A Long Fatal Love Chase

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Summary: Ravishing! Alcott never seems to amaze me!
Review: This was a superb book! I really felt pity and sorrow for Rose. I felt I was in the chase with her. I kept hoping that Tempest would not be just around the corner. I thought the love between Ignatius and Rose was so pure. It was a shame they felt that they could never be as one. Although the book ends as it does, it is, in the truest sense, a romance.

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Summary: Not to be missed!
Review: As an avid reader of anything by LMA, I had high expectations for this book, and it lived up to them well! I absolutely could not put it down. I would reccomend it for anyone!

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Summary: A spirited beginning turns to a disaster midway
Review: "A Long Fatal Love Chase" is a nice change for the author of "Little Women". Unfortunately, Louisa May Alcott does not hold up the whole way. In the beginning, Rosamond has the same kind of wants and desires as many young women her age. Although Alcott gives her the book's worst and most corny lines, she establishes her quite well. Philip Tempest is a wonderful character in the beginning. Sure he is dark and dangerous, but that is part of his charm and what makes him the perfect object of young Rose's desire. Closer to the middle of the book, Alcott darkens Tempest to make him the incarnation of evil. Not the most brilliant move but still not that bad. When Rose seeks her solitude, the book is still engaging. But when Tempest is shown to be the meanest soap-opera-like devil around and Rose finds Ignatius, the book becomes too much. Alcott should not have tried to make Tempest appear so evil, or Ignatius so saintly for that matter. But even then, she should have capitalized more on Rose's attraction to Tempest. Rose, all too easily, realizes what kind of man Tempest is. And even when she does, her love dies just as easily. True, Tempest is too evil-to-be-true kind of character but Rose throughout the book is not too good-to-be-true, so how can she reject Tempest just like that? Ignatius, on the other hand, is the worst character imaginable: too pure, too right, and too boring. By the end of the book, I stopped caring about everyone. Maybe Alcott should have listened to the old edage that good guys finish last and made Rose stay with Tempest.

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Summary: A wonderful story about the pain of betrayal.
Review: I found this novel by sure accident but I am heartily glad I did. One reviewer said the novel was predictable, but I thought it was sheer genius. I am not one to read stories that have a sad ending; I prefer happy ones that uplift me, but this novel did so despite the sorrow I felt along with Rose.

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Summary: Shallow and predictable
Review: I eagerly chose the audiocassette version of this book to keep me focussed as I drive long distances in my job. Imagine my disappointment as I listened to Rosamond play into Tempest's hands time and again. I could not believe that Alcott, a truly fine author, had produced such a simplistic story. I was very disappointed at the ending also and just thought the whole thing was a bit too melodramatic!

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Summary: an awesome book for ALL ages!
Review: I read this book as a freshman in high school and loved it! I have always enjoyed ms. Alcotts books, but found this one to be one of my favorites. Rosamonds charucter was intresting and easy to understand. Phillip was easy to hate, but the way ms Alcott developed him made the reader want to like him reguardless of his flawess and evil side. I would recomened this book to all ages and genders.

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Summary: One of my faves!!
Review: After Little Women this is my favorite book by Louisa May Alcott. (infatuation with Tempest? umm no wouldn't that be Tempest's infatuation with Rosamond~comment on another message left). I highly recommend this book. Its sooo addictive. If you like A Long Fatal Love Chase and want to read another highly addictive book I recommend Diane Haeger's "Beyond the Glen"

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Summary: The chase.
Review: This book was just something else. Alcott wrote with much intesity that you didn't want to put the book down. When you first meet the main character there is so much tension building right when you meet the "chase". I recommend this book to anyone who loves mystery and romance in one. Happy reading :)

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Summary: One-dimensional and immature, but interesting (somewhat)
Review: The characters in this novel are pure good or pure evil...like real life. Uh, yeah. Rosamond's infatuation with Tempest is understandable..he's charming, gorgeous, wealthy. Probably Tempest is what holds the frail story together. Rosamond's incessant whining and worrying is irritating. Ignatious' unadulterated support of this perfect angel is dubious. Here's what I think...Rosamond should have chosen Tempest. At least she wouldn't have a dull life...

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Summary: Mesmerizing and enveloping penmanship by Alcott
Review: I have always loved Louisa May Alcott, so imagine my delight when I see this book on the stands. It is a serial that won't let you put it down. You fall in love with the antihero, even has he mercilessly hunts her down across the world. And my favorite ingenious part was the switch of identities with the dead body to escape him. Perfect ending. It makes you want to die with them.