Blog Tour: Sand in My Eyes by Christine Lemmon
Please join Christine Lemmon, author of Sand in My Eyes, as she tours the blogosphere with BookSparks PR!
Reviewed by Poppy J.
Anna Hott lives on Sanibel Island with her husband and three kids. Through the use of flashbacks, we see what life was like for Anna when her kids were younger. She relishes her relationship with her spouse, even loves her cluttered house and overly active children – all standard fare for this stage of her life. Anna doesn’t have the energy to find a clean towel, effectively deal with her children or berate her husband about his past transgressions – including his prior affair with another woman.
The reader will have a short attention span when it comes to Anna’s complaints. She is overburdened, over scheduled and generally coming apart at the seams. She meets her neighbor Fedelina Aurelio and the reader is let in on the secret of their separate pasts. Through her relationship with Fedelina, Anna is able to come to terms with the hurt she has been carrying, and discovers what is most important in her life. She develops the courage to work on her relationships and later learns to love again because of the deep friendship between the two women.
On the surface, Sand in My Eyes is about survival. The gems come from the letters and correspondence depicting the lives of the characters in the past. The book is interesting in that every reader will get something different out of the story within.
After a decade of working in several NYC law departments and teaching, Poppy decided she enjoyed writing full-time. She currently works as a freelance writing consultant, and lives with her husband and sons on the East Coast.
A review copy was provided free of any obligation by BookSparks PR. No monetary or any other form of compensation was received.
Category: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction
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I have never heard of this author before, the concept of the book sounds good-until Poppy said that the reader will have a short attention span when it comes to Anna’s complaints.
Interesting aside, I had a situation on my blog where someone did not like the review I had given a book. I received a critical comment about “chasing” readers away from the book. My response was that I was doubtful that my review would chase anyone away who wanted to read the book-that certainly was not my intention. Here I am this morning thinking-love the cover, like the fact it is set in Sanibel Island, but do I want to read a book where my attention span will be short regarding a character. To paraphrase S. King there are too many good books to spend time on the bad one. Does one not so great review really influence one’s choice of a book. For me I would say that I take a collection of reviews.
On the reverse I am always shocked when everyone loves a book and it is not the book for me.
I heard heard such wonderful things about Lemmon’s books this summer but haven’t had the chance to pick one up yet. As a Floridian I am drawn to books that take place in my backyard. I haven’t decided which of her books I should start with, but this sounds like a good start
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My mum is from the Panhandle, and her family still lives there, so I fell in love with the Gulf years ago … I think I was 6 the first time I saw it? Down near Sanibel, actually. A piece of my heart has been drifting along the whole curve of Florida’s Gulf Coast since then
It’s definitely fun to read books set there, makes me feel like I’m there — instead of here ((13 hours north 
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It sounds like it would be pretty good, my only reserve comes in that I don’t really like reading about wives and their family life unless it is just really exceptional writing and storytelling because I feel like there’s just so much of it already out there, and that the same story just gets told again and again.
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I read Lemmon’s ‘Portion of the Sea’ earlier this summer and fell in love … Have been looking forward to reading her other books as soon as I can get my hands on them! Anything Florida-Gulf oriented gets my attention, especially when there’s a great story involved too … Good to know that Anna complains and that can get frustrating — I’ll know when I get to that point to keep reading because it’ll get better.