Georgina's Reviews > Rescue

My least favourite Anita Shreve. I am happy to read books about small lives,with small stories, ( I loved, and understood the thinking behind, 'Something Happened', for example)but this was too small. Whilst I appreciate any avoidance of a narrative driven by unlikelihoods and exaggeration, I just couldn't 'get' why this particular story had been written. The blurb in my edition used the word 'seismic' to describe events. My seismograph must be unplugged as I detected nothing other than the constancy of the mundane world. The characters' personality traits are not so odd, their passion not so great, the course of their lives not so meandering, or interesting, the rescue(s)not in any way profound, unusual, or worthy of depiction. I was left wondering whether Shreve researched the fascinating and potent world of emergency medical response, but didn't quite know what to do with it. I did enjoy finding out for myself, (as we are not told) the meaning of many acronyms.