Anne Rivers Siddons

Fiction 2011 | 325pages

It is an empty box.  There is no story here.  For the first 290 pages, nothing happens except a young woman from Georgia marries an Irishman who is heavy into Celtic literature, lore, mythology, music, poetry, wars, language.  He, Aengus, gets to teach this knowledge to young boys while our narrator Thayer tries to get her life of privilege together.

Parts of the last 35 pages are interesting.  This author has 17 other fiction books.  I guess I will leave them on the library shelves.  This book received an average 3.0 rating on Goodreads … I think this is the worst I have seen.

Don’t even consider putting this on your reading list.  There are so many better options!

Novenber 2025