Embrace in Motion [Paperback]

Karin Kallmaker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation . . . or her ruin!

Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/ screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into her bed, then makes all the right promises to convince the usually cautious young attorney to come live with her in San Francisco.

Totally captivated for the first time in her life, Sarah surrenders herself completely. Blinded by the glow of Melissa's white-hot sensuality, is Sarah setting herself up for a total meltdown?

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This, friends, is good reading!" -- Celebrate! -- Judy Lawrence

She takes the most relentlessly heterosexist genre, the romance novel, and turns it on its head. -- Bay Area Reporter --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Publisher

Karin Kallmaker's critically acclaimed novels of love and seduction earned her the title of Undisputed Mistress of Lesbian Romance. She also writes fantasy and science fiction as Laura Adams. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Naiad Pr; 1st edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562801651
• ISBN-13: 978-1562801656
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,148,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Excerpts from all my novels: www.kallmaker.com

At my website you can find my complete bibliography, descriptions, reviews and links to additional content, like podcasts and video.

Recent review from the Lesbian News by Teresa DeCrescenzo: "Warming Trend is... populated with a fine, credible cast of supporting characters... It's a good read, as we've come to expect from Kallmaker. The contrasting settings-Alaska and Florida-and the richly drawn characters make us want to connect with them, especially with Ani and Eve. Even the rather esoteric interest in ice rings true."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Very Romantic!, November 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Embrace in Motion (Paperback)

The last page of this book made me sigh -- I was so moved by the simplicity of their few words and the genuine love portrayed between them. It was refreshing to have the two main characters not tearing each other's clothes off every other page -- something I thought I'd never think! In fact, it was hot sex that got Sarah mistaking lust for Melissa for love and being so hurt she almost misses the real thing Leslie's offering right under her nose. I also liked that these women worked for a living, and their careers mattered to them. These women were the kind I'd like to work with or live next door to.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars

KK most mature book, by far, October 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Embrace in Motion (Paperback)

It's not the usual romance Kallmaker writes, and it's possibly not as intense as the rest in terms of "romance", but this one is the most realistic, day-to-day, down-to-earth romance she's written in my humble opinion.

I like all her books because, while they can be actual love stories, they talk about that kind of romance you dream of experiencing yourself but never quite do (or do you? hehe..). Instead, this is the kind of story you most likely have lived or can live.

I think this book has pretty good insights to social issues, politics, that make our lives extremelly complicated, when our lives could be very simple if we just followed our hearts a bit more often.

Read it, and kiss goodbye to "political correctness".

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From steamy to sublime, March 15, 2001

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Lesbian Reader (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Embrace in Motion (Paperback)

In my highly enjoyable journey through Karin Kallmaker's novels, I find myself surprised by each one. Just when I think I know what to expect from her work, Kallmaker takes me some place else.

In a romance novel I expect the sex to be great. Sometimes, however, the emphasis on fabulous sex disappoints me -- at least intellectually -- because it takes so much more for a relationship to survive. Some writers expect me to believe that there's a happy-ever-after between two women who don't even like each other much, or haven't stayed out of bed long enough to know the basics about each other.

That's never a problem with a Kallmaker novel and in Embrace in Motion she brings the message home with understated poignance. Sarah and Leslie find friendship based on their respect for each other and their differences, and sex isn't the be-all and end-all of the life they are beginning together.

I was touched to tears by the final pages. More vividly than with any erotic scene of hers I've read so far, Kallmaker had me longing to be one of her characters, just holding hands with the woman I loved, looking forward together into a future that promises every dream fulfilled.