it an interesting story with plenty of twists and turns
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Hourglass (Paperback)
When I just finished this book last night I was so upset with it. All the trials and tribulations these kids went through in their lives, it was sad. I didn't like how it was written, I really didn't get a sense of completion with it or how the characters felt. It all felt like the trio betrayed each other and it infuriated me. I never really got the sense that Jordan loved Kate even though we learned he loved her his whole life. I didn't believe it, even when Kates best friend told her so. Don't get this book it will make not want to read any other books by this women which is sad, because I bought this book because of another one she wrote, I loved it.
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