Love on Lesbos

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Summary: A tangled, heady, compellingly written adventure
Review: Love On Lesbos by Helena Lattimore is a truly enthralling, romantic tale of a young woman who returns home to the Greek island of Lesbos. Gradually adjusting to the death of her female lover, she becomes entangled in a web of danger as two beautiful women vie to court with her. A tangled, heady, compellingly written adventure-filled story, Love On Lesbos is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to the growing library of outstanding lesbian fiction.

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Summary: Good story; needs to be longer
Review: This is a good story, but it suffers from not being long enough. Cynthia is slowly coming out of the grief over the death of her partner Kitty when she meets two fascinating women, Sophia and Greta. This book contains mystery, intrigue, suspense, possible terrorist connections, murder attempts and two passionate love affairs. The problem is that all of this supposedly happens in just two days. Cynthia meets Sophia first, sleeps with her and decides she's met her next great love. Then she meets Greta and decides she's met her soul mate. I'm always a little nervous about people who meet someone and fall passionately in love after a few minutes. Maybe things are different in the jet set, which all of these ladies conveniently belong to. I suspect, since this is Lattimore's first novel, that she just didn't know how to develop her story better. It's a good story, but it could have used more detail and development to make it more believeable.