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For Crying Out Loud :

For Crying Out Loud :

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: For crying out loud read this book
Review: This book is a page-turner. If you have ever been in love or ever hope to be you can relate. The story is intriguing and unfolds with small surprises. Can't wait to read the second novel in this series - For the Love of God - coming this month.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: For crying out loud read this book
Review: This book is a page-turner. If you have ever been in love or ever hope to be you can relate. The story is intriguing and unfolds with small surprises. Can't wait to read the second novel in this series - For the Love of God - coming this month.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A sequel?
Review: What is this trend with writers thinking a good, solid romantic tales takes 2, 3, 4 books to tell!? There seems to be no beginning middle or end to this book, and that's a flaw I've noticed in a number of 'romance' or 'action-romance' novels lately. One scene after another pretty much displaying the same emotions, the same connections, the same hapless "oh, why can't we just be happy" sentiments.

I think it's sad that some of the small lesbian presses have gone out of business, and it's great that new writers can find their way into print through POD. But that means there's a lot of not very good stuff being "published." Unfortunately, this book belongs in that category. For my money from now on I'm sticking to the established presses when I'm taking a chance on a new writer unless I can actually read a good sample to assure myself that the grammatical flaws won't annoy me so much I'll have to stop reading.

Like another reviewer said, too, I will be happy if I never read another lesbian novel with a character named "Alex." It's been done to death, girls! Put that one on the list with "Kate" and "Jackie."

My advice to writer Whitaker and the plethora of others who are printing long, rambling romance novels (with a bit of action/adventure tossed in for supposed tension) in serial format adding up to thousands of pages: try writing just *one* good novel that takes two strong characters from a start, to a middle and to an ENDING.


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