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Summary: Very realistic
Review: As a lesbian who was engaged to a man when she came out, I can completely sympathize with what Jaime went through. The confusion and emotion are very real.
The early part of the book - when the friendship between Jaime and Ryan is developing - is very well written and easy to read. However, once Jaime and her fiancee break up and Jaime begins to come out, the writing and the story become very cliched. The ending seems very rushed, like the author just wanted to get them together and didn't care how it was done.
Overall, this is a good book. Just be prepared for a let-down ending.
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Summary: Could not put this book down - Loved it !
Review: I have read the book twice, once nonstop over a weekend and again a couple chapters a day just to savor the writing - it's that good.
The 2 main characters I loved right off - both are people you would feel comfortable with very quickly.
The humor of the piece was super, it really stands out from other romances.
This will make an excellent gift for friends.
I can't wait to read more novels by this author.
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Summary: IFMHISF
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Once I got it I could not put it down until I was finished. The way the story is woven is awesome and I would recommend this book for all fans of lesbian fiction. The interactions of all of the characters, not only the main ones, is crucial to the flow of any story and S.X. Meagher does an excellent job of allowing the reader to become engrossed in the lives of not only the main characters but also the supporting ones. Again it was a wonderful read and I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys a well written story.
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Summary: Desert Island Book
Review: I suppose all insatiable readers have a "desert island book list" - those books you love so much that you'd choose them as your eternal reading material for the time you're stranded on that island. Well, I've just added "I Found My Heart in San Francisco" to my list. I honestly couldn't put it down!Ms. Meagher brings her characters to astonishing life. We learn about Jamie Evans and Ryan O'Flaherty, two women whose lives cross in a sociology class about the lesbian experience. Ryan is an out, gorgeous lesbian, taking the class for educational and social reasons. Jamie, engaged to Jack, the most promising young law student at Stanford, chooses the class for credits. But there are feelings between the two as soon as they meet, and the author develops them so believably, so sweetly and so sexily, I was caught up in this story from page one. This novel is a simply wonderful voyage of self-discovery and of what it means to truly commit to love. Don't miss it.
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Summary: I Found My Heart in San Francisco
Review: I think so highly of I Found My Heart in San Francisco that I have purchased extra copies of it and have given them to friends. The storyline is one that most readers will relate to and find interesting as well as entertaining and humorous. One of my major complaints with fiction that centers around lesbians is that so often I really don't care what happens to the characters because the author has not been able to pull me in to become emotionally involved. With Jamie and Ryan I did not have that problem at all; I loved them and the supporting cast.
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Summary: Top drawer lesbian fiction
Review: If you are looking for lesbian fiction with characters so real that you find yourself wondering about them long after you finish the book, look no further. I read this book in one weekend because I couldn't put it down. SX Meagher's protagonists, Jamie and Ryan, are engaging, complex, articulate and written with uncommon depth as are her secondary characters. Dialogue, in my opinion, is her strongest skill, and the dialogue in IFMHISF is wonderful. The book itself is a lesson in how lovers ought to communicate. This is a love story full of laughter, conflicts, angst, danger and sex. It might not not make you cry and laugh as it did me, but it will engage and entertain you, and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: Let's see, woman living in San Francisco enrolls in a course about lesbian psychology. Friends -- and the man she's engaged to -- ask her why and her answers are vague at best. It can't possibly be because she's having lesbian feelings. Why, where do you think she's from, San Francisco or something? Oh yeah, she is. I just didn't buy Jamie's initial denial. She lives in a place where every 4th woman is a lesbian and yet NOBODY -- including her -- seems to have ever thought "hmmm, maybe she's gay." It just isn't possible in S.F. to live in a separate straight world and go through life untouched by gay people. They're everywhere! This would have played better in Dubuque or Peoria or upstate New York. As a tale of The City, it only makes sense if it's 1955. Writing is okay --it's a first novel. The author should try again as her mechanics at least are better than most first timers.
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Summary: Emotionally true
Review: Oh, God, I could relate to Jamie, except for the wealthy part. I also fell in love with a woman when I was engaged, way back in the mists of time. I had a very hard time putting this one down, even daring to read it at lunch (right here in the Buckle of the Bible Belt!) This book has passion, romance, confusion, and is very true emotionally. Both Jamie and Ryan are unprepared for the depth of emotion that their budding friendship brings, and eventually have to decide just how to handle it. Let's put it another way - as the queen of buying on discount, I'd buy it at full price.
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Summary: Rock Solid
Review: Once you enter Jamie and Ryan's world, you won't want to leave. Sweet romance, poignant angst, sexual tension to spare, dialogue that rings true, and a depth of characterization rarely achieved in first novels turns reading SX Meagher's work into a nearly addictive pastime. Watch as the women take a long and often bumpy journey towards the love of a lifetime. This is a novel you'll want to read again and again. Review by Blayne Cooper, author of "Cobb Island," "The Last Train Home," "Madam President," "First Lady," and several other works of lesbian fiction.
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Summary: One of the great classic ubers
Review: One of the best coming out novels, lesbian love stories, picaresque sociological treatises, or works of erotica that you will ever read. A monumental achievement (the author intends to write a novel length book about her characters for every letter of the alphabet) and a distaff look at life in S.F. every bit as significant as "Tales of the City." Both of the ubers are young here and still in school, but it gives them an awful lot of memorable growth work to do for, with and towards each other. This would make a great series for the proposed gay channel, every bit as compelling as "The L Word." And more romantic.
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