Eternal

Lisa Scottoline is a prolific author. I’ve seen her books praised online. I’ve seen her books in the library and in book stores, yet I’ve never read any of them until now. She’s writes thrillers, a genre that I don’t usually read. When I had the opportunity to read this book, her first work of histo......more

I devoured Eternal in much the same way and for many of the same reasons that I savored The English Patient, Atonement, or Corelli’s Mandolin: Lisa Scottoline has written a beautiful, heartbreaking, wrenching love story set in the Second World War. It’s alive with characters I cared about deeply — i......more

War was eternal, but so was peace. Death was eternal, but so was life. Darkness was eternal, but so was light. Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love. Rome in the time of WW II. Many, many previous books show us Paris or London. I am glad to see more books coming out about Italy (another recen......more

I could not finish this one. I just could not get into it. The physical descriptions of the characters read like an obligatory list of facial and body parts, and the interactions between characters are wooden and forced. This is just not for me.......more

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline was a 5 star read for me. I had had Eternal on my kindle for a long time but decided to listen to the audiobook instead and was so glad that I did. It was expertly narrated by Cassandra Campbell and Eduardo Ballerini. They brilliantly brought the story to life and captured......more