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Summary: Still waiting for the story....
Review: About 170 pages into this book, I still had no idea where the author was attempting to go with the story as she was jumping all over the place and never really laid down a set story line to keep the reader glued. I figured out pretty quickly that is was a story of love, or whatever, between a younger guy/older woman but other then that, I'm not quite sure what to think. Luckily for me, my job allows for passing the time away, and that's really what this book did....so save it for a desperate, rainy day when you really have nothing else you could be doing!
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Summary: Twelve Times Blessed
Review: This novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard is very drawn out, boring and has way too many useless details. In "Twelve Times Blessed" True Dickenson (the main character) is a very succesful business woman,who marries a younger resturant owner. The story is about their lives as they learn to live with each others faults. They
become aware of many things they do not know about each other
as they became involved before they knew anything about their
prior lives or families. This book sometimes loses your interest
by involving you in the details of people that are not the main
interest of the story. The story needed more detail on True and
Hank,less on small trivial details of other peoples lives.
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Summary: Indescribably Awful.............
Review: This is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read.....and I read a lot!!!! I kept hoping it would get better, but it just kept getting worse!!!!!None of the characters had any redeeming qualities whatsover....I couldn't stand any of them, and I didn't care what happened to them. I can't believe I spent good time and money on this drivel!!!
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Summary: Turned me off...
Review: I am an avid romance reader and found myself "tru"ly disappointed in this text for many of the reasons already named...in addition to the death blow. As the main character's love interest is a man of color, I was utterly turned off when the love play included the reference to "Mandingo" and the white slave owner. I wish I could have returned the book for a refund.
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Summary: People are being incredibly harsh
Review: I feel the reviews here have been somewhat harsh. Although the book is NO Deep End of the Ocean, it's not as bad as people are saying. I am a 43 year old woman with two kids married to a man 10 years younger who had never been a parent. I didn't know that was what the book was about when I bought it. She portrays some of the issues involved in this situation very well. Hank was fairly well developed in showing the resentment of the encroachment on his time that a sudden family brings while True showed the woman's obsession with age issue better. I agree she was entirely to consumed with bodily functions and I did have a real problem with her attack on Christians. But it's not so bad I would throw it in the fireplace or anything.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Jacquelyn Mitchard's books are usually excellent. This one is terrible. I agree with most of what the other reviewers who panned this book wrote and will not bother to repeat their on-the-mark comments. One thing that has not been mentioned about this book, however, is Mitchard's incredible hostility toward Christians. Her Christian, homeschooling mother character, Genevra, is truly appalling, telling small children that they are headed to hell, something no Christian I know would dream of doing. She makes other anti-Christian statements in the book, including a paragraph where she accuses God of mistreating Jesus. Has it not occured to Ms. Mitchard that people of many faiths read her books and that quite a few of them would be offended by comments like these? I don't know if I will ever read another of her books.
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Summary: Couldn't put this one down.
Review: I listened via audio book and was totally enthralled - to the point of actually missing the characters once I had finished the book. I was a bit amazed that the marriage/adoption took place so quickly, but thought on the whole that the book was awesome. This is my first book by this author and I look forward to reading more of her work. I found myself wishing I could contact the author to do a follow-up book so I didn't have to lose touch with the characters. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: No stars really
Review: A huge disappointment. Just about the only thing consistent in this book was the "cutesy" descriptions of merchandise at the onset of each chapter. The character Hank said it best, things failed when True the woman started behaving like True a girl. To us forty-somethings out here, this character was insulting, and in the real world, could use a swift kick in the . . .
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Summary: A Stupid Book
Review: I listened to the audio book version. If you think reading it was bad, listening to it was worse. The book was read by the author and her accent is so anoying, I just couldn't stand it. I think if it had been read by someone else I wouldn't have had such negative feelings about the book. Very disapointing work from someone talented enough to write " The Deep End of the Ocean".
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Summary: Bye is Better than Buy
Review: Just about as unlikeable and unlikely a story as I have ever read. Here we have a successful "woman of independent means" who is basically bullied into a quickie wedding with a much younger man of uncertain background. Self absorbed, shallow, trite, wordy, boring and entirely too explicit in the "love scenes." The author DOES manage to get the controlling, selfish husband down pretty well, but the "True" character is quite lame. Say Bye to this one, I certainly would not recommending you Buy it.
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