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Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Safe Harbor highly recommended
Review: Safe Harbor by Radclyffe is one of my favorite books. I say that with confidence, because I have read it three times, once in electronic format and twice more since I received my print copy a few weeks ago.

I do not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who likes a good romance. It is better than most romances because it not only satisfies the heart, it satisfies the head as well. The strong and effective characters are the reason why. Both the primary and supporting characters work.

Deputy Sheriff Reese Conlon and Dr. Victoria King are the two women who meet in Provincetown and fall in love. They are a very engaging pair, each a woman of strength and integrity, with a passion for their jobs and for each other that makes the heart soar to read about it. Teenager Brianna Parker and her lover Caroline are secondary only in that their love is not the focus of the book. The characters of Kate, Reese's mother, Catherine, Tory's sister, and Sheriff Parker, Brianna's dad round out the roster. While they are all minor characters, they ring true too. They help make the book the success it is.

One quality that you find in good fiction is that it picks you up and deposits you in another world. When I read Safe Harbor I am always very reluctant to leave that world.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Remarkable Journey!!
Review: SAFE HARBOR is a remarkable journey and affirmation that the bond between the right two women can be tested, stretched to seemingly irretrievable lengths, and hold.
Radclyffe has displayed a talent for creating well-crafted, multi-faceted characters.That gift continues with Safe Harbor.
With Tory and Reese she has created two of today's most interesting heroines. Reese, Provincetown's new Deputy Sheriff
and Tory, the town Doctor, have various weaknesses but many off-setting strengths which will save their lives as well as the lives of others around them.
I found this book to be both lyrical and gut-wrenching. But also
highly erotic.
Tory and Reese reach up from the page to draw you into their lives, struggles, and triumphs.
I finished it in one day. I could not put it down.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Safe Harbor: Romance at it's best.
Review: Safe Harbor is one of the best lesbian fiction novels that I have read in a long time. Anyone who has ever visited or lived in Provincetown will appreciate the authenticity of the setting.
The author did a great job of crafting the personalities of both the gay and straight characters in this story. The two main characters, Tory and Reese, are strong and competent women in their fields but we are also shown their insecurities and human frailties. The chemistry between the women heightens as the story progresses which makes the romance more believable. She also does an excellent job interpreting the struggles of gay youth in today's society. I found her portrayal of Caroline and Brianna,two teenagers discovering love and the heartaches that go with it, both heartfelt and realistic.
Radclyffe is a master storyteller. Her works are always intelligent and beautifully written. If you are looking for romance, no other writer even comes close to her style in writing a love scene.
I would not hesitate to recommend Safe Harbor or any other books that she has written.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wonderful ROMANCE!!!
Review: Some readers seem to be confused about what it is that they are buying. This book is unapologetically a lesbian romance -- modeled after the pulp romances of the 50s and 60s (except in this one, the girl gets the girl!). It is fantasy -- not real life. Radclyffe has spun an achingly beautiful tale of two women, each heroic, each wounded, who find the true love they never knew they were looking for. The characters are wonderfully complex, the dialogue is crisp, and the sex is... um, inspiring! I highly recommend this book for the true romantics in the world. Those who want gritty realism should look elsewhere.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Was ok
Review: The book was good, but I just get real tired of the long drawn out girl meets girl and in the last chapter they finally get it on. It is so pat - come on authors, don't we all want to come on sooner.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: touched my soul
Review: this is my favourite book and the very first one I bought the characters of Reese and Tory are within each one of us courage and yet fear integrity strength the list goes on and the hope that we find our own soul reflecting back at us one day ,This is what safe harbor did for me reawakened my heart and belief in a soulmate.Thank you Radclyffe

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Worth Reading
Review: This was a good book. Characters are interesting and the scenes in Provincetown are truly believable!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Safe Harbor
Review: This was a wonderful story with superbly developed characters and a plot that that makes it hard to put down. Radclyffe has a talent for the written word and exploring inner thoughts, emotions and turmoil.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Indulge your romantic soul
Review: When an author takes a nom de plume to honor that pioneer of lesbian fiction Radclyffe Hall, it should come as no surprise to learn that she writes stories about women who love women. When Radclyffe Hall's classic work The Well of Loneliness hit the literary scene, there was nothing like it around. And as recently as thirty years ago, lesbian popular fiction was comparatively rare. Now, not only is lesbian literary fiction not uncommon, but lesbian pulp romances are everywhere to be found, with several presses both in the US and in the UK dedicated solely to its production.

Radclyffe's first published contribution to the genre is, however, a breed apart. Set in Provincetown, SAFE HARBOR is the story of two strong women -- one the town doctor, one the new deputy sheriff -- whose growing mutual attraction wars with layers of pain and past betrayal that each wears like a suit of armor. Tory and Reese must learn to trust, must open themselves to possible pain, so that their love has a chance to flourish. And while Tory and Reese are sorting their own lives out, two younger women are coping with the dangers inherent in being out and in highschool.

What sets Radclyffe's story apart from much of the lesbian pulp out there is that, in addition to the first-rate story, fascinating characters, and romance, Radclyffe writes beautifully. And her love scenes will singe your eyebrows and fry your circuits.

We anxiously anticipate her future publications. Meanwhile, we read and reread and reread SAFE HARBOR.


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