Rosewood [Mass Market Paperback]

Candace Camp (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Morrow/Avon (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061040533
• ISBN-13: 978-0061040535
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,285,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a beautiful story!, April 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Rosewood (Mass Market Paperback)

This story is truly lovely. The heroine, Millicent Hayes, is 29 and has been caring for her brother Alan ever since he was crippled ten years ago. She lives an isolated life, interacting with few outside her close-knit family.

Then Jonathan Lawrence and his daughter Betsy move in next door. While relations between the neighbors are strained at first, Millicent and her brother Alan become close to the widower and his daughter.

This story really shines because of the characterizations. Millicent and Jonathan are likable and the secondary characters (Betsy, Alan, Opal, Oradelle and the various family memebrs) are well-drawn and are people that any reader would want to interact with within the bounds of this story. This book and Heirloom are two of my favorites by this author. I just wish Candace Camp still wrote like this!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful story - you will love the characters, September 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Rosewood (Hardcover)

This was one of the best books I have ever read - I wish it were not out of print - I have an old tattered copy I'm afraid of loaning out! I wish Candace Camp would write another book like this - it sure beats the drivel she has been writing since. This is a beautiful story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two nice romances (for the price of one), January 18, 2009

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SusieQ (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rosewood (Mass Market Paperback)

The best thing about ROSEWOOD is the great way Candace Camp builds up the latent sensuality of her heroine, Millicent. The author basically recreates Millicent, taking her from a repressed and duty-driven spinster, to a fulfilled woman who's ready to have a life of her own. I also admired the author's way of building up the sensual tension between the heroine and the hero. Just about the only thing that really took away from my total enjoyment of this story is that almost the whole love affair between Millicent and Jonathan is told from Millicent's POV. I would have enjoyed knowing more about Jonathan's emotions. (We do get some insights about Jonathan's feelings, and about his past, but not quite enough to be even-handed.)

Also, even though I was enjoying their story, I personally thought the book should have ended a little sooner. Although I sympathized with Millicent's conflicts, it was getting frustrating to read about her consistent refusal of Jonathan's marriage proposal and her refusal to give into her love for him, when she had every reason to accept him. It began to feel like the author was manufacturing reasons to keep these characters apart. In particular, there is a scene between Millicent and an old aunt who tries to convince Millicent to keep to her "duty" to her crippled brother, which to me, just didn't ring true. It comes late in the story and by that point, the scene just felt tacked on to keep the two lovers apart a little longer.

I think Ms. Camp might have done better to have Jonathan express some doubts about having Millicent's invalid brother living with them - or have him express some of the true 19th century reluctance to accept handicapped persons as a part of one's daily life; instead of being instantly welcoming and ever-so-helpful with Alan (the crippled brother). This would have given sense to Millicent's doubts and her hesitation to commit to Jonathan, and given Jonathan some shades of gray - instead of Jonathan's being such a fantastic; instantly accepting and loving man, the reader wonders if Millicent's a bit cuckoo for not accepting his proposal immediately.

Almost as good as the main love story, and a very intriguing and different storyline for a romance novel, was the relationship between Millicent's crippled brother Alan, and the young servant, Opal. It was just about as developed as Millicent and Jonathan's tale, so you get two romances for the price of one... a bonus!