Tamarack Creek [Paperback]

Jackie Calhoun (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2001

When Carly finds her lover in bed with another woman, she is at first angry but then, surprisingly, she feels a new freedom in her life. She quits her job and moves in with her gay brother at their family homestead, Tamarack Creek. Within two weeks, Carly meets Serena, their new neighbor and the women begin a passionate affair. But will Serena leave her husband for Carly and if so, will the abusive Jess ever let Serena go?

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Jackie Calhoun lives in Wisconsin with her partner.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Bella Books; 1 edition (November 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931513066
• ISBN-13: 978-1931513067
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,268,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe even a 2, January 20, 2002

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This review is from: Tamarack Creek (Paperback)

This is definitely NOT one of Jackie Calhoun's best books. Calhoun creates one of the great mistakes in literature, you don't care about the characters at the end of the book. Carly, who discovered her lebianism late in life, comes home to find her younger lover in bed with another woman. She runs off to live in the family home at Tamarak Creek with her gay brother and meets the new neighbors, Serena, also a lesbian, and her abusive husband Jess. Carly and Serena start an affair, threatened and made violent by Jess. Reads like pretty powerful stuff. The problem is that you can't develop any connection to the characters and there's no passion except when Jess is nearly killing one or both of the women. It took me three days to plod through 204 pages. For a contrast, read Love's Melody Lost by Radcliffe. Ironically, it's only 187 pages, but, by the end of it, you really care about what is going to happen to the central characters. Jackie Calhoun, who can be an excellent writer, should read that book to get herself back on track.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worh your time, August 23, 2003

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M. Lacour "likes 2 read" (Lafayette, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tamarack Creek (Paperback)

At one point I actually threw this novel (if you want to call this a novel) across the room. From the very beginning I found the story flimsy, unbelievable, shallow and poorly written. I'm disappointed with such a well-known author as Calhoun. The characters are never really fleshed out! The story opens when the main character walks in on her lover with another woman--she packs her bags and leaves to return to a cabin on a lake to live with her gay brother. Because we know nothing about her life with this lover, I felt this plot was only contrived to "get" the main character to move to the cabin. Once she finds a niche living in this cabin on a lake she meets the married neighbor and before long they are in the sack together. What a surprise this was to me! There was no simmering, seductioin, or any apparent attraction at all! It just happened. Sure, I see the possibilities of an interesting story here and I never finished the book BUT--I hate it when a woman's lesbian sexuality is due to the fact that she has/had an abusive husband/boyfriend. I cannot recommend this book to anyone--there are so many other great novels to spend the evening with.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Choices, June 11, 2008

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Angie (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tamarack Creek (Paperback)

"Tamarack Creek" is one chilling tale of lust and danger. The danger begins when Carly is attracted to Serena, who is married to Jess, a controlling, possessive man. If Serena weren't afraid of her husband, she would have left him long before meeting Carly. As it is, the women are forced to meet in secret. Unfortunately, Carly, like Serena, can't let go, even when Carly suspects Jess has been secretly watching them. Thrillers, such as "Tamarack Creek", feed into my sense of adventure, and challenge my understanding for survival. My heart raced from every dark choice that Carly and Serena were compelled to take. My kind of reading!