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By Teresa on 12 January 2017 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Fantastic story about friendship love and trust. Couldn't stop reading the book. Very well written and easy to read. Lovely story
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Bys j tidy on 13 January 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Not a bad book a bit confusing in places in all very interesting nice read Steve 5.0 out of 5 stars
By Tabby Dotson on September 17, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition I was so compelled and in love with Bill and Olivias love story. The way Elizabeth Newton wrote this love story into such an important part of our history was so captivating. I finished this book in one day because I couldn't put it down! 5.0 out of 5 stars
By Margaret Watkinson August 14, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I received this book from eBook Discovery in exchange for an honest review, however I also found that I had purchased this book some time ago, but never got around to reading it. What a pity, as it was excellent reading material. I was a high school teenager living in South Africa at the time of Kennedy's assassination. We didn't have TV in our country at that time, however we all sat glued to our radios listening to the tragic news. Then came the news that Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot as well, which raised thousands of questions, even on our side of the globe. This unusual look at the story of Lee Harvey Oswald as the man in hiding, being a good neighbour and even better friend, portrayed a very different view of a man who seemed to be the devil himself, according to the media. The story started slowly, but kept gathering momentum, until it was positively racing along at the end. Olivia's belief in a man she had fallen in love with is deeply touching, and the romance between Olivia and Bill/Lee brought out the reality of love between older people. When Bill once more disappears, Olivia is left to face the media, her family and worst of all the Intelligence Services who will do anything to prevent the truth from being revealed. The pressure Olivia felt was very well portrayed, and her emerging bravery brought to light the saying that "women are like tea bags - their strength only comes out when in hot water!" Judy was also a surprise as the clingy, fretful woman came into her true self as she chose to stand by her friend and become part of the solution to a problem. An amazing book, and a thoroughly enjoyable read, that left me thinking about the possibilities......... 4.0 out of 5 stars
By Edita A. Petrickon August 13, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition I won this book during an author-presented giveaway contest some time ago. I didn't get a chance to get into it until this summer. At least for me it read more like a romance combined with some autobiographical material and on that level, it is a fine book. The Kennedy assassination plot/reflections in some places reads almost intrusive but that's because the life and fledgling romance between two senior citizens are far more important and far more interesting. The long stretches of internal soul-searching by necessity have to be a 'narrative' but that's precisely where the story kept stalling for me. Too much narrative and not enough dynamic dialogue/interactions - but those can be just my reading preferences. I think this book is a very thoughtful, emotion-laden metaphorical and physical trip of two people in their senior years who are very real and come across very real communication problems. I became interested in the characters to a degree where I stopped expecting twists of the second plot. If anything, after I finished reading it, I think the book would be greatly strengthened if it became a mainstream or quasi-biographical novel of life, loss, relationships in one's twilight years, reflections on life and such fine emotional triumphs. The way the narrator keeps reflecting back to her deceased husband makes this more an internal-self-study rather than mystery. Were it presented as a literary study, I'd give it 5-stars, as a mystery it would go down to 3-stars and as a compromised I'd rate it at 4. 5.0 out of 5 stars
By Michael R. Stern on July 1, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase View From the Sixth Floor, by Elizabeth Horton-Newton is a wonderful new approach to a generationally-formative topic, namely the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The fifty plus years of dissecting and rehashing that fateful day in Dallas have brought us no closer to really knowing what happened, and perhaps we will never know. But if you like history, and mystery, View from the Sixth Floor will keep you wondering what is coming next. Ms Horton-Newton has turned the story on its ear. I thought I was reading a romance story about a old couple roadtripping to Dallas. I knew there had to be more so I kept reading, and I was both pleasantly surprised by the story, and caught flat-footed by the constant twists. Making a book about the Kennedy assassination interesting to a reader who watched the events unfold on TV those many years ago is a challenge. This story surpassed all my measures of a good story. The characters are very real and personable. What I thought was a slow beginning was actually the first upward climb on every roller-coaster I've ever been on. You keep moving, and then you're hanging on. Well, that's what this story will do for you. Well done and thought-provoking. By nerdy girl on June 4, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase What a story!!! Fifty years ago, I wasn't even blip on my mother's radar, but this novel certainly made me think hard about the political scandals back then and ask myself what secrets and skeletons do the people that worked for the government still keep locked away and how many innocent people lost everything because of it. I will probably never know, but I hope justice finds them. With that being said, this was an amazing conspiracy story with enough romance and suspense to keep me glued to my kindle until the last page was read, and left me wanting more of Olivia's and Bill's story, Judy's and Mike's, oh and Jesse's and Shelli's. I have to hand it to the author, I wasn't sure if I would love this novel as much as I do since most stories are of the young, violent, foolish, and most time gullible. That's not what I look for per se in my reads, it's just harder to find books with seasoned characters that can make up their mind in a split second, over forty years old, and can evade the cops successfully. Well, I found the proverbial needle in a haystack, and it was so worth the dig. Elizabeth is now on my radar and I'll be looking for more top-notch reads from her about whatever. |
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