From three men:
“I had the pleasure of reading this novel and was astonished at its depth and literary magic.
I say astonished because most newspaper people leave their writing at the paper and confine it to journalism. Giselle stepped out of journalism to write a book that should fascinate and hold even the most cynical reader.”
– May 1990 F. Gilman Spencer, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and former editor of The Denver Post
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“I rarely have time to read fiction, especially romantic novels, so I was caught by surprise, captured
might be a better word, by Giselle’s WYNTER’S DREAM.
The sensation was something like being carried down a river, like swimming in the sensuality of the
book. It was also a tough book. She has a sense of reality, an almost embarrassing honesty, that paces the story and, for me, gave the love story credibility. I don’t know how others will react, especially males, but I found my own life story in the book, in the character of Wynter as well as the two male figures. It was unnerving to read my experiences and my own feelings described with such unabashed, maybe unashamed, honesty. The book is important. I hope it will be widely read.”
– April 1990 B. Leigh Price, Jr., Attorney-at-law
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“I began the manuscript of WYNTER’S DREAM late one night last month with a cup of decaf in one
hand and my chin in the other, thinking I might catch a chapter or two before I drifted off. An hour and two cups of espresso later, I was hooked. My attention was held as compellingly as if I had stumbled upon a box of love letters in the cellar or a diary in a long-forgotten attic bureau. The story unfolding before me was so personal, so intimately drawn, that at times, I half-expected the author to suddenly appear and discover my discretion.
In this, her first novel, (if, indeed, it can be called a novel), Massi takes us on a journey into the heart,
the soul, the very inner self of her exuberant, anarchic, somewhat otherworldly, occasionally melancholy, and always abrasive honest heroine, Wynter. Wynter is something of a modern-day Sybylla Melvyn (the heroine of ‘My Brilliant Career’), and Massi has created a character who, like her nineteenth-century counterpart, struggles with the deep and familiar: love, fear, desire, ambition, family, torment, and the problem of how to move toward independence within the parameters of a ‘normal’ and frustratingly male-dominated life. What emerges is a complex, moving portrait of a woman and the three men whose destinies are irrevocably altered by her indomitable spirit; a story of the search for romance in the unromantic underside of everyday relationships; a tale of highly-charged eroticism, love, and commitment infused with the resonance of a myth.
What makes Wynter’s story so absorbing is her balance and sanity, her willingness to accept or reject
experiences with her eyes, mind, and heart wide open, her desire to reach for the truth in her life as she
understands it, without reticence or apology or compromise. Wynter is a singular woman, yet she is
everywoman.
A little sanity on the subject of sex and intimacy is all too rare; honesty is in even shorter supply, and
the ability to play off light against darkness with style is about as commonplace as eyebrows on an egg. Three cheers, then, for Massi. The pleasures of WYNTER’S DREAM are many and good for the soul. It is a story to be recommended without reservation.”
– April 1990 John W. Meredith, writer, wine aficionado