Customer Reviews

Bel Air (Zebra Books)

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I was very happy to receive this book so quickly. I love to read and Katherine Stone is my favorite author!

A sweet beach read with a far-fetched but lovable plot, impossibly adorable characters and excessive use of italics. I'm really quite torn about this because I should despise this clichéd trope, but I don't. I just lose myself in the story and suspend all disbelief. Seriously the only things that took me out of the reading trance was the aforementioned italics (i.e. Peter:"Is this too late to call?" Allison: "No" /No time is too late, ever.// Peter: "Would you--?" Allison: "Yes" /Yes to anything.// Me: throwing up), as well as the fact that they use each others names in dialogue far, far more often than anyone does in real life. Except possibly rich people in the '80s. I have no way of knowing as I wasn't there. ("Peter, I love you." "Peter, I wouldn't know what to say." "Winter, I am very much in love with Peter."
(Apparently you can't put html tags in these boxes. Imagine / = italics, // = end italics.)

I like a lot of KS's books, but I simply couldn't get interested in this one, even though it's very similiar to some others she's written. None of the characters were exciting. The plots showed promise, but they soon fell flat. (Sorry)

Bel Air is definitely one of Katherine Stone's best. It is one of her older books and takes place in the mid 1980's with all of the lavish opulence one could expect from California Socialites. If you like any of her books, this one you will simply adore.

This is the first book by Katherine Stone I have read. Now, I a lifetime fan. This story follow three women in their journey towards their career goals and love. I love the way the story links the lives of the characters together. How the chance meetings and circumstances changes the lives of the unsuspecting cast. The changes are so subtle that they don't realize what hit them until their deeply in love and can't do a thing about it. This is a wonderful book, that I will read over and over again.