28 Jul, 2008
Book Review | Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst In: 5 stars| 50 book challenge| Book Blowout| Challenges| Reviews| Summer Reading| Summer Reading Thing
Skylight Confessions
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Rating
5 stars - A powerful tale of destiny and family history
Description
On the night that Arlyn Singer’s fater dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Why did you choose to read this book?
Skylight Confessions was listed in my book club magazine and I was drawn in by the description.
The Book Review
It seems that every time I say I’ve uncovered the best book for 2008 an even better one comes along! This is the first Hoffman novel that I have read - and it was breath taking.
The prose is powerful, and almost lyrical, as we follow the lives of Arlyn and her family; from the fateful night that she relies on destiny and meets John Moody - the man who will become her husband - through the years as she realises perhaps she didn’t choose the right destiny - and the impact this has on her family.
In a tale woven with fairy tales of people who can grow wings and fly away, Hoffman reveals how each character feels trapped by the hand that fate has dealt them; from a fated marriage, to a forbidden love affair, a long kept secret to drug-fuelled self-destruction.
This is a beautiful story that will have you hooked from the opening line, and I highly recommend you read it.
Have you read this book?
If you’ve read Skylight Confessions and would like to discuss it with other readers then head on over to the Blue Archipelago Virtual Book Club where I’ve posted some questions to get things started.
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