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 enlarge | Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 972693
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1565116844
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781565116849
ASIN: 1565116844
Publication Date: February 1, 2003
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 Hard to get into February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hard to get past the first few chapters and I have put it down and cant seem to pick it back up yet. Maybe later I will be able to get into it. Th information about the book is very interesting but the writing is not very fluent.
 Disappointing January 10, 2008
Having enjoyed several of Chevalier's books about art, I had expected more from this author. The two story lines were improbable, the characters two dimensional, the main character shallow and irritating, descriptions of place lacking depth. It would have been a far better story if she had simply focused on the Huguenots, instead of trying to tie together intensely personal experiences between two women who were centuries apart.
Lacking Strength December 15, 2007
This is my least favorite of Chevalier's novels. I found this story depressing, at times confusing, and with characters I could not relate to. For instance, why did Ella lose feelings for her husband? He certainly wasn't cruel like Etienne.
The reincarnation and dreams seemed typical and cliche. Chevalier's other novels always had something unexpected, but this failed in that regard. I knew what was going to happen before the ending was revealed.
I loved the descriptions of french life, but THE VIRGIN BLUE is missing the strength her other works have.
 Captivating August 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
France - the mid 1500's during the Protestant Reformation. A story of a girl called Isabelle who is nicknamed La Rousse after the Virgin Mary. Her nickname soon loses it's affection when a Calvinistic preacher arrives in the village a few years later, to preach 'The Truth'.
France - the present day. American Ella Turner is trying to fit into the village her and her husband have moved to with his job. Whilst her husband is busy working, Ella goes in search of her ancestors the Tourniers.
The author alternates between the two story lines although it is clear that they are inextricably linked. The writing style is very fluent, written in both the first and third person, slipping easily between them both.
A book that draws you in further with every page. Although I had already guessed the outcome, I found myself almost racing to get to the end such is the tension evoked as the book comes to it's conclusion. Chevalier manages this not only with the characters, especially Isabella, but by replacing the alternating chapters with alternating paragraphs, forcing a quickening pace.
 Very compelling July 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book rather slow at the start. I kept putting it down and reading something else and then picking it up again. Once the story gets going, it's hard to put down the book. There are two separate stories which are told separately at first, but then intermingle at the end. The chapters separate the different stories, but at the end of the book, it's merely paragraphs.
I enjoyed the mystery involved and the characters were well developed. I have to agree with other reviewers, the affair seemed an unnecessary addition to the story line.
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