Reviews for According to the Pattern

The average rating for According to the Pattern based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-07 00:00:00 Stuart Brown Written in 1903, and available on Kindle, this is the most unusual book that I've ever read by Grace Livingston Hill It's definately a romance, but far from tender. The book held me in its grip from the beginning, leaving me alive with sorrow and anger. It was sickening to see the way the rich and famous thought it nothing to break up a marriage, and that just through a dalliance. The action was tense throughout the whole book, with just a very very few tender monents thrown in. It sure showed me how easy it is to lose your marriage, or even your life, through a moment of stupidity or indiscretion. It also made me pretty thoughtful over what a marriage should really be, and what to watch out for. A timely lesson for us all.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-11 00:00:00 Faustino Lopez Bad cover art - not representative of the time period of the story. This is one of my favorite Hill books. Yes, overwrought, dramatic, and dated, but a touching story of a distraught wife who seeks to win her husband back from his infatuation. I found it realistic in how the other woman doesn't easily let him go and how he at first finds it hard to stay away from her even though he knows he should. The end is terrifically sentimental, but still enjoyable.