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Summary: The best book I've read in a long time
Review: I went out the night I heard about this book and got it, and as soon as I opened it, I had a horrible time putting it down. I finished reading it within a day, and I absolutely loved it! This was the first I had heard of Lori Wick, but I definitely will read more of her books. I love the way she writes and I can't wait to read more of her stories!
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Summary: Lori Wick delivers an awesome story
Review: I am a very picky reader. Basically I read Bodie Thoene and Linda Chaikin. I picked up the Princess one day and didn't put it down until I was finished. Shelby and Nikolai are very complex characters, Christian, but still flawed. They seem so real. They're not perfect, and Ms. Wick makes this obvious.Some authors don't develop the characters all that well. Spiritual characters often seem like they're perfect. While we are reminded of Shelby's sweetness and positive qualities, we're also aware of her mistakes and shortcomings.Nikolai is also a very believable character. He is compliant with tradition, but will have nothing to do with Shelby because he doesn't want her to replace Yvette. Yet he is a loving and caring person, so he realizes his mistakes. This story is about Nikolai and Shelby coming together. Shelby is ready for Nick to love her, but he's not ready. As soon as he begins to realize what a wonderful person she is, it might be too late for her to love him. You can pretty much predict the ending, but that didn't bother me. The excellence of this story is in how we reach the ending. The struggles they go through to love each other and act as a normal husband and wife even though nothing about their relationship was normal. The plot of this story is excellent. It's not your typical sappy romance. It deals with a lot of issues like learning to love. When Nick is in pain over losing Yvette, you feel so bad for him, yet you feel Shelby's loneliness as well. The development of Pendaran is excellent as well. I even noticed how Ms. Wick displays special characteristics of this fictional country. There are hints of a different dialect and you can tell the culture is different. I absolutely love this book. It's wonderful. I would suggest this to anyone out there. It's very spiritual and entertaining.
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Summary: The Princess
Review: I rarely have time to read books anymore, but a friend recomended that i read it. I thought it was good, i finished it in 2 days. I thought that it was pretty stupid how the character was kind of like "the perfect girl" and "the handsome prince". I don't like reading books with too much religiousness to it though. I did enjoy it because it was fiction, to get away from reality.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Ever since reading my first Lori Wick book, I've been hooked. She is an excellent Christian author. And this book is no exception. Wonderfully written, with a precious love story. Every one of her books has a jewel inside, if you're willing to look for it and be receptive to God. I learn something new every time I read her books. Definitely recommend this book.
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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: A second marriage for a widowed prince is not his idea of fun. Shelby, a fun-loving,down-to-earth kind of gal agrees to marry Nick, the prince. Lori Wick , the author of The Princess does an excellent job of the setting the plot up and developing it. Her use of words let the reader "jump in" to the story. Wick does an awesome job of making the story come to life with her word choice and uniqueness. I love the book, I have read it
three times and I still experience the excitement of reading it for the first time. This book has suspense as well as romance. It will have the reader in laughter and in tears. I would recommend this book to teenagers or older persons who love to read. I love The Princess and I hope others will too.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Lori Wick wrote an amazing book. I love reading, especially reading Christian romance, but i have not found a romance book i liked this much. This book was wonderfuly written. By the end of the book i felt like i was Shelby and Nikoli's best friend. This book is one of the greatest Christian romance novels ever written.
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Summary: This book got me hooked!
Review: I had never even heard of the auther Lori Wick until I noticed one of my friends reading this book. I love to read and by just glancing at the cover I knew that this was one book that I could not live my life without reading. Once my eyes hit the first page, I was instantly hooked on this author. She posses a writiing skill that will leave you hanging on to her every word. The Princess is the type of book that forces a reaction from the reader. Not many authors these days can do that. I was very pleased with the book and am now looking to begin my own Lori Wick collection. This book is definatly recommended to anyone, especially to those who are beginning to lose faith in love. Don't ever give up. God has a plan for us all.
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Summary: Enjoyable but overdone
Review: I enjoyed this book because the plot is one that I like. It is basically about two people who are not in love that get married and then learn to love each other. While this seems strange in our modern culture it is not so strange when you consider other cultures. What I didn't like about the book was the sections concerning the fair and the little boy. They really didn't do anything to move the plot along and seemed like filler to either make the book longer or to allow the author to say something that she didn't think she could say withing the main plot. These sections would have worked better if they had helped to build conflict between the two main characters. I find the book much more enjoyable when I completely skip these chapters. As with most Christian Fiction, this book has a rosey world view. It is almost as if the author wants us to believe that Christians have no flaws. The Bible tells about real Christians worts and all, so why don't Christian authors tell about their characters in the same way?
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Summary: Problems
Review: There were several problems I had with the writing style of this book itself, and the ideas within it.
First of all, it is written as if sexual intimacy is meant only for the pleasure of the husband, and is not meant to be mutual.
Secondly, why is it so horrible that Shelby did not IMMEDIATELY tell her husband that she was pregnant? It was probably discourteous, I'm sure, but a sin??? I don't know.
Thirdly, one thing that makes a story interesting is when the character(s) has/have one major flaw, whatever it may be. I could not find one among this book's cast of one-dimentional characters, and it made me so frustrated!
Also, I'm not married so I would not know, but do married people actually schedule when they make love? Because that is how Shelby's mother made it sound!
Another thing, which was only a minor irritation, was that he started calling her "Red." Is there any book available where the red-headed main (usually female) character is NOT called "Red"?? That is the most unimaginitive element in the whole book!
This is by far NOT the worst book I've ever read, but it was not as enjoyable as I had expected. Take my advice and read a novel where the author does not tip-toe around the issue with euphemisms and implications, but comes right out and says it in plain, outspoken language.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: This is the first Lori Wick book I have ever read, and I was surprised by how disappointing I found it. It was a good storyline to begin with (the only reason it is not just one star), but it could have been handled much better. The writing was dull and seemed amateurish, the dialog stiff and unnatural (I realize that sometimes that was called for, but it occurred in ALL of it!), the characters perfect---and where's the fun in that? Once again, let me emphasize that I liked the general plot. In the hands of a different writer, or written with a different style, or both, it could have been far more entertaining. Reading this has made me wary of pursuing any more of Wick's novels.
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