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Summary: When Are They Going To Make The Movie??????
Review: This book was a wonderful sequel to her novels 'The Flame and the Flower' and 'The Elusive Flame'. Ms. Woodiwiss is a wonderful author and no one can write romance as she does. The early part was a bit long but you have to take this in the context, that Jeff and Raelynn met and married in another novel, so the author had the difficult task of retelling this part of their story without taking away from the other novels. Jeff, of course is every woman's fantasy and who wouldn't admire Raelyn's strength courage and beauty. This is not perhaps her best novel but still better than what any other romance author has written. When is some producer going to make these books into a movie??? Definetly worth a read.....
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Summary: The worst book I've read for years...
Review: Before you buy this book - PLEASE READ THE REVIEWS HERE AT AMAZON.COM! I wish I did!A season Beyond a Kiss, by KW was really boring. I don't know how I managed to finish it. The story line was not interesting. The characters were predictable and unreal. I couldn't believe what was written most of the time. I almost had to put the book down when KW wrote, "Where she was weak, he was strong; where she was gentle and submissive, he was firm and aggressive; where she was clever at managing the house, servants, and a host of other things, he was astute at him many business affairs, his horse operation, and running the plantation." Give me a break. This stuff is ridiculous! I definitely DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Not as fun as I had hoped....
Review: I was so excited when I saw that Kathleen Woodiwiss had writtena full-length novel about Jeff & Raelynn. I started what I hadhoped to be a life-long love affair with Woodiwiss novels in high school when I first met the Birminghams in The Flame and The Flower. Jeff Birmingham, an almost minor character in that novel, captured my imagination. Because of that, I had high hopes for Jeff's story, but I was so disappointed with this book. Parts of it are terrific, but the "struggle" between Jeff & Raelynn just doesn't make sense. In the earlier Birmingham saga, there was a well-crafted plot which established a history for Brandon and Heather - and some real character insight and character development, which made the story believable. In this book, as in many of Woodiwiss's novels written after her initial group of Flame & The Flower, Shanna, Wolf & the Dove, and Ashes in the Wind, Woodiwiss seems to be relying on plot devices from earlier books without spending time developing the character or the plot to make the story believable. I will always love the Birminghams - and will undoubtedly continue to read any story Woodiwiss creates about any member of that clan, but have been disappointed with both of the recent additions to the Birmingham saga.
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Summary: A Season Beyond a Kiss
Review: I have read all of Kathleen Woodiwiss's books at least twice - except of course for the last 3 she's put out. Petals on the River, The Elusive Flame, and now A Season Beyond a Kiss have to be the worst books I've read in a very long time. I don't know what happened to her, but her writing has gone so far downhill I doubt she'll ever regain her status as the best romance novel author of all time in my opinion. I, like someone else who posted a review here, couldn't stand her descriptions. If I read "a male nipple" one more time - I mean geez! Did she think I wouldn't know that when Raelynn ran her hands admiringly across his chest that I wouldn't know it was HIS nipple she was playing with? I truly don't know why I kept buying her books after Petals on the River...perhaps a desperate hope that the previous book had to be her worst attempt and that she could only get better...I was wrong.
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: I read "Wolf and the Dove" when I was in High School and was forever hooked (or so I thought) on Woodiwess and romance novels. I thought this was perhaps the least interesting, most poorly written Woodiwess novel I have ever read. I'm glad she knows how to use her Thesaurus, but some character development might have been nice. Had she or her editor decided to remove superfluous words, I think the story might have been ten pages and my torture may have ended earlier. Her characters have always been over the top, but if I read another description of "his masculine beauty," I thought I might toss the book out the window. At no point did I feel involved or interested in the two main characters, I think mostly because they were never introduced to readers as people, but instead a collection of the best physical attributes. The storyline, such that there was, felt hurried and canned - not an original idea in there. I was so disappointed.
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Summary: A season Beyond a Kiss
Review: I found this book hard to keep an interest in right from the start. I seems the first chapter belongs further down the story line. It was confusing to get the drift. Also, about 20 pages were put in upside down, which is probably a good indication of how this book was written. I did finish it, but it was not a book I could not put down and get around to later, which is usually not the way a book grabs me.
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Summary: Another reader from Chicagoland
Review: A tedious read. This is the worst book I have ever read--and I have been a fan of KW for years. Detailed descriptions of gowns and rooms don't take the place of good writing and a love scene every 5 pgs doesn't take the place of watching the relationship develop. There *is* no relationship. Don't waste your money. There are lots of better books out there. I just wish I hadn't wasted 10 bucks on this one.
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Summary: my review
Review: I was not impressed with this book when I first started to read it. I had read the previous book by this author and I had found it a good read. The story does not unfold immediately. The characters are not well introduced either. Only if you persist reading until the second half, can you really start to enjoy the story and the characters. At the end, the whole plot finally comes around and the characters become totally familiar, and that is when you appreciate the story who is actually well thought out.
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Summary: Stupid, boring, a waste of time
Review: UGH, what a bore. I have been a fan of Ms. Woodiwiss' sincereading Shanna. I consider that title and Ashes in the Wind to beexcellent examples of the genre, and my favorites. I've reread them many times. Since those books, however, I've been increasingly disappointed, and after this garbage, I will never buy another book of hers again. Nothing happens until p. 179, and the "mystery villain" is never a mystery. What plot there pretends to be is paper thin. Ms. Woodiwiss seemed to be exploring her extensive vocabulary without a goal for her ramblings. Ick. Don't waste your money. END
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Summary: Who really wrote this?
Review: An avid fan of Kathleen Woodiwiss since Flame and the Flower, I am not convinced she wrote this one. It is not her style, not written with intelligence and could not flow if you threw it over Niagra Falls.
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