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by Kristie Leigh Maguire
ISBN: 1932993126
Paperback: 160 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Gently read copy in like new condition. No reading/ shelf wear.
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This in eBook Format Will Melt Your Screen!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-01-31
Another great romance novel by Kristie!
The adventures of Marcie Treyhourne. This gal just has a way of finding excitement, erotic adventures with a splash of romance, along with a little trouble along the way. Kristie makes the characters come to life. If things got any hotter while I was reading the eBook, my laptop would have melted.
If you love romance with an erotic flair to it, you need to read Cabin Fever along with Desert Heat. Although it may be snowing outside at your house this winter, you'll be burning up after these novels.
Thanks Kristie for another exciting read!
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Fairly scorches the pages
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-11-02
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Marcie Treyhorne, heroine of DESERT HEAT, has been through many moves during her long marriage to Steve, whose job requires that. Always before she's adjusted and coped. But this is the first time she's left a lover behind, and it's almost more than she can handle.
Steve knows all about Jim, Marcie's lover, because admitting him as a third party in their open marriage was Steve's idea. Marcie's sadness as she tries to settle in at their new home in the mountains, though, goes beyond anything Steve expected. How can he help her get over missing Jim?
Once again the Treyhornes' bedroom action fairly scorches the pages, but this time we readers are in for more than a tale of unconventional romance. As we pass through a turning point in Marcie's life with her, the questions she asks herself seem eerily familiar.
Enjoyable resolution to what really does turn out to be the second half of a two-part tale.
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Enjoyable resolution to Marcie Treyhorne's story
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-11-01
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Marcie Treyhorne, heroine of DESERT HEAT, has been through many moves during her long marriage to Steve, whose job requires that. Always before she's adjusted and coped. But this is the first time she's left a lover behind, and it's almost more than she can handle.
Steve knows all about Jim, Marcie's lover, because admitting him as a third party in their open marriage was Steve's idea. Marcie's sadness as she tries to settle in at their new home in the mountains, though, goes beyond anything Steve expected. How can he help her get over missing Jim?
Once again the Treyhornes' bedroom action fairly scorches the pages, but this time we readers are in for more than a tale of unconventional romance. As we pass through a turning point in Marcie's life with her, the questions she asks herself seem eerily familiar.
Enjoyable resolution to what really does turn out to be the second half of a two-part tale.
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Snowbound escapades in the mountains
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-29
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
We first met Marcie Treyhorne in "Desert Heat", a woman who knew what she wanted and had no qualms about going after it. Happy in her marriage with Steve she is surprised at the sudden attraction she feels for her new boss, Jim and soon the two of them have invited Jim to share their lives and their bed.
But now Steve's job takes them away from the desert and into the Nevada mountains, leaving Jim behind. Marcie is so depressed, wondering how she'll ever get over the separation for it was no secret to Steve that she'd fallen in love with Jim and fallen badly.
And then Steve starts eyeing their pretty new neighbour...
This is a very fast paced book with lots of tangled love lives, dealing with jealousy, love and sex. Steve and Marcie are proud of the fact that they have an "open marriage" but is it all it's cracked up to be? Are they just setting themselves up for heartache?
It is definitely an adult book, no closed bedroom doors here, but the love scenes are tastefully done and by the end of the book you wonder what Marcie and Steve's next amorous adventure is going to be.
I must admit I did prefer the first book in the series, maybe because there was a lot more build-up before Marcie and Jim finally got together, but this second one is a good continuation of Marcie's story and fans of the first will surely like this one too.
Reviewed by Annette Gisby, author of Shadows of the Rose and Silent Screams
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Hotter than a blazing fire!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-13
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Kristie Leigh Maguire left you panting for breath in Steve and Marcie Treyhorne's first book, Desert Heat. Now, in Cabin Fever, their story sizzles in front of the fireplace in the mountains, as they find a new "resource" for their lovemaking! And the ending is a twist that will hit you like a runaway train! You won't want to miss this one!
---Janet Elaine Smith, author of best-selling Dunnottar and the all-new Pampas
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by Kay Hooper
ISBN: 1597220957
Hardcover: 357 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Light reading wear, light shelf wear. EX LIBRARY copy in a very good condition. Usual library marks present.
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I loved this book
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-04-22
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved this book, the storyline was great, I love the way some writers can get you to feel the emotion written on the page, not all writers can do that. For me the story worked.
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Silly
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-02-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the first Kay Hooper book for me. I didn't know quite know what to expect, but I didn't expect downright silly. A gorgeous young woman with a magnificent figure and a handsome young man with a hairy chest, bitter rivals, are after the same ancient chalice in Colombia. They have competed for other ancient artifacts all over the world, we learn, and while they don't trust each other for a second, they are drawn together by lustful urges. Oh my, yes.
That's the nub of it. He gets captured by a group of bandits, led by a beautiful seductress bent upon raping him and is saved just in time. They meet another competitor in the jungle, just like that. And on and on. It's all downright silly, the adventure, the quest, the lust, the romance, if that's what you call it. I liked the Indiana Jones movie series, and there are elements of that here. But Indiana Jones was campy fun, and I suspect the author wants the reader to take this book seriously. I couldn't.
There's plenty of lust and tasting and all that sort of thing. But there is nothing here that should convince the reader of reality, of possibility, of honesty. Maybe I'll try another Hooper book to see if it gets any better. It couldn't get much sillier.
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Great read
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-28
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Im always surprised this book and the Haviland Touch arent mention more often. They were both great reads, very entertaining. Light but the characters were fun and their personalities were well sussed out. I would tell anyone who likes Kay Hoopers novels to get this book
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Another Great Book From Kay Hooper!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-03-06
30 out of 41 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've read a number of Kay Hooper's books, and this one is just as great as every other one I've read. It's got the same elements are the other works that I loved, the romance, the suspense, the action, et cetera. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I read the whole book in less than 8 hours. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who has ever read anything else that Kay Hooper has written!
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by Jill Shalvis
ISBN: 0758211376
Paperback: 256 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No shelf wear, no publisher marks.
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Steamy yet comical murder mystery
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-07-30
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Being jilted at the altar doesn't mean you can't go on a honeymoon, right? Breanne travels to the mountains in a snow storm no less to cash in on the honeymoon her fiancé booked with hopes of making him spend more, only to discover a surly but sexy man is already taking up residence in her honeymoon suite. The last thing burnt out cop Cooper needs is a high-maintenance, vibrator-wielding woman making demands. They reluctantly share accommodations while fighting an attraction to each other. When one of the staff is found dead, the two are tossed into a murder mystery with a motley hotel staff and AWOL hotel manager in the middle of nowhere without power or a way to contact authorities in an apparently haunted house.
Shalvis hit a home run with her story of murder and romance in the mountains which is actually quite funny. The bantering between Breanne and Cooper keeps the story moving at a brisk pace and the murder investigation will remind readers of silly movies like "Clue." And like any good Shalvis novel, the romance just sizzles right off the pages.
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It was ok...
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-04-17
This book wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. I found the story entertaining enough but still fairly boring and contrived. I wouldn't recommend buying...
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Great Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-05
Jill Shalvis books are great. They catch you on the first page and you can not put them down. I love all of her books.
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Romance/Murder Mystery
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-01-17
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
When I got this book I could not remember the genre - was it about ghosts, was it about heated romance or was it modern day romantic/mystery novel. It was so much more - Breanne's groom never shows for her wedding and Dean is needing some R&R from his police work. They end up in sharing a Honeymoon mansion in the mountains in the middle of the worst snow storm in history. All the staff are bizarre , the night go out and then things get very interesting. This book was good - a must share with my sister... Enjoy!
Unforgettable by Julie Ortolon, Nauti Nights by Lora Leigh,Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake by Laurie Brown and Falling For Gracie by Susan Mallery.
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Originally Posted on Romance Junkies in 2005
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-14
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Take the heat and sizzle from an episode of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, mix it in with the mystery from MURDER, SHE WROTE, then stir it together with a dash of the exotic from SIX FEET UNDER and what you have is Jill Shalvis's romantic-mystery-comedy, GET A CLUE. The current installment in the "Wicked" Women Whodunit series, this book is sure to make you laugh, pant, and cheer-all at the same time.
Breanne Mooreland is having a really bad day. Left standing at the altar, she decides there's only one way to get over the embarrassment of being jilted-go on her honeymoon and rack up as many expensive charges as she can on Dean "the lying rat monkey's" credit card. But the day that started out bad is about to get a lot worse, when she's forced to endure the airplane flight from hell, loses her luggage somewhere over Timbuktu, and arrives at the mountain lodge only to be snowed in by the mother of all blizzards. Then, finally entering her expensive and all-ready-paid- for-by-Dean-and-filled-with-erotic-gift-baskets honeymoon suite, she finds a naked man standing in the shower. Her shower. A man who, for all intents and purposes, has absolutely no intention of vacating the suite-with or without Breanne's permission, and whether or not she decides to stay in the suite with him.
Now the phone is dead, the electricity is out, there's only the one house for the two of them, and there's a dead body in the attic. There's also a man who looks like a member of a motorcycle gang claiming to be the butler, a missing manager, a sexy maid, and a handful of other nefarious characters running around the house-and no one seems to know what to do or how to do it.
Now naked guy, aka San Francisco Detective Cooper Scott, is feeling desperate. Not only is he unbelievably attracted to Breanne, his houseguest, but now there's a dead body to attend to, a missing manager to find, and suspects to question. Breanne's honeymoon-all ready minus the groom-isn't shaping up to be much of a vacation, and Cooper's determined to keep her safe. And it doesn't have anything to do with the pink vibrator in their suite-really.
Jill Shalvis has penned another winner, an exciting mix of action-adventure, police procedural, wickedly funny whodunit, and steamy romance. You can't go wrong picking up a copy of GET A CLUE-but don't blame me if you're disappointed when the story is over.
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by Sabrina Jeffries
ISBN: 1597220264
Hardcover: 511 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Book in good condition with minimal reading wear. EX LIBRARY copy. Library markings present but no further markings or imperfections.
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A fair balance of steamy romance, moral dilemmas, and witty banter
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-08-27
I discovered Jeffries with the School for Heiresses Series; feeling a little lost reading the 2nd book of the Heiress Series to learn that the Royal Brotherhood Series ties into it. Three illegitimate sons of the Prince of Wales meet and decide to aid one another by pooling their resources - their royal father has never aided them in their lives. This story revolves around one of the brothers, Alexander Black, the new Lord Iversley. He has been left with a sprawling, penniless estate and is now in search of a wealthy heiress to marry to save it, and he, from ruin. Directed by his half-brother Gavin Bryne, he begins his pursuit of Katherine Merivale, a unique red-haired & bold beauty who has a rather large dowry courtesy of her late grandfather. The secondary characters are quite entertaining - Katherine's mama's boy childhood "sweetheart" Sydney the poet, and her meddling, pretentious mother. I found the story drags a bit during Alec's & Katherine's "courting", but gets back into the swing without boring. The chapter where Katherine drags Alec to a poetry reading was hilarious. And the chapter when Alec and Kat partake in a daring stage show was unique and entertaining! While the story did have many serious moments too, it kept it at a fair balance of steamy romance, moral dilemmas, and witty banter. A recommended read!
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It could have been better for me.
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-07-31
I loved the other books in this trilogy. I was excited to read this one, but was a little disappointed.
I just couldn't get into the book. I could not find myself interested in either of the characters or their plight or anything.
The little tidbit of Sydney was sort of a side-story that didn't really add or detract from the story, but was just..there.
I am going to say read the other 2 stories in this trilogy, they are much better (in my opinion) then this one.
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Middling performance from a talented author
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-07-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I got the whole Royal Brotherhood series after having read two of the School for Heiresses series by Ms. Jeffries, because I really enjoyed those two books: Never Seduce a Scoundrel (The School for Heiresses) and Beware a Scot's Revenge (School for Heiresses). I am reluctant to admit that the Royal Brotherhood series pales in comparison to the wonderful writing in the School for Heiresses series. What had really drawn me to Ms. Jeffries' writing is her gift for characterization and humor as exhibited in the Heiress books -- even though, when examined in a cold and objective light, those two books were written around elements as old and worn as the romance genre itself, her characters always felt organic, real, and unique, the narrative and prose flowed smoothly, helped along with a generous dose of wit. Sadly, though the books of the Royal Brotherhood have the same smooth prose and unique characters as the other books, they lacked the wit and humor.
In the grand spectrum of romance novels, the Royal Brotherhood books surely still belong in the top echelons, because they are truly well-crafted stories. Some of the plot or romantic developments didn't feel quite as natural as they did in the Heiress books, but they were still credible and did not feel completely contrived. Ms. Jeffries also injects little unorthodox elements into some of the stories here. For example, this book features a man coming to terms with his homosexuality, and the heroine of Book 2, To Pleasure a Prince (Royal Brotherhood), struggles with dyslexia.
While I would probably recommend reading this series to get the full background stories of characters that appear in the School for Heiresses series (particularly To Pleasure a Prince (Royal Brotherhood), which provides extensive background setting for Only a Duke Will Do (The School for Heiresses)), I would not recommend readers new to Ms. Jeffries to start with this series, as I feel that the School for Heiresses books are a much better display of skill from the talented Ms. Jeffries.
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read the entire series
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-05-14
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Royal Brotherhood Series (RBS)
In the Prince's Bed #1
To Pleasure a Prince #2
One Night with a Prince #3
Read the RBS first because it is loosely tied to School for Heiresses Series (SHS).
Never Seduce a Scoundrel #1
Only a Duke Will Do #2 (Louisa North, Lord Marcus North's sister & Simon, Regina's stupid brother)
The School for Heiresses #3 (anthology, Story #1- Colin Hunt, Duke of Foxmoor's cousin)
Beware of a Scot's Revenge #4 (Lady Venetia Campbell mentioned in one of the RBS)
Jefferies is a high-quality writer that keeps my interest throughout the book and gives me that feeling of wanting to read the next in the series without waiting. I dig that. So far, I have not been disappointed. They are Regency style romances and I like to mix them in with the other genres. And if you're going to read Regency you should totally read Jefferies'.
It's all very relaxing and comfortable. It has romance as well as being appropriately steamy. It is escapism at its best in my opinion. These books are the sort that gives you a nice ahhhhh feeling when you're finished. I can't think of one bad thing to say.
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Great...
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-04-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I love the character Alec he is great and funny. I thought that this book was funny yet it was also a tear jerker. I loved everything about this book and it was so hard for me to put it down and do the things that I had to do. But even when I wasn't reading it and doing whatever I still noticed that my thoughts kept going back to that book. And then I would smile because it is just a great book. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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by Joy Fielding
ISBN: 3442133602
Paperback: 813 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Book in good condition with minimal reading wear. EX LIBRARY copy. Library markings present but no further markings or imperfections.
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by Carly Phillips
ISBN: 1587246139
Hardcover: 238 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. LARGE PRINT. Light reading wear, light shelf wear. EX LIBRARY copy in a very good condition. Usual library marks present.
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Disappointing...
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-01-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
After having read both Kayla's and Grace's stories, I thought I needed to read Logan & Catherine's. Big disappointment. On the whole, I loved the idea, just not the follow-through. The entire novel was an explanation of the reasons and feelings as to why they took a certain action. If you enjoy being a therapist and listening in, then you will probably enjoy this. Personally, I wanted to see more interaction and less explanation of the same thing over and over again (or so it seemed to me). What I liked most was getting to read more about Kayla and Kane and their relationship, which sadly wasn't what the novel's purpose was.
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Simply Scandalous, Simple Romance
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-02-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I enjoyed "Simply Scandalous", just because I like romance books. The love scenes were hot, but not on fire. The storyline was interesting, but very fast. Although the main characters, Logan Montgomery and Catherine Luck, were both intensely attracted to one another, I felt that their love story just shot off (excuse the pun) with out warning. This book probably would fit more into Harlequin Romance Present line of books.
If you're like me and just like to read romance novels, you will probably enjoy this one too. Just do not expect anything special from this book. The storyline follows the general formula of romance novels: the very attractive rich hero and the beautiful, decent heroine who after some semblance of resistance, falls in love. Although I must say there is a bit of a difference to the hero (Logan Montgomery) and how he deals with his family's wealth. I can't say more, or else I will spoil the story for those who are interested in reading this book.
I normally enjoy Carly Phillips novels and did like reading this book. And I must give credit to Carly Phillips as an author, because she writes novels for people like me to enjoy. Writing is a great talent in itself, but I cannot give this book, "Simply Scandalous" more than 3 stars. It is what it is - A simple romance story.
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Second in the "Simply" series
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-08-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Boston attorney Logan Montgomery never wanted to run for office - his father just assumed he would follow in his footsteps. Rejecting getting ahead due to his family's money, he prefers to be a public defender and living a clutter free life. In order to derail his political career, he needs to ruin his pristine reputation quickly. And what better way than to romance a woman from the wrong side of the tracks in a very public forum... His grandmother meanwhile is trying to make sure her grandchildren are settled before she passes on (a tiresome plot device used in Phillips' "Heartbreaker" series as well).
Catherine "Cat" Luck is a caterer trying to live down her family's colorful reputation which includes prostitution and mob ties. When she meets Logan at his dad's party, she is drawn to him, but feels that they are too far from each other socially to make a go at a relationship. But Logan is not taking no for an answer. But somewhere along the way while trying to derail his bid for office, he falls for the plucky gal, though she still can't be sure of his motivations.
"Scandalous" is a good follow-up to "Sinful," but lacks the humor of the first. The next in the series, "Simply Sensual" features Logan's sister Grace.
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A sweet love story
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-11-21
'Simply Scandalous' by Carly Phillips is a nice afternoon read. This novel tells the story of Catherine Luck who runs a catering business and wealthy Logan Montgomery. The story is charming with believable characters.
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Just simply have to read it!!!
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-05-21
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is just simply one of those books you just have to pick up. Especially is you are into romance novels. You can't get enough of girl meets boy, girl falls in love with boy! I sure know that I love reading about women getting swept off their feet. If that is your case, then this is the book for you. This book is about the ever so desirable man named Logan, who is a respectable lawyer. And the girl next door, Catherine. Who was brought up in not such an upperclass living style. She is a caterer for one of Logan's dad's parties, which is where Logan first lays eyes on her. He and she get to talking and he won't take no for an answer. Eventually they make it back to his house, and I don't think I need to say much more ( If you know what I mean). They go through a roller coaster of obstacles, in which Cat can't make up her mind if this is the guy for her (because they come from two different backgrounds). But Logan steps up and becomes a man and tells his dad whos who. Does Cat see it Logans way and think they are destined to be together or does she go with her gut feeling that this is just wrong? To find out you just have to pick up this book, I loved it and I know you will to!!!
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by Katherine Mosby
ISBN: 1597221139
Hardcover: 351 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. LARGE PRINT. Light reading wear, light shelf wear. EX LIBRARY copy in a very good condition. Usual library marks present.
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Twilight Zone would be more interesting
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-01-02
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was so disappointed in this book. It was basically about an American woman who has an affair with a married Frenchman. There was not enough material to fill more than a novella, so the author added Part One, which has nothing to do with the real story, introducing all sorts of irrelevant characters that we never hear about after the page on which they are mentioned, and the main character's awful family, which has nothing to do with Part Two. Before Lavinia meets Gaston, she goes through a few other affairs that don't do much more than allow her to lose her virginity. It's not that the author can't write--she just doesnt. Her description can be beautiful, but plot and characters are sacrificed to it, and by itself it's not enough to fill the book. She does almost nothing with the WWII setting, glossing over major world events in two pages, and the ending is most improbable. Finally, I just didn't like the characters. It's hard to care about someone you dislike, unless it's the "person you love to hate" in a story. I have no desire to read another of Mosby's books.
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Glazing Over at Twilight
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-10-07
5 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Twilight is the third book in the author's chronicle of the unhappy loves of the indolent Gibbs family. While they are the sorts Fitzgerald, and certainly the Gibbs' themselves, would have viewed as American royalty, to the modern reader they are little more than the vacuous rich.
Set in Paris in the late thirties, the book is an account of the passionate affair between Lavenia Gibbs and her married lover Gaston. While elegantly written, the story is, in the end, contrived and unsatisfying. As members of the haute bourgeoisie, the basis for Lavenia and Gaston's ardent enchantment is never clear. Both have previously found lovers from similar backgrounds unsatisfying, in Gaston's case his wife, in Lavenia's the fiancé she fled. Perhaps if Gaston had overcome a more hard scrabbled background their class conflicts could have added some needed emotional frisson.
Mosby's affection for Lavenia causes her to gloss over Lavenia's obvious self-absorption and overdeveloped sense of entitlement. This is a woman who convinces herself of her independence while living off Daddy's allowance. For her, the hell fires of world war are inconvenient background to the self-important drama of her rather frivolous life. As a result, Lavenia's transformation at the books end into a selfless nursemaid is beyond all credulity.
There are two particularly revelatory moments into Lavenia's true character. Lavenia's concierge tells Lavenia "You can betray someone and still love them," and that her husband had betrayed his own brother to the police and, racked with remorse, killed himself. Yet Lavenia the upper class betrayer cloaks her treachery and threats of betrayal by calling it honesty.
As the Nazi's close in on Paris, Gaston reveals that he is in mortal danger and must flee. Lavenia's reaction is self-pity, lamenting, "never feeling more alone." Gaston's life is threatened but Lavenia's focus is her view that she is being abandoned.
Mosby lacks the courage to make Lavenia real; to give vent to Lavenia's anger that Gaston has made her a part of a secret triangle by not summarily abandoning his wife. As a result she opts for Lavenia's canonization as nursemaid to Gaston's ailing wife. Lavenia's satisfaction that she is not a "wolf" like the rest of her family would have been more dramatically and realistically challenged were she, after making love to Gaston the day before he is to cross the border with his life in peril, to have sent a messenger to Gaston's wife with a packet of Gaston's love letters. Too fantastic perhaps, could Lavenia, could anyone, be as rabid a she-wolf as that? Between nursemaid and perfidious she-wolf, her whole history makes clear which is the more likely choice.
Mosby begins this book with a quote from Jean Paul Sartre. Yet to date, Mosby's characters have failed to have any engagement with history and the world as Sartre urged. Let's hope in her next book her characters are engaged in more than their own small reflections.
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Another wonder novel by Katherine Mosby
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-08-14
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
TWILIGHT by Katherine Mosby
August 13, 2005
Rating: *** ½
After having read THE SEASON OF LILIAN DAWES, I was given the opportunity to read the "sequel", TWILIGHT. I couldn't resist, because I had loved SEASON so much. In TWILIGHT, Lavinia Gibbs' story is told, from her early years in America until she is forced to leave the country, after embarrassing her family because of a failed engagement.
It is the turn of the century and Lavinia is born into an upper class family of wealth and prominence. Unfortunately, Lavinia tries to be as conventional as is expected of her, but she fails. When she breaks off an engagement that was difficult to attain to begin with, her parents are very upset and to save face, they send her off to Paris with a monthly severance to allow her a comfortable living.
She is now in her 30's and she slowly adapts to her new world in Paris. She makes friends among the English speaking set, and eventually finds a job assisting a married French man who is trying to sell off an apartment that belongs to his wife. She finds she is attracted to Gaston, but keeps this to herself, as he is unavailable. But eventually, she finds herself in an affair to remember, and Gaston becomes the great love of her life.
The attraction for me with TWILIGHT is not the actual story, but the way Mosby writes. There are some authors that can write anything, and I will gladly read it. TWILIGHT's story is slow to come about, and just like THE SEASON OF LILIAN DAWES, TWILIGHT's charm is the detail to the writing and to the actions and thoughts of the characters, mainly Lavinia. Even the affair with Gaston doesn't happen until half way through the book.
With that said, I didn't like TWILIGHT as much as I enjoyed the previous novel, but both were worth reading. These two books are related, but the order in which they are read is not important. What is important is that both books seem to contain women that are highly unconventional, living in the early 1900's, women that do not care what society says, and have a need to live as freely as they feel will make them happy. The ending to TWILIGHT was somewhat ambiguous, and it almost seems as if the author set that up intentionally, to lead us to yet a third book. I personally would love to read yet another book containing the characters that populate both these novels. Mosby is a talented writer and I hope to continue to see her books published.
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Twilight
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-07-17
4 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
An amazing novel that I fell in love with--Words could not do justice to this lovely book!!! I don't know if I can enjoy any other book after this one!!! Spectacular!!!!!!
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90% was enthralling, 10% was poop
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-07-01
3 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked up this book as a quick summer read which would take up time at the office while i wasnt answering phones or filing. In my summer reading list it was prededed by a 400 page novel about literature and next I'm planning on conquering a 300 pager on facism and Hitler. So why not a fun tasteful romance in the interim? I loved Twilight and Laverine and her sister Grace reminded me so much of me and my own sister (minus the decade thing). Her independence and self-righteous behavior was inspiring and her story that takes you from the busy streets of a New England town to bustling Paris is enthralling every step of the way. It was a bit annoying that you don't meet her main love interest, Gaston, until the second part of the novel, or how long it takes for them to get together and then their relationship seems so rushed and hurried (maybe thats what Mosby was trying to convey, how an affair always leaves one craving time and no matter how many hours theyre together, the seconds still seem so rushed?) and even more so, the ending annoyed me to no end. All along we follow Lavinia as she grows from an awkward child to a strong woman and then we are throwin into this love affair (which is done quite tastefully may I add) only for it to be stopped short with no real resolution of any sort. (It was a very Ethan Frome ending, a short story who's story i loved and ending i detested as well). Overall I recommend this book, beyond its few shortcomings. If one is looking for a historical romance which is tasteful, but still captivating, I thoroughly recommend Katherine Mosby's Twilight :)
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