Customer Reviews

Bed of Roses

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This was my first Katherine Stone book and it will be my last. These are my reasons: Some readers praise her "beautiful" writing, but the attempts at lyricism are overdone and painful. Bed of Roses contains enough misunderstandings, failed communication, and implausible coincidences, and plot twists to fill five books. And finally, Stone has to spend a lot of time with her characters giving exposition in order to get through character motivation and background, and the result is a painful read. I hate talking about a writer like this, but sometimes the truth must be told. This book is atrocious, and I think she must be able to do better. Don't waste your time.

I like a lengthy story, but KS's are only lengthy because of too many repetitive lines; she writes practically the same sentences throughout most of her books. That is a little annoying. That said, I thought Chase was perfect, Cassandra was lovely, and the story line held my interest. However, I could have done without the blatant description of Cassandra's wounds, Dr. Stone.
This is a book well worth reading. KS is one of the few authors whose work captures the reader on page one.

Katherine Stone pens a poignant story of love found and lost, then found once again. Real life situations and characters that feel like close friends. Both the main and secondary romances touched me on a personal level. Katherine Stone is an author with a gift for drama. I recommend her books for anyone who loves a heart felt love story.

This book was awful. I became aware of this fact when I got about 100 pages into the book and I decided to finish it totally out of obligation and not enjoyment.

What a mess! Not only was the book, easily, 150 pages too long, K.S drove me crazy with the constant repetition of the same details and lack of ability to subtly drop hints as to what was really motivating the characters. Talented romance writers weave a succinct plot that, after the book is finished, the reader can go back and understand and appreciate why certain events happened. Not in this book. Right up to the final pages the plot continued to be weak and murky and pathetic. Those same words can be used to describe every single character who were all so annoying and one-dimensional that it made the book...painful...to read.

One good thing came from reading this book; I realized anyone with a thimble-full of writing ability and a lot of time on their hands can write a romance novel worth publishing.

Come on Ms. Stone, stretching your imagination doesn't hurt that much. You should try it sometime.

I liked this book. The author has a different writing style, the story goes forward and backward in time alot which became a little tiresome but overall I enjoyed the characters and the plot held my interest. The ending was a surprise which is always good in a romance/suspense type novel. I would recommend it only to someone who loves a romance novel.

Someone attacked, with the intent of killing, Academy Award winning actress Cassandra Winter. The victim is rushed to Westwood Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles where she is barely holding on to life. Though she left him eight years without a word of warning, upon hearing the news, Chase Tessier immediately leaves his Napa Valley winery and heads to LA. The only thing that keeps Cass alive is Chase's pleading for her to come back to him.

When Cass regains consciousness, she remembers nothing about the brutal assault. Chase convinces her to return to his home so that she can recover in safety. Chase and Cass quickly realize that they still love each other, but both have ghosts to overcome before a lasting relationship could again form. Additionally, her assailant knows that he failed to complete the job, leaving Cass and Chase to wonder and worry when he will come back to correct his error.

BED OF ROSES is a contemporary romance filled with dark secrets and revenge competing against true love. Cass is an intrepid heroine, but it is Chase, who wins our hearts when he refuses to allow Cass's seeming betrayal stop him from protecting his beloved. Katherine Stone uses elements from romantic suspense to spice up her poignant second chance at love novel.

Harriet Klausner

I love her books, and Bed of Roses is another flower in her beautiful bouquet. I'm very happy she's out there doing what she does. Especially since I enjoy giving her books as gifts to my sisters and mother.

I listened to this on tape. The reader was very annoying, as was the way it was written, had to be written, his grey eyes...It was a soap opera on paper. Who knew you could, had to.. actually write things down the way the melodramatic soap stars have always spoken- in italics. The only thing that kept me going was to see how the story would resolve and now I feel like a sap for even waiting for that. Not for intelligent readers. I embarrass myself admitting I listened till the end.

Bed of Roses was terrific!!!Katherine Stone does it again, a novel of emotion and style. I loved it.

Ms. (Dr.?) Stone's writing is intelligent, but the first portion of her book followed the romance recipe of mystery + loss + misunderstandings so much that I found it excruciatingly painful. But I hung in there and the undeveloped characters finally became people I cared about and by the end of the novel I wished the book would not end. I hope in her future books she gives us a little more character details in the beginning so that we can care about the people enough to keep reading.