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Lovers and Dreamers 3-in-1

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This is a re-release of the "Dream" series: Finding the Dream, Holding the Dream and Daring to Dream. Three women raised as sisters find love and old Spanish treasure on the coast of Monterey. Sexy hoteliers, old childhood friends who suddenly see each other in a new way, this series has it all. The three sisters are all overcoming a personal trauma while they search for the lost Spanish dowry of a woman who killed herself over a man a hundred years earlier.

I had already read the series but did not recognize it by the title on the books. This book had all three books of the triology in one. I will keep for reading 5 years from now.

Absolutely loved this trilogy. I read it multiple times and still laughed and cried.

I read all of these books separately before purchasing the book that contained all three books in the trilogy. This book contains the books Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream and Finding the Dream. I will read these books over and over again.

Very nice light reading. As all Nora Roberts' books, specially her trilogies, keep you interested, entertained and make you to want more. Very recommendable.

Sadly this is a repeater for me. Changing the cover & putting 3 books together disguised it so that I did not realize it. Doggone!!! Enjoy so much of Nora Roberts work but strongly dislike this format.

I ordered a "used" book in good condition and I received a book that appeared to be new. Very satisfied.

As all of her books a great read. Hard to put down.

This trilogy is a rerelease of Ms. Robert's earlier work in the mid 90s and consists of the same three female subtypes that Nora has used in all of her trilogies which are about three sisters/cousins/relatives sharing lives and community. The only thing that updates each trilogy is the so contemporary label waving references to designers couture (Armani, Valentino, etc.); music, Bob Seger, etc; and ojects d'art.

In this triad of obnoxious women, Margo is the free spirited barely educated, narcissist who lives her life in the fast lane totally self absorbed and empty until she crashes. Then there is Kate, the half sister who is a hostile, aggressive, self absorbed angry young woman similar to others in past series. Kate is slightly more interesting than the other two in this saga in that she is college educated and a professional. I would have preferred that she was actually lesbian, as she pretends to be for the titillation of it, instead of the sappy, ulcer ridden limp dishrag she morphs into when confronted with facts about her father who embezzled money plus the duplicity of a former lover who sabotages her job and steals from her. On top of that she has met an arrogant jerk who has decided his sexual needs are more important than the mess she is living and he constantly hounds her for sex.

Then there is the Templeton princess, Laura, who turns out to be a passive, blindly trusting mother earth type whose world is babies, houses, flowers, parents, her hormones and men. Naturally, Laura is very rich and living in her parent's house so she doesn't have that pressure to survive economic disaster like in real life.


All three of these women are emotional wrecks who define themselves by their relationship with a male instead of knowing themselves in any depth. They are all waiting to be bedded by some super hero and are mewling like helpless infants in gratitude when the nearest available male offers his services. I always skip the sex pages since they are so over the top that they are laughable.

Two other things that are utterly phony is the too polite dialogs between the Templetons (insert any other parent type dialoging with their offspring in any other of Nora Robert's books) and their brood. Additionally, the gooey eyed yammering by both the women and their males over the idea of babies, babies, babies, ad nauseum makes the story utterly obnoxious.

I hope that the author, who happens to be one of my favorites with her J.D. Robb books, writes a story or two about men who behave badly all the way through the book and end up deserting the female characters, just like in real life. I also hope that a female character is developed who doesn't lapse into brain deadness, melting bones, blubbering stupidity while in the midst of her hormonal firestorms.

Like the advice written on the Temple of Delphi, "Nothing in Haste" and "Know Thyself" always works.