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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
hopeful
informative
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
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-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
Not as good as first one, but worth reading if you loved The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.
Didn't love it quite as much as The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, but it was still good.
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This is so unlike the books I normally read. Sendker just sucks you in. He's like a Burmese Pearl Buck with his stories of love, karma, and tragedy. This is the sequel or book number two in which we find Julia ten years after her big trip to Burma to find her father. She's in NYC and her life is sort of on a plateau of boredom and she's coping with a break-up when she starts hearing voices-actually one specific voice. To quiet the voice she decides to return to Burma to seek out her half-brother. Once there we hear another amazing narrative of human perseverance, karmic justice, and so begins another quest or road trip in Burma to find the special someone with the key. Lots of interesting action and decisions by Julia at the end. You just know there has to be, must be another book about her continuing adventures to find herself.
This was a quick and good read. However I have only vague recollections of reading the previous book and feel this one is similarly likely to pass into just one more book I read once. I'm a little hesitant of some of the depictions of East-West divide, especially regarding temperament. Some of the moral lessons seemed a little heavy handed.
Such an unusual combination: ghost story and love story and yet, in A Well-Tempered Heart it works. Julia is a successful corporate lawyer whose professional achievements are overcome by the personal disappointment of a called-off wedding. As she tries to bring herself back around she is beset with a new problem—she hears a voice in her head. Not the usual Type A talking-to-oneself voice but one distinctly different from her own, one that is deeply unhappy and pleads with her to help. After seeing a psychiatrist and getting prescription that does nothing but knock her out she agrees to go to a Buddhist meditation retreat where she meets a Burmese monk. Instead of trying to diagnose her he asks her to tell him everything she is feeling. When she’s done he tells her that he believes she is suffering from a kink in the reincarnation loop. The voice inside her is the voice of a woman whose soul is stuck in this world and needs her help to move on. The only way to do so is to find out who the woman is and why she died.
You can read the rest of this review at The Gilmore Guide to Books: http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/01/well-tempered-heart/
You can read the rest of this review at The Gilmore Guide to Books: http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/01/well-tempered-heart/