Customer Reviews
Not bad could have tried harder - By: A. Gordon, 14 Dec 2004 
This was a good read, but... much of the emotional core of the book was skated over. The author did an awful lot of telling you how his characters felt instead of showing you & that's where it became a lesser book to me. A good story, lots of historical detail, strong narrative drive but it is almost as though the writer was rushing to finish writing the book. Essentiallly the book doesn't create situations where you can feel or experience the emotions of the lead characters instead you are told. In places it was almost like a piece of journalism rather than a novel.
A good book to read on a lazy Sunday - By: KimGM, 31 Dec 2001 
I began reading Alice in Exile this morning & finished it a few minutes ago so I'd say that makes it a good lazy Sunday book. The story of Alice & Edward & what inevitably separates them is quite good, though I wish there were more details to fill in some of the gaps. Edward gave up a bit too easily for me & there were times when I felt that his character wasn't as well-developed as Alice's.
Alice's exile in Russia is interesting & exciting. Again, though, there were details that I felt were missing. For example, we never reallly see Alice interacting with her son, which seems a bit odd since we are told how much she loves him. Also, her epeiphany of her love for Rettenberg seems to come out of left field. And the summing up that we get in the epilogue was too pat. I would have liked to see more of Alice & Edward's reunion instead.
Still, it was a good book for a snowed-in Sunday, & if you like historical fiction, you're in for a treat.
