Rocken Edge
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My review:
This book was waiting in the hallway when I got home, having left work at normal time for the first time this week. I flopped down on the sofa with the cat and a cuppa, and started devouring it. Read it while I cooked and ate dinner, and have just finished it. Another unputdownable read from Wendy K. Harris.
This is the third Undercliff novel, set in the mysterious coastal world of the Isle of Wight. A cast of fascinating characters interact, the older, familiar people there to welcome again, bringing new characters into their midst and working their special magic on them. There's some spooky nuns and a slightly gothic-y bit, a fallen priest and the absolutely delightful Fran in her chaotic animal-filled house (I think my favourite character). How will it all work out? We don't exactly know, even at the end, but all kinds of pure spirituality are celebrated, hypocrisy gets its own comeuppance, and there's joy for many of the characters.
Extra bonus - a review by *me* of Blue Slipper Bay printed in the back!
This one wasn't published by Transita, but by a local publishers as part of a scheme celebrating Island Authors.
Wendy's web page is at www.wendykharris.com and well worth a look. And the Undercliff novels... well you know they're pageturners now if you didn't before!
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Madmadge UK (anywhere)
Birmingham-Rose UK (anywhere)
Katisha50 UK (anywhere)
LindyLouMac Italy (from EU to EU)
Brujula France (EU pref)
Mallary France (anywhere but France)
Scotsbookie UK (Europe)
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Lellie UK (anywhere)
kobie03 Canada (anywhere)
Sherlockfan New Zealand (anywhere) <----- it's here!
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Released 15 yrs ago (3/14/2009 UTC) at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Posting to the first person in the BookRing!
Thank you so much Lyzzy for including me in this select ring. xxxxx
I loved the story which was quite shocking in places and felt such sympathy for poor little Clare. I think the writer handled a very sensitive subject beautifully.
I can't wait for her next book - 'Trampling Snowdrops' - so I can catch up with the happenings on the IoW again.
Will PM next in line and send it on its way (hopefully) in the next couple of days.
Released 14 yrs ago (4/1/2009 UTC) at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
I especially loved Fran, with her animals, she made me think of what I am probably going to be like in the future!! LOL
It was well worth a 10/10. I certainly wait with baited breath for any future plots.
Reserved for Gill - just awaiting a response from a PM with an address
Off to Italy!
I will get to it asap but do have a few titles in front of it, which I hope will not cause too much of a delay.
Thanks Lyzzybee for starting this ring for the third Undercliff novel which I have really been looking forward to its publication, having enjoyed the previous two .
Once again the storyline is fairly shocking but sadly believable as something that could occur and probably has done somewhere in real life. Also as in her previous novels the author brings to life the surroundings with her descriptive prose.
In this third novel the protagonist is a young teenager Clare who arrives on the Isle of Wight in a very distressed state seeking a girl she hardly knows but hopes will help her. The locals take her in and both knowingly and unknowingly help her to sort herself out and get her life back on track. She needs to come to terms with fact that love can be harmful as well as healing, blessed and ungodly. To quote one of the main characters ‘love can seriously damage your sanity’
Besides Clare the other main characters are troubled Father Ryan, from Clare’s hometown in Ireland who is at the root of Clare’s distress; Rachel single mother and business woman recently deserted by her Italian lover and Fran the farm owner who unknowingly does Clare a huge favour. It is thanks to Fran that things work out for Clare in the end. The relationships between these four characters slip into place as this sensitive story twists and turns its way to the open conclusion. The possibility of another Undercliff novel I wonder?
Within this genre I think well worth reading and Wendy K Harris is certainly an author whose work I will continue to follow.
I have already sent a PM to Brujula and will mail the book as soon as I have an address.
Released 14 yrs ago (6/23/2009 UTC) at By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Off to France on my next weekly trip to the post office.
Happy reading
LindyLouMac
Thank you!
Thank you very much for sharing this copy!
Released 14 yrs ago (8/20/2009 UTC) at
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mailed to mallary
Coincidentally, I received 2 bookring books today and they both have to go to Scotsbookie after me! How funny! :)
I thoroughly enjoyed this third installment of the Undercliff series. Some of my favourite characters were back along with new situations and a mesmerising storyline that had me sucked in from page one!
Clare's story seemed to affect almost everyone in the book and it was cleverly done; with other books this kind of interweaving can seem contrived. But Wendy's writing just gets better and better, and I can't wait for Trampling Snowdrops.
Pming Scotsbookie for her address now and I will post this off this week.
Released 14 yrs ago (9/14/2009 UTC) at To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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On it's way to scotsbookie, sorry for the delay!
Hope you enjoy it! :)
I have Cross-Patch's address so it's going in the post this afternoon.
Released 14 yrs ago (10/1/2009 UTC) at book ring/ray, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Released 14 yrs ago (11/7/2009 UTC) at to next participant, a ring/ray -- Controlled Releases
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Enjoy!
I am so looking forward to this
The Sorrow of Sisters and Blue Slipper Bay had fairly complex and interwoven storylines involving several groups of characters. This book was very much Clare's story and all the other bits were peripheral. Even the Rachel and Sandro thread had for me the feel of just a bit of padding. In the previous novels I particularly enjoyed the authors scene setting, her descriptions of people and especially places and this is what I missed most here. I wasn't as drawn to the island as I was in the previous books. Blue Slipper Bay made me want to pack up and move there, this one didn't. For me it lacked a bit of the magic. Clare's story was a good one, but a bit over the top at time and much too reliant on coincidence. I particularly disliked the meeting between Clare and Sandro in the church, horribly contrived and far-fetched. I also felt that the mad nun was a step too far. Father Ryan however was beautifully and sympathetically drawn
There was a lot to enjoy, I liked the way the end was left open with no neatly tied up endings, very clever. So all in all, although I am being super-critical I still look forward to Trampling Snowdrops!
Thanks everyone for passing this along. It will be on it's way again in a couple of days.
Released 14 yrs ago (11/21/2009 UTC) at By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Mailed to Kobie03
Thanks LyzzyBee for sharing. I liked your review of Sorrow of Sisters at the end. Please include me if there is another Isle of Wight story.
Released 14 yrs ago (1/14/2010 UTC) at Lewins Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
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I'm really looking forward to this. Currently reading "Round Ireland with Fridge" which is keeping me enrapt. One never knows what someone will think of doing next. Liz, if you've not read this I could send it to you when I return "Rocken Edge". Obviously have started reading it before I register it. Will attend to that in due course.
There were some memorable characters and themes that were sensitively dealt with. Altogether a very enjoyable read. Thanks.
I see now that I was sort of waiting to hear from you whether you'd have liked "Round Ireland with Fridge" which would be why the book was put aside and became buried. Anyway, it will be safely back with you subject to the vagaries of our respective postal services.
Released 13 yrs ago (2/9/2011 UTC) at Upper Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand
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I'm still waiting for a parcel from Scotland that I know was posted before Christmas and hasn't reached here yet.
Many thanks for sharing this book. Most enjoyable.
Released 13 yrs ago (3/1/2011 UTC) at Birmingham Uni - Main Library - iLounge OBCZ in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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