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Title: Arcadia Falls
Author: Carol Goodman
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-08-11
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
For 200 years, painters, poets and musicians have come to the Catskill Mountain village of Arcadia Falls to escape the pressures of modern life and pursue their artistic visions, and Arcadia College was founded with a mission to nurture young artists and writers. When Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at Arcadia College, it seems a godsend - an escape from a life that's fallen apart. She hopes, too, that Arcadia Falls will be a place where she and her daughter Sally can find some peace and reconciliation. But even though Arcadia Falls proves to be even more beautiful then Meg imagined, it is hardly peaceful. Soon she begins to realize that the public story behind the school conceals deceit, betrayal, and perhaps even murder. As Meg struggles to reconcile the choices she's made in her own life, she begins to fear that by coming to Arcadia Falls she's put herself and her daughter in danger.
Members Reviews:
If this is your first Goodman novel, you will enjoy it. But very similar to others.
Goodman writes in metaphors. I love the way she puts words together. I love her way of tying a mythical story with the main c characters. Her writing style is very similar to the way to the way my mother talked (she is no longer living). So, generally, I will seek out and read a Goodman novel, because on some level it feels like being able to go back and have a conversation with my mother. That said, this is not one of Goodman's best efforts. It feels like recycled bits cobbled from other books. I would highly recommend reading "The Seduction of Water" and skipping this one. But if this is your first Goodman novel, you will enjoy it.
gothic upstate NY is still scary!
Even though Carol Goodman has been over this ground before in previous books, this is worth the read. Visiting a small private school in upstate NY, near a rushing river (here, not the Hudson, but it might as well be), in Goodman's company is like having a sleep over with your best friend, telling ghost stories. You know it will work out OK for the lead characters, but there will be some scary stuff on the way. Goodman's leads often have a lost love (widowed, as here, or divorced or split from long-time loves.) They are also always placed in a new setting, strangers in very strange lands. They are well-read, being academics, and they have a cast of young student characters around them, along with mysterious adult colleagues and various hangers-on.
In some ways I wonder if Goodman wouldn't have been even more successful if she had created a series character who could have experienced all of her books: her main characters are all quite similar. I don't mean that as a criticism. Her books' common themes and characters make them feel like a series, and that can be very comforting -- after all we all like Poirot, Holmes, Miss Marple, etc. I gave this one a 4 rather than a 5 only because the tumultuous finale is a bit over-the-top with its mixed up birth records and coincidences.
Big, Big Disappointment
I am a fan Of Ms. Goodman's but I have to say this latest book falls very short of her previous works. I am a huge gothic, romance, mystery reader from way back, starting with the great writers Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, Barbara Michaels. So I have been reading gothic for years, and I have to admit, there are not too many authors in this genre who live up to my expectations. I thought Ms. Goodman would.
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Title: Arcadia Falls
Author: Carol Goodman
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-08-11
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
For 200 years, painters, poets and musicians have come to the Catskill Mountain village of Arcadia Falls to escape the pressures of modern life and pursue their artistic visions, and Arcadia College was founded with a mission to nurture young artists and writers. When Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at Arcadia College, it seems a godsend - an escape from a life that's fallen apart. She hopes, too, that Arcadia Falls will be a place where she and her daughter Sally can find some peace and reconciliation. But even though Arcadia Falls proves to be even more beautiful then Meg imagined, it is hardly peaceful. Soon she begins to realize that the public story behind the school conceals deceit, betrayal, and perhaps even murder. As Meg struggles to reconcile the choices she's made in her own life, she begins to fear that by coming to Arcadia Falls she's put herself and her daughter in danger.
Members Reviews:
If this is your first Goodman novel, you will enjoy it. But very similar to others.
Goodman writes in metaphors. I love the way she puts words together. I love her way of tying a mythical story with the main c characters. Her writing style is very similar to the way to the way my mother talked (she is no longer living). So, generally, I will seek out and read a Goodman novel, because on some level it feels like being able to go back and have a conversation with my mother. That said, this is not one of Goodman's best efforts. It feels like recycled bits cobbled from other books. I would highly recommend reading "The Seduction of Water" and skipping this one. But if this is your first Goodman novel, you will enjoy it.
gothic upstate NY is still scary!
Even though Carol Goodman has been over this ground before in previous books, this is worth the read. Visiting a small private school in upstate NY, near a rushing river (here, not the Hudson, but it might as well be), in Goodman's company is like having a sleep over with your best friend, telling ghost stories. You know it will work out OK for the lead characters, but there will be some scary stuff on the way. Goodman's leads often have a lost love (widowed, as here, or divorced or split from long-time loves.) They are also always placed in a new setting, strangers in very strange lands. They are well-read, being academics, and they have a cast of young student characters around them, along with mysterious adult colleagues and various hangers-on.
In some ways I wonder if Goodman wouldn't have been even more successful if she had created a series character who could have experienced all of her books: her main characters are all quite similar. I don't mean that as a criticism. Her books' common themes and characters make them feel like a series, and that can be very comforting -- after all we all like Poirot, Holmes, Miss Marple, etc. I gave this one a 4 rather than a 5 only because the tumultuous finale is a bit over-the-top with its mixed up birth records and coincidences.
Big, Big Disappointment
I am a fan Of Ms. Goodman's but I have to say this latest book falls very short of her previous works. I am a huge gothic, romance, mystery reader from way back, starting with the great writers Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, Barbara Michaels. So I have been reading gothic for years, and I have to admit, there are not too many authors in this genre who live up to my expectations. I thought Ms. Goodman would.