Give Me Tonight [Paperback]

Lisa Kleypas (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 383 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (April 4, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451401239
• ISBN-13: 978-0451401236
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She is a RITA award winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women's fiction. Her novels are published in fourteen different languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington State with her husband Gregory and their two children.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book- Complex and captivating, February 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Give Me Tonight (Paperback)

Give Me Tonight is about a woman named Addie who feels lost after her beloved aunt dies. Grief stricken, she faints but is consequently thrown back to the year 1880. This means she has been transported fifty years back from her time. However, she emerges not as Addie, but as her great -aunt Adeline Warner. Although she is confused and disorientated, she cannot help but feel a strong attraction to her "father's" ranch foreman, Ben Hunter. Though Ben is prejudiced against her because he thinks she is spoiled, he also cannot help but be drawn to the new sensitive and compassionate Adeline. Together, they manage to change their destinies and find the meaning of true love.

The back cover says: Addie was drawn as if by an all powerful magnet to Ben Hunter from the moment she met him. This strong handsome man was different from the other ranch hands on her father's vast Texas spread, as different as Addie was from the meek and mild women around her. Both of them had a secret, a secret they jealously guarded from the world.. a secret they would reveal only when the white heat of their passion burned away all barriers between them..... and they held nothing back from each other in the flaming light of their love.

Overall, this is a very well written and captivating book. It's so engaging that you really can't put it down. It contains just the right amount of suspense, mystery but also romance and tenderness. Highly recommended.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Love That Lasts Through Time. Absolutely Wonderful!!, May 30, 2003

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Jana L. Perskie "ceruleana" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Give Me Tonight (Paperback)

This is an "unputdownable" love story, taut with suspense, filled with passion and romance...and also a unique tale of time-travel. Lisa Kleypas certainly outdoes herself with this novel.

Addie Peck, an orphan, raised by her beloved Aunt Leah, is 20 years old. She is an independent, caring young woman, a hardworking nurse, yet a bit of a flapper in 1930s, Sunrise, Texas. She & her aunt have worked and scrimped very hard to survive in this time of The Great Depression. Now her aunt is dying of cancer. Addie is trying to face a new life, a future alone, in a town where she has never felt she belonged. She has many suitors but has never loved except for her aunt, and, of course the parents she cannot remember. She has a recurring dream of a dark, mysterious stranger who comes to her at night and loves her passionately. She feels that, whoever he is, wherever he is, they belong together - she wants to be with him in reality. She also has a frightening dream of an old man with green eyes who stares at her and whispers, "Adeline. Adeline, where have you been?"

Aunt Leah had often told Addie tales of their family history. She talked about her own grandfather, Addie's great-grandfather, Russell Warner. Warner was a self-made man and owned a large and thriving cattle ranch in Sunrise in the 1880s. He was murdered when Leah was just 10 years old. The murderer had never been caught. The prime suspect was Warner's right-hand man, Ben Hunt, a handsome cowboy, foreman, and a transplanted Harvard man. (a REALLY smart cowboy! :)) He left the ranch after Russell Warner died. Then there was Adeline Warner, Russell's favorite child, and the one most like him...even though she was a daughter. She was beautiful, looked just like Addie, her namesake, but unlike Addie she was spoiled and selfish. She disappeared mysteriously a few months before her father's death, and no one ever heard from her again or discovered any information about her. Caroline, Leah's mother and Adeline's older sister, left Texas with her husband and daughter and resettled in North Carolina. Her mother and brother went with them, always preferring the refinements of the East to the wild Texan ways. And the once grand ranch died. Only Leah returned to Sunrise, Texas, to live out her adult years and raise her niece.

Then, the night before Leah's death, a stranger comes to the small town of Sunrise. He is an old man with remarkable bottle-green eyes. And he can't keep his eyes off of Addie. I won't spoil this extraordinary story for you by telling more. However, if you are a Lisa Kleypas fan, this is one of her best. And if you just like to read good fiction that will totally absorb you, this is it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Kleypas's Best, December 28, 2008

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Melissa (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Give Me Tonight (Paperback)

Formulaic and typical of the late 1980's romances Lisa Kleypas's novel Give Me the Night is nothing like her later novels. It is missing strong characters, a hero's point of view and an empathetic heroine.

Addie's beloved aunt has just passed away and with no other close relatives Addie feels alone. It is 1930 and Addie notices an old man who asks her why she left. Addie has never seen him before but discovers he is Ben Hunt, a man accused of killing her grandfather. Quite suddenly Addie has a terrible headache and wakes up in 1880 in Sunrise, Texas and is living the life of her aunt Adeline, a woman who went missing years earlier and to whom Addie bears a striking resemblance.

Addie fits into the life uncomfortably but begins to accept that she will not be going back. She is the spoiled daughter of her father and she despises Ben, the foreman on her father's ranch. She is ill tempered with him almost instantly. She feels Ben will kill her father/grandfather and she is going to stop him. Now the only proof she has that he did murder him was the info her aunt gave her before she died.

It seems that the real Adeline was a spoiled temperamental brat almost engaged to her neighbor's son. Addie is furious that Ben treats her with disdain and her dander is always up. I guess she forgets that Ben only knows the other Adeline and she just expects him to know right away that she is different. She is not in love at all with the almost fiancé and mostly strings him along. When her father gets involved in a range war with her fiance's family, she adamantly refuses to stop seeing this man. Her stubbornness knows no bounds, earlier she wanted to break it off with her fiance but now that her father wants her to stop seeing him, she fights to to be with a man she does not love.

Ben's point of view is rarely explored and I never felt like I really knew him. I certainly never knew why he liked much less loved Addie. Kleypas has certainly come a long way as a writer. The writing here is not terrible but the characters lack depth and the romance was not passionate, so typical of Kleypas's later novels.