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Nights of Rain and Stars (2004)

por Maeve Binchy

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.
Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine...
Fiona left her nursing career in Ireland to be with the man everyone thinks is wrong for her. Elsa fled Germany and her high-powered television job once she learned what the man she loved was hiding from her. Thomas mourns his failed marriage and misses his young son in California, while David yearns to reconcile with his family in England without having to go into the family business. Chance has brought them together, and together they will find new ways of looking at the lives they left behind.
??By the time the bouzouki players start up on the last page, you??ll feel you??ve known these people all your life.???The Seattle Times 
??The sort of book you should take with you on a trip to the Greek islands.???The Bo
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Four tourists, from Germany, America, England and Ireland, are brought together in a tiny village in Greece when a local tragedy upends their travel plans. Each of them is running away from something, and over the course of this slight book we learn their stories. The need to advance four plot lines simultaneously leads to pretty shallow character development and rather too-pat solutions to their "problems," so this isn't my favorite Binchy. Like many of her later books, it's a bit too episodic and disjointed to really pull me in. ( )
  rosalita | Nov 10, 2023 |
I've always enjoyed the simple sweetness of Binchy's books. This was another pretty vanilla offering - a group of people finding meaningful relationships all at once. I'm not sure if it was more slowly paced than other books of Binchy's that I've read, or if it was my own frame of mind at the time of reading. Not bad, but nothing really memorable.
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  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
Concept of the story is nice: being on an extended stay on a Greek island, getting involved in the lives of others visiting, learning how close small town people care for each other. Loved the shop owner for his nice ways and absolutely liked the know-it-all Vonni with her ability to get each person to do what is right. Had no respect for Fiona with her idea of loyalty to a cruel man. Thomas with his son in California was too self centered about himself. Elsa and David at least seemed more like real people. ( )
  kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 |
Please note that I gave this book 2.5 stars but rounded it to 3 stars on Goodreads.

WHY??????

Seriously. I ended up buying this on vacation because I got a kick out of it taking place in Greece. And what would not go better than reading a Maeve Binchy book in Greece while I was in Greece?

I should have none better.

We have classic Binchy following multiple people who reassess their own lives after coming to Greece and seeing the effect a fatal boat accident has on a small Greek town (Aghia Anna).

We follow four main characters, Fiona, Thomas, Elsa, and David.

Fiona who is Irish, has quit her job as a nurse in Ireland and decided to go traveling with her druggy boyfriend Shane. I have no idea how Fiona fell on her head and lost her common sense but there it is. We get a reveal about the abuse that Shane has dealt to Fiona and I thought the way this whole storyline wrapped up was not believable at all.

Thomas who is American, is traveling the world escaping how angry and lost he feels now that his ex-wife is remarried and his son is getting adjusted to a new stepdad. Thomas is an ass. He is quite ugly about his ex-wife and her new husband Andy because they like to work out and keep in shape. Since Thomas is an academic he acts like they must be the dumbest people on Earth.

Elsa who is German, has quit her job at a German television news station because she wants her boyfriend Deiter to do whatever she asks without question. Seriously. This whole storyline sucked frankly. And I was quite tired of people and Elsa talking about how beautiful she was. I kept rolling my eyes.

David who is English, has gone traveling because he hates how his father is a successful businessman and he is one of these 20 year olds that thinks that money sucks, unless you need it.

Sorry to be so harsh but really, none of these people had a clue and since they come from different nationalities and age groups it was ridiculous how they behaved. They all get obsessed with a local woman named Vonni (formerly of Ireland) and pry into her history. Instead of maybe listening to what she was saying and her actions, I don't think any of them learned a thing.

The writing was rough in a lot of places and once again I found myself getting bored.

The setting of Greee was so disappointing. As someone who just traveled there, Binchy fails to capture the small towns in Greece, the food, the culture, everything. It was just about four self absorbed people who wanted to stay in this town, because things seemed to quaint and simple there. Let's forget the whole town is dealing with a lot of deaths.

The ending left a bad taste in my mouth because you still had Fiona and David bad mouthing their family somewhat and Elsa and Thomas's ridiculous ending too. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
A wonderfully lush story of foreigners finding one another and forming deep friendship. ( )
  JoniMFisher | Sep 19, 2019 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.
Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine...
Fiona left her nursing career in Ireland to be with the man everyone thinks is wrong for her. Elsa fled Germany and her high-powered television job once she learned what the man she loved was hiding from her. Thomas mourns his failed marriage and misses his young son in California, while David yearns to reconcile with his family in England without having to go into the family business. Chance has brought them together, and together they will find new ways of looking at the lives they left behind.
??By the time the bouzouki players start up on the last page, you??ll feel you??ve known these people all your life.???The Seattle Times 
??The sort of book you should take with you on a trip to the Greek islands.???The Bo

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