Customer Reviews

The Waiting Time

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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.

"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.

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.

This was not my favorite Eugenia Price work but as always it kept me reading until the wee hours.
It saddens me that we will never know what happened to Abbey,Thad and the slaves at their plantation. Eugenia you are sorely missed as you have been sorely loved

As always a good story - one that caught my interest and maintained it throughout 3/4 of the book. Then it seemed to drag on and on with much repetition - becoming a "romance only" story with many comments being made over and over again. Eugenia Price will be missed and her earlier books should continue to be read with real pleasure.

I agree with the other reviewers that the story got repetitious and tedious. I enjoyed Abby's time with Thad. But the story ended so suddenly. It was really disappointing and anticlimactic. And there was no love scene other than holding hands and kissing.

This probably won't be accepted, but....I found out that Ms. Price had written another book from a book club advertisement in a magazine. I immediately started searching for the book. Today, I received a message from Amazon Books that the book could be ordered there. In the meantime, I found the book at a bookstore. I have not finished reading the book, but even before I read the book I can tell you that it is again written in Ms. Price's writing style that makes me feel as if I were living as part of the story or at least, would have loved to have lived it. Only when I read the review on Amazon, did I find out that Ms. Price is no longer living on this earth. I grieve for this very special person and author. Once again, I have no doubt that this book will be more special to me because I know it will be her final one. Now, I can remember her at rest beside her wonderful historical characters and can almost hear them praising Ms. Price's wonderful art of telling their stories