Customer Reviews

White Orchids

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I've read almost all of Grace Livingston Hill's books, and this remains a favorite. The hero is particularly appealing, and the relationship is believable and compelling. The friendships that Camilla and Jeff develop add nicely to the story.

It has been years since I've read any of Grace Livingston Hill's books ~~ my great-grandmother would read them to me and loaned me her books. And this one is one of my favorites. I found it in a library booksale and snapped it up. Reading it again reminds me of a happier time in life.

Camilla meets Jeffrey, a young millionare at the scene of an accident. She had been racing to get to the doctor's office to get medicine for her mother ~~ and since her car was totaled in the accident, Jeffrey offers to help her out. And this is just the beginning of a truly lovely romance.

Romance isn't written like this anymore. I was very young when I first read this one and re-reading it again, it still holds a special appeal to me. This is the way romance should be written ~~ with grace and humor and love. It is spiritual but not crass like a lot of inspirational books nowadays. This is a book I'd loan to my nieces if they were interested.

This is a definite picker-upper for your library!

10-3-03

A romance develops between the damsel in distress and her rescuer, and culminates in the spiritual birth of them both. It sounds like the standard GLH romance: gorgeous, impoverished but refined heroine with an ailing mother, rich and handsome man-to-the-rescue. But the characters are some of the most appealing of any in GLH's romances. I can read this one over and over.

This is in many ways a typical 'faith based' love story. A true believer falls in love with a non-believer and through many life tossed elements the non believer is converted. This is true of this book and many of the travails are unlikely but what makes this book is the nice way of the non believer despite a lack of 'true faith'. It has a connecting book A Strange Proposal that is IMO not quite as fun.