This is hard for me to admit. This book was the suck. Anita Shreve is one of my favorite authors. In fact, her novel Fortune's Rocks is on my top ten list. That's a hard list to land on people.
But something has gone awry. It's almost like this book was not even written by the same author. Rescue is about an EMT that meets a troubled woman following a car accident. They fall in love, marry and have a daughter. The woman is an alcoholic who eventually abandons them. The EMT raises his daughter alone. A near tragedy brings them all back together 15 years later. I can't really apologize for the 'spoilers' in this review because you can pretty much anticipate the entire plot by the time you have read the first twenty pages. Had this nonsense been written by a first time author, I guess you could give them the benefit of the doubt and hope for better things in the future. But this was written by an accomplished veteran novelist. There simply is no excuse for this pile of drivel produced by someone who has proved she can do so much more.
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