The Gazebo

The Gazebo
By Emily Grayson
0688167535

Love story, designed to be a tear-jerker, I think. I didn’t cry, but then I’ve never been in love so maybe that has something to do with it. Well-written, moving, interesting. It’s strange to think about how life might throw something so strange at you that you’ll spend the rest of your life wondering “what if?” I can’t believe that there was no way for them to be together, though. And just a few days before they’re going to get married, the telegram arrives? Why not the morning of the wedding, a bit more dramatic? I’d love to dismiss the book as a cliché, but I can’t. It was powerful in it’s own quiet way, moving. I can’t believe that in that day and age, they wouldn’t have gotten married earlier however. That part confused me, although it made sense in the middle when she was called back to the US. Guess if they had been married, he would have had a greater hold on her? Maybe he shouldn’t have kept putting her off when she asked, he ended up losing her over his desire to find a place to settle down before getting married. I think they were both a bit selfish in the beginning, and it came back to bite them. But I still feel bad for them, much as I shake my head at them in confusion.
8/10