A Love for All Time

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Summary: Romantic, exciting, endearing!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! It was sweet how Conn and Aidan fell in love with each other right away, and how despite everything they managed to keep their love for each other! The only throwback(unrealistic attitude), was that if her husband loved her so much why did he still continue to consider her plain of face? What made it kind of cruel was that everybody seemed to be throwing it into her face about her plain face. But definitely a good collection to the Skye O'Malley sagas!

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Summary: Good book
Review: I started reading the Skye O'Malley series back in early series. I have all her O'Malley books up but excluding her newest book that was just published. All her Skye books were great up to her book Wild Jasmine,after that I only bought the books to keep up with the series. When I read Darling Jasmine I could not believe her to be the same woman that she portrayed in a Love for all Time. She forgot all of her own children,grandchildren and focused on one Jasmine. I wanted to here about her other grandchildren,but I guessed that if she had done that the series would never have been completed. This book and her earlier ones are my favorites in this series. I hope that in her next book that she writes about Fortune and her family and how Skye's family did in the new colonies. But I'm rambling now, but I just wanted to say that I have had this book since it came out in the eighties and I still have the book ,creased but in good shape and I still read it.

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Summary: Euh...just plain euh...
Review: I suppose I'm like every other faithful reader of the O' Malley Saga in that I somehow felt painfully incomplete without reading this previously elusive installment. Heck, I already knew what this book would be about from the constant references back to it in Lost Love Found. But it's been like that itch I just couldn't scratch--I had to read it for myself.

Can I just mention what a pain in the derriere trade size paperbacks are? The rest of the series cradles nicely in the hand, but this one demands a two-hand hold. Okay, I digress.

Bertrice Small is an excellent writer, let there be no doubt. But as a regular reader, I get real tired of the whole harem-scarem, sell 'em into slavery thing over and over again. And, oh, believe me, this is another one of THOSE novels. Now I like the character of Aidan St. Michael a whole lot--she's smart, sharp, strong, and not beautiful in the conventional sense. So why put her through the time and again rigors of captive concubine? Skye O' Malley is character enough for five women, and she'd already been through that funhouse. Was it necessary for Aidan to repeat history?

Well, yes, I suppose it was, otherwise the series would be lacking a keystone. But the book began with such promise of something different--Aidan, orphaned and in the care of Queen Elizabeth, a "country mouse" with the huzpah to suggest herself as the perfect bride for "The Handsomest Man At Court", Conn O' Malley. The intrigue between the Spanish representatives and Aidan's unscrupulous distant relatives to get the O'Malley family discredited, beginning with implicating Conn in a plot to kill the queen--this is good stuff. But then Small had to fall back on the old harem trick and that suspense was dispersed.

Would Conn come to the rescue of his beloved Aidan? Well duh, of course he will. And will he enlist the help of the ever-useful Esther Kira to do it? You know he will. So how is it we were enjoying a good coil in the English venue only to be tossed back into the same old same old of the Ottoman East?

I'm sorry, I suppose all the diaphanous clothing and nudity and sexuality of the East is supposed to be titilating. And it was at least interesting the first time I read about it. But in this instance it made me wince. If the novel had continued along the lines of a European intrigue as it seemed to promise, I'd probably have given it five stars. But the harem monster surfaced its ugly, rosewatered head yet again, and that kind of spoiled the experience. Read it to complete the series, but don't expect much that you have not read before.

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Summary: Euh...just plain euh...
Review: I suppose I'm like every other faithful reader of the O' Malley Saga in that I somehow felt painfully incomplete without reading this previously elusive installment. Heck, I already knew what this book would be about from the constant references back to it in Lost Love Found. But it's been like that itch I just couldn't scratch--I had to read it for myself.

Can I just mention what a pain in the derriere trade size paperbacks are? The rest of the series cradles nicely in the hand, but this one demands a two-hand hold. Okay, I digress.

Bertrice Small is an excellent writer, let there be no doubt. But as a regular reader, I get real tired of the whole harem-scarem, sell 'em into slavery thing over and over again. And, oh, believe me, this is another one of THOSE novels. Now I like the character of Aidan St. Michael a whole lot--she's smart, sharp, strong, and not beautiful in the conventional sense. So why put her through the time and again rigors of captive concubine? Skye O' Malley is character enough for five women, and she'd already been through that funhouse. Was it necessary for Aidan to repeat history?

Well, yes, I suppose it was, otherwise the series would be lacking a keystone. But the book began with such promise of something different--Aidan, orphaned and in the care of Queen Elizabeth, a "country mouse" with the huzpah to suggest herself as the perfect bride for "The Handsomest Man At Court", Conn O' Malley. The intrigue between the Spanish representatives and Aidan's unscrupulous distant relatives to get the O'Malley family discredited, beginning with implicating Conn in a plot to kill the queen--this is good stuff. But then Small had to fall back on the old harem trick and that suspense was dispersed.

Would Conn come to the rescue of his beloved Aidan? Well duh, of course he will. And will he enlist the help of the ever-useful Esther Kira to do it? You know he will. So how is it we were enjoying a good coil in the English venue only to be tossed back into the same old same old of the Ottoman East?

I'm sorry, I suppose all the diaphanous clothing and nudity and sexuality of the East is supposed to be titilating. And it was at least interesting the first time I read about it. But in this instance it made me wince. If the novel had continued along the lines of a European intrigue as it seemed to promise, I'd probably have given it five stars. But the harem monster surfaced its ugly, rosewatered head yet again, and that kind of spoiled the experience. Read it to complete the series, but don't expect much that you have not read before.

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Summary: Christine Richard - Burbank,CA
Review: I too am trying to find "A Love For All Time", the third book in the Beatrice Small Skye O'Malley Series. I would appreciate any help I could get in locating this book as I have all the rest of Beatrice's books and am dying to add this one to my collection. Please help! If you can help, contact me at [e-mail]

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Summary: a good read
Review: i truly enjoyed this offering from ms. small. what i liked about this particular novel was the fact that the heroine, Aidan, was not the usual run-of-the-mill drop dead gorgeous beauty like most of the romance novels out there. she was attractive in her own right, strong willed, level headed and posessed a secret yearning for love. i was also thrillled with the idea of Conn her husband adopting the st. michael surname instead....that was refreshing!
Aidan saw an opportunity that she dare not refuse and she grabbed it with outstretched arms willingly. the story travels from europe and crosses the ocean to an exotic land where our heroine is exposed to the tantilising sensual treats of the east.
this book was a good read with an easy to follow storyline!

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Summary: Desperately Seeking This Book!
Review: I will agree that this is the hardest of any of her books to find. I haven't located it yet but I am looking. I will say that Beatrice Smalls books are wonderful!

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Summary: Bertrice Small at her best
Review: In my opinion, the Skye O'Malley books are the best of Bertrice Small's novels. I have read every single one and each one was better than the last. This one is the story of Skye's younger brother, and I loved it. It was just the quality I have come to expect from Ms. Small.

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Summary: the best of the series
Review: It all started when I read Wild Jasmine. Before that, I'd never read one of those romance novels. Afterward I read Skye O'Malley and its sequel. Then came this book. Oh man, I love this book. I love Conn and Aidan. In my eyes, Aidan is a better heroine than Skye and Conn is just wonderful. I read this book over and over and dont get enough

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Summary: I LOVED IT!!!
Review: Ms. Small shows us how she turns "the handsomest man in Queen Elizabeth's court" into a loving and devoted husband. I loved reading about Conn's stopping at nothing to get the love of his life back where she belonged. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves reading about England during the 1500's. I love the way Ms. Small describes the clothing of that time period----she goes into quite a bit of detail.