The Gamble

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Summary: The Gamble
Review: This is by far my favorite book by Lavryle Spencer. A beautifully written story, it grabs hold of you from the very first page and leaves you disappointed that it has to end. This book has it all: heartwarming and real characters that tug at your heart, a tender, poignant love story that warms your soul, and a believable and touching story line. I laughed, I cried, I sighed. I have read this book time and again and I have yet to grow tired of it. This book has it all.

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Summary: The Gamble
Review: This is by far my favorite book by Lavryle Spencer. A beautifully written story, it grabs hold of you from the very first page and leaves you disappointed that it has to end. This book has it all: heartwarming and real characters that tug at your heart, a tender, poignant love story that warms your soul, and a believable and touching story line. I laughed, I cried, I sighed. I have read this book time and again and I have yet to grow tired of it. This book has it all.

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Summary: This is a must read for lovers of romance novels.
Review: This is one of my favorite books in her collection. I have read it many times. Miss Spencer makes me relive the wonder of falling in love each time I read one of her romances.

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Summary: Best Spencer Book Ever!!!
Review: This was my first Spencer book, and it will always and forever be my favorite. I've read almost all of her others, and only a few come even close. Personally, I think this book is her most complete in terms of characterization, etc. In some ways, I think she used jessie and abbie as a model for agatha and scott (hummingbird and years are probably my 2nd faves). On a scale of 1 to 5, I would really like to give this 50 stars. READ IT!

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Summary: Best Spencer Book Ever!!!
Review: This was my first Spencer book, and it will always and forever be my favorite. I've read almost all of her others, and only a few come even close. Personally, I think this book is her most complete in terms of characterization, etc. In some ways, I think she used jessie and abbie as a model for agatha and scott (hummingbird and years are probably my 2nd faves). On a scale of 1 to 5, I would really like to give this 50 stars. READ IT!

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Summary: This one will leave you breathless!
Review: When I first started this book I could not imagine how Scott and Agatha could ever be together and still keep it believable, or that I could even like Agatha's character. Maybe I just didn't believe a man like Gandy could fall for someone with her many imperfections. Because I am a big Spencer fan I kept reading. By the time I had finished this book I was completely in love with Scott(no big suprise) and Agatha now seemed as beautiful to me as she was to him. I felt their pain and joy as if it were my own. I had cried,laughed out loud and everything in-between, when I was done I sat and stared into space, speechless, in awe and immediately began to read it again. The magic of Lavyrle Spencer is that her characters don't jump into bed and start shouting I love you the first day they meet, she gives them (and the reader) time enough to make their love real and believable. Her characters are very often just average or even flawed in the looks department, helping us to remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is in my opinion the best of Spencer and that is saying much when you know the quality of her work.

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Summary: One of Spencer's Three Best
Review: While I have not read all of LaVyrle Spencer's books yet, I am down to the last 4 or 5. I was worried I would not find another as good as Vows or Hummingbird (Spencer's historical novels are far superior to her contemporary efforts). About 50 pages into The Gamble, however, I knew this one was going to be their equal. As other reviewers have expressed, a romance book is just not a romance when halfway through the characters have already professed their love for one another (this was one of my problems with November of the Heart, although it was superbly written). The Gamble keeps you on tenterhooks until the LAST 50 pages - even though you know how it must end. Both lead characters were perfect. In Scott Gandy, LaVyrle has created the sexiest hero I have ever imagined. Her descriptions of him just resonate in my mind. And I cannot tell you how wonderful it was that she created her heroine with such an obvious physical flaw, and that Scott still falls for her. Most Harlequins would never stand for that! I am still trying to figure out why this Spencer book has never been made into a movie while some of her lesser novels have been. Maybe someday. You know a book is simply fabulous when you keep reading voraciously but still somehow never want it to end! If you have never read LaVyrle Spencer, I challenge you to read The Gamble and then never pick up another book of hers again. Simply impossible!

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Summary: One of Spencer's Three Best
Review: While I have not read all of LaVyrle Spencer's books yet, I am down to the last 4 or 5. I was worried I would not find another as good as Vows or Hummingbird (Spencer's historical novels are far superior to her contemporary efforts). About 50 pages into The Gamble, however, I knew this one was going to be their equal. As other reviewers have expressed, a romance book is just not a romance when halfway through the characters have already professed their love for one another (this was one of my problems with November of the Heart, although it was superbly written). The Gamble keeps you on tenterhooks until the LAST 50 pages - even though you know how it must end. Both lead characters were perfect. In Scott Gandy, LaVyrle has created the sexiest hero I have ever imagined. Her descriptions of him just resonate in my mind. And I cannot tell you how wonderful it was that she created her heroine with such an obvious physical flaw, and that Scott still falls for her. Most Harlequins would never stand for that! I am still trying to figure out why this Spencer book has never been made into a movie while some of her lesser novels have been. Maybe someday. You know a book is simply fabulous when you keep reading voraciously but still somehow never want it to end! If you have never read LaVyrle Spencer, I challenge you to read The Gamble and then never pick up another book of hers again. Simply impossible!

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Summary: The Gamble was Worth it
Review: Wow! This love story was like none other! I have read many romance novels, but this one surpass them all. I'm so happy that Agatha isn't drop dead gorious like many heroines in other stories, but she is actually human! Thank goodness! Everyone should read this because it will always be in your heart!

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Summary: Had to buy a second copy
Review: Years ago a friend gave me a paperback of this book, and I have read it so many times it literally fell apart in my lap. My advice is to buy the hard cover version first, because you will re-read it so many times. I absolutely adore this story, but more than that the way Ms. Spencer wrote it. So descriptive that I can smell the cattle in Kansas! Another measure of a good story for me is, did it make me cry. This one did. I have read every one of Ms. Spencer's books and this one is by far my favorite, with Morning Glory a close second. You won't regret a second of the time spent reading this one.