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3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent first effort, but manages to have no setting..., Oct 4 2004
By Peter LaPrade - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love Life: A Novel (Hardcover)
Charlotte Vale Allen's first novel "Love Life' was a decent book. I admit from reading the first couple of pages, I thouhgt it would be a really bad novel, but Allen manages to make us care about Helen Kimborough and her mother Amanda, and later the best friend character that is a head teacher, the first husband who sacrifaces himself for his country, and Helen's love of her life, Norm and his daughter Gena. This book really does take us through Helen's turbulent life, but manages to make us wonder where this is taking place. As far as I know, it's Northeastern U.S, in some place named Port Zebulon, but other than that..no feel for really where this is. That really killed it for me. Otherwise, I would have ranked this higher.