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Summary: A quick, satisfying read--
Review: I don't regularly read the roamnce genre, but I do have a sofft spot for cowboys, and this is a quick, very satisfying story, with likeable characters and good story. The ending is quite fairy-tale like--I really wish people were as kind and fair and generous as they are here--but that didn't ruin it at all. This novel also has excellent, sultry love scenes. There is true feeling and passion here.
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Summary: langhorne
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. Still new to romance novels I have trouble witht he abrupt endings. I want more than happily ever after. I have been married for 16 years and the trouble did not start until we were married 2 years, that is when the marriage was challenged. I love the stories of people coming together, fighting their emotions, reasoning with themselves, and finally giving in to what works for them. In Beautiful Dreamer they are well matched and beautifully painted against the backdrop of Nevada. I could see it, I could feel it, I could almost smell it. My only regret is we will never know if it lasted. After all...Brother -of-the-Wind...
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Summary: langhorne
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. Still new to romance novels I have trouble witht he abrupt endings. I want more than happily ever after. I have been married for 16 years and the trouble did not start until we were married 2 years, that is when the marriage was challenged. I love the stories of people coming together, fighting their emotions, reasoning with themselves, and finally giving in to what works for them. In Beautiful Dreamer they are well matched and beautifully painted against the backdrop of Nevada. I could see it, I could feel it, I could almost smell it. My only regret is we will never know if it lasted. After all...Brother -of-the-Wind...
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Summary: Very romantic!
Review: I enjoyed this one! I found it to be a tear-jerker. A fast read.
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Summary: One of my favorite E. Lowell books.
Review: I liked this book! The characters are so much more memorable than those in EDEN BURNING and DESERT RAIN. (Don't waste your time reading those two.) This one has a western flavor, and you will want to add it to your library so you can read it over and over again.
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Summary: One little quibble
Review: I love Elizabeth Lowell's work. Her emotional intensity is phenomenal, particularly her ability to convey the pain of the characters when it seems like their deep and deathless love will not be returned. However, I have a quibble about one aspect of the male characters Lowell creates, which I thought was especially true of Rio. He is described a "brother to the wind," which means he is fated never to settle down but instead to drift aimlessly across the West, coming and going like a shift in the weather. Well, in psychology there is a concept called "locus of control." The idea is that one has either an internal locus of control, which means you believe you are an active participant in your own destiny, or you have an external locus of control, which means you feel you are buffeted about by forces beyond your control. An external locus of control often strikes me as rather weak: "I'll never love anybody as much as I love you but I'm fated to blow away sometime; nothing I can do about it. Sorry!" Please! A man as strong as Rio should have more strength of character. Instead of wallowing in the pain of thinking he loves her but won't be able to stay with her because of some cosmic destiny, he should put his mind to overcoming this unfortunate roll of the dice and getting on with the life he is offered (and isn't finding this woman another aspect of fate?). I realize that there wouldn't be much story if this were to happen before the end of the novel, but I still found it aggravating, so much so that I skipped a few chapters and just jumped to the end, where I knew Rio would stop all this foolishness and come back where he belongs.
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Summary: Should have read the preview-
Review: I purchased this one under the title of "Valley of the Sun" when it was first published as part of the Silhouette series. It was great then, and great now. I buy anything she writes. . . so it was my own fault that I was disappointed that it was not a new writing. It was, nevertheless, wonderful. . . a second time around.
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Summary: Was not what was expected
Review: I usually enjoy books by Elizabeth Lowell but I am half way through this book and I have to force myself to finish it. The book is very predictable and I feel that just because the hero and heroine have to love each other she makes them do that. Even though I do believe in love at first sight this seems a bit forced. There is not enough description of the attraction just that they are attracted to each other. It seems that I have read this storyline time and time before so I could predict what would happen next. This book is just writing for the sake of writing and it does not grab one's attention.
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Summary: beatiful dreamer
Review: I was very disapointed with this book I waited months for it to come out,and when it finally did I found it I already hade it printed under the other title it was put out many years ago,called Valley of the Sun. I was very disapointed considering I am a very big fan of Elizabeth Lowells.....
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Summary: Can Rio find water and love?
Review: Not a bad story. This is the story of Hope Gardner who lives in the Valley of the Sun. This is her heritage and the land she loves more than anything else in life. She has modeled to make money to drill for a new well. But no one thinks she can find water on her land. Especially the lecherous neighbor who has been after her for years. Along comes Rio who is part Native American and who is no longer a dreamer but he can find water if it exists. But can he do it without loosing his heart to Hope and finding he has dreams after all. You spend a lot of time listening to the philosophy of the Native Americans and looking into the sole of the main characters but it is a heartfelt romance.
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