A Season Beyond a Kiss (Nova Audio Books)

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Summary: Blah
Review: Compared to KEW's other page-turners, I barely had the patience to skim A Season Beyond a Kiss. This book cheats readers with its cheap, as in manipulate-readers-to-buy-the-other-book-too, patchy references to the prequel and tepid plot. Yeah right... And, no way was this the Flame and the Flower's Jeff Birmingham. I know KEW's picture is on the inside cover, but how could the same person who wrote The Flame and the Flower, Shanna, Come Love a Stranger and Ashes in the Wind have written A Season Beyond a Kiss?

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Summary: A Season Beyond a Kiss
Review: Once again, I marvel at Ms. Woodiwiss's ability to spin a yarn. However, as an avid collector of Woodiwiss fiction, I was sadly disappointed in the overall effect of this book. Going back to Charleston, SC and revisiting a family that I came to love in The Flame and the Flower was what convinced me to purchase this book. Halfway into the story, I was convinced that Ms. Woodiwiss sold out to the editors and publishers since the book thus far was all about sex. Believe it or not, some readers like to read about more than what a man has in his trousers. In all fairness, the book did start to measure up to some of her past ones in content when she began to introduce the "mystery" that we readers need to solve. By the time I closed the book, I was relieved to realize that I would recommend this to friends, and that I was compelled to e-mail the author begging for a fourth in her series. What happens to Farrel and Elizabeth? My advice: Don't give up on this book until you have passed the ball... it definitely begins to measure up then.

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Summary: a huge disappointment
Review: In the past, a new KEW novel was like a long-awaited present....a book i would read twice in the first three days, and then yet again, and still. It's taken me three days to get through the first 70 pages of this book, and i have to force myself to continue, hoping it will get better. The dialogue is rambling and totally inane, the characters shallow...what happened to the Jeff Birmingham of The Flame and the Flower? His close friend, "Fancy Man" (? ) calling him "me dearie" ! c'mon! Raelynn comes across as a wishy-washy bimbo, and the "bad guys" as dolts. If you're considering buying this book as a first time KEW reader, DON'T! "Ashes in the Wind", "Shanna", "The Wolf and the Dove", and even "The Flame and the Flower", the beginning of the Birmingham saga, are phenomenal books.... i have my doubts about the same person even authoring this book.

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Summary: Less than a star
Review: Ugh! This book was so boring - I like to reread good books but gave this one away! Too many words to say not much of nothing. What a disapointment from a previously favorite author.

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Summary: A Season Beyond a Kiss
Review: Help! I've Been Robbed! When I purchased A Season Beyond A Kiss, I did not even check the price. The author's name on the front was enough. I have noticed a weakening of storyline and characterization since Wolf And Dove, Shanna, and of course, Flame and Flower. However, I never expected KW to write anything so incredibly poor. I scanned it, fast forwarding past whole chapters and finally read the unsatisfying conclusion. While I was in the process of reading this boring mishmash, I chanced a glance at the price label and nearly fell out of my chair. Talk about inflation! When I think about the cost of The Flame and the Flower, the book that hooked me on historicals in the first place, compared with this long, boring, pricey book, it makes me sick. I think the author should refund; I've been robbed!

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Summary: not worth it
Review: I've read all of KEW other books and enjoyed them very much. I could barely get through the first chapter of this one it was so awful. Please don't waste your money.

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Summary: Hope this isn't shape of books to come....
Review: I have read and re-read all of KEW's books, and this was my first disappointment. If you didn't read the short story which introduced the characters, you wouldn't have a clue as to what the story was about. I hope KEW follows her earlier works and not this book.

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Summary: Hope this isn't an example of KEW's future works...
Review: I have read and re-read all of KEW's book and I couldn't even finish this one. If you didn't read the introduction of this couple in one of her other books, you wouldn't have a clue as to what their story was about. It was a true disappointment. Hope KEW follows her earlier books.

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Summary: Will The Real Woodiwiss PLEASE Stand UP?
Review: I read my first Woodiwiss book in 1974, and had been a FAN(atic) since. After diligently struggling to read this book, I have sadly decided to never waste my money on another. The characters were shallow. The plot boring. The heroine giggled coyly so often, I was close to gagging. Since "Petals On The River", I have vainly waited for the old Woodiwiss magic.

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Summary: major disappointment
Review: I regret that I didn't believe the negative reviews of other readers. I certainly agree that Ms. Woodiwiss' writing has deteriorated; it's difficult to believe this is the same author who wrote the Flame and Flower and Wolf and Dove. This book is a pathetic, watered down imitation of earlier works. It has no substance and is insulting to the intelligence of the reader. It definitely was not worth the wait!