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A Woman Without Lies

A Woman Without Lies

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If this woman uses the word "sardonic" again, I'll scream!
Review: A major disappointment for Elizabeth Lowell. If you get bored with the trite plot and one-dimensional characters, just count how many times she uses the word "sardonic."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ms. Lowell does an excellent job in this book!
Review: Classic Elizabeth Lowell! I love the way she lets you feel Angel's love of her art and pain at the loss of her fiance. Then she meets Hawk, and finds a kindred spirit. As she heals him, she inadvertently heals herself. I cried through the last third of the book the first time I read it. Ms. Lowell really makes you feel a part of the story!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: One of EL's worst...
Review: EL's earliest works could all be subtitled "misogynists and the women who love them". Hawk is the LEAST attractive character EL has ever written about. He is so completely hateful that despite his story of woe at the hands of a treacherous woman, I didn't feel at all sympathetic. So a woman used you, get over it.

These characters aren't well developed, they're more caricatures than real people. No real woman looks at her man and constantly compares him to a hawk...please, what garbage!

Thankfully EL's work has improved tremendously since this was published. She's given up on the misogynist as hero theme. If you want to read a great EL book try Jade Island or To the Ends of the Earth (altho the hero in the latter is a bit of a woman hater too).

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not Lowell's best...
Review: EL's earliest works could all be subtitled "misogynists and the women who love them". Hawk is the LEAST attractive character EL has ever written about. He is so completely hateful that despite his story of woe at the hands of a treacherous woman, I didn't feel at all sympathetic. So a woman used you, get over it.

These characters aren't well developed, they're more caricatures than real people. No real woman looks at her man and constantly compares him to a hawk...please, what garbage!

Thankfully EL's work has improved tremendously since this was published. She's given up on the misogynist as hero theme. If you want to read a great EL book try Jade Island or To the Ends of the Earth (altho the hero in the latter is a bit of a woman hater too).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: mmm, mmm, good
Review: From the first page to the last, I could not put this book down. It facsinated me throughly. The pain that Angel lived through and in and the hurt that Hawk had made the two characters unforgettable. Angel's glassblowing IS the perfect way to exorcise her pain. Hawk had been hurt in the worst way and was taught the same lesson time and time again. His mistrust of women made his attraction and misunderstandment of Angel all the more interesting. The painting of the scenary and the description of the Northwest was perfect.. Elizabeth Lowell does her homework!

I read this book over and over and over.....I love it...I lent it to a friend and she kidnapped it! I will have to buy a new book!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Book
Review: I couldn't believe all the negative feedback on this book. Yes, Hawk is a little harsh at the beginning before he realizes his mistake, but I thouroughly enjoyed reading this book. In fact, I've read it many times along with "A Love Song for a Raven" This is just a story about two people who have been dealt ALOT of pain. It is emotionally wrenching to read, and yet heart lifting at the end. And in Raven's story, you get to see them together again and stronger than ever! I definately recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed Elizabeth Lowell's books in the past. Her ability to pull your heartstrings is strong in this book and that makes her in my mind one fabulous author!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Misogynist? Yeah. Bad book? No!
Review: It appears I'm in the minority here, but I actually thought this was a strikingly beautiful book. Yes, I agree that Hawk's emotional baggage is excessive, but romance novels wouldn't do much business if the characters trusted one another and fell in love with clear communication and easily understood emotions! :) Perhaps the metaphors were a bit excessive, but I still found the story beautiful.

That said, I wish romance writers (Lowell included) wouldn't seize on a specific "theme" and replay it continuously throughout all their books. In this case, Lowell seems very fond of the theme of a woman selflessly giving all of herself, then the man finally coming to his senses on the last two pages. That theme is repeated through this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Synopsis
Review: She could give nothing but the truth of her love...

Angel had known only over and the irretrievable loss brought by death. Hawk had known only hatrexd and unforgivable betrayal. She was a woman without lies. He was a man who had never found truth.

At first they misjudged one another, bringing only pain.Then Angel took the risk that Hawk would not. She loved him, knowing that he didn't believe in love, knowing that she would lose him.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Symbol overload
Review: The Angel/Hawk metaphors are tiresome, painful, and EVERYWHERE. She has sort of an interesting past with all of the pain she has suffered and survived, but he's pretty much your typical burned-once-gonna-take-it-out-on-the-entire-female-race "hero." Read a gemstone book by Lowell or something from the Medieval series by Lowell, but avoid this book!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Symbol overload
Review: The Angel/Hawk metaphors are tiresome, painful, and EVERYWHERE. She has sort of an interesting past with all of the pain she has suffered and survived, but he's pretty much your typical burned-once-gonna-take-it-out-on-the-entire-female-race "hero." Read a gemstone book by Lowell or something from the Medieval series by Lowell, but avoid this book!


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