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Till the Stars Fall

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I love all of Kathleen Gilles Seidel's books but thiswas the best. It's hard to write characters who areboth glamorous and down-to-earth. It's hard to invent a rock band that doesn't sound phony or at least sleazy, but I'm sorry there wasn't ever a band "Dodd Hall" because I would have loved them. This novel was completely believable and I couldn't put it down, even on the second and third re-reading! Please write more, KGS!

I started reading KGS after purchasing Summer's End from Amazon. I have since purchased every book by her I could find, as she combines powerful and well-developed characters with a sensitive and touching story. Unlike many romance novelists, there is much more time spent on a realistic plot and plausible circumstances than hot and heavy bedroom scenes.

The author uses fictional journalism pieces interspersed throughout the story that add to the authenticity of the story. If you love romance but like a great story even better, then this is an excellent read.

This is the first book I read by Kathleen Gilles Seidel and I loved it so much that I have started buying every book she's ever written. This story is not only a wonderful romance about second chances but also an absorbing look at life in/with a rock band. Seidel's universe for her characters is so complete that she quotes newspaper articles about then and songs that they wrote. If you like intelligent romance novels and three-dimensional characters, you'll love Kathleen Seidel!

I first read this book several years ago in paperback, and have reread it many times since. It is truly a family story that begins with a brother (Danny )and his sister (Krissa)and how they interact with those around them. They follow the same path for many years until Krissa makes a huge turn in her life. Fortunately, later they become close again. It is a story for every woman who has ever been in love with her brother's best friend. The male/female dynamics of this book are true to life. Although I knew it was fiction, many of the rock and roll aspects are true to life and I kept wanting to cross reference the "blurbs" at the top of each chapter. It took me four years to find another KGS book (Summers End) and now I have your list to find a few more!

I read this book for the first time a couple of years ago. I couldn't but it down. I have never read a book that was so touching. I have read this book so many times that the cover fell off. I would recommend this book highly to anyone who loves a great story that contains real characters. You can really believe in these characters. The romance is wonderful without be sleazy. By far the best romance I have ever read. I definitly recommend that you read and enjoy this book many times.

Krissa and Danny French are siblings who live in a small mining town in Minnesota. Danny is an intense young man with a keen mind and beautiful voice. More than anything, he longs leave the small town he despises and his stifling family life with his morose failure of a father and his enabling mouse of a mother. However brilliant he is, he has too much bitterness to really apply himself in school to make it out. Krissa is the perfect daughter with the perfect grades who has the aptitude but not the ambition to leave the Iron Ridge.

But one pivotal night, Krissa and Danny come to a revelation about themselves and their family. Danny begins a year-long makeover with Krissa's help to become the perfect college applicant. Their diligence pays off and Danny is accepted into Princeton.

While there, Danny meets Quinn Hunter, a child of wealth and privilege, who becomes Danny's best friend and partner as they form the rock band Dodd Hall.

The story follows the rise (and fall) of Dodd Hall and the love story of Krissa and Quinn.

My little summary does absolutely no justice to the scope and depth of this book. This is my favorite of the KGS books I've read. It is a great story of the relationship of these three people: Krissa and Danny's as brother and sister; Danny and Quinn's as best friends and partners in a wildly successful rock band; and Quinn's and Krissa's as passionate, wildly in love lovers.

The story starts after the band has broken up and all three -- Danny, Krissa and Quinn are leading different and completely separate lives. Krissa is divorced with three kids. Danny is on a hunger strike for the homeless and Quinn has embarked on a completely different career. The book is told for the most part in flashbacks -- almost like a VH1 Behind the Music special. Each chapter also boasts snippets of interviews & excerpts from biographies and memories from people outside the main three (session musicians, groupies etc).

The effect of this story structure is quite cool. On the one hand you get the nostalgic look at the rise, glory and fall of a great band. But there is also the suspense of learning how these people broke up and what led them to where they are when the story opens. How is it that Krissa was married to someone who isn't Quinn and had three kids? Why are Quinn and Danny not speaking to each other? In one enigmatic interview with Rolling Stone, Quinn simply says they broke up because Danny smiled at the wrong time. I was wild to find out what happened! As you're reading the book, the love between Quinn and Krissa is so strong, the friendship between Quinn and Danny is so deep you can't begin to imagine what goes wrong. Until you do. And when we get to the present time, KGS brings the three back into each other's orbit in just the right way. The ending was perfection.

This was great storytelling. My only quibble with this book is the treatment of Krissa's ex-husband. I wish there had been a better resolution with him.

Otherwise, excellent book. I highly recommend and would also recommend Public Secrets by Nora Roberts as a great companion piece.

I never get tired of reading and re-reading Till The Stars Fall by Kathleen Gilles Seidel. I know I have read this book at least seven times and one question keeps coming to my mind. WHAT HAPPENED TO JERRY???? He was such a great charater in the story, and he just fell out of the story line. I know he had to for Krissa and Quinn to be reunited but couldn't Ms. Seidel write a sequal and focas on what became of Jerry? I know she would do an excellent job as she has with all her novels.

They were young, they were in love, and the world was a place where dreams could come true, where the highest heights of fame could be reached, and where friendships never ended...

KRISSA
Desperate to escape the stifling life of a small mining town in northern Minnesota, Krissa followed her brother Danny back east, where his musical talent brought Quinn Hunter into their lives.

WINN
The son of privilege and the son of neglect, Quinn found in Krissa what he had always yearned for: friendship, warmth, and love. As the three of them experienced the wonders of success, they thought their lives were perfect...until everything went wrong.

What happens, fifteen years later, when young love is renewed? What happens when old longings are tested? But most of all, what happens when two people cannot resist the song of their hearts?