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queerbooklover03's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
jbarr5's review
4.0
Crazy in Love by Luanne Rice
Georgia and Nick are the perfect couple. They live on the family compound.
Nick commutes via seaplane to work. He and 3 others work at Wall Street.
Seaside, CT maybe the binds are not so strong.
The grandmother has done and been doing some crazy things with paint around the house that is irreversible.
She secretly worked as a maid and saved the money for a surprise for Nick. He never suspects as he's so busy with billion dollar deals.
She was awarded grant money to study humans and make profiles. She did tell Nick and he's ok with her work.
Georgia has a lot of gossip and uncovers many family secrets.
She's used to going with Nick on some overseas business trips but lately he's told her she has to stay behind.
That causes her more stress and she faints when her mother is in the hospital with a heart attack and now she's pregnant and she needs to take care of her grandmother...
She's eager to tell Nick about the baby and he surprises her and Mark with his arm around her when he gets home. She tries to explain that he's got a crush on her and he's the photographer she's been using for work projects.
She realizes what her mother had done for them all when she's hospitalized and when they can no longer care for the grandmother they put her in nursing care but what she realizes makes them do something drastic.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Georgia and Nick are the perfect couple. They live on the family compound.
Nick commutes via seaplane to work. He and 3 others work at Wall Street.
Seaside, CT maybe the binds are not so strong.
The grandmother has done and been doing some crazy things with paint around the house that is irreversible.
She secretly worked as a maid and saved the money for a surprise for Nick. He never suspects as he's so busy with billion dollar deals.
She was awarded grant money to study humans and make profiles. She did tell Nick and he's ok with her work.
Georgia has a lot of gossip and uncovers many family secrets.
She's used to going with Nick on some overseas business trips but lately he's told her she has to stay behind.
That causes her more stress and she faints when her mother is in the hospital with a heart attack and now she's pregnant and she needs to take care of her grandmother...
She's eager to tell Nick about the baby and he surprises her and Mark with his arm around her when he gets home. She tries to explain that he's got a crush on her and he's the photographer she's been using for work projects.
She realizes what her mother had done for them all when she's hospitalized and when they can no longer care for the grandmother they put her in nursing care but what she realizes makes them do something drastic.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
nana14's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
novelesque_life's review
2.0
2.5 STARS
"Georgie Swift Symonds is crazy in love with her Wall Street lawyer husband Nickso ''crazy'' in fact, that she has paranoic fantasies that he is unfaithful, and she hounds him with obsessive suspicions. And, she so cherishes her familyher pugnaciously senile grandmother Pem; her TV-celebrity mother Honora; her sister Clare, brother-in-law Donald and two nephewsthat she spends much of her time dreading any change or loss in their close intimacy. The three generations of women and the men who have married into the clan live in a family compound on the Sound in Connecticut. Though she is childless and nearly devoid of domestic responsibilities, Georgie doesn't want a job that will remove her from the family nest. She conceives of a project she dubs the Swift Observatory: interviewing people whose lives have been radically altered by sudden tragedy. But try as she might to avoid it, change does come to Georgie and her family in unpredictable ways. Rice (Angels All Over Town) conveys the delights and pains of loving relationships with verve and charm, and she charts Georgie's deepening maturation with a sure hand, mingling humor and poignancy." (From Amazon)
I did not like this novel as much. I did not care for the characters or story.
"Georgie Swift Symonds is crazy in love with her Wall Street lawyer husband Nickso ''crazy'' in fact, that she has paranoic fantasies that he is unfaithful, and she hounds him with obsessive suspicions. And, she so cherishes her familyher pugnaciously senile grandmother Pem; her TV-celebrity mother Honora; her sister Clare, brother-in-law Donald and two nephewsthat she spends much of her time dreading any change or loss in their close intimacy. The three generations of women and the men who have married into the clan live in a family compound on the Sound in Connecticut. Though she is childless and nearly devoid of domestic responsibilities, Georgie doesn't want a job that will remove her from the family nest. She conceives of a project she dubs the Swift Observatory: interviewing people whose lives have been radically altered by sudden tragedy. But try as she might to avoid it, change does come to Georgie and her family in unpredictable ways. Rice (Angels All Over Town) conveys the delights and pains of loving relationships with verve and charm, and she charts Georgie's deepening maturation with a sure hand, mingling humor and poignancy." (From Amazon)
I did not like this novel as much. I did not care for the characters or story.
usmanzuh123's review
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
When I read this book, it made me really furious the first chapter of the book is not that really page-turner, the reason why it takes me too long to finish this book, but here I am complete but shattered?? lol. I'm on my half way giving up this book because it made me really furious, but luckily I give it a second chance and didn't expect it will turn out like that :(( I love Nick for being so green-flag and understandable to his wife, though I hate her I also love her for being so compassionate and she really loved her grandmother for real.
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