The Price of Fame

Rating:
Summary: EXCELLENT! Could not put it down!
Review: Being a fanfiction writer myself, I have read most of it out there. Not many are this well written and can keep my attention for 4 straight hours, but this story did. An amazing journey that had me smiling and crying at times....i felt the pain. Beautifully poignant and moving, I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone who reads alternative fiction.

Rachel Hahn

Rating:
Summary: Good enough story - 3.5 out of 5 Stars
Review: I enjoyed this book. Parts of it were truly engrossing. Kathryn Kyle and Jay Parker are nice characters (though a bit too Xena & Gabrielle like for their own good). Where the book is rocky is in the way so many flashbacks are dumped in the reader's lap in the first half of the book. Maybe it is just me, but flashbacks that completely stop action and take me back to a big melodramatic event years ago don't work very well when they are plunked unceremoniously into the middle of a character's mournful musings. This happens more than one time. I think maybe 6 or 7 times if I am remembering correctly.

So while the book seemed pretty good by the end, it definitely is somewhat of struggle in the first half. I give it a 3.5 out of 5.

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Summary: Lesbian fiction at its finest!
Review: I have read works by Radclyffe, Lori L. Lake (sorry Lori... I see you reviewed this book below me), Blayne Cooper, Sarah Waters... let's just say that I have already spent more than a thousand dollars on books this year and it is not even 5 months into the year! So it is with some unauthorized authority that I am not just recommending this book, I am pleading with you...BUY IT NOW! You won't regret that you did.

There is only one draw back to reading it at this time. The sequel isn't due out until October (please!), or so I have it on good ("author"ized) authority.

Watch out Radclyffe... there's a new kid in town!

Rating:
Summary: True love
Review: I loved this book from the very first page. In no time at all I was feeling everything Jemison and Katheryn were feeling. Book is well written and easy to read.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent read!
Review: I read this book in one sitting - it held my attention. The characters (Kate & Jay) are destined to be together. Lynn did an excellent job in location descriptions and you wanted to be there with Kate & Jay.
For a first book, Lynn did an excellent job and can hardly wait for a sequel.

Rating:
Summary: Absorbing and Filled with Romance
Review: Kate Kyle has worked hard for many years to rise to the position of lead anchor for the WCAP TV news program in upstate New York. Little does she know that she will become an overnight sensation when disaster strikes at the state capitol, and she happens to be the only news person on the scene to relay the news live, on camera. She also helps with the rescue efforts, and her live report is carried nationally. Being thrust into the limelight has a dual positive effect: she is accorded fame, and the adoring focus brings her into contact with journalist Jay Parker, who happens to be an acquaintance from Kate's college days.

Jay and Kate's lives have touched before-twice, actually, under appalling circumstances. But the third time's a charm, and this time around there is no stopping the attraction. They embark upon a love affair with more passion and intensity than either of them has ever felt before. But once again, disaster strikes, and this time it's entirely out of their control. Will the price of fame mean that these two will be crushed?

This is romance writing at its most absorbing, with all the angst and uncertainty of missed communications and misdirected intentions. Ames touches on many aspects of these two women's lives, past and present, and though the reader can't help but root for their relationship, there is no way on earth it can work for them...or could it? THE PRICE OF FAME is well worth the foray to find out the answer to that question. ~Lori L. Lake, author of Stepping Out, Different Dress, Gun Shy, Under The Gun, and Ricochet In Time, and reviewer for Midwest Book Review, Golden Crown Literary Society's The Crown, The Independent Gay Writer, The Gay Read, and Just About Write.

Rating:
Summary: It's a definite winner!
Review: The Price of Fame is Lynn Ames's first novel, and it's a definite winner! I found myself wanting to read the entire thing in one sitting.

Ames's characters are extraordinarily realistic, and the dialogue is so well written the two protagonists leap off the page.

The book opens with a very innovative sequence of flashbacks. It was an intensely gripping start! And Ames keeps the ball rolling throughout with drama, intrigue, mystery, love and romance.

I can't wait to see what comes next from this very talented author!