Sara's Song [Mass Market Paperback]

Fern Michaels (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

A brilliant career is enough for Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For a brief time, world-famous rock star Dallas Lord had been a part of her life. Then he was suddenly and tragically taken away leaving behind a beautiful song written just for Sara. And when she meets Adam Lord, Dallas's older brother, she will find herself--between Adam, the most attractive and complicated man she's ever known, and Dallas, the man her heart won't let her forget. Full-page, full-color "Romantic Times" ad. Full-page ad in two consecutive issues of "People".

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Dallas Lord, a 38-year-old rock star asks Sara Killian, M.D., 39, to marry him (perhaps for the wrong reasons), and as a gift, he writes her a song. Then, having supposedly died in a plane crash, Dallas chooses to drop out of sight in order to gain new perspective on his sense of his life and himself (he's tortured by undiagnosed dyslexia). In his absence, a bad-girl backup singer claims rights to the song and attempts to murder Sara. After a brief attraction to Adam Lord, Dallas's older brother/manager, Sara is left to flounder in a midlife crisis as the brothers reunite, neither willing to admit their feelings for her. There's plenty of potential here?romantic story line, dynamic conflict?but Michaels's (Vegas Heat) latest is weakened by a poorly represented locale, abrupt transitions and the hero's maudlin motivations. Michaels is aiming for the heartstrings here, but she manages to hit only a few chords.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Fern Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Fool Me Once, Sweet Revenge, The Nosy Neighbor, Pretty Woman, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 415 pages
• Publisher: Zebra Books; First edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082175856X
• ISBN-13: 978-0821758564
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,652,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Fern Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Fool Me Once, Sweet Revenge, The Nosy Neighbor, Pretty Woman, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lead characters lack chemistry - could have been better, January 23, 2006

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sara's Song (Mass Market Paperback)

Aging rock star Dallas Lord meets Dr. Sara Killian while she attends his ailing friend. They immediately spark up a friendship, and wanting to settle down, he asks her to marry him. She is also ready to settle down. Despite both admitting that they are not actually in love, they agree to an engagement. Dallas writes Sara a haunting love song as a wedding present. And soon disappears, believed to have been killed in an airplane crash. Dallas survives and decides that this is the perfect opportunity to start all over.

Dallas' brother Adam has always taken care of Dallas. When they were young, Dallas hurt himself, and Adam has always felt responsible for not looking after his kid brother. An attorney with amazing business sense, Adam has managed to amass a fortune for Dallas and a comfortable future for his band mates. A falling out between the brothers makes Adam realize that he just wants to retire and take it easy, and resigns from Dallas, leaving him to fend for himself. He feels tremendous guilt when he learns about the plane crash, but returns to LA to sort his estate out.

It turns out that Sara is sitting on a gold mine - the last recorded song by a fallen superstar. And a gold digging back up singer will do anything to get her hands on it. When Adam confronts Sara about the song, she assumes that he is behind her string of bad luck, and Adam finds himself attracted to his brother's fiance.

While the storyline itself was interesting, the dialogue was a bit trite (I kept wondering what decade this was supposed to take place in, despite the presence of cell phones), the characters lacked chemistry, particularly Dallas and Sara - heck, they even admitted they did not think they loved each other, so why should we? There was so much room for improvement and it would have made a great love triangle. All in all, it was a disappointing story, even if it had a happy ending.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fern Michaels does it yet again!, March 1, 1998

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Lori Soard "author of Lipstick Diaries" (Greenfield, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sara's Song (Mass Market Paperback)

Fern is at her amazing best! Once again, Fern manages to interweave her characters, making them both believable and fascinating at the same time. Dr. Sarah Killian and rock star Dallas Lord shouldn't have anything in common. They come from two very different worlds. Somehow, through their differences they find each other's strengths--from this love blossoms.

At the beginning of SARA'S SONG, Dallas still has a lot of growing up to do. It is only when he is faced with death, and discovers himself and strengths he didn't know he possessed that he is able to mature.

The Dallas who returns is a new man. More mature, wiser, and a man the reader can truly fall in love with. By the end of the book the reader is rooting for these too and the ending is like a decadent dessert.

Her secondary characters are the frame for the story and help to tie it all together. Nellie is absolutely delightful. The writing is tight, the dialogue is witty and Fern creates that magical element that makes one go back and read a book again and again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Not the Best I've Read, February 6, 2006

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cntrydaze "cntrydaze" (Citrus Heights, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sara's Song (Mass Market Paperback)

First time reading this author. I thought I was the only one who noticed all of the typos in the book but after reading reviews here, I can see I wasn't. There were enough typos in this book to throw off the reader. I enjoyed the first part of the book, finding the plot unusual and interesting. However, the characters soon started saying and doing stupid things in the middle of the book and that was IT for me. I had to skim through it to find out which guy she ended up with but didn't waste my time with the rest of the book.