One Summer (Celebrity Magazine Series) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Nora Roberts (Author), Jill Apple (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2009 | Series: Celebrity Magazine Series (Book 1)

A summer spent traveling across America with cynical, brooding photojournalist Shade Colby was not Celebrity photographer Bryan Mitchell's idea of a dream assignment. But Bryan will have to manage for an entire summer if she wants the fabulous cross-country photo shoot for a book, which they're both salivating over. However, Bryan and Shade disagree about everything...everything, that is, except the fierce attraction they have for each other.

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About the Author

Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including The Search, Black Hills, Tribute, High Noon, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. Roberts has more than 400 million copies of her books in print.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; Unabridged edition (December 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 144183009X
• ISBN-13: 978-1441830098
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,366,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Road Trip Across America, Nora Roberts' Style, April 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: One Summer (Nora Roberts, Language of Love, No 31) (Paperback)

This book is the vastly superior sequel to "Second Nature" and the characters of Lee and Hunter make a brief appearance here. The heroine of "One Summer" is Bryan Mitchell, who was first introduced in "Second Nature" as Lee's best friend. Bryan is a photographer who specializes in portraits of people and memorable faces. She is asked to collaborate on a book called "One Summer in America", and to spend the summer driving from L.A. to N.Y., documenting Americans at work and play. The other photographer contributing to the book is studly Shade Colby, who specializes in gritty, realistic photos. They spend the summer traveling across America, taking pictures and falling in love. I enjoyed their road trip very much.
Excerpt from the back of the book:
"The assignment: a fabulous coast-to-coast photo tour of the USA. The problem: straight-shooting photojournalist Shade Colby didn't believe in unity-he always worked alone. The catch: if he wanted this job, he'd have to spend the summer with Bryan Mitchell, a sexy society photographer who was as great a temptation as the assignment itself!"

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Americana at its finest!, July 26, 2005

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Donna K. "bookcrosser" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Summer (Nora Roberts, Language of Love, No 31) (Paperback)

One Summer: There was nothing unique about the dynamics between the couple or the romance itself, but what made this book so interesting was the setting and storyline. Bryan, a portrait photographer for a glossy magazine, was famous for espressing what lies beneath the surface of her subject's face, eyes, smiles. Shade was a Pulizer-prize winning photojournalist who was famous for presenting the overall drama of a scene. They bring their two different styles together, traveling across the USA, creating a powerful photoessay of summer life in America. I loved the artistic representations vividly described from each of their opposing prospectives of The Last Day Of School, Little League Games, Grandmother and Granddaughter on the Beach, Roadside Reststops, Small Town Carnivals, Kansas Wheatfields, East Coast Clambakes, etc. Awesome!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars quintessential romance novel, November 19, 2008

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D. K. Stokes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Summer (Nora Roberts, Language of Love, No 31) (Paperback)

One Summer is loosely connected to Second Nature (Silhouette Special Edition #288). That is, the heroines of both are friends, and both worked for Celebrity magazine.

Bryan Mitchell and Shade Colby.... okay, let me just get this out of the way here--these names drive me insane. Not only do we have complete ambiguity as to which is which (maybe it's a gay romance?), but the last names could be first names as well. This was, apparently, the thing to do in the mid-80s when this was written, but... ARGH! Luckily, I've read this before, and Bryan shows up in a few other books, so I didn't have any trouble this time. The first time I read it, I missed half the story trying to figure out who was who.

Obviously, I got over it, as you see by the 5 stars. Yep. 5. I Lurrrrvvvve this book.

Bryan Mitchell is a celebrity photographer. Shade Colby is a serious journalistic photographer. Somebody (I'm not clear who) decided it would make a nice book to have both their perspectives on one American summer. Their different approaches to photography naturally follow from their personalities--Bryan is the cheerful optimist, Shade is uncomfortable with emotions.

The book follows them as they travel cross-country in a van, taking photographs, getting on each other's nerves, slowly getting to know each other, building respect, becoming a team, and eventually falling in love.

It's a quintessential romance, really. Nothing extraneous to get in the way, just two people falling in love. And what's guaranteed to grab me: they develop respect and friendship first.

The absolutely beautiful thing about One Summer is the photography scenes. Shade and Bryan make a lot of stops, (there's a map in the front of the book) and at each stop, each scene, there are slight differences in how they approach the subjects they're photographing and each other. You're not whacked over the head with it--it's just there, subtly showing how they're changing during the trip. Just lovely. When I finished reading, I wanted to start reading it all over again just to see how it was done.

All right, I do have another quibble--it didn't interfere with my enjoyment of the book, but Bryan and Shade completely ignored the entire northern half of the country, except for NYC. As a Michigan native, I was a little insulted.

By the way, yes, there is headhopping in this book. It's a Nora Roberts book. But it also didn't interfere with my enjoyment of the story, and I think I figured out why headhopping--at least Nora's headhopping--doesn't bother me. I think it's because I'm not reading the hero's story or the heroine's story, but the couple's story, so getting both their POVs in the same scene doesn't throw me out because I'm thinking of them together.