Forbidden Quest (Love Spectrum Romance)

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Summary: A moving and wonderful romance.
Review: All too often, a novel about interracial romance is rife with angst and soul-searching, taking the focus from the romance to the issue. FORBIDDEN QUEST flips that equasion, giving us a great romance about soul-mates who happen to be on opposite sides of class and color lines. I adored Paul Micheal, who has to be one of the most loveable men of any color to grace the pages of a romance. He is tender, intelligent, and absolutely gorgeous. Although I warmed more slowly to Cally, it is her story of growth and I grew to love her, too. The book doesn't avoid the conflicts and problems the love affair creates for both characters, but the focus is on the power of joy and love, and is a true celebration of cross-cultural discovery.

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Summary: Beautiful yet realistic love story
Review: Carolyna Sinclair is a very successful designer, who is thinking about marrying her lover, renowned architect Hugh Wilson Masters even though she does not like the way he treats her like a little girl when they disagree. In spite of his having a pre-teen daughter, Carolyna likes the orderliness that Hugh provides her. Carolyna drives to the Savannah docks to pick up a crate. There she meets humorous Jamaican, Paul Michael Quest in an encounter that will change her life forever.

Paul gives her, with his mellow, jocular, but serious look on life, a happiness she has never known. However, falling in love with someone outside your own race means dealing with the baggage of racism from both races. As Carolyna and Paul struggle to find a lifetime of love and happiness together, they must overcome their own pasts and the bias of their respective communities. Lesser obstacles have destroyed relationships so the probability of this couple, obviously in love with! each other, succeeding, appears remote.

The launch ship of the new Love Spectrum line, FORBIDDEN QUEST, is a great relationship novel that deserves wide readership. The story line of a black-white relationship and the landmines trying to end it are incredibly scribed by Dar Tomlinson, a talented author. Cross-cultural love has never been written in a more poignant, realistic manner than in this book which leaves the message that "erasicm" is the only way to go in a truly multi-cultural society in which the old EEO categories no longer fit for a large segment of a growing and knowledgeable populace. This book is a great sensitive novel by a delightful newcomer, who will be fully welcomed by a myriad of fans.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Complex Relationship
Review: I found this story to be full of a very complex, and intricate relationship. It was not the typical Interracial story. If you are looking for more than the typical, this book is definitely for you.

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Summary: Amazing love story left me feeling satisfied...
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It is well written with an amazing love story. Paul and Cally's love is so strong and pure. They are endlessly attracted to one another, and they truly care about each other's feelings. Their passionate times together made me wish for more of the book to develop their bond, but the writer gives you what you want ultimately...so the book left me feeling satisfied.

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Summary: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE OR REAL LOVE?
Review: In FORBIDDEN QUEST, Carolyna "Callie" Sinclair, a traditional Southern White woman, is expected to get over her divorce from a physically appealing golf pro, and to get on with a proper Southern marriage to up-and-coming architect, Hugh Masters.
Callie's controlling mother, bored with the lackluster in her own marriage, has determined that Callie will marry Hugh, have a huge wedding, and become one-half of a proper Southern power couple. Her mother is so bent on having her way, she's even threating to withhold Callie's inherited trust fund just to make sure Callie complies.
Of course, Callie wants to do the right thing, but she never measures up to Hugh"s expectations, a fact he apparently enjoys ceaselessy voicing.
Then handsome Paul Michael Quest shows up, but he's the opposite of everything that Callie has been raised to believe she needs. He's Black, poor, and foreign. To make matters even worse, he doesn't se the differences between them as being insurmountable. But there's something about him that's precious to Callie, a something that always admires and never criticizes, an ability to enjoy life, one day at a time.
FORBIDDEN QUEST is an extremely well-written book, with traditions, prejudice and doubts at the forefront. In addition to the main characters, the secondary cast is interesting. All of the locations, people and situations are believable. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE OR REAL LOVE?
Review: In FORBIDDEN QUEST, Carolyna "Callie" Sinclair, a traditional Southern White woman, is expected to get over her divorce from a physically appealing golf pro, and to get on with a proper Southern marriage to up-and-coming architect, Hugh Masters.
Callie's controlling mother, bored with the lackluster in her own marriage, has determined that Callie will marry Hugh, have a huge wedding, and become one-half of a proper Southern power couple. Her mother is so bent on having her way, she's even threating to withhold Callie's inherited trust fund just to make sure Callie complies.
Of course, Callie wants to do the right thing, but she never measures up to Hugh"s expectations, a fact he apparently enjoys ceaselessy voicing.
Then handsome Paul Michael Quest shows up, but he's the opposite of everything that Callie has been raised to believe she needs. He's Black, poor, and foreign. To make matters even worse, he doesn't se the differences between them as being insurmountable. But there's something about him that's precious to Callie, a something that always admires and never criticizes, an ability to enjoy life, one day at a time.
FORBIDDEN QUEST is an extremely well-written book, with traditions, prejudice and doubts at the forefront. In addition to the main characters, the secondary cast is interesting. All of the locations, people and situations are believable. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Wow, what a Great Love Story!
Review: The entire romance industry is based upon that special emotion shared between a man and a woman. Love. With love as the guide, our favorite heroes and heroines in these popular novels are able to overcome differences in social status, differences in religion, and any number of adversities. But what if the obstacle in the way of true love is a matter of difference in race? Dar Tomlinson's new book, "Forbidden Quest," is the groundbreaking first release by Love Spectrum, a division of Genesis Press (an up-and-coming new publisher in the romance business). The love interests in the story are a Savannah-born white woman and a Jamaican black man. Setting those facts aside, this is a wonderful, passionate, sensitive love story. Considering those facts, this is a wonderful, passionate, sensitive love story. Cally Sinclair is a woman with a quest. The privileged daughter of a Georgia senator, Cally has everything she wants in the world: a thriving interior design business, nice home, a dependable (though overbearing) fiancé. Why then does she feel vaguely unhappy? It isn't until she meets and employs the mysterious caramel-skinned Paul Michael Quest that Cally begins to realize something is missing in her life. As she is inexplicably drawn to the mysterious Quest, he introduces her to laugher, music, spontaneous joy, and love. His gentle, accepting ways destroy all the barriers she has been taught to maintain between herself and those of his color. True love overcomes all bounds and prejudices. An experienced author with several other books under her belt, Dar Tomlinson felt an overwhelming need to write a love story that accurately reflects the times we live in. She's crafted a wonderful tale, which looks past race and cultural differences and concentrates on the simple, wondrous love between a man and a woman in the unforgettable "Forbidden Quest." Tomlinson's bold endeavor has paid off, as the novel has been met with rave reviews and accolades by the entire industry. Sometimes it takes one bold person to pioneer a path to new horizons. Dar Tomlinson is proving to be one such trailblazer.

Sharon Galligar Chance

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Summary: A wonderful, passionate, sensitive love story.
Review: The entire romance industry is based upon that special emotion shared between a man and a woman. Love. With love as the guide, our favorite heroes and heroines in these popular novels are able to overcome differences in social status, differences in religion, and any number of adversities. But what if the obstacle in the way of true love is a matter of difference in race? Dar Tomlinson's new book, "Forbidden Quest," is the groundbreaking first release by Love Spectrum, a division of Genesis Press (an up-and-coming new publisher in the romance business). The love interests in the story are a Savannah-born white woman and a Jamaican black man. Setting those facts aside, this is a wonderful, passionate, sensitive love story. Considering those facts, this is a wonderful, passionate, sensitive love story. Cally Sinclair is a woman with a quest. The privileged daughter of a Georgia senator, Cally has everything she wants in the world: a thriving interior design business, nice home, a dependable (though overbearing) fiancé. Why then does she feel vaguely unhappy? It isn't until she meets and employs the mysterious caramel-skinned Paul Michael Quest that Cally begins to realize something is missing in her life. As she is inexplicably drawn to the mysterious Quest, he introduces her to laugher, music, spontaneous joy, and love. His gentle, accepting ways destroy all the barriers she has been taught to maintain between herself and those of his color. True love overcomes all bounds and prejudices. An experienced author with several other books under her belt, Dar Tomlinson felt an overwhelming need to write a love story that accurately reflects the times we live in. She's crafted a wonderful tale, which looks past race and cultural differences and concentrates on the simple, wondrous love between a man and a woman in the unforgettable "Forbidden Quest." Tomlinson's bold endeavor has paid off, as the novel has been met with rave reviews and accolades by the entire industry. Sometimes it takes one bold person to pioneer a path to new horizons. Dar Tomlinson is proving to be one such trailblazer.

Sharon Galligar Chance

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Summary: Wow, what a Great Love Story!
Review: The story line and dialogues between Carolyna and Paul are so vivid and realistic. The emotion and thoughts of Carolyna seem to pour out from a person who had gone through such complicate exprience. I am reading Dar's next book, Designer Passion, and I definitely recommend this one also.

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Summary: good buy
Review: The story line was great, I could almost feel the energy and passionate interactions between all the characters as I read. It was a good read.