From the Back Cover:
"Spain. A land of eternal passion and enceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: Lucia, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret form the savage clan wars of Sicily...
Graciela, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...
Megan, the orphan seeking perilous refuge in the arms of a defiant Basque rebel...
and Teresa, the believer haunted by a faith that mocks her with silence.
Leaving innocence but not hope behind, they venture into an alien, dazzling world, where each will encounter an unexpected destiny -- and the truth about herself."
What I Thought:
"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of our Lives."
From the moment I chose this book from my bookshelf, those words echoed in my head. I chose this book for Erin's Book Challenge for the prompt to read a book by an author whose first and last name start with the same letter, and the Days of Our Lives reference was very appropriate.
I think it was a combination of the book's title and the cover art that first made me think of that famous, long-lived soap opera (which I used to watch religiously, by the way), but once the story got going, I soon realized how much like a soap opera this book actually is.
It all starts with nuns running away: from a life of crime, from their sexuality, from the man who rejected them, from the unknown. Add in the evil, violent general and a group of handsome terrorists, and voila! You've got action, adventure, romance, twists, turns, everything a soap opera needs.
The characters were predictable. Sex was used as a weapon. The people who should be good guys were bad. The ones who should be the bad guys were good. Some characters had happy endings and some did not get what they wanted. It was a soap opera, and I loved and hated it all at once.
One of my goals for this year is to pass the books that I read onto another reader. This will be the first book that I pass on. If you are interested in getting your hands on this book, please leave a comment. Next Wednesday, I will randomly choose one commenter and mail the book to him or her. If no one comments, I will donate the book or take it to a used bookstore.
Do you like soap operas?
Have any good book recommendations?
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