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To See Your Face Again

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This book was very fun to read. It kept you interested the whole time. I read this huge book in about two weeks because i couldn't stand not to miss a day reading it. It also made you want to read the next in the series which I am trying to figure out what its called. Eugenia Price did a wonderful job.

Very fast and very entertaining, this is a love story that develops very slowly but keeps the reader wanting to turn the page in hopes of things working out. Based on the factual sinking of the ship "Pulaski" which took the lives of some Savannah residents, Price sets Natalie Browning, daughter of "Savannah"'s Mark, on a crash course with destiny and some lessons in survival that are pretty interesting. However, the characters could be more believable. Natalie's flawless, flame-haired beauty is a little too often commented on and a little too hard to really digest, especially with the fact that she is, of course, a spoiled brat, an idea which is hardly new in literature. Her counterpart, Burke Latimer, is this golden Adonis whose dashing good looks are a little wooden as well, and his teasing of the bitchy Natalie smacks too much of something Margaret Mitchell has already done. Aside from that, though, congratulations again to Eugenia Price for creating engaging fiction from factual events.

This book is so wonderful. I have read the entire quartet. Also I have read the st. Simon's group. Do you gave a list of any other books she wrote? If so Email me at gmklipa@webtv.net. Her books read like personal diaries and you feel they are happening to real people and what the people of that period were really thinking. I was hoping to find out that she had written something else after the quartet and was disappointed to find out on your web site that she had died.

I picked this book by mistake and fell in love with the story. It was sad however to find out that she passed away in 1996. I wish I could tell her that I loved and enjoyed reading it. I saw quite a long list of her other books and I can not wait to start reading all of them. Eugenia Price is definitely one of my favorite best writers.

If you're looking for some decent historical fiction, keep looking unless you like shallow, stereotyped, obnoxious characters, wooden dialogue that reads like it was written by a talented child, and completely implausible plotlines.

A 70 year old man slavishly taking orders from a bratty 16 year old girl? Another man falling wildly in love with her after having known her only for a few hours (during which time she behaves like a complete jerk) and having absolutely nothing in common with her? Give me a break. The characters that weren't actively obnoxious were either weak and wishy washy (Mark, William, Caroline) or preachy (Eliza, Victoria). They were all so unlikeable I found myself wishing they'd all gone down with the ship, including the ones who stayed on shore.

Ms. Price seemed to have done a good job researching the period and the historical descriptions are well done. Unfortunately this doesn't make up for the book's other major flaws.

Ms. Price does an excellent job of writing descriptions and presenting historic material in a way that is both interesting and accessible. I was especially impressed by the account of the sinking of the Pulaski. Her real life-based characters are well researched, though the dialogue is so stilted as to give the impression of being translated from Russian by someone whose primary language is Latin. I could get past this except for one thing: Ms. Price has saddled us with Caroline and Natalie Browning. These women have to be the most tedious characters in fiction since Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lucy Farinelli. Caroline is a prig with a bad case of "I'm beautiful and wealthy and don't do a lick of work but my life is so harrrrrrd!" Please. As for Natalie, I grew heartily sick of reading (at least once per page, it seemed) about her "strong will" and "flawless beauty." Apparently all is forgiven--her tantrums, self-absorption and endangerment of others because she's fun to look at and has red hair. Me, I would have pushed her into the drink before the ship cleared the mouth of the Savannah River.

I also believe that Ms. Price did a disservice to the characters of Mary (Merry Willow) and Ben (Bending Willow) McDonald. As she has so often done when she writes about slaves and servants, Ms. Price tries hard to give these characters dignity and to showcase their uncorrupted nature. Alas, the effect is to patronize them and make them appear simple-minded rather than unspoiled. Try as I might, I just never saw what was so bad about Ben and thought that Natalie treated him abominably.

If you can get past the characters and the prissy dialogue, this is a pretty decent book. And if you want the real scoop on the Mackay and Stiles families, I recommend The Light of Other Days by Caroline Couper Stiles Lovell (Robert and Eliza Mackay's great-granddaughter).

One of the best stories ever written! Eugenia Price delivers another novel based on a true story that is nothing less than a blockbuster. I am surprised that it has not been made into a movie. The tale begins in Savannah, Georgia where its most prominent residents board a steamship and the adventure begins! If you had something else to do, don't read the first page because you will not be able to put this book down!

I loved the novel SAVANNAH and couldn't wait to read this next book, but I had mixed feelings about it from the start. While the whole story of the Pulaski shipwreck - taken from actual events - was well written as it didn't go heavy on melodrama and at the same time made you feel you were really there (I could swear I know what it's like to be floating in the middle of the ocean, sunburnt and thirsty, surrounded by wreckage and corpses) the novel was spoiled by the spoiled heroine. Eugenia Price tried to create her own Scarlett O'Hara in Natalie Browning, but in my opinion she failed. Scarlett may have been stubborn and self-centered, but I never saw her as a brat, the way I did Natalie. (Not to mention Natalie's pet expression: "Foot" hardly compares to "Fiddle Dee Dee"!) While they both went through tragedy, Scarlett had to cope with her whole way of life being destroyed along with Atlanta and had to start over with strength and determination. Her great weakness was her obsession with the wrong man. Natalie, on the other hand, obsesses about the right man, and expects everyone else in her life to follow suit, as if nothing else mattered besides she and Burke Latimer. Sad to say, everyone else tended to dance to whatever tune she chose to play, particularly her father, who was a strong independent character in the first novel. Here he's rather a pathetic shadow of a man, totally dominated by his daughter. Only Burke can stand up to Natalie. As much as he loves her, he won't let her call the shots. His reward: she burns his house down!

I won't give away anymore details; let's just say: many's the time I wished she hadn't survived that shipwreck!

Having read all of Eugenia Price's work, some more than one, I have to say I really enjoy her works.

I fell in love with Historical Romance through her book Savannah and from there I moved on to read the entire Savannah Quartet. Once I finished the quartet I moved to the Florida Trilogy and the rest is history. I just really enjoyed reading about how these southern cities all came to be settled and history changed.

I ordered this book from the "Used Book" section on 4/12/09. Today is 5/13/09 and I still HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT. I guess this supplier wasn't such a good choice after all. TOO BAD!