Comments on: The Sunday Salon

By: Nan

Nan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:28:21 +0000

And I couldn’t get through The House at Riverton. It just felt like something I had read or seen before.

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:13:14 +0000

Sorry to hear this was a bit of a letdown. I have been thinking of ordering this from the UK.

By: Swapna Krishna

Swapna Krishna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:03 +0000

I really want to read The House at Riverton, but I guess I’ll skip The Forgotten Garden! Thanks for the review!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:58:43 +0000

Rebecca, I’d forgotten I’d read The Historian, which I did enjoy even with the vampire element.

Kathleen, I agree about the title, but as I’d recently re-read The Secret Garden the similarities were so obvious I couldn’t have missed them!

Danielle, if you haven’t read The Secret Garden I think you’ll enjoy this book.

Les I’m glad I haven’t put you off reading it - if it hadn’t been for the similarities to The Secret Garden I’d probably have loved this book.

By: Les in NE

Les in NE — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:34:46 +0000

What a shame that it was a letdown! I still plan to read The House at Riverton. Just need to get a copy and add it to my toppling stacks.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:25:27 +0000

Sorry to hear the Morton book was a bit of a let down–especially as I just ordered it from the UK last week! Still, it might be an entertaining read as I never did read The Secret Garden, so I won’t have the story in my mind whilst reading. I read The Scarlet Pimpernel earlier this year for the first time and enjoyed it immensely!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:11:36 +0000

Lol if the author was going to take so much from ‘The Secret garden’, you’d think they’d at least change the name a little… it would have been at least more difficult for the audience to make a connection. ‘The Forgotten Garden’ immediately brings ‘The Secret Garden’ to mind.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:19:19 +0000

You’re not missing much by skipping the Twilight series, but I do think everyone should read Bram Stoker. Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian is also great, but it’s really more of a book about loving books and solving a book-related mystery that just happens to have a vampire in it than it is a vampire book.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:16:42 +0000

Thanks for your comments.

Unfinished Person, I agree that there are too many good books to waste time reading ones that we perceive as bad. If I don’t like a book I don’t finish it. I don’t think The Forgotten Garden is a bad book - it was just that I was disappointed, mainly at the similarities to The Secret Garden. But that was only one part of the book and I decided it was worth carrying on to the end - and as it’s very easy reading it didn’t take long!

By: tanabata

tanabata — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:01:29 +0000

I haven’t read Kate Morton but it’s always disappointing when we love a first book by and author but not the second. I’ve never read The Scarlet Pimpernel either. I must try to rectify that at some point.