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    Tumbleweeds: A Novel

    Written by Leila Meacham

    Narrated by Angele Masters

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781611137163
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    Reviews for Tumbleweeds

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    • 3/5
      A book about a small town in Texas that involves the relationship of 3 friends. An enjoyable read that has lots of twists and turns.
    • 4/5
      As she did in her first novel Roses, Leila Meacham tells the story of 3 friends from their childhood until middle age when one of them is killed and the other two become suspects. The writing can be stilted, epsecially when the characters are teenagers, but the twists and turns in the plot make it a fun read. I didn't identify the killer in this one!
    • 4/5
      Accessible and engrossing, Tumbleweeds tells a love triangle of sorts involving Cathy, John and Trey. Each of them are standouts in their own right - good looking, athletic, smart, and wildly popular. John and Trey had been best friends and leaders even as children. When Cathy moved to Kersey, they took her into their group and forged a special bond that stretched and held through high school and the complicated ups and downs of teenage love. John and Trey are football stars in high school. Cathy is an intellectual who makes her own way. When a mistake in judgment leads to irrevocable damage and tragedy, the three friends separate. When Trey returns nearly 25 years later, the reunion threatens to bring into the open secrets and Cathy and John have long kept hidden. As closely held secrets come to the surface, so does the threat of violence and betrayal. Leila Meacham draws you into the lives of Cathy, John and Trey. While I sometimes could predict the characters' dilemmas, I still wanted to know how they resolved their problems. Much like a good soap or drama, Tumbleweeds kept me engrossed until its satisfying end.ISBN-10: 1455509248 - Hardcover $26Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 19, 2012), 480 pages.Review copy courtesy of the publisher.
    • 5/5
      Author: Leila Meacham Published By: Hachette Book Group Age Recommended: AdultReviewer: Arlena DeanRating: 5Blog For: GMTAReview:"Tumbleweeds" by Leila Meacham was some interesting read. In Kersey, this story takes place in the Panhandle...with the story being told in third person. These three orphans (Catherine Ann Benson and Trey Don Hall)and a abandoned child (John Caldwell),lead a very interesting life. I found this novel rather long but still fast enough to stay interesting for me. Be ready for a lots of twist and turns that will keep up turning the pages to see what was coming up next. You have three friends... two boys and one girl that become fast friends... however, both boys are in love with the girl. Now who would win her? After a series of happenings this completely comes apart. There will be a lots of secrets being revealed in the next twenty years...eventually gripping the reunion of the trio when they are all forty years old. The story will leave no part unturned and the plot thickens until the very end. Now, this is where I say you must pick up "Tumbleweeds" to see how this all comes together.The characters are all simply good and memorable....really adding passion, friendship and love to the dialogue and the importance of football in the small town of Kersey. This story will have one characters' life that leads to football, another to become a priest and the other to work in a diner. Even the dog importance was displayed...Rufus. In "Tumbleweeds" many decades of life's will be revealed in this good read.If you are in for a good read full of mystery and suspense... you have come to the right place. I recommend you pick up "Tumbleweeds" for a good read where you will find love, friendship, football, betrayal, secrets, murder, religion, sorrow, compassion misunderstandings and even forgiveness.
    • 4/5
      Very good story of 3 young people in Texas. Unfortunately, 3 turns into 2 and 1, which leads to hurt feelings and destruction.I didn't care too much for the conclusion of the book. It Wasn't something I foresaw
    • 2/5
      I was really looking forward to reading this second novel by Leila Meacham. Her first book Roses was very entertaining...a bit old fashioned, a little sudsy...but enjoyable just the same. This had the same thing going for it. I was hooked...until I reached page 399. That's when things began to fall apart for me. Maybe I wasn't a careful enough reader or maybe Ms. Meacham wasn't a careful enough writer. Maybe I was trying to read too much into the story or maybe she was trying to do too much. Either I made a big reading mistake or she made a bigger plotting mistake. Whatever happened, the book was spoiled for me. My suspension of disbelief was dallied with. And I guess Tumbleweeds is not going to be a book I recommend. Sigh! (Note: The copy I read was a galley. Perhaps thing will change in the finished copy.)
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the book but found the pacing disconcerting. The end, in particular, was so different that I wondered whether the author suddenly thought "Look how long the book is already! I'd better wrap some storylines up!" The first portion of the book was the most predictable, but the best for me with its friends/football/ lovers theme.
    • 5/5
      This book had lots of twists and turns in the lives of three main characters. It involves friendship, love, betrayal, murder and the priesthood.
    • 2/5
      I was disappointed in Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham. I was expecting to love it, as I did Roses. This is a lengthy novel with a predictable story-line for most of the book. There were some twists that seemed over-the-top. It is old fashioned in many ways. It was hard to get to know the characters; I neither loved them nor hated them. I was indifferent to them. In places, the story defied common sense. What should have been key dramatic events, requiring time to develop, were brushed over too quickly and concisely. At times the novel was very sappy and the language was stilted.
    • 5/5
      My big surprise this year… a new author I've never read, found this book at a local small bookstore while visiting my brother on the South Coast of New England. The story was fast paced, reminiscent of the show Friday Night Lights, and I didn't want to put it down! Because the people and landscape were so well written I will now buy all her other books with excitement.