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    A Song in the Daylight

    By Paullina Simons

    2.5/5

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    About this ebook

    From the author of the top five bestseller ROAD TO PARADISE comes a novel of love, betrayal and redemption against the odds

    How well can you ever really know someone?

    If anyone asked Larissa's husband, children or friends if she was happy, they would say yes. Sometimes too busy, sometimes irritable - but really, what in her wonderful life could be wrong? She has a happy marriage, a dream house, and everything she ever wanted at her fingertips.

    Yet a chance encounter with a young man new to town hits her like a lightning bolt. Their connection is electric. Suddenly her lovely home life seems claustrophobic, and the familiar mundane. Irresistible passion drives her to contemplate the unthinkable. But if she dares to make the impossible leap, what will her life be then? Whatever choice she makes, someone will be betrayed…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateFeb 4, 2010
    ISBN9780007353156
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    A Song in the Daylight
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    Paullina Simons

    Paullina Simons is the author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman, as well as ten other beloved novels, a memoir, a cookbook, and two children’s books. Born in Leningrad, Russia, Paullina immigrated to the United States when she was ten, and now lives in New York with her husband and an alarming number of her once-independent children.

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    • 2/5
      Really disappointing after reading all her other works. My least favourite of her books.
    • 1/5
      I consider myself an open minded person, so when I picked this book up I was ready to understand Larissa, to empathise with her. Because all humans have hidden desires, secret passions which can make us go crazy, lose direction, forget right or wrong. So I started this story full of good intentions, ready to follow Larissa and struggle with her until the end, whatever it had to be.I won't spoil nothing for you, don't worry, you know that she leaves with her lover on the first chapter, so that being said, I thought it'd all be a matter of seeing HOW that happened. Right, all seemed good.But the thing is that I HATED, really HATED this book. The further I read the further I wanted that the story didn't come out right for Larissa. I didn't like her. She was a spoiled, rich, bored, middle aged woman, conceited, shallow, whose only worries were when to have an appointment to have her nails done or how many Armani jackets had she bought that month or if she would have time enough between shopping and meeting her posh friends for lunch to lead an amateur theatre company. Oh, and by the way, is it normal that when you turn 40 your hubby gives you a Jaguar as a present? Because in this book it seemed like if buying a Jag was the most natural thing in the world to do. Oh come on, that's not real life, isn't it?I would have never expected a novel like this by Paullina Simons, I read her Bronze Horseman trilogy and I loved it. This novel wasn't engaging, it wasn't convincing, the characters lacked force. Larissa, such a weak personality. Jared, the poor husband, so bland and unbelievably blind. Ezra, the smart friend, so full with himself and his existential questions, their conversations so unnatural. Che, the hippie friend living la vida loca in Mexico. Kai, the hot and mysterious guy, temptation with legs. Everything was so obvious and so cliched that I couldn't believe it.I will only say that after they leave together, the story gets even worse. The end is not even rewarding, it feels so unreal that you don't care one way or the other, you just want it to finish. That detached and estranged was I from the story and from its characters.Don't lose your time with this monstrous 800 hundred pages book, honestly, it's not worth it.
    • 2/5
      Well written but DEPRESSING