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Summary: Historical, full of suspense, humor! and romance
Review: A good read. This is my third Susan Wiggs book. Pippa, Aidan, Iago and Donal Og, what a delightful bunch they were in the telling of their adventures through England to Ireland and beyond. It was so easy to visualize their experiences. This book made me both laugh and cry. Because of the storm of emotions among the key players in Aidan and Pippa's final fate, I expected a different ending. I was surprised. One suggestion. A glossary of the Gaelic terms would have been nice.
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Summary: Thank You Susan!
Review: Thanks so much for bringing such a delightful end to this series, I thought I may not have the bond with Pippa like I did Oliver, but was I ever wrong! I so thoroughly enjoyed this story and Pippa what a little spit fire! Aidan... what a man! As I sat crying at the end, when Aidan is saying good bye... I was so heartbroken I thought I could never read another S.W. book, but then the wonderful surprise! Thank you for not letting us down!
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Summary: Unengaging!
Review: This is my third novel by the authoress, Susan Wiggs. I chose Dancing on Air, in hopes that, just maybe, I was wrong about her writing, that, just maybe, this would alter my initial opinion of her. Unfortunately, I still despair with each sentence, still grimace at the suffocatingly slow plot development. One typically reads romance novels for the tension, and, as most know, sexual tension is the most frought with emotion and peril. I feel no tension between Pippa and Aidain (at least no "believable" tension). Furthermore, I feel unmoved by Pippa's "Poor Girl with a Cockney Accent" plight and am also annoyed with Aidan's national pride. The problem with these two elements is in their presentation: it's blunt, forcing the reader to say, "yeah, i guess he really DOES love Ireland", and that Pippa IS a poor girl with a cockney accent. There is no subtlety with Wiggs, no assurance that her audience will understand clever inferences. Instead, she takes a battering ram with tautological thoroughness to her readers heads. I've never enjoyed having great fat arrows point to a character's motivation unecessarily, never liked having their depth "explained" to me. The story too, feels formulated. It treads heavily trodden ground with nothing stark or startling to make it poignant. Try a different Wiggs novel, this one isn't on the level.
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Summary: Unengaging!
Review: This is my third novel by the authoress, Susan Wiggs. I chose Dancing on Air, in hopes that, just maybe, I was wrong about her writing, that, just maybe, this would alter my initial opinion of her. Unfortunately, I still despair with each sentence, still grimace at the suffocatingly slow plot development. One typically reads romance novels for the tension, and, as most know, sexual tension is the most frought with emotion and peril. I feel no tension between Pippa and Aidain (at least no "believable" tension). Furthermore, I feel unmoved by Pippa's "Poor Girl with a Cockney Accent" plight and am also annoyed with Aidan's national pride. The problem with these two elements is in their presentation: it's blunt, forcing the reader to say, "yeah, i guess he really DOES love Ireland", and that Pippa IS a poor girl with a cockney accent. There is no subtlety with Wiggs, no assurance that her audience will understand clever inferences. Instead, she takes a battering ram with tautological thoroughness to her readers heads. I've never enjoyed having great fat arrows point to a character's motivation unecessarily, never liked having their depth "explained" to me. The story too, feels formulated. It treads heavily trodden ground with nothing stark or startling to make it poignant. Try a different Wiggs novel, this one isn't on the level.
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Summary: A poignantly heart-wrenching love story worth reading.
Review: You will fall in love with Pippa and Aidan. You will laugh and cry with the powerful Irish chieftan who falls for the lost, haunted English street player. You will feel the immediate attraction that they experience and wait anxiously as against the odds they work out a way to be together. The plot will take you to England and then to Ireland as the Irish people are fighting to retain their lands and some semblance of self rule. This story is wonderfully told . You will never forget Pippa and Aidan
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