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Summary: A brilliant piece of work!
Review: Ms. Lindsey awes me with her ability to pen a story that really introduces me to paradise. I've read and owned most of her books. This one remains my favourite. I hope she will continue to spin us such tale - that evokes so much emotion and characters that develop wonderfully well. Savage Thunder is another such book. Ms. Lindsey, hope you will regain that magic.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: My first JL book was Fires in Winter which I really enjoyed and thus made me want to read more of JL. I really enjoyed this one also. I couldn't put it down and was disappointed that it ended; not that it was a bad ending, it was a great ending, I just didn't want it to end. Jared irritated me but he had his reasons for being an angry man. He was the perfect man for Corrine. I did hate Russell. What a jerk.
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Summary: Paradise Wild
Review: Not one of Johanna Lindsey's best books; but she is a GREAT writer. I have read every single one of her novels and enjoy them all. She knows how to write to touch a woman's heart. I wrote to her once, years ago, and she hand wrote me a letter back. She is the all time BEST Romance writer in my book!
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Summary: Stormy paradise
Review: Set in the 1890s in Boston and Hawaii. Corinne Barrows is the head strong spoilt daughter of a Boston businessman who has a penchance for gambling. Her aim in life is to marry soon, so that she can claim her inheritance. She also wishes to marry a weak man who will leave her with her independance. The mysterious Jared Burkett waltzes into Boston one day and starts courting Corinne. They go gambling together and Corinne loses her hand at cards and her innocence to Jared. Jared is a man filled with vengeance and blames Corinne's father for the suicide of his mother. So he sets out to ruin Corinne's father. When that doesn't work he conjures up a plan to ruin Corinne by marrying her and then announcing publicly that he deserts her and returning to Hawaii. Corinne, not one to be sitting around crying follows Jared to Hawaii and concocts a plan to make it seem that she is taking many lovers to humiliate publicly Jared. Somehow the two leads fall in love with each other. Jared and Corinne are both filled with so much hate for each other I do not really see how they can fall in love with each other. They are both bent on getting revenge and are blind to anythingelse. This is not one of Johanna Lindsey's better books. There just wasn't the chemistry between the two lead characters. However, it was an easy read if you have nothing better to do. Lealing
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Summary: Paradise!
Review: This is another JL super-pleaser. I love Corrine Barrows; she's a very unusual heroine. And though Jared can be a jerk at times, I ended up in love with him too. A must-read.
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Summary: Paradise but Boring
Review: This is not Joanna Lindsey at her best; like the little girl with the curl, when she's good she's very good and when she's bad she's horrid. Here she is merely predictable with rather boring main characters. There is no chemistry and little plot.
Not a keeper.
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Summary: Paradise but Boring
Review: This is not Joanna Lindsey at her best; like the little girl with the curl, when she's good she's very good and when she's bad she's horrid. Here she is merely predictable with rather boring main characters. There is no chemistry and little plot.
Not a keeper.
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Summary: Romance? You're Kidding!
Review: This is the first book by Johanna Lindsey that I've read and I can't believe it could be classified as a romance. Jared and Corrinne are two of the least engaging characters I've met in a 'romance' novel. Jared is vengeful, violent and vicious. Corrinne is spoilt, bad tempered and completely unloveable. So Jared has, as a little boy, witnessed the death of his mother by suicide - yes, a traumatic experience for sure, but I could not forgive his violence towards Corrinne nor his downright vindictiveness. Men who are violent towards women are NOT romantic figures and should not be portrayed as such. Ask any woman who is the victim of domestic violence. I was appalled to find Jared and Corrinne having passionate sex after a particularly violent episode. I could see no development of any deep loving feelings. Corrinne just wakes up one day knowing she loves this violent creep - but with her background and personality, how would she know anyway?
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: This was the 2nd book I read by JL, and I really enjoy her books a great deal. In this one I felt like I was there in Hawaii with them both. There was so much love between them, too bad it took them so long to figure it out. I didnt care for the abuse in the way that Jared treat Corrine, but in the end thier love won over. Too bad it wasnt like that in the real world!
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Summary: A Pleasant Afternoon Read
Review: What sets this book apart from Ms. Lindwey's other books is the setting. This is not a Regency, Medieval, Viking, Sci-Fi Fantasy or Western Romance. Rather it is a book with the backdrop of the romantic island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is a story of mutual hate turned to love. There is nothing extraordinary about it, no memorable characters, not a gripping plotline, nothing that is the true hallmark of a fantastic Lindsey book. Yet it is a pleasant read.
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