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Gemstone

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This book takes you back and forth to the busy life of the city and the quiet solitude of the country. There are psychological barriers that restrain the relationship between Sara and Jeff that are subtle but present. Sara is certainly a self-made woman and is reluctant to love yet finds her new suiter impossible to resist. You'll have a hard time putting this one down also, this author is so magical, once you read her work you yearn for more of it.

One of my all time favs. Delinsky at her best! A must read for all of her fans!

I have read more than twenty-five Delinsky novels. I choose them for light, easy reading when flying or working out on the treadmill. I like her later works and try to avoid novels she wrote in the 1980's. Unfortunately, I didn't think to look when this book was copyrighted, which turns out to have been 1983. I soon discovered that this novel is one of her early, predictable romance novel with many amateurish sex scenes. The general story is that Sara was a young, midwestern woman who fell in love with a wealthy, successful California man. They married, but she didn't fit in with his family or friends. They divorced. She went on to become a famous jewelry designer on the East Coast. Eight years after the divorce, a couple that they had both been close to dies in an accident. She returns to California for the funeral and runs into her ex. He wants to adopt the young orphaned daughter of their mutual friends. He asks Sara to marry him again, just for a year, so he can convince the authorities that he is qualified to adopt the young girl. She agrees, and you can guess what happens.

I really liked that she was strong but gentle and loving - and that she KNEW (without a lot of waffling) that she loved this man. What frustrated me was that he had to play games and waffle himself to get her to "stay". I really enjoy Delinsky's later books where the love interest has a brain as well as a body, and where the relationship itself is honest, progresses along strongly, and yet still can suprise and delight you at the end. Much as I liked her, he ruined it for me.

I was very pleased with this story, I'm always wishing for follow up books with these good stories.

Normailly I love Barbara Delinsky's books. However, this one seemed trite. Amazing Grace and Three Wishes were awesome books.