- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Dell Island Books; First THUS edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440223458
- ISBN-13: 978-0440223450
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #762,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
This one needed a better editor.,
This review is from: A Dry Spell (Unbound)
Dry Spell has one of the most interesting premises I have encountered in a while. A rainmaker who travels from town to town grifting and making rain. A town that suffers from an otherworldly dry spell. The marriage of the two should have been explosive. What happened? This novel ground to a halt about midway through and never recovered. Ms. Moloney's editor should have helped her streamline this tale. A good editor would have and should have made the plot line clearer, lessened the roles of more minor characters, and broadened the plot line of the ghost who is the major cause of the drought. I think this would make a wonderful movie, and I did enjoy the book -- problems and all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
I vote for a re-write,
By Colleen "big reader" (SF East Bay, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Dry Spell (Unbound)
I have never had such mixed emotions about a book before. It was a "skimmer" all right. In fact, I skipped pages at a time but the book still held me like an iron fist. The author seemed to go off on tangents that departed so completely from the story line that I wanted to throw the book against the wall. So why was I compelled to read this book in two days?..... because the plot just wouldn't let me walk away from it. The plot, the characters and the expectations of great things had me picking this book up with every spare minute I could muster. I liked the mysterious rainmaker and his supernatural gift and I think his character had great promise. Unfortunately, the book closed with a whimper leaving the hint of a sequel. If there is a sequel forthcoming, I might buy it but not before I read a enough to know if the book carries the same style of writing tangents that were so frustrating in this book.For the most part, I liked this book because the author definitely has talent and I think she can deliver the goods with a little help. This book had a lot of potential so I am of the opinion that it's the editor who should be hung out to dry, not the author. This could have been an outstanding read had wandering thoughts been traded for more on the characters and closure on the story line. Forget the sequel. I vote for a re-write.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe between 3 and 4 *'s.,
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This review is from: A Dry Spell (Mass Market Paperback)
This is not bad at all.This could be a story for x-files withoutSculler and Moldy.Paranormal and kind of dreamy.Good for the cottage or such thing.I enjoyed it.
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