Fault Lines

I did not see anywhere when I ordered that the dust jacket was missing. I would not have wasted my money on it as it is for a display.

You've read the basic story line of this book so I won't waste your time writing it again. I will simply say that Rivers is an author that writes for women. Men could never understand the emotion she put into her stories that ring so true to women. She will make us laugh and make us cry, make us cheer and make us groan..... and in the end we crave more. For me, her stories are never long enough and she can't write fast enough to rid me of this craving for her wonderful, heartwarming stories. Take a chance. Buy the book and get ready for a good old fashioned, well written story that will take you away from your world and float you off into the one she so generously created for you.

One of my favorites of Ms. Siddons. I have read all but two of her novels, and I found this one to be as good if not better than most of her books. I loved the characters immediately. I love Anne Rivers Siddons.

This is the first book I have read of Siddons. It was a slow beginning, but picked up in a few chapters. I found that the author hit on many of my emotions. Definitely worth reading.

I made the mistake of trying to read this as a "distraction" during finals week my sophmore year of college. In the end, my finals, my packing, and even sleeping became secondary to finishing "Fault Lines". Possibly, I was simply homesick for my own hills in Washington, but I fell in love with the forested California setting and the thought of running away from it all to hide in the forest. I cried at least three times, causing my roommate, who thought I was immune to emotion, to decide that I had finally gone off the deep end from stress. Later that summer, when I was coming to terms with breaking up with a boyfried who never quite was one, I was hearing, in the back of my head, "Be my same stars, Gavin," and it seemed that Merritt and TJ were splitting alongside Gavin and I.I've been a fan of Anne Rivers Siddons ever since I stumbled across "Heartbreak Hotel" in the public library, but this has got to be the most engrossing book of hers that I've ever read. I read it again, when finals were over and I didn't have to deal with classes and my roommate, and I loved it just as much the second time. I don't often gush about books (or anything) but this definitely deserves it.

I began this book on a Saturday, when my weekend company was out during the day. I think their early departure on Sunday was, in part, due to my picking-up and putting-down the book quite often! I am, once again a redevoted fan; my last ARS book being Outer Banks... which exhausted and frightened me. This one delights and redefines "steel magnolias".