Rating: 
Summary: Good, but some holes
Review: I usually prefer Ms. Brown's newer suspense books, but sometimes I pick up a romance for a light easy read. I thought this story had a powerful plot leading up to Roscoe's death and his stunning confession. However, after that there were a lot of holes in the story. A situation would build up but then just fall flat. There were also loose strings flying all over the story - things that could have easily been tied up but weren't. For example - an annulment is an obvious solution that would have solved almost every problem!!
Overall the story was sweet and touching. This was a great romance from Sandra Brown. But I still prefer her romantic suspenses for more mental involvement and plot depth. I also recommend Linda Howard for romantic suspense.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but some holes
Review: I usually prefer Ms. Brown's newer suspense books, but sometimes I pick up a romance for a light easy read. I thought this story had a powerful plot leading up to Roscoe's death and his stunning confession. However, after that there were a lot of holes in the story. A situation would build up but then just fall flat. There were also loose strings flying all over the story - things that could have easily been tied up but weren't. For example - an annulment is an obvious solution that would have solved almost every problem!!
Overall the story was sweet and touching. This was a great romance from Sandra Brown. But I still prefer her romantic suspenses for more mental involvement and plot depth. I also recommend Linda Howard for romantic suspense.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I wont lie I almost didn't read this book ... The plot of it sounded, to put it nicely, gross. But so far I have liked all Sandra Browns books, and not to my suprise it was great, I read it in one day. The book is about 2 young people who were torn apart by lies and brought back together by death. Caroline was the town drunks child and she grew up with the title. So when she was offered a chance to try to change her title she marries Roscoe (a very wealthy man),and the father of Rink, whom she had a slight past with. When Rink comes home for his fathers death, they find out the passion that he and Caroline had shared was stronger now then 12 years ago when Rink left her behind. And before Roscoe dies he lets known all the secrets of his dirty scams that he was involved in and set up, and the couple has to figure out where to go from there, now that they know the truth. Don't let the excerpt in the begining fool you. The book was great from start to finish! Just another of Sandra Browns masterpieces.
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Summary: Bittersweet Rain
Review: I've read almost all of Sandra Brown's novels, and this one didn't disappoint me at all. I absolutely loved the little bits of surprises about Roscoe, the terribly ill father, and the former relationship about Caroline and Rink. It kept me reading until I found out what kept them together, then the startling truth that kept them together.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: Okay, so I read this book because I read three others by Brown. I was motivated to do so by the fact that each of the previous books had at least one great sex scene in it. This book has one pretty good sex scene, but is negated and made all the more unlikely by everything that happens later in the story. My biggest problem with the book though is Brown's characterization of women. There are two main female characters: one is a virgin (and complete idiot) who marries the father of the man she loves for no apparently good reason other than to live in his big house; and, the other is a mentally retarded(but in a "endearing" way, i.e., as long as she's being told what to do, she's happy), makes me wonder if its not Brown's intention to propagate the myth that women are all a deficient sub-species when it comes to getting along in life. Brown's main female character in this book wants love under the ideal (i.e., the right) conditions, but needs a "good" man to calm her down, relax her into the groove, and open her eyes to the subliminal realities that can arise from "great" sex even when life is less than perfect. Hogwash! Only the mentally retarded woman seems to understand what joys may be had on the wings of pure desire, and only the mentally retarded one is ready to get down anywhere, anytime with her lover, which, of course, she does not get to do because she couldn't possibly know what she's doing. "What if she has an orgasm?" -- is the question uppermost on the minds of the family. Her big brother decides to let her try sex (by getting married first), but vows to kill the new husband (a crippled man) if sex hurts his little sis. And all the while I was reading this, I was wondering - how'll he find out? Will there be regular debriefings or as long as she's wandering around blissfully oblivious, is everything supposedly fine? Anyway, the main female character, Caroline, is boring, easily manipulated, dumb (as opposed to being legitimately brain damaged), and totally unbelievable. Nobody...I repeat...nobody could be as unaccountably indecisive as this woman. Half the time she's heaving and sweating over the man (his name is Rink?), the rest of the time she's running away from him because she's worried about anything and everything except working things out with him. She's so insubstantial, she's sickening. The male lead sounds delicious sometimes, then he'll say something so stupid you want to throw the book out the window. I'm supposed to be reading these books for fun; nibbling on them between re-readings of Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton. Mind candy, however, has to at least be palatable, or whats the point? If you like your romance with a little reality, drop Brown like a hot rivet. Start by NOT reading this book.
Rating: 
Summary: What's up with Brown's women characters?
Review: Okay, so I read this book because I read three others by Brown. I was motivated to do so by the fact that each of the previous books had at least one great sex scene in it. This book has one pretty good sex scene, but is negated and made all the more unlikely by everything that happens later in the story. My biggest problem with the book though is Brown's characterization of women. There are two main female characters: one is a virgin (and complete idiot) who marries the father of the man she loves for no apparently good reason other than to live in his big house; and, the other is a mentally retarded(but in a "endearing" way, i.e., as long as she's being told what to do, she's happy), makes me wonder if its not Brown's intention to propagate the myth that women are all a deficient sub-species when it comes to getting along in life. Brown's main female character in this book wants love under the ideal (i.e., the right) conditions, but needs a "good" man to calm her down, relax her into the groove, and open her eyes to the subliminal realities that can arise from "great" sex even when life is less than perfect. Hogwash! Only the mentally retarded woman seems to understand what joys may be had on the wings of pure desire, and only the mentally retarded one is ready to get down anywhere, anytime with her lover, which, of course, she does not get to do because she couldn't possibly know what she's doing. "What if she has an orgasm?" -- is the question uppermost on the minds of the family. Her big brother decides to let her try sex (by getting married first), but vows to kill the new husband (a crippled man) if sex hurts his little sis. And all the while I was reading this, I was wondering - how'll he find out? Will there be regular debriefings or as long as she's wandering around blissfully oblivious, is everything supposedly fine? Anyway, the main female character, Caroline, is boring, easily manipulated, dumb (as opposed to being legitimately brain damaged), and totally unbelievable. Nobody...I repeat...nobody could be as unaccountably indecisive as this woman. Half the time she's heaving and sweating over the man (his name is Rink?), the rest of the time she's running away from him because she's worried about anything and everything except working things out with him. She's so insubstantial, she's sickening. The male lead sounds delicious sometimes, then he'll say something so stupid you want to throw the book out the window. I'm supposed to be reading these books for fun; nibbling on them between re-readings of Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton. Mind candy, however, has to at least be palatable, or whats the point? If you like your romance with a little reality, drop Brown like a hot rivet. Start by NOT reading this book.
Rating:
Summary: sweet, sassy, and painful
Review: Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down. I wanted to sream with frustration at the characters pig-headedness, yet I could understand their logic. The bickering between them is sweet yet very sexual and sassy. This isn't one of Sandra Brown's finest but it is very intriguing.
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Summary: Ms. Brown keeps surprising me with her amazing talents.
Review: Only Sandra Brown will put together the most unexpected couple, step mom & step son. But the story was so beautifully woven that I don't mind at all the weirdness of the situation. Although Caroline was married to Rink's father, she had been Rink's lover even before she got acquainted with Roscoe. Only years after Rink left her to marry somebody else, did she chose the father. For those who are familiar with SB's other books, the relationship between Caroline and Rink resembles Schyler & Cash in "Slow Heat in Heaven"; the secondary characters, Mary Jane and Steve are Janellen & Bowie in "Where There's Smoke" only for Mary Jane and Steve, SB went deeper with their love story. Quite a treat for the readers. Two romances in one book - you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: SANDRA BROWN DOES IT AGAIN
Review: SANDRA BROWN'S BITTERSWEET RAIN takes a more convoluted twist to the plot when the couple in the book, Caroline and Rink are wedged apart by Rink's father, Roscoe with his scathing treachery.However, readers may find it hard to digest the plot of a stepmother in unrequited love with her son. The stunning revelation of Roscoe's plan to ruin his son upon his deathbed remains a shadow over Caroline's undying love for Rink. Despite their strong attraction, Rink cannot cast off the fact that Caroline belonged to Roscoe once. Fortunately, SANDRA BROWN handles the twisted plot with unexpected maturity in her perspective. Caroline and Rink are fuelled by desires but at the same time they tried to fend off the attraction for the relationship is bound to explode in a conservative town still in awe of Roscoe. To fight off the shadow, Rink has to confront himself their bond is too strong such that Roscoe has never once taken his beloved away. Right till the last moment when Caroline fainted at award ceremony dedicated to Roscoe because of pregnancy, readers are gripped by the powerful emotions spun by Ms. Brown. It is savagely tender and their love no less bittersweet. She transforms an unconventional tale into one of simplicity and poignancy with her rousing narrative. For this, BITTERSWEET RAIN is one romance that will wring heartfelt tears for Caroline and Rink, and incessant accolades for this beautiful writer constantly producing textured materials.
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Summary: sandra brown is always great!
Review: the joy of falling in love for the first time is something you will remember for all of your life. of course the first time you feel your heart break, you'll always remember that too. this is probably the best book ive read dealing with both of those issues. sandra brown has the ability to bring the same sort of excitement to the reader that the characters are going thru as well as the let down. in bittersweet, we have two different love stories going on. the first dating back to childhood between caroline, the daughter of the town drunk, and rink, the son of the towns most wealthy family. the second, between laura jane, rinks sister, and steve, the hired hand. sparks fly between rink and caroline, mostly because of rinks dad, carolines HUSBAND! laura jane and steve are absolutely wonderful. i didnt want this book to end. ive read reviews where people say things like "they felt like friends that i had to say goodbye to when the book was over" but until this book, ive never really understood what that was like. this one is a keeper ::smile
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