The Awakening

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Summary: Like a fine wine, it got better with time!
Review: I love all of Jude Deveraux's work, and _The Awakening_ was no exception. I was at first a little dissapointed with the begining though. Amanda is really too stiff, and Hank was not sympathetic enough. He just automatically put her in the catagorie of a prig who couldn't feel anything. Amanda took a little too long to wake up and see the world. She's run raged by her fiance, yet she still clings to the notion that she loves him. This was very exasperating to read about. Both characters were being strange and stubborn. It was like they were both looking at their lives through a screne door. They could see part of it, but most of it was shady. But, towards the second half of the book, the door opened, and _The Awakening_ became wonderful. Amanda became more of a real character, and Hank acted with much more compassion then he origionally showed. His way of courting Amanda was knee weakening. Jude Deveraux has a gift with words. She makes all of her books come alive! I loved the time change. I've never really encountered books that took place in the early nineteen hundreds, and it works really well. The setting of a California hop ranch was delightful, and Jude Deveraux's research efforts shine as this book is rich with detail about the hop riots that happened around that time. I enjoyed reading about the trails of the workers, however, it was very heartbreaking. Jude Deveraux captured the essence of the hop fields, and her book made me want to research it more. Although _The Awakening_ started strangly and it was rather annoying in the begining, grit your teeth and get past the first couple chapters. From then on, the story picks up steam, and you will get involved in the characters' plots and lives. This book is definitely worth your time. I'd recomend it to anyone.

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Summary: Not close to her best but wasn't her worst.
Review: I love Jude Deveraux and all her books are amazing especially The Enchanted Land. . Now that book was to die for. This . . I didn't like Amanda's character. She was prim,proper and just all together totally abnocious(sp?). She was very annoying. It wasn't the worst though I wouldn't reccomend this book, I wouldn't condemn it either.

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Summary: Not close to her best but wasn't her worst.
Review: I love Jude Deveraux and all her books are amazing especially The Enchanted Land. . Now that book was to die for. This . . I didn't like Amanda's character. She was prim,proper and just all together totally abnocious(sp?). She was very annoying. It wasn't the worst though I wouldn't reccomend this book, I wouldn't condemn it either.

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Summary: Swoon!
Review: I love Jude Devereax and have read almost every one of herbooks, but this has to be my 2nd favorite (the 1st is of course AKnight in Shining Armor). Why can't there be real men like the Montgomery's? This book is so full of passion and intrigue I refused to put it down.

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Summary: fantastic!!!
Review: I loved this book!!! Amanda and Hank(especially Hank) are wonderful characters and the dialoge is hilarious and tender and very,very good. There's also the added bonus of this being another story of the Montgomery's

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Summary: Good Story
Review: I think this is one of her best

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Summary: Great Romance
Review: The Awakening is my second-favorite Jude Devereaux novel (after The Princess). Smart, touching and very funny characters in a quasi-'The Taming of the Shrew' story. But Amanda Caulden is no shrew, just impossibly isolated and ignorant of the outside world. Leave it to a Montgomery man to shake up her world and wake her up. Great Reading.

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Summary: Great Romance
Review: The Awakening is my second-favorite Jude Devereaux novel (after The Princess). Smart, touching and very funny characters in a quasi-`The Taming of the Shrew' story. But Amanda Caulden is no shrew, just impossibly isolated and ignorant of the outside world. Leave it to a Montgomery man to shake up her world and wake her up. Great Reading.

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Summary: Totally PHAT!!!
Review: This book had everything you need to create a good romance: a dashing hero, a beautiful heroine, a person who always seems to interfere with the hero and heroine, and, most of all...PASSION!

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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: This is my very first Jude Deveraux book and oh wow, it totally bowled me over!! The characters, Hank and Amanda really added spice to the whole story and i really, really loved the passion and romance between the two of them! And i loved the book n plot so much i've read it 5 times or more. A 100% great read.