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A review by pixiefairy15
The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore
3.0
Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand.
Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
I like to think of this book as being in quarters. The first quarter is ok, the second is slow, the third is awesome and the fourth is, well, meh.
It had all the potential to be awesome, and in some places it is. But in the others, the writing falls flat, the effect is complete and utter boredom. Don't get me wrong, it's alright, but that's it. The ending is too abrupt, they solve it all and then it's like: 'here's what happened to him, here's what happened to her, and now I'm living happily ever after.' Also, the title has nothing to do with the story. Unless it does, in which case I need someone to explain it to me.
If this was an OFSTED report, I'd give it 3.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand.
Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
I like to think of this book as being in quarters. The first quarter is ok, the second is slow, the third is awesome and the fourth is, well, meh.
It had all the potential to be awesome, and in some places it is. But in the others, the writing falls flat, the effect is complete and utter boredom. Don't get me wrong, it's alright, but that's it. The ending is too abrupt, they solve it all and then it's like: 'here's what happened to him, here's what happened to her, and now I'm living happily ever after.' Also, the title has nothing to do with the story. Unless it does, in which case I need someone to explain it to me.
If this was an OFSTED report, I'd give it 3.