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Summary: Heart Warming! You will want to read it over & over!
Review: "Phantom Waltz" is the second in the Kendrick/Coulter series, and you first meet Ryan and fall in love with him in "Baby Love." I felt like I gained two best friends by the end! Both Ryan and Bethany were good, honest and caring people, who so deserved a happy ever after.You will not be disappointed in any book by Catherine Anderson. Her characters and stories are just beautiful!
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Summary: Heart Warming! You will want to read it over & over!
Review: "Phantom Waltz" is the second in the Kendrick/Coulter series, and you first meet Ryan and fall in love with him in "Baby Love." I felt like I gained two best friends by the end! Both Ryan and Bethany were good, honest and caring people, who so deserved a happy ever after. You will not be disappointed in any book by Catherine Anderson. Her characters and stories are just beautiful!
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Summary: Heart Warming! You will want to read it over & over!
Review: "Phantom Waltz" is the second in the Kendrick/Coulter series, and you first meet Ryan and fall in love with him in "Baby Love." I felt like I gained two best friends by the end! Both Ryan and Bethany were good, honest and caring people, who so deserved a happy ever after. You will not be disappointed in any book by Catherine Anderson. Her characters and stories are just beautiful!
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Summary: Just a little too perfect
Review: "Phantom Waltz" was the first book that I had read by Catherine Anderson and I to say I'm not sure if I would read anything else by her. I was not 40 pages into the book, when I realized that Ryan (The main male character) was perfect. I mean he was rich, handsome, and the most understanding male on the whole planet. Ms Anderson seem to make light of the fact that Bethany(main female character) was in a wheelchair. We didn't see any deep emotions either of the two characters. In fact, at on point I did stop reading the book and the only reason that I went back to it, was I paid 6.99 for it. If you are a fan of Ms. Anderson you will like, but if you are looking read emotions, go else where.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: After having read the millionth (it seems) romance novel about "perfect" heroes and heroines, I was in the mood for something different. I'd heard about this book when it first came out, but didn't buy it until recently because I wasn't sure I could connect with a heroine who was paraplegic. But the story intrigued me so much I just had to read it and I have to say, I'm really glad I did! I loved everything--the characters, Bethany and Ryan's situation, and especially that Ryan loved her even though she was different. And because it was so different from everything else I'd read, the length of it (418 pages!) didn't bother me at all. They just seemed to fly by because I was so interested in learning more about Bethany and wanting to see how she and Ryan overcame their problems. If you're in the mood for a change from the norm, this is a book you should definitely buy!
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: After having read the millionth (it seems) romance novel about "perfect" heroes and heroines, I was in the mood for something different. I'd heard about this book when it first came out, but didn't buy it until recently because I wasn't sure I could connect with a heroine who was paraplegic. But the story intrigued me so much I just had to read it and I have to say, I'm really glad I did! I loved everything--the characters, Bethany and Ryan's situation, and especially that Ryan loved her even though she was different. And because it was so different from everything else I'd read, the length of it (418 pages!) didn't bother me at all. They just seemed to fly by because I was so interested in learning more about Bethany and wanting to see how she and Ryan overcame their problems. If you're in the mood for a change from the norm, this is a book you should definitely buy!
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Summary: offensive to paraplegics
Review: As the wife of a paraplegic with a low-level spinal cord injury similar to Bethany's (the heroine), I can tell you first hand that this book is full of inaccuracies and weird assumptions -- perhaps gathered from cheezy tv movies on Lifetime TV -- about paraplegia. This heroine can do nothing for herself. While it is common in romance novels to have a VERY helpless heroine in an effort to accentuate the hero's hugely Alpha-male qualities, this heroine is, in fact, an insult to ALL women, and does a grave disservice to paraplegics of any gender. My husband, after I read aloud a few of the more ridiculous passages, said, "That is the most insulting, uneducated, ignorant garbage since 'Jerry's Kids'! Why do they publish that #@&* ??" The author, plainly, did her research from textbooks only, and appears not to have interviewed real women who use wheelchairs. Beyond the medical/physical inaccuracies and stereotyped assumptions regarding spinal cord injurues and the extreme and unreal weaknesses and dependencies of a total SAP of a heroine, the HERO is a total macho control freak. In his quest to "make her life easier," he takes the heroine's entire life in his hands, and, in my opinion, resorts to emotional blackmail in an effort to "make her marry him." I find this behavior just plain icky. While there are those who may find "his heart in the right place," I find him over-bearing and a total Neanderthal. If you like accurate, politically correct romances, then this book is NOT for you. But if you like sappy, unrealistic, un-PC, ME-MAN-YOU-WEAK-CRIPPLED-WOMAN romances, then go for it.
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Summary: A treasure.
Review: Bethany Coulter was a teenager when a barrel-racing accident caused a spinal injury that confined her to a wheelchair. Eight years later, Bethany has resigned herself to the idea that she will never share an intimate relationship. When wealthy rancher Ryan Kendrick enters her life, Bethany is leery of him. Tall, dark and sexy, Ryan is the most sought after bachelor in town. From the moment he meets Bethany he knows she's the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Now all he has to do is convince her. The phrase "pushing the envelope" could have been coined for this novel. Not only does author Catherine Anderson push the envelope she seals, stamps and sends it to the reader with love. This is story to be treasured and one that will be remembered long after the final page is read. Love and laughter, the melding of two hearts and souls, if Phantom Waltz isn't the perfect romance novel, it comes so close the reader won't care.
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Summary: Breathtakingly Beautiful!
Review: Catherine Anderson has always been one of my favorite authors. I've read every book she's written. Each time, I'm left with a longing to simply crawl right inside the pages of the book and wrap myself in the embrace of her hero. In Phantom Waltz, it's Ryan Kendrick that's stolen my heart. "Where have all the cowboys gone?" They're right here in this one man. Boy, can Ms. Anderson write tall dark and handsome. Add on sweet, nurturing, sensitive and selfless and you've got Ryan Kendrick. I sigh just thinking about him. When I read the synopsis of this book, I cringed. The female lead is Bethany. She's paralized from the waste down due to a riding accident. I tought "how the heck is Ms. Anderson going to pull this off without crossing into dangerous territory?" Well she most certainly succeeds. This is a must read!!
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Summary: a little too sappy and a little too corny
Review: Catherine Anderson is a good author and can tend to be a little corny at times and this book really was."Phantom Waltz" was not keeper for me. It has nothing to do with the story being about a paraplegic, that's a fine subject to tackle and I agree that so many authors heroines are just too perfect to be real. The verbatum and the storyline were just a little on the hokey side for my taste.
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