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Summary: "Feel Good" book of all time
Review: Open DREAM A LITTLE DREAM and visit Salvation, NC where the famous Bonner family resides. Get in a little deeper and get to know Heartbreak Mountain, which is the heart of the Bonner Family. Read more and get hooked on Dream A Little Dream, the story of Gabe Bonner and Rachel Stone.The Bonner brothers have always been close, looking out for each other. When Rachel Stone's car breaks down and is stuck in Salvation, they think she's not good news and try to get her to leave. But they're not the only ones who do, the people of Salvation have decided to blame all their problems on her. Because she was married to a televangelist who played them all for fools. Most importantly, Gabe wants Rachel and her 5 year old son gone too. He's grieving over the death of his wife and son and doesn't want to feel anything again. However, Rachel is broke and her luck had just run out. And she was not going to give up the only hope she has of securing her son's future. As for the people and the Bonner brothers, she's never given up on a fight before. Dream A Little Dream is about many things, the love of a mother for her son, the healing of a grieving heart, the struggle of a strong woman to make it, and how they teach each other to love again. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is known for her funny and heartwarming dialogue, and Dream A Little Dream is no exception. However, it also has a deeper sense of feeling. She'll make ya laugh and cry, and at the end, make ya feel good all over!
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Summary: Satisfying read
Review: I suppose I grew to like Gabe, but I most definitely didn't like him at the start. But at least he wasn't prejudiced against Rachel like everybody else. Rachel is finally given the chance to come out of herself and show everybody who she really is, seeing as everybody saw a certain image of her before. But I didn't really like Kristy's relationship with Gabe's brother. It just didn't ring true. Well, I suppose you do have to suspend belief for the whole book, but even still...
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Summary: Dream A Little Dream
Review: Susan Elizabeth Phillips packs a heavy punch through her words. This book was so emotional, it drains your senses while enchanting the whole way through. Rachel is a woman to be admired for her gutsy, driven personality. I like how SEP gives her charachters a gritty, down-to-earth, in-the-mud kind of life. There is never too much glitter in her stories, even when they start out in the high life, SEP knocks them all off their pedastals and forces them (and her readers) to face the dirty side of life. "Dream A Little Dream" takes on the after effects of a televangelist's downfall. He's dead, but he left behind a bitter town, and a wife soiled by his fall. Five years later, Rachel returns to Salvation with her young son in tow, to retrieve the five million dollars, her husband embezzled from the town and his followers. Rachel meets Gabe, the black sheep son of the town's fabled family. Gabe has demons of his own, and he wants nothing to do with Rachel and especially her child. I was fighting for Rachel every time I flipped a page. It was sad when it ended...I wanted to continue being a voyeur into Rachel and Gabe's story.
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Summary: Dream a Little Dream
Review: Thoughly enjoyed this book, after reading "First Lady", I decided to read more of Susan Elizabeth Phillips book's, and "Dream a Little Dream" was the next book I read. Rachael was a gutsy, hard working, determined mother who had a disastous past not of her doing and Gabe, a man also troubled by his past. I enjoyed how Ms. Phillips entwined their past and present into a warm, compelling love story.
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Summary: An enjoyable novel
Review: Considering it was an impulse buy, I must say that I felt this novel was quite good. SEP managed quite successfully to engage me for the hour or two it took to read the book. The character of Gabe was veryinteresting as I don't think I ever grew to really like him...but that isn't really the purpose of a book. Rachael was in love with him and their romance was the object of the book. The mother and child relationship evoked a strong response form my sister and I, and I applaud SEP's sensitive and engaging presentation of one of the most important facets of our lives.
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Summary: ummmmmmmm.....WOW!
Review: WOW....What can I say. This book was just oh-so-special. If the rating system allowed me to give as many stars as I want to give, I would have given thousands of stars and more. I know that endings in SEP's novels sometimes tend to be just toooooo happy to adjust to,but all is forgiven in this book because it's so very special in many other ways. After being so thoroughly disgusted reading the highly acclaimed novel of Judith Mcnaught's "Whitney,my love," the unengaging, brutal, forced play-on-emotion story of empty glitter and bubbles, reading this novel was like facing the bright, sunny sky once again after walking through a long, dark cave.(A little too dramatic? I don't think so. Yeah, yeah, if you haven't noticed, I have a very strong personal feelings about the other book, Ones not so positive.) This novel, "Dream a little dream," has such sencitivity and caring ways about handleing some heavy issues that can weigh you down, altogether keeping the readers awake and interested with clever dialogues between characters. It is a warm, funny read which aimes right at your heart with the right emotions. No more talking here, just see for yourself!
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Summary: ummmmmmmm.....WOW!
Review: WOW....What can I say. This book was just oh-so-special. If the rating system allowed me to give as many stars as I wanted to give, I would have given thousands of stars and more. I know that endings in SEP's novels sometimes tend to be just toooooo happy to adjust to,but all is forgiven in this book because it's so very special in many other ways. After being so thoroughly disgusted reading the highly acclaimed novel of Judith Mcnaught's "Whitney,my love," the unengaging, brutal, forced play-on-emotion story of empty glitter and bubbles, reading this novel was like facing the bright, sunny sky once again after walking through a long, dark cave.(A little too dramatic? I don't think so. Yeah, yeah, if you haven't noticed, I have a very strong personal feelings about the other book, Ones not so positive. Forgive me, my intention is not to offend anyone, I'm just trying to make a comparison here.) This novel, "Dream a little dream," has such sencitivity and caring ways about handleing some heavy issues that can weigh you down, altogether keeping the readers awake and interested with clever dialogues between characters. It is a warm, funny read which aimes right at your heart with the right emotions. No more talking here, just see for yourself!
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Summary: I'LL GIVE THIS A HUNDRED STARS IF I COULD!
Review: It is a very heartwarming story. I've read almost all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips books and this one ranks as one of the best . It is about a story of a man who almost lost hope when suddenly a woman brought him back from from his grave and made him live again. It has a different twist from all the other romance books I've read, and the twist made it more lovable and definitely a tear-jerker. It delves deeper on human emotions... it's not a mushy, mushy kind of book but a very realistic one. Often times we find ourselves on the brink of giving up like Gabe had but then people that surrounds us gives us comfort and a reason to move on... And yes..... I've read the book 20 times.
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: If you want to read a romance thats smart and sexy then this book's for you. You don't have to wade through dumb misunderstandings that keep the hero and heroine apart. Their reluctance to letting the other "in" is completely believable. I found myself rooting for NOT just expecting a happy ending. This is a book about survivors and what they have to do in order to find happiness. Gabe is a man who has lost so much he can't see the sunshine through the trees until a wisecracking Rachel invades his world. Truly one of my all time favorites.
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Summary: Deeply Satisfied..two thumbs up!
Review: This is the second book by SEP that I've read. The first was IT HAD TO BE YOU. I enjoyed that book and loved both characters. Dream A Little Dream is as enjoyable. It's different from other romance fictions that I've read -which is a really good thing! I'm sick and tired of predictable plots! Dream A Little Dream deals with more serious subjects - single parenting, coping with the death of loved ones..and society in general. People living in Salvation were supposed to be God fearing and all..but in the story, most of them were vindictive and judgemental..how ironic! Gabe and Rachel's love story really touched me. And not just because i'm a sucker for romance. It seemed more real. Here is a guy who found everything from someone who got nothing to offer. Good job, SEP! Can't wait to read Nobody's Baby But Mine..I'm intrigued with Cal's character.:)
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