The Last Valentine

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Summary: A heartwarming story!
Review: "The Last Valentine" is a really good book. It has a lot of meaning in it, and the characters are well developed. The story really held my interest.

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Summary: Read....(tissue).....read.....(tissue)
Review: "The Last Valentine" is a wonderful book. After reading it I sent a copy to my mother. With all the hatred in the world we could all use more love, respect, and Kleenex. Every 10 pages or so I had to put the book down to gather my thoughts. I would recommend this book to all who have a heart. Those of you who don't, then don't bother!

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Summary: A timeless love story
Review: A well written page turner that tugs at your heart. I read this book in two days, and I don't like love stories! This book touches deep inside the reader to a place that exists in all of us. As our heroine, Caroline, awaits the return of her soldier husband, the reader waits too, feeling her pain and wishing with each page for him to come home. This story tells about the kind of love that transcends time and lives on in the face of incredible adversity. It reminds us that hope really does have a place in a lover's heart.

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Summary: A Wonderful Book for Everyone
Review: I am not sure what motivated me to buy the book in the first place, but after I read it it quickly became one of my favorites. It is all about the things in life that really matter. The love story touched not only my heart but also my soul. I have shared it and recommended it to many of my friends and acquaintances and it has blessed them as well.

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Summary: I appreciate a good love story, but this one misses the mark
Review: I consider the books I buy as gifts to myself, and I relish the time I spend in reading one. The Last Valentine was a major disappointment, and a waste of my time and my money. Aside from being totally predictable, the author seems to underestimate the intelligence of his readers, and feels the need to explain details that are obvious to most of us. That, plus the incessant use of cliche after cliche, made this read boring for me. You could easily tell what was going to happen on the next page, and the next, and the next. If I can't learn something from a book, I at least want to be entertained. This did neither for me. I hope the author doesn't quit his day job.

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Summary: Inspiring and unforgetable love story
Review: I cried. I laughed. This is a book I would recommend everyone to read. I am presently sharing it with the ladies I teach in Sunday School. Good reading and easy to follow.

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Summary: Wonderful Story of Love
Review: I enjoy Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans, and if you do, too, James Michael Pratt is definitely an author you need to put on your reading list. This book is the first of his trilogy (the others being The Lighthouse Keeper and Ticket Home) dealing with the theme of love, set in the World War II era. What I love about his style is it's almost completely free of questionable content, ie gratuitous profanity and the like. However, I must say his work is a more difficult read because he tends to use at least two different person's stories while bouncing around between those two time periods. If you can keep up with everything that's going on (who lives where and when...and who they love...) then you'll really enjoy this! :)

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Summary: Wonderful Story of Love
Review: I enjoy Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans, and if you do, too, James Michael Pratt is definitely an author you need to put on your reading list. This book is the first of his trilogy (the others being The Lighthouse Keeper and Ticket Home) dealing with the theme of love, set in the World War II era. What I love about his style is it's almost completely free of questionable content, ie gratuitous profanity and the like. However, I must say his work is a more difficult read because he tends to use at least two different person's stories while bouncing around between those two time periods. If you can keep up with everything that's going on (who lives where and when...and who they love...) then you'll really enjoy this! :)

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Summary: Worth the read
Review: I enjoyed this story better than the Bridges of Madison County territory, as the mass market paperback refers to. It was a little slow in the beginning, but I'm glad I stuck with it. I read the book all day on a Saturday. I couldn't put it down...I had to kow what happened to Neil Sr., Caroline, Neil Jr., and Susan!

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Summary: A little predictable and slow, but a good afternoon read
Review: I guess I missed the point, but I was more interested in the son and interviewer's romance than the parents. It just seemed a little unbelievable and almost hard to imagine. I read it and didn't walk away dissatisfied though. Maybe a follow up about how the son lived out his parents love with the new woman in his life??