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A review by nderiley
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
2.0
I like coming of age stories so I was excited to read this book - it even came recommended. Alas. This opened with a torrid love affair, one of the steamiest I've read as I don't generally dip into romance - but I couldn't get over the characters age gap. 41 and 15?! PEDOPHILE. I don't care that it's in the past. Gross.
So that affair does what it does and we follow her through some years of consequences. The last section of the book follows her in a trial where her stance does not elicit my empathy. Olympia ends up redeeming herself in the end, but for me, it wasn't worth the journey.
Read Shreve's Pilot's Wife and skip this one.
So that affair does what it does and we follow her through some years of consequences. The last section of the book follows her in a trial where her stance does not elicit my empathy. Olympia ends up redeeming herself in the end, but for me, it wasn't worth the journey.
Read Shreve's Pilot's Wife and skip this one.