Summer Light (Nova Audio Books)

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Summary: Heatwarming and Tender Tale
Review: Summer Light by Luanne Rice is a wonderfully heartwarming and touching story. This is definitely Rice at her best! It is romantic and sentimental, without being overbearing, with a touch of the mystical thrown in!

May Taylor is a single mother with a "gifted" daughter, who claims to speak with angels. While flying home to Connecticut, Kylie is warned of the impending aircraft danger by one of her angel friends, and seeks the aid of Martin Cartier to help her and her mother to safety. Not knowing why, Kylie knows that this man will somehow play a role in their lives. Cartier, a tough, kind, and greatly sought after bachelor, is a hockey player with the Boston Bruins. He pursues May until she agrees to marry him.

Rice once again weaves magic with her characters and one cannot help but fall right into their lives and into their emotions. Balancing issues of death, single parenthood, dual careers, scandal, parental issues, as well as hailing from two different countries, Rice brings home to her readers that any relationship requires commitment, work, dedication, honesty, and most of all love. I was endeared to this quote from the book, "That's what a married couple does . . .love each other through sickness and health, for richer, for poorer, in good times and bad. They love each other's children and try to honor each other's parents - even when the whole thing seems impossible."

Their marriage is tested, challenged and tested again and Rice's portrayal of a family ripped apart by the trials of life and past events is uncannily real. I could not put this latest bestseller down and was completely swept away and into the saga. I absolutely loved this book and Rice confirms once again, that only love is real. This is one book that will touch your heart and warm your soul - a definite keeper.

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Summary: Summerlight from Twee HB
Review: Summer Light is my favourite !! I think this is the best novel of Luanne Rice. Summerlight was the first book that I read of Luanne. Through Amazone, I came across and gladly found her novels !! Summerlight proved that my believe, "Angels and love", do exist in this world.

What, May Taylor and her daughter, Kylie experienced in their life as Kylie helped her mother to find love and hapiness as what my daughter and I went through life together in few years back.

May Taylor of the Bride Barn also mentioned "Twice" in Firefly Beach at Firefly Ball. May Taylor knows Caroline Renwick. My smile came to me when read this part in Firefly. How wonderful I thought!!

I think that it is so great that Luanne Rice had put the above excellent personal touch into her novels. I think it makes the reader, I don't know about others but for me it did, feels involved and want to read more and more of her next book. As I now just discovered that her next book "Safe Harbour" has Sam Trevor, Joe Connor's brother, of Firefly Beach as a main male character. This is so great, Just can't wait for "Safe Harbour" to come to New Zealand.

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Summary: A keeper
Review: This is the first time I've read anything by LuAnne Rice, but it definitely will not be my last.
I'm inspired by the way she draws the reader into the lives of these characters and you suddenly find yourself wrapped up in their emotions as if they were your own. I'm eager to see if she is consistent with her style and technique. I highly recommend this book.