77 of 79 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's Delightful; it's delicious; it's Kallmaker!, May 8, 2000
This review is from: Unforgettable (Paperback)
Fasten your seatbelts, you are in for a great ride. If you love Romance of the lesbian persuasion, then this is a must read. "Unforgettable" is Kallmaker at her best.
As always Kallmaker's characters are well fleshed out and believable. The story centers around a moderately successful ballad/jazz singer, Loretta "Rett" Jamison who is haunted by the memories of her past. At 40, she is finally coming to terms with the woman she is, compared to the girl who never fit in at high school.
At her 20+ high school reunion, she discovers that all is not what it seemed to be when she was growing up. While some relationships held more promise than she ever imagined, others were more bankrupt than even she could have thought. I forget which feminist said it (Steinhem perhaps?), that the trouble with being a woman was being a little girl in the first place. "Unforgettable" carries out that theme to it's adult conclusion.
It's not the theme or the plot that I liked best about this book; rather, it's the structure and the dialogue, and yes, of course, there are those sex scenes. Face it, that's why we buy them, and this one won't disappoint. Kallmaker, just like a good script writer, introduces her characters mid-action, mid-sentence, and in this case, mid-dream. We get right into the character's head. Once there, we are ready to suspend our own lives for a moment and live within hers.
Her dialogue is fresh, never stilted and always right out of today's society. She even manages to mention Santana's great comeback with "Smooth," and we get to dance to Ricky Martin, flawlessly, of course.
Sometimes I wish real life were a little more like Kallmaker's vision. Women are usually beautiful, smart and sexy. Most of the men are gentle and understanding, and the food never makes you fat. It's written real enough to make you wonder if it's not all just around the corner.
This book is also just a tad longer than most of it's genre. It allows Ms. Kallmaker to tie up all those loose ends. I wasn't left wondering, "but whatever happened to so and so." Therefore, if you love lesbian romance, this one is delicious.
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wow, simply breath-taking!, August 12, 2000
This review is from: Unforgettable (Paperback)
If this is anything to go by for miss Kallmaker's work, then damn! A wonderfully scripted novel which just left me wishing it had lasted longer. Rett and Angel are two main charecters who you just become involved with, in a wonderful tale of true love, and spine tingling sex scenes, you'll find yourself grinning hopelessy at the end! Well worth reading on that lonely night, or any night, just! A MUST read.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Home Run!, May 9, 2000
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This review is from: Unforgettable (Paperback)
I am a big fan of Kallmaker's work and have the highest expectations of her every book.
Unforgettable met every expectation and blew them out of the water. It's a winner, a total home run, all 278 pages of it.
Rett Jamison is one of her best characters ever, and that's saying something. I felt like I knew her inside and out and yet I couldn't wait to see how she handled the double attraction of the two women from her past.
I also admired very much that Rett did not make nice with either her rotten ex-girlfriend or her mother. Both treated her abysmally and it might not be politically correct to refuse to forgive -- for the present -- but it sure felt real. Some things you don't forgive easily or quickly, if ever. Rett finds forgiveness for others who hurt her and finally she finds a way to just say "so what?" to the morons who made high school a misery for her.
Unforgettable is a triumph! Thank you thank you Karin, for such a wonderful book and such a long one, too. I don't know how you're going to top this one!
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