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WOW! I don't know what I was expecting when I ordered The Summer Guest after reading Mr. Cronin.s The Passage, but it was such a pleasant surprise! Such different books, written so well.

Mr. Cronin does an excellent job of getting you entwined in his character's lives which is something not very many authors can do. His characters are not deep, but well defined and as you go from chapter to chapter headed by each character's name, you do not have to go back to the previous chapters to jog your memory to what happened last. You easily pick up where the last chapter left off. This is writing at its' best!

The Summer Guest reminds me a lot of some of Jeffrey Archer's novels, where they cross over many years but still keep you in the present. Even though the main part of the book is over only a few days, it steps back into the past and draws you into the present. Everything of the storyline is mingled with each other but is easy to folow. The storyline is strong, grabbing you from the beginning and builds up to a sad but wonderful ending.

If you want to read a really exceptionally well written book that will keep your interest, then The Summer Guest is just the book.


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The Summer Guest Justin Cronin Books Reviews

Maybe considered to contain some sort of slight spoilers ahead for some, so be warned if you feel so inclined.

It has been a couple of weeks since I finished reading this rather short book and I'm still wondering why Justin Cronin gets all the rave reviews that he does. This is the first book of his I have read, so maybe I did not get one of his best as I have seen some other reviews here suggest. After reading mostly great reviews about this book, I was disappointed. This book started flat, stayed stale and ended the same way it started, flat. The character development was so poor I couldn't get engaged enough to really feel for them. I didn't get to know them so I found that i just didn't really care what direction the story took. Speaking of story, not much of one. Sort of a fathers and daughters story, but not really. Sort of a love triangle story, but not really. Sort of an May/December love affair story, but not really. Sort of a coming of age story, but not really. Sort of fathers reconciling their relationships with their sons story, but not really. Sort of a man coming to grips with the end of his days story, but not really. Not a single narrative was developed in any detail. To me that's where a large part of the problem exists with this book. It's trying to do way to many things in the name of telling a story. It's just to busy for its length. I believe because of this it just doesn't really tell much of a story about anyone or anything. I kept reading. I kept hoping that the next paragraph, the next page, something would finally develop and as I got forty or so pages from the end, it finally dawned on me that it just wan't going to be. Meh. A so so read.
Solidly crafted story telling seeming more like a seasoned writer in his prime rather than an author's first novel. After writing this Justin Cronin went on to make his bones with the Passage trilogy, but for those not in the zombie/apocalypse demographic The Summer Guest may be a more accessible read. The real star in this book is the way Cronin patiently weaves multiple POV's into a powerful interconnected story of a extended family in the making and the suffering and grace involved in that growth. Affecting,gripping read for fans of good writing over fast moving action adventure plots. Recommended.
Imagine a summer camp, you are sitting on a deck on the lake, there is the sound of fish on the surface, cigars come out, maybe you say no, but, yes to the glass of scotch that comes with offer, and someone tells you the story, in six distinct voices, why it is you feel safer on that deck than you have ever felt any where else.

Justin Cronin tells you that story in the voices of Harry Wainwright, Joe Crosby, Lucy, Jordan, Kate, and Joe's Father. Each chapter is a set piece that stands alone and together fills you with the sense of the limitless power of love and language to convey it.

To say what Justin Cronin has accomplished here is stunning is a cliche, trite, and true. That is a testament to what I have just read and the limit of my vocabulary to describe it.

The stories tell a linear story of three decades of humans and their hearts. Eveyone who tells them tries, and suceeds, sometimes to their own surprise, to be brave.

You travel from a shattered face, to a snow storm on a train, to a fishing camp, to the death of a wife, loneliness, draft evasion, an incredible description of a fishing afternoon gone totally awry, and through it all you are guided by a hand that wants you to see that there is redemption in love and that every hurt may be a source of understanding, if not joy. Justin Cronin wants you to see that trying to be brave earns it own certain courage. He succeeds.

I disagree with those who have limited the season within which to read this book to summer. It is a book for all seasons.
One of the most satisfying books I have read - characters that I was drawn to, with individual story lines that held my interest throughout the book. Some had secrets, most had disappointments in the course of their lives (as do most of us), but all of the major characters were good people with good intentions, even if they could not always be expressed in a way that the characters wished. It would be wonderful to have a somewhat solitary retreat like the one in this book. A thoughtful gift for so many friends on your list.
WOW! I don't know what I was expecting when I ordered The Summer Guest after reading Mr. Cronin.s The Passage, but it was such a pleasant surprise! Such different books, written so well.

Mr. Cronin does an excellent job of getting you entwined in his character's lives which is something not very many authors can do. His characters are not deep, but well defined and as you go from chapter to chapter headed by each character's name, you do not have to go back to the previous chapters to jog your memory to what happened last. You easily pick up where the last chapter left off. This is writing at its' best!

The Summer Guest reminds me a lot of some of Jeffrey Archer's novels, where they cross over many years but still keep you in the present. Even though the main part of the book is over only a few days, it steps back into the past and draws you into the present. Everything of the storyline is mingled with each other but is easy to folow. The storyline is strong, grabbing you from the beginning and builds up to a sad but wonderful ending.

If you want to read a really exceptionally well written book that will keep your interest, then The Summer Guest is just the book.