Angel Falls

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Summary: A romance novel The Christian Right would be proud of
Review: "Angel Falls" was very disapointing especially when I was expecting meatier fare. Usually I read Nora Roberts or Virgina Henly and I am used to either alot of plot twists or a few sexy bedroom romps. This book has niether. What it does have is a very tedious plot and absolutly NO sex!!!!!If you are looking for a juicy romance to sweep you away this book is not it!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Gripping Love Story!
Review: I enjoyed this story very much and believe that anyone who likes books of this nature will enjoy this story as much as I did!

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Summary: Couldn't put this one down!
Review: I first discovered Kristin Hannah last year when I read "On Mystic Lake," and enjoyed every page. So I was really excited to get "Angel Falls," already knowing what an incredible writer Hannah is. I began reading "Angel Falls" last night around 11:30, and before I knew it, it was 3:30 and I was turning the last page! What a story!

Hannah has an incredible talent for descriptive illustration, making the reader feel as if they are right there with the characters. She also spins an incredible story, weaving her tale in and out through the entire family's perspective. Just fantastic.

So, if you're willing to give up a good night's sleep for a marvelous story, "Angel Falls" is the book for you. Thank you, Kristin Hannah, for your gift of words.

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Summary: Buenas Noches Ms. Hannah
Review: In a mythical small town in Washington State, Dr. Liam Campbell and Mikaela (Mike) have a life together with their two children and their horses.
Their life appears to be a classic fairy tale until tragedy strikes. While exercising a horse, Mikaela is thrown and hits her head, putting her into a coma. The lengths Liam goes to in order to help her recover are incredible.
As he attempts to maintain some semblance of normalcy, and while looking for a dress for his teenaged daughter to wear to her Prom, Liam finds evidence of Mikaela's former life. Although he knew she had been married before, he was not prepared to find that she had been married to one of the most famous movie stars in the world: Julian True.
Just the mention of Julian's name elicits a response from Mikaela while she is in the coma, so Liam makes a decision to call him and see if he can come up to Washington to help revive her. What follows next is a testimony to the depths of a man's love for a woman. Angel Falls is written from a man's point of view and delves into how someone copes with life threatening injury to a loved one.
This book is well written. Each of the characters is believable, including the main characters, Mikaela and Liam. You truly feel that you are in their lives, watching all that goes on. You feel Liam's pain as he discovers that his wife of 10 years was in love with another man. You are hoping, as the book progresses, that Liam and Mikaela will remain together and "live happily every after."

I rate this at 4 stars.

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Summary: Not the best Kristin Hannah has to offer...
Review: Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite romance novelists. She writes stories that can absolutlely tear at your soul. It seems that with her last two novels, though (Angel Falls and On Mystic Lake) she is trying to appeal to a more high brow audience. There is nothing wrong with aspirations, but it isn't where her talent lies. Suddenly she isn't writing great romance novels, and she isn't writing great contemporary fiction. These books are an "alright" example of both, but excel as neither. I guess the thing that this book missed the most was any real view of the relationship between Mike and Liam. She simply came to a realization about him (that she had seemed to accept years ago) thaty he was the better husband for her. It wasn't an unbelievable story (even with amnesia and movie stars) but it wasn't really striking and believable either. My suggestion would be to either read her earlier novels if looking for romance, or choose another author if looking for contemporary women's fiction. If you are a fan of the author, like I am, get this book from your local library.

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Summary: Makes you think
Review: Love...means different things to different couples. What is better? Fireworks or stability? When the heroine in this book wakes up from her coma, she has to answer that question to go on with her life. Her husband is one that all women would want by their bedside. The true meaning of the word "family" also becomes clear to her. I even ached for the sacrifices and mistakes her mom made to raise her daughter. Definitely a love story of the highest order.

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Summary: They Learn A New Love As Family When Tragedy Occurs
Review: Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mom of two, lies in a coma. It is now up to her husband, Liam, to hold the fort together, to care for their grieving, and frightened children. Doctors have told Liam not to expect a miracle recovery, but he maintains hope that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Day after day he sits by her bedside, holding her hand, telling her the stories of their life together.

Then he discovers evidence of his wife's secret past-a long hidden first marriage to international movie star Julian True. Liam's search leads him to a painful, inescapeable truth: Julian was more than simply Mikaela's first husband. He was the love of her life.

Mikaela responds to julian's name; it is only a blink, nothing more, but it convinces Liam that Julian may be the only person who can bring her back to life. But at what cost? Does Liam love his wife enough to risk losing her to a man no woman can resist?

I enjoyed the book a lot. I found it very engrossing all the way through!

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Summary: While She Was Sleeping!
Review: On the surface it would appear as though the Campbell family of Last Bend, Washington are your typical and average family. Liam, is a hometown doctor, and the son of the founding father while his wife, Mikaela, is a former nurse now devoted to her family and horses. Thay have a teen-age daughter Jacey and younger son Bret. But things are not always as they appear for Mikaela has hidden a secret past from her family which will come back to haunt all of them.

In her latest book, Angel Falls, the well known romance writer Kristin Hannah has written a contemporary title which is filled with great emotion and poignancy. During a typical morning's ride, Mikaela, is thrown from her horse and sustains a head trauma which results in a coma. While Liam and the others talk to her and pray for her, Liam learns about Mikaela's secret past. Then sacrificing both his love for her and family life as they know it, he seeks help from the one man who may ulitmately change the Campbells lives as they know them.

While this book is a fast read unlike most romance novels it is told from the man's point of view. But as I read it I couldn't help but feel as though something was missing. While most romance novels are somewhat predictable, I have always enjoyed Kristin Hannah's wasy of enveloping her readers with her characters lives and situations. Unfortunately, this time, I didn't find her characters as finely drawn nor the events during Mikaela's coma plausible. Then again, if you're looking for a good beach read this summer, Angel Falls may be just the right book.

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Summary: A Touching Story
Review: This book brings Mikayla's life into the open. She is a loving wife with two children and known throughout the small town of Angel Falls. She suffers from a head injury and goes into a coma. Her husband sits with her, talking and singing, bringing her flowers, doing everything he can to wake her. The only word she says is "Jules" and her husband figures out, with the help of her mother and a dress he found in her closet, that she was once married to movie star Julian True. At the end of his ideas, he calls Julian, hoping he will remember her and come to visit her and be able to awake her. The family is tested as Mikayla has to choose which life she will return to and where her love and loyalty lie. Her husband's love never ceases and he put himself on the line for her, but will it end in her leaving him behind?

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Summary: Which is the true love?
Review: This is a very enjoyable romance novel. Married to a doctor, Liam Campbell, in a small town in northwest Washington state, Mikaela falls from a horse, strikes her head and enters a coma from which it seems she may never awaken. But Liam, the narrator of this tale, does not give up hope. He spends long hours by her bed telling her of his love, her two kids and memories they share, hoping something will awaken the woman within. His efforts produce naught. Then he discovers in Mikaela's closet mementoes she has kept of her first marriage. He knew she was married before but is startled to learn that she was married to world-famous movie star Julian True. Seeing the mementoes, he realizes that she has never stopped loving True. When he mentions True's name, she blinks. After much anguish he decides to contact True in the hope that his voice may awaken Mikaela from her slumber. True comes to town, the plot thickens and in the end true love prevails. But is it True love? Read the book to find out.