The Waiting Time [Hardcover]

Eugenia Price (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday Direct Large Print (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568653271
• ISBN-13: 978-1568653273
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,951,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Ailing Price, December 28, 2000

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"lmarmarmar" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Waiting Time (Mass Market Paperback)

As an avid reader of Eugenia Price novels, I was very excited to read this novel. Unfortunately, I did not think that the Waiting Time held a candle to Price's previous works. I did not feel the strong connection to the characters in this book as I did with the characters in the St. Augustine trilogy or the Savannah quartet. Even at the end of the novel I did not feel that I truly knew the main character, Abby Banes. The story also did not flow as did Price's previous stories. It took too long for problems to be resolved and the love interest for Abby did not capture my heart as did Mark Browning in Savannah or David Fenwick in Maria. One can tell that this book was in fact the last effort of Ms. Price before she passed away in 1996. I will always read anything and eveything written by this brilliant woman, but if I were not such a big fan I would have been even more dissapopinted.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Often Annoying, June 29, 2002

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Christine F (Mt. Airy, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Waiting Time (Mass Market Paperback)

"Predictable" might be a good word to summarize this book. "Repetitious" would be another. I thought, if Miss Abby tells one more person how much she wants to talk to somebody, I'll put the book down. Instead I found myself highlighting the instances, at least for a little while. There were many.

In related news, we learn (for the 50th time) that Eli doesn't talk at all, Obediah talks a lot, Laura Mabrey is helpful AND talkative, and Rosa Moon didn't talk before they hugged and became friends, but now she does. Thaddeus offers, within 3 sentences of their introduction, to talk to dear Miss Abby. Hooray!

Characterization is shallow. Plot - well, will she or won't she be able to talk to dear dependable Thad and find happiness? Let's guess.

It's grammatical, but beyond that hard to enjoy.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as always the story was great . ms price will be missed ., November 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Waiting Time (Mass Market Paperback)

i have read almost everything she has written and each book has touch my heart. because of ms price i also have fallen love with her island an the people who lived there. this book like all the others is great. i visted the island in sept. its as peaceful as she said.