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Summary: A story filled with sexual tension and true-to-life drama!
Review: "Lost In Your Arms" by Christina Dodd is a compelling romance story loaded with sexual tension and true-to-life drama.The characters are realistic - the plot engaging and moves along nicely - and the dialogue well-written. The chemistry equally felt by lead characters Stephan and Enid, quite touching and heartfelt. Emotions I find to be very appealing in a story of this nature. As Stephen struggles to regain his strength and his memory following an explosion, Enid quickly discovers that someone apparently will do anything to keep him from regaining his memory prior to the explosion that almost cost him his life. "Lost In Your Arms," a story filled with sexual tension, emotion, and true-to-life drama. A romance novel that will draw a large audience of readers. John Savoy
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Summary: Huge Christina Dodd Fan Here!
Review: "Lost in Your Arms" by one of my personal favorite writers Christina Dodd is a romance novel that had me begging for more after I had finished reading the story! It was a delicious story that everyone should read (that is to say if you're into romance novels like I am!)
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Summary: 4 1/2 STARS! Very well done.
Review: A very romantic story with a dangerous, mysterious sub-plot. I enjoyed the heroine's realistic responses to the situations. Good satisfying ending. Interesting characters, not one-dimensional cardboard cut-out's. Kept me interested along the way by the mystery of who was the villain who tried to kill the hero.
I give 5 stars only to perfect books like GONE WITH THE WIND, LONESOME DOVE, THORNBIRDS, or AZTEC by GARY JENNINGS. So 4-stars is very high from me. This was a really good romance and I've been reading a lot lately including Joanna Lindsey, Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Ciji Ware, Mary Jo Putney, and Teresa Medeiros. Kathleen Woodwiss is the only author whose books I've enjoyed more in the last year. I also heartily recommend THE WOLF AND THE DOVE, and THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER.
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Summary: Wonderful read
Review: A wonderful story - one of her best. In fact, this IS my favorite of hers. One of my favorite storylines with a strong heroine and hero. Humorous moments surprised a laugh out of me. Sexual scenes visually powerful, compelling & well-written in more of a modern sense than her earliest fabulous stories. Add it to your keeper shelves.
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Summary: BEWARE: A One-Sitting Read...
Review: After a brief infatuation, Enid MacLean had married at the tender age of seventeen. Her husband, Stephen MacLean, turned out to be impulsive, irresponsible, and unwilling to stay in one place too long. After three months of marriage, he abandoned Enid to fend for herself, and pay off his accumulated debts. Nine years later, Enid now works as a nurse companion for the Distinguished Academy of Governesses. Her world is turned upside down again, when a man named Throckmorton informs her of an explosion abroad, which has severely injured her long-missing husband. Reluctantly, she leaves her current post to do her wifely duty and take care of Stephen. What she sees when she gets there is shocking. This man, barely clinging to life, looks nothing like the husband she remembers, except for the striking color of his eyes. Until her arrival, most everyone felt he had no chance of survival, and had given him up for dead. For reasons Enid cannot fathom, she feels more of a connection to this familiar stranger than she should, and is determined he would not die. His body's injuries gradually heal, but when he wakes, he has no memory of anything, including his wife. As much as they try, neither can deny the overwhelming desire they feel for each other. But the security at this sanctuary is fleeting, when an attempt is made on their lives. So Throckmorton sends them to Stephen's family home in Scotland. A journey Enid dreads, because she will be forced to face the man who despises her, Kiernan MacLean, Stephen's cousin, and laird of the clan. When she married Stephen, Kiernan had accused her of being nothing more than a gold digger, and had disapproved of their union. Now in the wilds of Scotland, shocking secrets will be revealed, and the danger ultimately follows them. Together, they will solve the mystery, set a trap for those responsible, and have the chance to grab onto a once in a lifetime love. This was a compelling story that I actually read several months ago, and have never forgotten. Enid and Stephen were both such likeable characters. Enid was strong, independent, pragmatic, and didn't want to feel anything for the man who hurt and abandoned her years ago. Stephen was warm, caring and passionate. Nothing like the man Enid remembers. To say their love scenes were intensely erotic would be an understatement. The premise of her nursing him back to health from the brink of death is always one I enjoy reading. Unlike most books from this genre, the plot twist in this book is not one you're likely to figure out, or at least I didn't. Plus the intrigue, which was very predominant in this story, was really well done. Ms. Dodd's trademark humor was virtually missing here as I recall, but that isn't a negative in this case. This book is exceptional, and will remain on my keeper shelf along with the rest of this series. It remains a favorite of mine.
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars for the twist, the humor...
Review: and oh! of course...the sizzling passion. i actually squealed like a ninny when the truth was revealed. imagine that...having the best night of your life with someone you thought was...well...someone else.
as is ms dodd's signature writing, you'll be sure to enjoy the witty repartee between the protagonists. and isn't Mclean hot? i simply had to say that.
i adored ms. dodd's handling of this story. somehow that adoration came with relief though, since i was getting a bit worried over her past writings.
the way she depicted Celeste from In My Wildest Dreams was also lovely. it's actually quite a joy to look onto how she and Throckmorton were getting along.
Lost in Your Arms is a wonderful read. however, i still have some reservations over the seemingly quite-hasty way the ending was written. everything just seemed to fast-track that the reunion between the two lovers was actually quite bland. but kudos anyway for what happened in between....
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Summary: Dodd's Best So Far
Review: Christina Dodd has come into her own with "Lost in Your Arms". While some of her earlier works appear at times a little forced, the action and dialog flow well here and are much more natural. The plot moves along quickly, yet takes time to linger over the relationship that builds between Enid and MacLean. The stopover at the deserted cottage perfectly bridges the span between the secluded life of recouperation after the accident and the boisterous life at MacLean castle. The real strength of "Lost in Your Arms" comes in the power plays between the two heroes; Dodd does a great job of allowing each character wield power over the other throughout the book, enabling Enid to nurse incapacitated MacLean and MacLean to open Enid's eyes to the possibility of living happily ever after. Just when one's power over the other gets to the point of being obnoxious, Dodd reverses their roles. Great stuff. I'll definitely look forward to reading more of Dodd's work.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL
Review: Christina Dodd has hit all the right notes with this wonderful story of plucky, self-sufficient Enid, and strong-willed, passionate Kiernan. Nurse Enid, abandoned early in her marriage, is prevailed upon to care for her gravely injured husband Stephen, an amnesia victim who's being pursued by people who want him dead. We get to revisit Garrick Throckmorton and Celeste Milford from In My Wildest Dreams, and there's a handful of secondary characters that help keep the plot twisting and turning to a satisfying end. Saying too much more would spoil the fun. Of all the summer releases, this is the one that kept me eagerly turning pages long after lights-out.
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Summary: Intense and dramatic!
Review: Christina Dodd toned down her trademark humor to bring a story wrenching in its intensity and depth. I really felt for poor MacLean, lost in his own mind without knowing who he was, and for Enid, caught in a situation not of her making and feeling guilt and anger. I related to this couple and their runaway passions. Lost in Your Arms is more like Dodd's earlier works, a sweep you away adventure with great ...
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Summary: You'll Really Like It!
Review: Christina Dodd's latest book, Lost in Your Arms, is what I think of as a Victorian romance--a novel set in England (and in this case Scotland as well) during the reign of Victoria (more specifically, during the period when the Crimean war was about to start). It has humor, suspense, and love; it's well written; it has terrific characters... Some of the secondary characters are made a little hazy by the suspicion which falls on them, but many more are vivid. The love scenes--you could call them sex scenes, but you would not be giving them their due--are very well done. Complicated emotions are involved: desire, well rendered, but also the need for comfort and refuge... The plot plays out very logically from character and situation. In fact, I have only one quarrel with this book... So many new characters are introduced, and need to be integrated into the ongoing action, that the reader slows down to do beginning-of-a-novel work: learning who's who, what the characters are like, what the plot elements will be... The effect is heightened by changes in the main characters; the changes make sense, mostly, but the overall result is that this novel feels like two good books. It may not be a problem for you; I certainly hope not. I suppose there are people who might not enjoy this book, people who want manly thrillers (not enough suspense, not enough testosterone), people who want sexy contemporaries (not contemporary, not very explicit sex), people who want "realistic" novels which start in the middle and end in the middle (not grim enough, not inconclusive enough). If you want to spend time with a quiet smile, enough suspenseful turns to keep your breath a little short, and enough loving to keep your breath a lot shorter, "Lost in Your Arms" is for you...
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