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Mindy Starns Clark

Autor(a) de Shadows of Lancaster County

43 Works 4,021 Membros 129 Críticas 4 Favorited

About the Author

Mindy Starns Clark is a bestselling author with more than half a million copies of her books sold. Her many books include Whispers of the Bayou. Shadows of Lancaster County, and the Christy Award-winning The Amish Midwife (cowritten with Leslie Gould). Mindy and her husband, John, have two children mostrar mais and live in Pennsylvania. mostrar menos
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Obras por Mindy Starns Clark

Shadows of Lancaster County (2009) — Autor — 302 exemplares
Whispers of the Bayou (2008) 294 exemplares
A Penny for Your Thoughts (2011) 254 exemplares
The Trouble With Tulip (2005) 217 exemplares
A Dime a Dozen (2011) 199 exemplares
Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels (2011) 199 exemplares
Under the Cajun Moon (2009) 187 exemplares
A Quarter for a Kiss (2011) 187 exemplares
The Amish Nanny (2011) 182 exemplares
Blind Dates Can Be Murder (1973) 176 exemplares
The Buck Stops Here (2004) 176 exemplares
Elementary, My Dear Watkins (2007) 162 exemplares
Echoes of Titanic (2012) 139 exemplares
Secrets of Harmony Grove (2010) — Autor — 130 exemplares
The Amish Groom (2014) 89 exemplares
The Amish Clockmaker (2015) 82 exemplares
The Amish Blacksmith (2014) 72 exemplares
Beauty to Die For: A Spa Mystery (2012) — Autor — 56 exemplares
A Pocket Guide to Amish Life (2010) 14 exemplares
Lilies on Daybreak Pond (2014) 14 exemplares
Simple Joys of the Amish Life (2011) 7 exemplares
Echoes of Titanic 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1960-03-17
Sexo
female
Local de nascimento
Louisiana, USA

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Críticas

I've had this on my TBR shelf for awhile because every time I picked it up and read the back, I was turned off by what seemed like another canned, melodramatic chick lit story. I finally decided to read it a couple days ago and I was right. However, from the very beginning it was obvious there was a mystery and I was sucked in. It also helped that, as a French-Canadian descendant, I've always been intrigued by the Cajun people, even though my own people migrated to New England and not Louisiana.

The book is full of annoying and ridiculous stereotypes. Miranda is detached from her husband and daughter for all the "acceptable" reasons---a very unlikable character. Plus, we get the not-as-common stereotypical "helmet-haired" and ditzy Southern woman, and blanket statements/assumptions about thugs, Cajun people, handicapped people, and more.

The book is not at all fantastically written, but it does contain plenty of surprises at the end. Too bad it all wraps up so neatly. It's definitely a tell not show when it comes to emotions.

Biggest eye roll: Miranda complains that the press attended the final event of the story but she didn't have to tell anyone it was happening. Everything that was done in the last chapter
could have been done quietly and privately and the secret would have been safe forever in the PRIVATE family cemetery. Also, there's no way I would have made the decision about the property that she made in the end.

Redeeming bits: The Christian message, though trite and tropey at the end of the book, is a meaty gospel message earlier in the story through the character of uncle Holt.

Overall, I'm not super impressed but it was a nice, fluffy read to add to my longer-than-normal list of books read this month.
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Estatísticas

Obras
43
Membros
4,021
Popularidade
#6,272
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
129
ISBN
196
Línguas
1
Marcado como favorito
4

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