margardenlady 's review for:

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

4.0

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Binchy delivers a tome with nearly no plot in which the lives of a dozen people are transformed. It’s almost magical. On Tara Road in Dublin, we find Ria and her heartthrob Danny setting up housekeeping. There was a long slow set up as we got to know all the characters but life started happening about halfway through. By the end, I honestly enjoyed the characters and appreciated their transformations, but 654 pp with only 9 chapters made for some slow reading.