Ballantine Reader's Circle The Seduction of Water, (Paperback)

from justpeachy

Iris Greenfeder is a New York writer who makes money by teaching writing classes. Her mother was a famous author who wrote the first two books in a fantasy trilogy, but never got around to the third book before she died in a fire when Iris was a child. By the time of this story, her father has al...

from TFS93

Carol Goodman's writing is so easy to get lost in. I could feel the cold water on my skin and the rocks under my toes in the caves. This book is full of twists and turns. Every time I thought I had the book figured out, I was wrong. I raced through the second half of the book and was surprised by...

from bookczuk

I've been reading some pretty dark suspense/mystery books, and my soul felt rather battered. This book was a wonderful antidote to hard-core realism -- a story within a story, mystery, and, despite some violence in it, a gentle tale of a daughter in search of her mother, or of her mother's story,...

from bcquinnsmom

The book opens as Iris Greenfelder is recalling how she would feel when her mother told her her favorite bedtime story, "The Selkie's Daughter." The story is Iris' main connection to her mother. Iris was the daughter of Kay & Ben Greenfelder, who ran (not owned) the Hotel Equinox, a grand place h...

from bookmagic

Iris Greenfeder, an aspiring writer is feeling overwhelmed by her various teaching jobs and the fact she hasn't finished her dissertation and she is not getting any writing done. Her boyfriend Jack is planning on spending the summer at an artists' retreat. Iris writes a short story based on a fai...