The Mermaid Chair Reviews

This book was not worth the time I poured into reading it. It is very slow for the first 1/2 of the book. Intermingled in Catholic bashing and political grandstanding that add nothing to the plot. The story itself is kind of interesting, if slowly told. The characters are not endearing in any way, just there. The only element of this book to hold your attention is the subplot of unraveling what really happened 33 years in the past.
This author also wrote "The Secret Life of Bees". I have heard good things about it. And I plan to pick it up and read it. But my expectations have...

To begin this reveiw I must admit, when I read the highly acclaimed "The secret live of bees" I didn't really get the buzz (pun intended!).  This novel focuses on only the main character, although it does devote at least 4 chapters in the voice of her masculine competitors.  Jesse is the most self involved and over indulged character ever written that wasn't featured in a New York tell-all escapade about bad parents or bosses.  She needed to find herself and in the end result was hurting her loving husband, compromising the devout vows (or almost vows) of a monk and she was suppossed to be taking...

This book was a poor follow up to her Bee book. I would skip reading this second book and wait to to hear reviews on her third--assuming they will want her to write another one.