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Summary: Readers will fall in love with this poignant, upbeat romance
Review: TV comedy writer Lily Benjamin is depressed over the death of her long time friend, mentor, and boss Harry Green. The producers of the hit sitcom Angel's Devils hire acid-tongued Charlie Roth to replace the popular Harry. At their first meeting, Lily and Charlie seem to rub each other the wrong way. Besides his not cutting her any slack over being a single mother raising a teenage boy, she finds his jokes about his physical handicap to be in poor taste. Lily's world collapses even further when her physically active son is injured during a domestic dispute. His injuries leave him paralyzed with the firm belief he has no future. Only Charlie can get inside his head and help him adjust to his condition. As she watches the abrasive Charlie helps her son adjust, Lily sees and falls in love with the inner being. Charlie also falls in love with Lily, but decides she needs a "complete" male for a spouse. Lily wants Charlie and plans to do whatever it takes to get him. Readers who enjoy a poignant, passionate contemporary tale hold Iris Rainer Dart in high esteem. Her latest novel, WHEN I FALL IN LOVE, is as deep as any novel ever gets because of the characters. Lily and Charlie struggle to adjust to his being wheelchair bound for life. The abrasive Charlie shows them that there is much left in the future for all of three them to look forward to if they go after it. Ms. Dart leaves her audience with a wonderful message that anyone can do just about anything if they only try. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: I know wherof I speak
Review: Altho I am not a person with a disability, I have been around disabled people my lifetime (I'm 42). I found Dart's treatment of this subject to be incredibly right on. People fear disability, and tend to treat anyone disabled with kid gloves, as if they are saints and imbecils, both. Lily does all the stereotypes of the freaked out "non-disabled" mom, the son goes through typical grief stages, and so on. I don't want to give away the whole story as is my wont. I loved the interplay of the characters, and I fell for the unlikely (in fiction) love-interest, Charlie Roth. Go for the book-- it is well done!
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Summary: Better Than "Beaches", Dart's Most Well Known Book!
Review: Author Dart has labored in the trenches of writing television comedy herself so what better protagonists to bring to a story than two comedy writers for a television show? The heroine is already engaged to a handsome heart surgeon when she meets Charlie, known as The King Of Jokes, who is her new writing boss. Any novel that features a heroine who picks a comedy writer hero, who also has a disability, after dumping the heart surgeon, is/was a must read for me! The best love story of 1999.
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Summary: Three people read in three days!
Review: I am a college student and don't spend a lot of my time reading for fun, but when I picked up Iris Rainer Dart's new novel it was different. Although it could have been more detailed in all of lifes hurdles (then again, it wasn't someone's biography) I greatly enjoyed it. As did my two roommates and one friend. After I finished reading "When I Fall in Love" I pawned the book off to the three of them and, three days later, they were done. For, they too have rave reviews of the new novel.
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Summary: What a Wonderful Surprise!
Review: I don't know just what it was that drove me to read this book as I haven't read any of the author's previous ones (although I did see the move based on her book, BEACHES). I didn't know anything about the plot or characters when I began and didn't know just what to expect. The author hooked me from the beginning and I was pleasantly surprised at the choice of love interest she chose for Lily -- talk about your unconventional hero! Since reading this book over a year ago, I've been recommending it to everyone I know - it's my pleasure to recommend to anyone viewing this review at Amazon.com. This book is a guaranteed "feel good" read.
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Summary: Jessie
Review: It has been my life-long wish to become a writer. To put words down on the written page that will move, captivate, and enthrall the audience. Novels that are not only well written but seemless -- moving the reader into another realm where words blur into reality. I have seen only a handful of authors do this and Iris Rainer-Dart is one of them. This is the first book I have read by Dart and to be honest, it sat on my shelf for monthes. Now that I have read it, however, I can't help but ask myself "Why did you wait so long?" She is a wonderful author and this is an astounding novel. All throughout the novel, I lost myself in the pages. The characters were so well sketched, the story so plausible. It was just so REAL. How often can you say that about a novel and its characters? Even now, several days after I have finished reading it, the story stays with me. I find myself re-reading sections that I particularly liked and thinking about the characters as if they were real. I don't know how Dart does it, but she finds a way to dig into your soul and remain there. Just how does she do that? And, more importantly, how can I learn her secret?
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Summary: MARVELOUSLY, ENTERTAINING READ
Review: Sometimes, a reader needs to pick a book because the blurp makes it sound enjoyable, and she needs enjoyable. Sometimes a reader chooses it for the romance and laughter, something she is craving that day. And somtimes, when the reader gets into the book, she realizes that yes, it is romantic; yes it is pleasurable; yes it makes her laugh out loud at times; but, unexpectedly, it makes her think, and that is a wonderful gift she hadn't expected. She finds the words to be magic carpets that transcend time and space, and for a full day she is immersed in the lives of Lily, Byran, and Charlie. She learns about handicaps, emotional and physcial; she learns about beating the odds; she learns about love penetrating prejudice. Her heart is full; her eyes are wet; her beliefs are buoyed; she has read a deftly written book in one sitting and she is most grateful to the author. She thanks Iris Rainer Dart profusely in her review and she encourages others.........If you need to feel uplifted by life again, treat yourself to "When I Fall In Love." The carpet ride awaits!!
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Summary: MARVELOUSLY, ENTERTAINING READ
Review: Sometimes, a reader needs to pick a book because the blurp makes it sound enjoyable, and she needs enjoyable. Sometimes a reader chooses it for the romance and laughter, something she is craving that day. And somtimes, when the reader gets into the book, she realizes that yes, it is romantic; yes it is pleasurable; yes it makes her laugh out loud at times; but, unexpectedly, it makes her think, and that is a wonderful gift she hadn't expected. She finds the words to be magic carpets that transcend time and space, and for a full day she is immersed in the lives of Lily, Byran, and Charlie. She learns about handicaps, emotional and physcial; she learns about beating the odds; she learns about love penetrating prejudice. Her heart is full; her eyes are wet; her beliefs are buoyed; she has read a deftly written book in one sitting and she is most grateful to the author. She thanks Iris Rainer Dart profusely in her review and she encourages others.........If you need to feel uplifted by life again, treat yourself to "When I Fall In Love." The carpet ride awaits!!
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Summary: Kept me laughing and crying-one of the best reads ever!
Review: The whole story line with Lily and Charlie and Mark kept me focused on what would happen even when I knew I had to put the book down, but I simply couldn't bring myself to do it.
The part when Lily sends Charlie the video of "I love you's" and he starts bawling like a baby. I just love it when men get emotional in novels like these. When Mark is out of the picture, and Charlie is free to profess his love for Lily, the way he proposes made my heart swell three times its size.
This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves pure romance without the huge hunky jerks who always get the girl in the end, and finally can have a true hero winning out.
Now get off the computer, get to your nearest bookstore, and buy this book!
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Summary: I love you Iris!
Review: When I saw that Iris Rainer Dart had a new book out, I knew right away that I would be in for several most enjoyable hours. My only problem was that the book had to end. Dart is not afraid to tackle unusual, off the beaten path story lines. Her characters are both real and complicated. Some might say, I don't want to read about tragedies, but please give her a chance. This is what life is all about. You'll laugh & cry with this book. At the risk of letting the cat out of the bag, suffice to say that Lily learned what is truly important in life, in regard to Charlie. Iris, you are "one of us"; I wish you were writing for a TV show currently. Oh, and when you get this book, savor it. It is such a page turner, that you'll have to try to slow yourself down. Read it while eating your favorite food; that's what I did. It makes the food and the book oh so much more tasty!!!
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