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An Unspoken Promise

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It may be that the real-life aspects of this work do not apply to adoption cases, but a more key theme here is romance. That is what this book is supposed to be, after all. In that it deals at all with this vexing issue, in the context of a romance, I think it does quite well.

Just as I said for 'The Way it Should Have Been' Georgia Bockoven weaves a truly moving romantic story that has much better ties with real life than usual romance work. To me, her books are the kind you cannot put down.

Life isn't the fairytale many romance novels make it out to be. However, Bockoven does not abandon the fairy tale romance so much as she just incorporates a bit more reality than many writers do. The result is still an escape from everyday life in some ways, but at the same time the story reminds you of both the bad and the good in your own.

Most of all, every one of her stories is about the power of love. Not the fairy tale swept off your feet romance love. Nope. The real kind. The kind that makes you want to share your life, your soul, with someone for the rest of your life.

I've noticed that this kind of love is in shorter supply these days, I'll grant you that. But I've also seen that it still exists. So, just as the pain she writes about exists, so too does the magical wonder of true love.

Excellent book, must read.

I was an adopted child and the premise of this book intrigued me but Ms Bockoven was only interested in using the adoption as a device to get the romance going. The reunions between family memebrs were poor if not omitted completely. But there was plenty of grandstanding by all characters and no lack of sexual tension betwwen the adoptee's natural brother and adopted sister. Please concentrate on what makes a story unique in the future instead of the same tired plot points.

This is a beautiful story of two sisters and the distinctly different paths taken in their lives held together only by family ties.
Ties that won't be broken by one sister and the events that weave them together ever tighter. Unexpected romance happens amid turmoil and tension when secrets are revealed. Georgia Bockoven writes with understanding and compassion on every page and knows how to build a beautiful setting for love and hope to thrive. This story will pull you in and keep you curious as the sisters search for acceptance and love of extended family from Minneapolis to Wyoming.

Georgia Bockoven once again writes with deep insight and clarity into the many meanings and actions of real love and contrasts it with what some may think love is. This story is well thought out and explores the motives of a family who adopted a daughter, the family who gave her up and the sister and brother who found love along the way while finding a new life for their sister Amy. It is a bit of romance with a dose of reality that shows the complications and vulnerabilities of people of all ages and what we do to and for the ones we love.