metalphoenix 's review for:

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

DID NOT FINISH: 22%

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Books like this becoming classics is why I have trust issues. I got to the point where Peter meets Beverly for the first time. She is 18 and dying but oh so beautiful and eccentric and magical and perfect. She wakes up in the middle of the night and takes a shower, wraps herself in only a towel. She is flush from either her fever returning or the heat of the bath, but she goes and plays the piano with utmost passion. The 30-something man who just broke into her house falls madly in love. He makes himself known, she has no problems with this apparently. She lets him carry her to the bedroom. Opens her towel. He is shocked, she’s too sick! She is adamant, because she’ll die without knowing the touch of a man, and that cannot be. At this point, I gave up and returned the book to the library.  In looking up other’s reviews it sounds like this plot line wraps up quickly and much more happens, but I will never know.