Honestly, I can't decide whether or not I liked Virginia Evans epistolary novel The Correspondent (#1,736). I couldn't stop reading it because most of it was written in short bursts, but I never did warm up to Sybil Van Antwerp, the main character. I think her writing keeps everyone in her orbit at bay, including the readers.
Without giving too much away, Sybil is writing letters non-stop, as she has throughout her life, as she is aging and her health is declining. She is at odds with most of the people who matter in life and still trying to get her own way. Her past is colored by a major tragedy, but when it comes down to it, whose life isn't? But it does reflect in her attitudes on what she feels she is owed by those around her. In those few confidants she is lucky, but doesn't realize it until almost too late.
I will say that Virginia Evans does have the knack of keeping the readers' interest. I wish her a long and fruitful career as an author.
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