Family Blessings

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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: I just finished reading this book for the third time and tears were streaming down my eyes. Ms. Spencer makes her characters believable and her books are nearly impossible to put down. I highly reccommend her books; once you read one, you will be rushing out to buy evrything you can get your hand on that she has written.

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Summary: Romance at it's best
Review: I loved this book! I thought it would bother me about their age differences but Chris was a mature 30 so it didn't bother me at all. I also sympathise with Lee having had to take family scorn on the man I married. Although just like the book it had a happy ending and all is forgoten. I cried at the end where they talk about the three souls looking down on her and waiting......

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Summary: One of the best love stories ever written.
Review: I loved this book. Lavyrle Spencer really allowed you to become part of the Reston Family in their time of grief. At first I thought that the age difference between Chris and Lee would bother me, but it did not because Chris was a very mature 30 year old. A truly outstanding book. I was a little disappointed in the movie. The movie left out too many of the little things that tell you why Chris and Lee became so close and later became not only friends but lovers as well. A number of my friends at work have read this book, upon my suggestion, and all of us agree that it is one of the best.

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Summary: You have got to read this!
Review: I picked this book up on a whim, wondering how Ms. Spencer would run with this story. A woman falling in love with a man who is almost young enough to be her son--and who was, in fact, her son's best friend? She made it believable. These were two people whostarted out with a mother-son relationship...which turned into friendship and an equal respect for each other...and then into something more romantic. They're both very likable and admirable people and I cheered for them all the way. I also enjoyed thedepiction of small-town life and Lee's family and Chris's duties as a police officer. I was sorry to hear that she had recently retired, now that I've discovered her work. I hope her other works are half as good.

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Summary: Unforgettable love story
Review: I picked up this audiobook for the first time three years ago, and found the only romance author worth reading. Lee and Christopher seem like real people that I'd like to know. Christopher is a police officer who survived an unhappy childhood in an alcoholic family, so he is naturally attracted to Lee, a widowed mother and flower shop owner who always puts her family first. The author does a good job of portraying Lee as a strong and independent woman, without making her seem like a martyr. Chris is the perfect guy, just the right combination of strong and gentle. The reader's delivery brings all the characters to life and makes them impossible to forget (except she sometimes makes Lee's voice sound 65 instead of 45). I wanted so badly for Lee and Christopher to find happiness in the end. After reading almost all of LaVyrle Spencer's books, this is still my favorite.

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Summary: My favorite Spencer book!!
Review: I read this book 2 years ago, and I have never forgotten it! I recently re-read it, and I still love it just as much! LaVyrle Spencer has the neatest ability to touch your heart and make you fall in love with the characters. And I totally fell in love with Christopher! He is truly the ideal man, and I would love to find a man just like him!! I have since read every book LaVyrle has written, and I have never been disappointed by anything except the fact that she has retired. I definately recommend this to anyone looking for a perfect man and a sexy but sensitive book.

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Summary: Dried the eyes a few times
Review: I read this book while @work (I work on the phones) and would have to take a few deep breaths and hard swallows before I could answer calls a few times while reading this book. LaVyrle Spencer can really sweep you into her words and she sure made you remember what it felt like to be in true love. This is the first of her books I've read, and NOT THE LAST! Great story!

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Summary: Dried the eyes a few times
Review: I read this book while @work (I work on the phones) and would have to take a few deep breaths and hard swallows before I could answer calls a few times while reading this book. LaVyrle Spencer can really sweep you into her words and she sure made you remember what it felt like to be in true love. This is the first of her books I've read, and NOT THE LAST! Great story!

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Summary: FAMILY BLESSINGS
Review: I truly believe this is Lavyrle Spencer's best book. The story is so well written that you feel as if Lee and Christopher could be people that live on your street. It just proves that love has no age bounderies. Lavyrle Spencer has a way of turning the everyday person's life into the most intriguing love story. She is by far the best contemporary romance writer of our time. I just wish she would come out of retirement and write more stories for us. No one could ever take her place.

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Summary: Finally, A Delightful Older Woman/Younger Man Story
Review: I wish this kind of story were written as often as the older man/younger woman theme. It's always been surprising to me that so many women romance authors embrace the scenario of a girl barely out of her teens (or in some cases not even) hooking up with some guy old enough to be her father (or in some cases grandfather), yet shun the idea of a romance between a mature woman and young man. Ms Spencer really doesn't take much of a chance here though. The guy is 30 and the woman 44 but from the way she has the characters carrying on about the age difference you'd think it was much worse. These are the 1990s not the 1940s for goodness sake. We actually have women who are CEOs of major corporations. It would have been bolder of Ms Spencer to have made the male lead between 18 and 22. Neither she nor Danielle Steel have any problem with this age difference as long as it's the girl who is the younger. Still, kudos for a good story that tries to break a pattern.