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Summary: good but not GREAT
Review: i have read most of his other books with great joy. they have always managed to touch me in some way. however, this one didn't touch me as much as the others. like other people, i was hoping for a happy ending, but the poignant one that was created was just as good. i think one of the things i didn't like about the book was that with the title being "the looking glass," i assumed that the looking glass would play a larger part in the story--much the was the christmas box, the letter, the locket and the timepiece each played in their respective stories. other than it being mentioned only 2 times in the entire book, it has no bearing. sure--it is a symbol for her broken trust, but that was it. i liked the action in the story & how quaye was able to overcome her fear of jak and learn to trust again. i liked how hunter stood up for sonny & fixed it so that no one would harass them again. This may not have been an absolute truthful portrayal of gold mining communities in the west, but it was artfully done and the book itself is inspirational. A good read for a wintry day.
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Summary: LOVED IT!!!
Review: I just got through reading this story for the second time, and it was just as good this time as well. You have this abused wife, whose husband beats her and leaves her for dead in the cold. And if it wasn't for those wolves getting ready to devour her, Hunter would have never known that she was out there. There was some statements made in the book that Hunter told Quaye, and that is that we are all worthy of love, and unless she got rid of the perceptions she had of love, she would never know it. It is really sad when a man has to sell his own children in order to eat. That was all he wanted. ANd he had hoped that he was giving his daughter a better life in America. It didn't initially work out that way, but the end truly outweighs the beginning. It is a beautiful love story. Clean,yet very romantic.
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Summary: It wasa workbook for my soul.
Review: I loved The Looking Glass. It was a workbook for my soul. Quaye is someone any woman can relate to. She had to go through a lot of difficulties but by the end of the book she had learned how to love and how to be loved. She let go of her fears and saw herself as she truly was. Thank you RIchard Paul Evans for another great novel.
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Summary: This book touched my heart!
Review: I read and brought this book a few years ago and I love it now as much as I did back then. It is a very special book that is both spiritual and romantic. It might not have the ending that everyone wanted, but I feel that if the book had ended any other way, it would not have been as good. I cried at the end of the book and once in a while a pick it up and read it again.
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Summary: This book touched my heart!
Review: I read and brought this book a few years ago and I love it now as much as I did back then. It is a very special book that is both spiritual and romantic. It might not have the ending that everyone wanted, but I feel that if the book had ended any other way, it would not have been as good. I cried at the end of the book and once in a while a pick it up and read it again.
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Summary: Richard Paul Evans Does it again
Review: I think this story of hope and sympathy is a great book and one you should add to your collection. Richard Paul Evans is a great author. This is the kind of book your family will enjoy reading all together. It is abook you can read over and over again.
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Summary: Though I've read all of his other books...
Review: I was very disappointed with the latest. It was too predictable and didn't "tug at my heartstrings" as the Christmas Box trilogy did. but I have faith, maybe the next will be better.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: Perhaps because I am newly divorced, i loved this story. I wished Hunter could have lived a little longer ultimately. Quaye reminded me of women who just keep taking and feeling that perhaps this is their lot. I was glad that Hunter let her know that she is entitled to love. The way he said it was beautiful. What a beautiful love story.
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Summary: no tears this time...
Review: Richard Paul Evans is a gifted and talented author of inspirational and insightful tales. This book fulfills those goals. This is a story of two people in need of trust, faith, hope and love. A man who has lost so much in his life discovers a young woman who never had much to loose. Hunter is a preacher turned gambler. He has turned his back on God due to the death of his wife and child. Hunter is accused of a murder that he didn't commit. Quaye is a young girl from a starving Irish family, whose father "sold" her to a man, Jack, on his way to America. The husband turns out to be an extremely abusive man interested only in gold and money. Quaye accepts her life as the only possibility, no matter how horrible. hunter and Quaye are thrown together in a blizzard. They learn and discover things about themselves when viewed through the others eyes. The story was well written. The details of place and time were wonderful. The only disappointment was... this was the first novel of Richard Paul Evans that did not move me tears with it's lessons on life.
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Summary: no tears this time...
Review: Richard Paul Evans is a gifted and talented author of inspirational and insightful tales. This book fulfills those goals. This is a story of two people in need of trust, faith, hope and love. A man who has lost so much in his life discovers a young woman who never had much to loose. Hunter is a preacher turned gambler. He has turned his back on God due to the death of his wife and child. Hunter is accused of a murder that he didn't commit. Quaye is a young girl from a starving Irish family, whose father "sold" her to a man, Jack, on his way to America. The husband turns out to be an extremely abusive man interested only in gold and money. Quaye accepts her life as the only possibility, no matter how horrible. hunter and Quaye are thrown together in a blizzard. They learn and discover things about themselves when viewed through the others eyes. The story was well written. The details of place and time were wonderful. The only disappointment was... this was the first novel of Richard Paul Evans that did not move me tears with it's lessons on life.
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