Review: Amazing!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
I cannot describe my apprehension in starting Live. I had such stratospheric expectations from Miss Rivers' excellent novellas that I wondered how she would do with a full length novel. I didn't need to worry a bit, Rivers is every bit in command in the longer format. Like with her earlier stories the characters are intelligent, the romance – true romance and not instantenous illogical lust mistaken for love – is realistically and sweetly built up. I mean, the characters spy each other in a library and covertly watch and hunger for each other for months, until the day when one of them comforts the other in a moment of complete vulnerability. Bittersweet, lovely, beautiful, and I just want Hefin. Like, I want to take a trip to Wales and find a woodcarver of my own.