Reviews for Insatiate Archer

The average rating for Insatiate Archer based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-02-03 00:00:00 Francisco Horna I now know why Oprah gave away cars and other amazing gifts to the guest of her show. It was to combat the depression that the members of her book club had encountered over the years. If you see the Oprah's Book Club logo on a book you are about to crack open, take your Zoloft now. Now, hear me out. I have never been disappointed with a book from the Oprah Book Club list. Drowning Ruth, Gap Creek, Jewel, The Pilot's Wife. They are always amazing stories that will bring on a slue of intense emotions. I am no way suggesting you should shy away from them. Unless your dog just died. Vinegar Hill has an amazing cast of characters, 98% of which I wanted to strangle on a regular basis. If you follow me on Twitter, you would have seen tweets suggesting that I already had a deep hate for someone thirty pages in the book. My hate list just grew and grew. Then Ansay threw a monkey wrench into my hate wagon's spokes and brought on the flashbacks. As the story unfolds, you get introduced to events that made these insanely obnoxious people the way they were. OH! Do I continue to hate them because they are assholes or do I walk a mile in their shoes? Damn you, Oprah! Damn you! I found myself wanting to give the characters advice. If I could pull her aside for just one minute and say, "Run! Run for your life!". This is why non-book people think book people are crazy. I'm whispering life changing suggestions to fictional characters. What I hate about writing these reviews is avoiding spoilers. There is so much I want to tell you, but I don't want to ruin it for you! Grab your Zoloft, grab Vinegar Hill. You can thank me for the multiple emotions you experience later.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-09-05 00:00:00 PAUL ROZZI To me, Oprah's Book Club seal of approval guarantees me at least a few of the following: 1) Female, middle-aged protagonist, typically a mother 2) Generally bleak and depressing 3) Emotional and/or physical abuse 4) Jackass husband 5) Horrible children 6) Death Vinegar Hill offers 5 of the 6 - no horrible children. It's a very quick read - maybe not light enough fare for the beach but for the subway ride to and from work, it's perfect. A brief synopsis: Ellen + husband + their 2 kids are forced to move back into the house that her jackass husband grew up in and live together with his abusive and emotionally unavailable parents. Actually, everyone in this book is emotionally unavailable and also a little off their rocker so I bet you can imagine all the fun that will ensue. Oh yes. Reading this is akin to watching a train wreck - and who doesn't love a good train wreck? I couldn't turn away.