Wish You Well | David Baldacci

Wish You Well | David Baldacci | heart warming novel

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Wish You Well

	Wish You Well David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 253 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wish You Well

The story in this book had many interesting details about subsistance living in the Appalachin mountains in the late 1930's and early 1940's. The writing was excellent thus being very enjoyable to read. The story line was very good except for the improbable ending. If you enjoy books about families working a difficult farm life and seeing the merits of their life, you should enjoy this book. It is a departure from this author's usual genre (mystery-suspense), as is John Grisham's book, The Painted House, which I also thoughly enjoyed.

heart warming novel

One of the best books I've ever read. He described a vivid picture of the virginia mountains and the characters..well that's where he lacked something. Lou was supposed to be a twelve-year-old girl but she thinks like an adult. On the first hundred pages of the book, I found myself getting bored but when you go on that's when you'll really appreciate the book. It made laugh and cry at the same time. The ending was kind of predictable, yes, we all know Amanda will wake up but we don't know that Louisa Mae would be out of the picture. well, all in all, the book's worth it.

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Virginia Mountain Life

I picked this book up and put it down several times before really getting into it. It just didn't hold my interest in the beginning. In the end, I was glad I read the book. It got more interesting as it went along, especially if you're from the Virginia mountains and can relate to the life style and scenery.

The story centers around two children and their paralyzed mother who go to live in the Virginia hills after a car accident kills the father and damages the mother. There they meet their grandmother who lives off the land and life is much tougher than it was in the city. In the meantime, a court battle ensues over the grandmother's land, which causes the reader to keep reading just to find out how this will all end.

Emotionally it seemed a little calculated and over done, but all-in-all, not a bad book.

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Life on the Mountain...

I enjoyed this book, I really did, however I thought there were too many parts that droned on to long. The author paints such a vivid picture of life on a Virginia mountain in 1940...but he put so much effort into his discriptions, that a bunch of times I found myself getting annoyed that I wasn't learning more about the characters themselves.

The book starts out with a car accident that leaves Lou (12) and Oz (7) pretty much parentless. Their father is killed, and their mother is in a coma of sorts. They move from the busy streets of New York City to the VERY rural mountains of Virginia to be with their great-grandmother Louisa. From there Lou and Oz learn to work the land, befriend some unexpected people, and learn to really believe in their family and each other.

Overall, a good story, I only gave it 3 stars though cause the beginning is very slow, far to much discription going on, not enough character build-up. Also, at times these children seemed WAY beyond their years. For only being 7 years old, Oz spouts out some pretty profound stuff, and Lou is even more mature! Not very believable, but aside from that, this was a good read, one that I would recommend for a rainy day, or if your between books. I don't think I'll be rushing out to read more by this author though.

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