Texas Sunrise (Mass Market Paperback)

by Fern Michaels (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The final installment (after Texas Fury ) in Michaels's series about the Coleman clan and its aeronautics and fashion empires opens with family matriarch Billie Coleman Kingsley receiving bad medical news. Meanwhile, Billie's daughter Maggie is ruining her marriage with her total devotion to her husband; another daughter, embittered and weak Susan, searches desperately for love; Maggie's son, Cole, questions his ability to lead his father-in-law's business, while his sister Sawyer forces him to confront the ghosts that haunt him. Through such family crises as death, divorce, birth and tragic accidents, staged in locales ranging from Texas to Japan to Hawaii, the family members struggle to cope with Billie's impending death and to understand her lessons about family, power and love. Readers who are new to the series may have trouble understanding how the characters are linked and why they act as they do, but already indoctrinated fans will find that Michaels provides a satisfying, though somewhat perfunctory, sense of closure.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
?A SEQUEL WITHOUT EQUAL . . . A stunning and emotional conclusion to the story of a family that readers have come to care for and love.?
?Los Angeles Daily News -- Review

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (January 31, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345365933
• ISBN-13: 978-0345365934
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,987 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Texas Sunrise, January 31, 2008

By	Kelly "Reviewer for The Sinfully Sensuous" (Littleton, Colorado) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What a stunning conclusion to the Coleman saga. Fern Michaels is so very good at telling her stories. The whole series was such an emotional read. I was so attached to all the characters, but I knew before starting the book that since it all started with Billie, it would likely end with Billie. I had to keep more than a couple kleenex handy.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant finale!, December 28, 1999

By	Matthew D. Hydeman "voyage" (Tucson, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" could have been what a lot of readers of Fern Michaels' TEXAS series said about this "final" novel in her outstanding Coleman family saga. Admittedly, I was a bit skeptical, as I thought the events at the end of TEXAS FURY seemed like an appropriate capper to the whole saga. But Michaels' found a way to draw me back into the lives of the Colemans and their extended family by bringing the series full circle -- with Billie Ames Coleman Kingsley's journey through life slowly coming to an end. From the first teary-eyed moments when the diagnosis is revealed to a resigned and oddly serene Billie, to her beloved husband Thad's steel will in ensuring her last few months are tranquil and peaceful, to her children's resolve to overcome their own obstacles and rally around Billie, this is a novel that could have been summed up in a brief epilogue as a fellow reviewer stated. But consider this -- would we really want something so short, so sketchy? Michaels has invested time and research in fleshing out these characters to where we feel as though they're a part of our family (or us as a part of the Colemans) -- how could we settle for a simple, "Billie died and the Colemans moved on"? Simple -- nobody who is a fan of this series would! Hence TEXAS SUNRISE -- a moving, hopeful and thoroughly entertaining final chapter in the Colemans of Texas.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab the Kleenex Box, September 14, 2000

By A Customer

All I can say is this was the best of her books that I have read and after reading the entire set I felt that I was reading about friends. Thanks to you and please keep them coming.