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The Tea Planter's Bride

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I love to read Rosemary Rogers stories, especially the Steve and Ginny books, but Celia and Grant were no Steve and Ginny. They didn't even get to have sex till the very end of the book. Celia annoyed me through most of the book. She was always so angry, usually at Grant. Especially if there was another female in the room batting her eyelashes at him. The story got more interesting once they were in Ceylon, but instead of Grant and Celia working as a team, Celia was still at odds with him and it took away from the story. By that point they should have been together and they weren't.

I'm glad I bought the book used. I would have been better off getting it from the library.

This was not one of Ms. Rogers best books, but it was still an okay read. Rosemary Rogers has written so many great books and she should not be judged by this one! This book was good but not great.

I love Rosemary Rogers and this book was not too bad. But there seemed to be something missing for me. First of all there were too many characters and most of them were not enjoyable to read about. The aunt was nasty, her husband the Bishop for the most part was a wimp. Her fiance Ronald was a nasty man with lots of really horrible qualities. Pretty much it seemed like everyone Celia encounters except for her aunt and Grant are bad people. It grew tiring. And Grant, well he got to be annoying as throughout the whole book he was fighting his feelings. I mean I like a romance that at least by mid point the couple have had at least one romantic encounter. I hate to wait the whole book for Roger's hot and steamy scenes! So for me this was not that great. Again not bad if you like a Rogers book but certainly not one of her best.

This story is about a Gypsy orphan, Celia Penmaris, in England who is scheduled to marry a rich older man, Ronald Winwood, who manages the tea plantation in Ceylon which she may someday inherit. Complication ensue when Grant Hamilton enters the scene. It is pure Rosemary Rogers from there on out. I became familiar with her in 1977 with Steve and Ginny in 'Sweet Savage Love,' and later 'Wicked Loving Lies,' at a time before my divorce when I needed a bit of vicarious passion and love in my life. I wrote to her to ask her to continue with these characters in other novels and sge wrote back from Carmel, CA 93921. Still a newly published writer, she (like George Nader before her) wrote her own letters to her fans and signed them. George sent me a beautiful color 8X10 showing his gorgeous blue eyes "For Betty" which later got lost in the USPS on its way to Colorado). He was a total doll back then. This was her tenth novel.

Spend some time creating a balance between the public world and your private world, which she did. You have a flair for the dramatic that your friends, relatives and coworkers simply adore -- but you should be careful to use it judiciously right now. Don't overdo it with your enthusiasm, and try not to share too much personal information. It's not that people aren't interested in what's going on in your life -- it's just that an awful lot is going on in their lives, too. Turn down the heat a bit -- but don't stew. Just simmer, like Ginny had to do many times.

Rosemary wrote that there was strong interest in the movie and/or television possibilities of these two first novels. Before she wrote a third sequel of Steve Morgan and his Ginny, she came out with 'The Crowd Pleasers' and 'The Insiders.' She has been a most prolific romance write along the vein of Danielle Steele for more than thirty years. Some of her latest include 'Sapphire,' (2005), 'Jewel of My Heart,' (2004), 'Surrender to Love,' (2003) and 'An Honorable Man,' (2002) which I previously reviewed. She is a treasure and has kept many a lonely housewife happy and contended with her steamy stories. Her characters become real people under her terrific tutlege. This one is no exception. All of her many and varied novels are "keepers."