The Light Fantastic

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Summary: My personal favorite of all Xena ubers
Review: And the best lesbian love story romantic comedy ever written. What a great film this would make. It's sequel (also first published online) is just as wonderful. But this hugely amusing story is in a class by itself. Even the chapter headings are a riot of tongue in cheek double entendre. This wonderful book is possibly the most endearing lesbian novel ever written. The only thing that comes anywhere near it for me is "Fried Green Tomatoes." Ya gotta love a book where the panic stricken ex Hollywood actress, scarred in more ways than one, is hiding out from life in her home town and happens to cross paths with the feisty high school drama coach who enlists her to help with her production of "Oklahoma!" Hilarity ensues, as does tender erotic tinged romance. These characters may be based on the originals but they come out in very original ways all their own. Sweetly quirky and unforgettable. This is a Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romantic comedy for lesbians. Actresses complain they don't write great roles for them anymore, but they're just not looking in the right place. Lucy and Renee, just look at what you inspired. This one deserves to become a classic.

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Summary: Not sure if I read the same book!
Review: I bought this book based on the previous reviews. I regret spending the money. This book is mildly amusing, but I found the women characters bad tempered and not very deep. I quickly grew weary of their posturing, temper tantrums and swearing. The male characters are mostly nice people, and some were interesting. I really liked the horse.

The editing is very bad. One wonders if anyone read the galleys. There are 2-3 words missing on many pages. Words are blatantly misused. There are several large gaps in the plot.

If you can somehow accept these characters as people you want to read about, you might enjoy this tedious book. But don't say you weren't warned.

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Summary: What a book!!
Review: I did not expect this book to be as wonderful as it was. I enhaled it!! I enjoyed every page!!
This book has everything: the romance, the heartbreak, wonderful friendship..
I cant wait for other books by this talented author.

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Summary: The Light Fantastic is a wonderful production
Review: It always seems like a leap of faith when you spend no small amount of change on an author that you have never heard of who has just published her first novel. I am so glad that I jumped.
Ms. Tucker has written a wonderful charming work, full of carefully drawn characters that will stay in your head long after you have finished reading.
I suppose the book could be classified as "uber fiction", that much written in genre that encompasses all grades of work (some well written, some just plain awful) with Xena and Gabrielle as its prototypes. If you have an aversion for the genre I strongly suggest that you not let that stop you from reading a truly rich and funny romantic comedy.
Chloe Donahue, librarian and part-time drama teacher at the High School she attended as a teenager, is directing the senior class school production of "Oklahoma", a task that she hopes will be successful and help erase the previous year's fiasco of an attempt to stage an opera. Into her life enters Sara D'Amico, aunt of Nelson, a sweet high school football player turned thespian who has been picked to play "Curly", the lead in the school production. Sara, who herself was a successful actress in Hollywood, is now living a reclusive life with her brother and nephew, having fled the Hollywood scene and carries with her both emotional and physical scars from her time on the west coast. Chloe and Sara meet and thus begin a "Crazy" (as in Patsy Cline) romance that adheres to the line that the path of true love never did run smooth.
Ms. Tucker presents a rich bounty of characters, most of whom reside in a small town called Stonecreek, a northeastern town on the shores of Lake Erie. The author presents a wonderful list of supporting characters and they are drawn in such a way that you get a real sense of their relationships to one another. While much of the focus remains with Chloe and Sara's rollercoaster romance and the production of the school play, there are many well thought out subplots.
The publisher calls the book a "romantic screwball comedy" and being a being a fan of that type of film genre, I say this book is that and more. This is a novel to be savored. I hope that this will be the first of a many published works from this first-time author.

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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: The other reviews tell you the story of the book, so I won't go there. I will say be careful where you read it. I had to go to the hospital emergency room and made the mistake of taking this book to read between the tests. The author obviously likes the Three Stooges. Not only does she use them in the book, but she writes many scenes that they could have performed. I kept wanting to laugh out loud, just guffaw, which is not encouraged in a hospital, so I had to keep sticking my face in a pillow. I'm probably lucky I didn't end up on the psych ward. Sara and Chloe reminded me of the love,hate relationships that Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn specialized in. If you've ever loved someone so much that you wanted to knock their blocks off for the way they were behaving, you'll love these two. The whole book is not funny, but the rest of the story is satisfying also. Great story, great characters, great read.