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With Rings on Their Fingers

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Based on a true story, this book follows the life of one man and how his actions affect those around him. The story line includes love, lust, incest, racism, history and travel. How could you go wrong? The characters are believable and interesting and the plot is intriguing. I enjoyed the book immensely and was sorry to see it end.

This is a well written book with plenty of intrigue to keep you turning the pages late on into the night. I read the book from cover to cover while flying to England. I have visited Banbury a number of times and recognized some of the local references in the book. Obviously a well traveled author.

With Rings On Their Fingers, by K.D.Groeth is a romance novel with an unusual twist. The antagonist is a man who falls in love time and again with willing teenage girls. The story starts slowly, as the author sets the scene for this partially fictional biography of one of the young girls--the only one who doesn't take advantage of the antagonist's obsession with attractive pubescent girls.

The author has chosen a difficult vehicle for telling his story in that he assumes the role of omniscient first-person narrator who is himself,years later,romantically involved with the main character. At times real life can become a soap opera,and Groethe has shown us the personal pain suffered by his characters with stinging and beleivable dialogue. The story is a study in the ways in which men and women verbally attack each other when a love affair is breaking up. A two hundred page novel well worth reading.

this novel reads well. I had to keep going to see what would happen next. The characters are well drawn and it has a number of surprises.