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| Annie's Song | 
| Author: Catherine Anderson
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 43724
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 3.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0380779617
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780380779611
ASIN: 0380779617
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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Product Description
The GiftAnnie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless "idiot girl." Tormented by guilt, Alex agrees to marry her and raise the babe she carries as his own. But he never dreams he will grow to cherish his lovely, mute, misjudged Annie--her childlike innocence, her womanly charms and the wondrous way she views her world. And he becomes determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her--to heal...and to healed by Annie's sweet song of love.
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 Great if ended soone May 31, 2008
The love story was very touching and the characters believable for the times. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would have given it five stars if it had ended 50 pages earlier. Why the detour at the end? It added nothing and, I thought, diminished what had come before.
Also, Alex had something of a Messiah complex. During the last 50 pages especially, he was somewhat over-bearing, treating Annie more as an ignorant sex object rather than a wife he saw as an equal.
I liked Annie and her journey and wished more of the story had been told from her point of view.
 Interesting book April 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It was pretty twisted. I couldn't help but feel that Alex was doing something wrong with Annie. Even though she wasn't mentally ill like everybody thought, including her parents, she was still very child like and had yet to learn sooo much. I kept on getting the feeling that Alex was practically molesting Annie. It all felt very wrong, NOT SWEET, just wrong....
 A truly sweet story April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't normally read American historicals, but someone recommended this one to me and I'm so glad I picked it up. It's one of the sweetest stories I've ever read.
It's about Annie, a 20-year-old woman who was left deaf by a childhood illness, but was never diagnosed. Her parents thought her mind had been affected by a fever and her brain development stunted. As a result she's been treated like a child, hidden away from the world and forbidden to make sound. She lives in a world of silence and loneliness.
When Annie is raped and left pregnant by Douglas Montgomery, his older brother steps in to try to make reparations. He offers to marry Annie and raise the baby as his own, offering them both the protection of his name. Unfortunately, Alex and Douglas share more than a passing resemblance, which increases Annies fear of him.
As Alex tries to win his wife's trust and struggles to communicate with her, he begins to suspect she's not the simpleminded, child-like creature he believes her to be and discovers where the real problem lies. With that hurdle passed, he just has to conquer the fear of intimacy his brother's assault left her with.
I do have one complaint. Though it's mentioned several times that Alex will likely take heat from the community for marrying a woman thought to be daft, that's never explored. I'd have liked to see how his marriage was received by those outside his household. That was only a minor hitch to the story for me, though.
Overall, this was a great book that I didn't want to put down. I highly recommend it.
Annoying March 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found the heroine's character to be disturbingly naive. I couldn't feel anything for her but pity. It lacked passion and intrigue. The hero was... sweet but a bit of a wimp. I got annoyed with his constant crying, I mean geez. I wouldn't recommend this book.
 Cloyingly Sweet Book February 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm giving up on Catherine Anderson. I was intrigued by the Handicapped Girl finds gorgeous hunk who is totally devoted to her despite her very real handicap shtick initially, but after the first three books or so, it got very old. Why does the guy have to be perfect in every way? Why does the handicap completely disappear or get fixed by throwing money at it? Where does personal strength, hard-work, and finding a mate who is also handicapped in some way fit in?
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