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Summary: Don't waste your time on this one!
Review: A fragmented story line involving unbelieveable characters with minimal (if any) chemistry---it just doesn't work as a romance novel!
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Summary: Slow, sappy, then slow
Review: After all the good reviews I read about this book I thought for sure it was going to be great. The start of the book was slow, the middle made you want to cry, it was sad and cruel and then you get to the end and the story line goes from a fast pace to slow and hard to follow. I like books where there is a hero and I couldn't find one in this book, the hero I guess could have been a 9 yr. old little girl but I will let that one for you to decide. If you like tear-jerkers you will love this book.
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Summary: sophomoric drivel--just another soap opera, disappointing
Review: Disappointing drivel, unbelievable characters, overwrought emotional descriptions. I really felt that I have wasted my precious reading time. I don't know who told Ms. Graham she was a writer; I certainly do not agree.
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Summary: Ms. Graham needs a new spellcheck and a better editor
Review: Forty pages and four typos into this book, I grew increasingly irritated with the sloppiness. There is no reason a book should make it past numerous revisions by an author USING SPELLCHECK, and his/her editors and be printed with this many errors.Unfortunately, even if this book was error free, I'd still give it one star. I kept chuckling out loud in disbelief at how much the plot resembled a Lifetime Channel movie for women. Bleah! If I wanted to delve into such a trite and sappy storyline, I'd simply watch that drivel on tv. The characters are unbelievable. Ethan has a PhD from Yale AND a teaching degree from Kansas University, but he's a lawyer who wants to ranch? WHY? Annette is a pretentious snob who has lived most of her life in France, giving the author ample opportunity to toss around French phrases, showing off her prowess in the language (Ms. Graham has taught French, according to her book jacket bio.) Worst of all is the author's depiction of small town Kansans as rude hicks with slow drawls. I'm from Kansas and I've been to the region where this story takes place and she's really done a discredit to the people.
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Summary: Ms. Graham needs a new spellcheck and a better editor
Review: Forty pages and four typos into this book, I grew increasingly irritated with the sloppiness. There is no reason a book should make it past numerous revisions by an author USING SPELLCHECK, and his/her editors and be printed with this many errors. Unfortunately, even if this book was error free, I'd still give it one star. I kept chuckling out loud in disbelief at how much the plot resembled a Lifetime Channel movie for women. Bleah! If I wanted to delve into such a trite and sappy storyline, I'd simply watch that drivel on tv. The characters are unbelievable. Ethan has a PhD from Yale AND a teaching degree from Kansas University, but he's a lawyer who wants to ranch? WHY? Annette is a pretentious snob who has lived most of her life in France, giving the author ample opportunity to toss around French phrases, showing off her prowess in the language (Ms. Graham has taught French, according to her book jacket bio.) Worst of all is the author's depiction of small town Kansans as rude hicks with slow drawls. I'm from Kansas and I've been to the region where this story takes place and she's really done a discredit to the people.
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Summary: Very moving
Review: Graham writes well and this is a very sad but intensely moving novel. I thought Ethan Brown was a rather cold, emotionally barren character, who wasn't really worthy of the love of two good women. The thing that annoyed me about the novel, though, is that although Ethan does eventually fall in love with Katie Anne...it's not really her, he loves but her as Annette. The rather selfish, fickle Katie Anne returns from her near death experience a changed woman - she basically acquires all Annette's characteristics; cultured, a loving mother and selfless: I found this transformation to be totally implausible.
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Summary: Mislead
Review: Having been a LaVyrle Spencer fan for years I bought this book because of her comments on the cover. How misleading. Although I know a lot of work went into this book there were some things that just weren't there. After reading it, I went back over the first 50 or so pages looking for a physical description of the hero - a part of Romance Fiction that I see as a great necessity. I found that he was tall, had large hands, a dark brow, was well-educated - but there were none of the stereo-typical "brown eyes, broad shoulders, pouting lips" that most women read Romance for. I also found the dialog to be lacking in believability. Dialog is difficult for some writers to do convincingly and perhaps Ms. Graham could use some practice in this area. I do congratulate Ms. Graham on having accomplished writing and publishing a novel. I will look for other titles from her in the future in the hopes that with more practice she will be able to hone her craft.
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Summary: pretentious, predictable, and a total letdown!
Review: I bought this book because of all the rave comments.....shortly into it, I was already having regrets....These characters don't ring real to me, there is no real depth to them, and they all do exactly what you expect them to....everything seems so choreographed....and then towards the end, it just gets way over the top.....I actually threw the book in the air and went to bed I was so irritated. I will not be paying money for future books by this author....
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY
Review: I cried and laughed -- it made me appreciate and be grateful for love in everyway which touches my life and how quickly it can be taken and how hard it can be to get back. I bought this in Chester England and read it in a day. Each character brought different feelings and emotion to the book. I've never been to Kansas but the description by the author I could almost see and feel the picture. Great all time love story. Since this is the author's debut novel, I can't wait for her return.
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Summary: GREAT READ!
Review: I cried too, and that's what a book should do, move you! I came to Kansas 22 years ago from L.A. and I love it here. It's nice to see how someone else appreciates it, and lets other people know that KS isn't just a flat boring state. For her first novel she sure did do a great job, it's a great love story. When can we expect your next book Janice?
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