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Title: Burning Bright
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Narrator: Jill Tanner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-08-07
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 88 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Best-selling author Tracy Chevalier also wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Members Reviews:
No Moment of Pure Sublimity
I REALLY wanted to love this novel. I really enjoy the style/detail/passion of Ms. Chevalier's writing. This book was just alright. There was no one event that culminates in a moment of pure sublimity that takes your breath away like Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lady and the Unicorn or Fallen Angels. One IS still able to escape into the novel...but really has nothing to do when one gets there. The reader. VERY good.
Excellent
I truly enjoyed this book, great writer, kept the reader going back for more. Excellently read. good with the accents! Thank you
Wendy
Like other reviewers, I wanted to like this book, having completely enjoyed the author's other books. Unfortunately, it failed to produced the same quality of read. The setting and essential conflict had promise, but the characters and the development of the plot were uninspired and in the end quite boring.
Not up to par
I probably won't even finish this book. The characters don't entice. There is no compelling reason to care about this family which is suppose to be poor. Unlike her previous novels, the story development is lacking--actually it's a story going no where.
Just can't recommend this book.
Not my favorite but pretty good
Not my favorite by her, most of the characters were very flat with little substance. However, I enjoyed the sweet relationship between Maggie and Jim and The Blakes. I also liked how real the circumstances were and nothing was romanized, which is what I always expect when reading something by this author. The narrator has a lovely voice and pace--however, the chapter numbers are abrupt: with there barely being a pause for breath after the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.