Eden in Winter
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3.5 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's character to suture the deep wounds - both within his family and himself - torn open by the tragedy.
Moreover, as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death continues, it is taking all of Adam's cunning to protect those closest to him from figures who still suspect that Adam's father was murdered by one of his kin.
But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to Carla Pacelli - his late father's mistress; and a woman who, despite being pivotal to his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn to.
The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles. Yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's strived to conceal, and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the middling conclusion to bestseller Patterson's Blaine trilogy (after 2013's Loss of Innocence), an avid prosecutor believes that someone pushed author Benjamin Blaine from a cliff on Martha's Vineyard, and wants to charge Ben's gay son, Teddy, or Ben's brother, Jack, with committing the crime. Adam, Teddy's CIA agent brother, deploys his professional skills in Teddy's defense, and brokers an uneasy truce between his family and Carla Pacelli, a former actress who was Ben's girlfriend. Amid memories of bitter competition and harsh betrayal by Ben, Adam grows closer to Carla. Together, they dissect their personal histories, choices, and struggles in lengthy conversations. North is at his best when characters' keen insights lead to broader truths about the human experience. However, heavy-handed observations, repetition, and excessive dialogue and introspection weigh down the plot, which fails to gain traction as a mystery or achieve its potential for psychological depth.
Customer Reviews
Copy of previous book
A great deal of this book is word for word repeats of the first book. It should of been necessary only to summarize the parts from the fist book. Instead the author repeat whole sections of the previous book word for word with all dialogue.
This book would of been 1/2 the size if those sections were only summarized.
If you read the first book you either laboriously reread the first book or skipped pages of repeats.
Thankful not to have read the other two.
This seems to be 1/3 soap opera, 1/3 chic flick script, and 1/3 train wreck. Really hard to believe it was written by a man. That may sound insensitive but I really don’t care. I have read another book written by this man that I enjoyed.