Dec 15, 2001 07:44 PM
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I started reading this book when I was in the 9th grade and now (after 2 yrs) I finally get this book to read without any restrictions from the school library. The other side of midnight takes us back to the 1920’s after the first world war but don’t worry as its not boring at all. Sheldon talks about two women in different parts of the world, from totally different backgrounds, striving for two different goals but still connected faintly to something that they hate and also love at the same time.
Catherine Alexander comes from Chicago, which was a restless, dynamic giant and without manners but still in the era of tycoons who helped to give birth to it. Catherine was very ambitious, had a philosophy of “never say die”. Catherine had discovered that a bittersweet nostalgia that filled her
But it was a nostalgia that was her future and somewhere, sometime lived it and was restless to live it again. By the time Catherine was in her senior school the mirror had become her friend-she had an interesting face with fine features with gray eyes which created aloofness about her image as though her image reflected a character that she wasn’t. Her only fear was that was a virgin and the FBI would know about it one day. After her senior year she goes to New York to find herself, her ambition and the supposed to be the love of her life but for her, turns out to be just a friend and the charmer takes her-Larry Douglas, the one who she loves and hates the most.
Noelle Page was a born princess and her earliest memories were of a white bassinet covered with lace canopy filled beautiful dolls and animals and her father would show her masts of ships bobbing at the bay and was told her that it was going to be her fleet. But Noelle slowly understood that her kingdom was Marseille, Paris City of violence. Noelle adored her father who created the illusion of having her own kingdom and when with she was with her father she felt like a princess and wanted to please him in any way she could. At seventeen, the promise of Noelle’s beauty was more than fulfilled. She had fine, delicate features, eyes a vivid color and soft ash blond air. There was a strong, smoldering sensuality about Noelle, which made her the perfect woman of one’s dreams. Noelle’s dream of having her own kingdom and she being the princess was determined to be in the glamour world. Noelle was a woman no man could resist when
The love of her life betrays her and doesn’t even have a clue of who she is her only goal is to destroy the love of her life who she hates the most-Larry Douglas.
Am sure that by this time we all we would be anxious to know him. Larry was a pilot in the British RAF. He was a tall man, his body lean with the gift of the magnet as people could stick to him in orbits. He was a charmer and an egoistic fellow but was a war hero.
Constant Demiris was one of the wealthiest men in the world and was a private person and never forgave an injury and never forget one’s favor. Some women were attracted by his money and power but a very few by his imagination. He could analyze one’s personality their strengths and weaknesses but he couldn’t understand Noelle as she has money and power.
And so the book revolves around these four characters in the settings of Paris, Washington, Greece in deadly ritual of passion, intrigue where the punishment will always exceed the crime.(this line is was very tempting to write and is taken from the book)
