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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is steamy book, but bittersweet, too, November 24, 2009
I read this book a few years back. It's filled with steamy sex, but it also has a sweetness about it. The setting takes place years before, and during the Civil War. The story unfolds with 2 star crossed lovers. He's a poor, hardworking, loyal young man and she's a beautiful rich, unspoiled girl. They develop a beautiful friendship, and later a loving and ongoing clandestine relationship. By the time their relationship is discovered, they are both young adults. With the pretense of being accepting and supportive, her deceptive father, successfully, destroys their relationship. He almost destroys his daughter in the process. It is years later, before they discover her father's subterfuge.
Life does go on, unhappily, for both. But, it does go on. Eventually, the Civil War breaks out. They meet again ten years later, when the North invades the steamy South. She's a southern woman and he's a Union officer. The come together with all the love and desperation they once shared, but now it's overshadowed by rage and bitter anger. It was interesting, cruel even, to watch them work through the bitterness and find the underlying true love they still share. You see them progress from children, to young trusting adults, to cynical pain filled adults, and finally; regaining love and peace. It's their story. The title is so accurate for this book. I really enjoyed this story. I lost the book or let someone read it and never got it back. I may buy it again and reread it. Now that I have a break, it's nice to read something other than an anatomy or pathology books.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ugh..., December 3, 2010
This review is from: You Belong to My Heart (Harper Monogram) (Mass Market Paperback)
And this is will be my last Nan Ryan book. I am so sick of how she writes her stories. The love scenes are incredibly steamy. But she writes them at the absolute worst times! I would have given this no stars if possible, but I gave it one simply for the love scenes.
Here is what Ryan does: She writes two great characters, they fall in love, they make love, something happens to make them believe their beloved is actually bad, yet somehow the hero continues to sleep with her, and yet somehow the heroine continues to let him touch her. Not so hot anymore. They both hate each other. Lovemaking isn't lovemaking anymore, now it's sex. Hateful sex.
Romance factor? Down, down, down, way below zero.
Also, their coming together in this book was really rushed.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Surprised by the great reveiws!, July 26, 2009
What I look for in a book is three stars for plot, 1 star for sex and 1 star for the Charisma of the couples relationship. This book got the 1 star for sex, and it was hot, steamy and plentiful, especially in the second half of the book... too plentiful for me, really. It barely got the 1 star Charisma for their relationship (but I liked the painful young love in the beginning of the book), and it missed totally my three stars for plot, it didn't have one... only wronged lovers coming back together. It sure wasn't a 5 star quality book for me. If you are into lots of steamy sex, this will be a great book for you but if you like more of a 'meaty' plot with a little less 'meaty' sex, give this book a pass or get it at your library.
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