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Summary: Wonderful reading!
Review: Full of torment and emotion, you grow with the characters. How can this ever have a happy ending! There are ups and downs and you cheer when Mary Dare succeeds in bringing Jesse out of his darkness. But Mary has sadness in her heart also and Jesse helps her trust again. I have not yet been disappointed in any Susan Wiggs novel. This one is worth reading and keeping.
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Summary: My first Susan Wiggs ... but not my last!
Review: I don't review many books. But this is one of the best romance books you will ever read. It makes you want to cry. The love between all of these people is amazing. It is tender and poignant. So be sure and read this one it's a keeper.
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Summary: The Lightkeeper
Review: I don't review many books. But this is one of the best romance books you will ever read. It makes you want to cry. The love between all of these people is amazing. It is tender and poignant. So be sure and read this one it's a keeper.
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Summary: Lightkeeper a keeper
Review: I found the book to be an up-all-nighter. it surprisingly breaks free from the romance genre and all the rules with characters who are flawed, but coping with it, people portrayed with a mixture of prejudices, with the line between good and evil drawn by the reader, not the writer. I am reading all of her work now. I don't think the stories will ever let me down.
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Summary: My first Susan Wiggs ... but not my last!
Review: I love this book - the way Mary comes to the island and changes everything and everyone she touches, how could Jesse NOT love her! A beautifully written love story.
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Summary: A great Americana romance by the genre's brightest star
Review: In 1876 at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Washington Territory, lighthouse keeper Jesse Morgan notices a body has been washed ashore. When he reaches the beach, he realizes that the person is alive and pregnant. He takes her inside his home where his assistants tell him that he must watch over her as part of Law of the Sea. Jesse, who lost his spouse to the sea, prefers to be alone, but apparently is stuck for awhile with the injured woman. When she regains full consciousness, she tells him that her name is Mary Dare, that she is all alone in the world, and she was a stowaway on the ship that just sunk.
There is obviously a man in Mary's life, who will come for her. To Jesse's chagrin that man turns out to be his former business partner, Granger Clapp, who is also married to Jesse's sister. Jesse, who wanted no woman in his life, is now deeply in love with Mary, who returns the feelings. However, can Jesse risk living again by reaching out to Mary? If he does, the couple still must deal with Clapp before they can find happiness together.
Susan Wiggs can always be relied upon to provide an exciting historical romance that adds luster to the sub-genre. All the characters are well written, but especially interesting are the local townsfolk (think Northern Exposure). The story line is a fast-paced intrigue cocooned in a nineteenth century Americana back drop. THE LIGHTKEEPER is a novel that will illuminate the darkest night.
Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Wiggs Outdoes Herself--Again!
Review: In a world where too little can be depended on, it's refreshing (and darn pleasing) to know you can depend on Susan Wiggs for a great read. A long time fan, I do believe this novel takes over first place on my "I love this one best" list.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: In purchasing this book, I paid more than I typically do for a novel, but it was worth every penny! Mary, pregnant and unwed, washes ashore after a tragic boat crash. Though she considers herself "damaged goods" and has, as an Irish immigrant, suffered cruel and prejudicial attitudes, she's a very charming and lovable character, bursting with life and love and vitality. Jesse, the reclusive lighthouse keeper of Cape Disappointment, finds himself a reluctant savior to Mary when he rescues her on the shore of Cape Disappointment. Jesse's pregnant wife died 11 years ago, and he has held himself, solely, to blame ever since, abandoning a carefree life of privilege and high society for a lonely monk's existence, deprived of any joy or human contact, as, for penance, he keeps watch, nightly, over the ocean which took everything from him. Embittered, hardened, and self-loathing, Jesse's character is very deeply tortured (puts me in mind of Jane Eyre's Rochester) and fights desperately against the flame that Mary's unexpected presence in his life is rekindling within his heart while she recuperates in his home. Jesse avoids Mary, but she seeks him out; he tries to put her off with his scowls and harsh words, but she continues to draw out the kind and loving man lurking beneath the surface against his will. Slowly, her companionship, affection, and love begin to thaw the heart he has deliberately frozen and hardened over so many years, and it terrifies him. This book was so beautifully written and so very deeply touching and filled with such raw, human emotion, passion and desire, I still find myself reflecting on it, days after I've read it. I found myself rooting for Mary and Jesse from the beginning and still cheering for them in the end. Fantastic!
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Summary: This book will be reissued in March 2002
Review: This book had it all. It was touching, sensitive, funny, erotic - really pulled at your heartstrings. It evoked all kinds of feelings. Susan Wiggs really gets us into Jesse's head. The book enthralled me from the first page to the last. I didn't want it to end. It showed what mature, real, deep love is all about. I just loved it.
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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: This book had it all. It was touching, sensitive, funny, erotic - really pulled at your heartstrings. It evoked all kinds of feelings. Susan Wiggs really gets us into Jesse's head. The book enthralled me from the first page to the last. I didn't want it to end. It showed what mature, real, deep love is all about. I just loved it.
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