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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Why Isn't She A Star?,
By carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Please Remember This (Mass Market Paperback)
Maybe Seidel has just never been promoted sufficiently by her publisher. That's the only reason I can come up with for why she is such a well kept secret from readers. I discovered her by word-of-mouth online from a big reader in Texas, Kitty, and have read everything since then that Seidel pens. I even found her out-of-print books and bought and read those. Her books are fairly quiet. There are no murders to solve, for example, as there are in seemingly the vast majority of today's fiction. So she makes up for it by coming up with highly original plots and characterizations. This novel is set in Kansas and involves a young woman who is the daughter of a famous, dead, counter culture author. Her mother is still so read and revered that her fans congregate together to worship her work in her writing situs in Kansas. The daughter wants no part of this adulation, especially since her mother was a suicide when she was just a newborn. Obtaining at long last though a financial settlement from her mother's publisher, she sets up a business in that very small town and comes into the lives of its permanent residents. The other main character is a young man who is digging up a boat that went down a century earlier. It carried cargo from all of their families. A local historical society is being formed by his brother for this excavation's results. The brother isn't being altruistic. The town needs a major shot in the arm for economic rejuvenation. I found this so absorbing that I could not put it down. Plus it was set in a very different yet fascinating locale with a splendid, believable romance at its center involving the two lead characters. You can't go wrong discovering Seidel if she's been kept a secret from you too.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Women's fiction at its best!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Please Remember This (Mass Market Paperback)
Once again, Seidel has delivered a beautifully written story filled with strong, likeable, believable characters. This one, like her others, is about family and healing and the importance of love--in all its permutations and complexities. The premise is immediately intriguing, and it continues to be fascinating as the plot unfolds, all the way to the end. I especially loved the setting and how real the small midwestern town and its inhabitants all seemed. My one problem with the book is in no way a criticism of it or of the author: I don't know why Seidel's publishers put "romance" on the spine of this book when it just isn't. Yes, there is a romance in it--and a good one, too--but the main point of the book is the heroine's inner search for resolution and meaning in her life. Along the way, she finds a new career, answers to mysteries that have colored her existence, friends, community, and love. The story is hers, and if readers know to expect that, they won't be disappointed.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Different than the others,
By mysteryreader07 "mysteryreader07" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Please Remember This (Mass Market Paperback)
I own all of Kathleen Gilles Seidel's books so you can consider me a fan. I don't read any other romance authors these days except Seidel, and I eagerly awaited her latest book. However, I did not find "Please Remember This" as enthralling as her previous ones. (I gave it to a friend without any editiorial comments and she felt the same way.) Usually Seidel's books have plots in them that I can relate to but this one was not one of them. I have yet to even re-read this book, and I've practically worn out her previous titles! I keep trying to figure out why this book was not as satisfying as Seidel's usually excellent books (even the Harlequins were a cut above...). Perhaps it was the ghostly elements? Perhaps it was the tie-in with the actual Steamboat Arabia that I've recently visited in Kansas City? Perhaps it was just that this book was trying to mesh together too many threads to connect the past and present. I recommend ALL of Seidel's previous books; they are truly worth a visit to a new or used bookstore site. Save this one for last or wait for her next one, I bet it will be great.
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