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Summary: As usual, Ranney's characters have such depth. A keeper!
Review: Alex tears you heart out with his pain and suffering, but Laura's love never falters, stays true and enduring, healing his soul. It's impossible not to become personally involved with every Karen Ranney character and story. She's a master!
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Summary: EMOTIONAL
Review: As a new Karen Ranney fan, I resolved to read all her books, which meant purchasing four used books (yuck!), TAPESTRY being one of them since it is out of print. I am not sorry. If you can put your hands on a copy of this book, grab it, read it, love it.TAPESTRY takes the reader from humor to tenderness to sensuality to sexuality to despair to anger to poignancy to everything in between to everything beyond. It is an emotional roller coaster, and I shed a few tears on the ride. This is a wonderful story of love, devotion, introspection, self-discovery, and renewal. Alex and Laura teach us about love that sees beneath the surface -- one can only dream of a love that reaches such depth.
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Summary: EMOTIONAL
Review: As a new Karen Ranney fan, I resolved to read all her books, which meant purchasing four used books (yuck!), TAPESTRY being one of them since it is out of print. I am not sorry. If you can put your hands on a copy of this book, grab it, read it, love it. TAPESTRY takes the reader from humor to tenderness to sensuality to sexuality to despair to anger to poignancy to everything in between to everything beyond. It is an emotional roller coaster, and I shed a few tears on the ride. This is a wonderful story of love, devotion, introspection, self-discovery, and renewal. Alex and Laura teach us about love that sees beneath the surface -- one can only dream of a love that reaches such depth.
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Summary: Left my eyes all puffy!!
Review: Gosh! Thanks all for the reviews. They similarly expressed how I'm feeling at the moment. The middle part of the story when he went to war and the heart-wrenching news and all...reading about laura's emotions and putting myself in the same position as her, ..believe me , i havent been crying so hard over a romance novel ever since Judith McNaughts' "Once and Always" (and that was years ago..after reading hundreds of other books). And towards the ending, when he dressed himself up as a groom and did not wear the mask to see her...that's it ...this is my No.1 book of this WEEK!!(he he I just voted "Dearly Beloved" by Mary Jo Putney as the contender last night, just before I started reading "Tapestry". Thank you, Ms Ranney.
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Summary: Left my eyes all puffy!!
Review: Gosh! Thanks all for the reviews. They similarly expressed how I'm feeling at the moment. The middle part of the story when he went to war and the heart-wrenching news and all...reading about laura's emotions and putting myself in the same position as her, ..believe me , i havent been crying so hard over a romance novel ever since Judith McNaughts' "Once and Always" (and that was years ago..after reading hundreds of other books). And towards the ending, when he dressed himself up as a groom and did not wear the mask to see her...that's it ...this is my No.1 book of this WEEK!!(he he I just voted "Dearly Beloved" by Mary Jo Putney as the contender last night, just before I started reading "Tapestry". Thank you, Ms Ranney.
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Summary: A True Love Story!
Review: I admit being moved to tears several times throughout this book. Karen Ranney has a talent for transforming a simple romance into an endearing love story.
I've read several romances that lay claim to a "scarred" hero but the extent of the scars may be nothing more than a limp or a single scar running along the side of the hero's face. I must admit that when I first read the full extent of Alex's scarring - I was shocked to the point of almost not reading the rest of the book. In my shallowness, I couldn't fathom how the heroine could possibly look past his numerous disfigurements to see the man beneath the "monster". That's when I discovered that "Tapestry" is more than a romance - it is a story about love - pure love. By the end of the book, I had fallen in love with Alex myself.
Why didn't I give it a 5 star rating? I tend to save this rating for books I would read again and again. Although this was a beautiful story illustrating the power and endurance of love - there were times when it was heartwrenching in its sorrow evoking very strong feelings of grief and loss that I care not visit again any time soon.
Romance, laughter, pain and loss - still love abounds in this masterpiece!!!
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I am an avid reader of Historical Romances and picked this older book up at a yard sale and LOVED it. I am now on a mission to read more of Karen Ranney. This book is like a good movie you don't want to end. Every emotion is felt during this read.
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Summary: WOW.
Review: I dont even know what to say about this book..it is not like any other romance that I have read. It is gripping and so emotional. It starts off wonderfully..so romantic...turns into something so sad I was blubbering around like a fool ....oh but the ending! Its sooo satisfying! I will tell you..this is not an easy read..it is emotionally draining and at times so frustrating that I found myself speedreading...desperate for everything to be resolved...I ABSOLUTELY LOVED this story...I would recommend it without hesitation.
WOW.
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Summary: This book is incomparable.
Review: I read this book last night and just had to write a review. Even though I know that anything I write would not do this book justice. This book had so much depth and emotion. The characters feelings so well described. Sensuality and heartache both off the scales. You felt as if you were feeling what they were feeling. I have never read a love scene written like the one Ms. Ranney wrote when these two characters first come together.
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Summary: Nothing Less than a FIVE Star will do!
Review: I'd give this 10 stars if I could - this book is sooooooo good! It is absolutely amazing that this is the author's first work! You start off with a young lady, the Lady Laura Blake, to be exact who is bound and determined to get to see the man she has loved her whole life since the age of 10. Alex, the Earl of Cardiff, has come home from the war, after an absence of four years - horribly disfigured from a terrible accident. So disfigured that even with a mask covering most of his face, even his servants dare not look him in his one good eye. Posing as a country bred gal, she is hired as a kitchen worker in Heddon Hall - not that she knows anything of what goes on in a kitchen - but she eventually gets to serve him his meal and little by little she worms her way into becoming his reader, while a permanent secretary is sought. He does not recognize the hero worshipping neighbor, who was 12 years old when he left for war. It has some humourous parts as she proves to Alex that she does not pity but loves him completely and he does come to believe it with his whole heart. The betrayals and the anguish of the reality of life is what the second part of the book is all about, and this is what, in my opinion make this book so great. The characters are written with such human feeling, they are multi-dimensional. Laura,shows the strength when her whole world seems to fall apart and disintegrate in her face, between betrayals and loss. You best have some hankies near by to gather in both fists, because you'd have to be made of stone not to cry. Fabulous book - a gem of a 'classic' and one to re-read over and over! Find a copy at all costs!
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