Customer Reviews

Treasure of the Sun

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4 star:		(1)
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2 star:		(2)
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This was a great story as well as a very interesting background into the early days of California prior to the annexation by the United States.

Katherine Maxwell traveled to California from Boston to be wed to Tobias a man she dealt well with and offered her a chance to escape from family bondage. Fate had it that her marriage would be short lived and, one week after the wedding, Tobias was murdered. His best friend Damian de la Sola would make sure that Katherine would be looked after, and he brought her to his hacienda and let her mourn there.

Damian did this, not only for his very best friend, but for himself, as he had known from the moment he first saw her coming off the ship that he would burn for his best friends wife. Being the gentleman, he would have to hide his true feelings, and he would honor her year of mourning. He was honor-bound to protect her but would be relentless in her pursuit before he would let her leave.
Finding out that it was the secret of a fabled treasure that Tobias had been killed for, the 'treasure of the Padres' They would both follow their destinies and find that the real treasure was their love for one another.

I enjoyed the characters and their personalities. Katherine, though reeling from having her husband murdered in front of her, was really quite feisty when she wasn't fainting at the sight of blood. Damian was the very hot, arrogant, and very sexy Spanish lover. The scene between her cousin, and the two of them after they married is priceless! Super story. I highly recommend this book.

The hero, Don Damien De La Sola, is a hearthrob hero to die for. You will fall in love with him ten pages within the book. And Katherine is a typical sensible heroine typical in Christina Dodd's books. There was good chemistry between the hero and heroine, and their love was so real. Anyone considering this book, i'm telling you, you will not be dissapointed in this one.

After skimming some of the reviews on this site for the book, I definetely got the impression that you either love this book or just like it. For me, I just liked it. I gave it 3 stars but it was really closer to 2 1/2. After reading it I walked away frustrated and disappointed! There was so much potential for this book and unfortunately Christina didnt "bring it". The setting of spanish California with its hot,sweltering days and even steamier nights, fierce and passionate latino men, should have left me scorched and begging for more. But, needless to say I came away feeling luke warm and almost bored. I've read many of Christina's books and for the most part have learned to deal with her gaps in story plots and her tendency to leave out details and assume the reader will fill in the blanks. But this one was harder to figure out on my own simply because I felt no emotional connection between Damian and Katherine. There was hardly any dialogue between the two and hardly any intimacy. I found lackluster sex scenes and even duller conversation-what little there was of it. When their alone time wasnt being interuppted for one reason or another, I found myself confused on where things had led and would end up having to reread parts 2 or 3 times and still came away wondering what in the world just happened. Damians and Katherines actions and feelings were sporadic and jerky, coming out of left field somewhere. Katherine especially frustrated me with her sensible, almost cold and impersonal attitude towards Damian. But, she didnt surprise me since she is often the type of heroine that Christina typically uses. While I also appreciate Christinas attention to history and developing the historical element of the book, I feel she went to far and made it more about the struggle and not about the fellings and emotions of the main characters.
As much as I love Christina and her writing (she's such an intense author)this one just didnt do it for me. I'm almost angry with her-she couldve done so much more with this one and unfortunately, she failed. :(

I typically love Christina Dodd's books. I have many of them and am constantly re-reading. However, the last few I've read have been a disappointment. This one is no exception. I'm not sure what is happening, but I'm not feeling any connection with the characters. Perhaps because the characters don't have a connection themselves? Without giving you a synopsis (which is not a review), the story lacked development, attraction and likeable characters. I'm sorry if this is harsh, but I wanted my money back.

I really enjoyed this book, especially the Spanish parts. It was such a relief for me to read a Dodd book that was not in England or present day. The story was a little sketchy sometimes, but it was definitely a book that I didn't put down until I finished it.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. There was great chemistry between the hero and heroine, and a wonderful story between them. I have always loved reading Christina Dodd because she always writes great books.

I got this book based on the reviews and was very disapointed. I don't know if my book was edited but it seemed like some of the story was missing. The story line was good but she didn't develop the main charaters attraction for one another. There was no conversation or interaction between the characters and I couldn't understand what brought them together. All of a sudden the're married and the girl doesn't love her husband and has doubts about their nationalitys. She's american and he's spanish. Why did she marry him then? The majority of the book made no sense.