Circle In The Sand

Rating:
Summary: Timeless Tales 4 stars review
Review: by Sara Sawyer

The Kents and the Maclaughlins have been neighbors, friends and family for generations. Everyone loves each other and each child grew up together. Samantha Kent fell in love with Kelly Maclaughlin when she was a child. Kelly was older by 3 years and Sam thought that it was better to keep her love a secret.

Sam is brokenhearted and desperate when she hears of Kelly's impending marriage to Loretta and decides to reveal her feelings for him. She goes to his house to talk him out of marrying Loretta and was shocked to find out that Kelly loved her too. Kelly is unable to call off the engagement because not only is Loretta pregnant, but also her father has threatened Kelly's family and their workers. For the sake of his child, Kelly marries Loretta and suffers through a horrible marriage.

Six and half years later, Sam and Kelly are brought back together for Eric's, Kelly's brother, wedding. Loretta has become more and more intolerable with her moods and her affairs that Kelly has been trying to find a way to divorce and keep Timmy, their son. Loretta is caught having sex with the pool man by Sam's grandmother, and in order to keep her quiet about the affair, Loretta kills her. It is believed by all that the grandmother's death was an accident, and in their grief Kelly and Sam find each other again.

Kelly asks that Sam wait until he can divorce Loretta and get Timmy. Sam is upset about having to be the mistress while he is married. Loretta announces a pregnancy and Sam, in a fit of fury, decides to marry a next-door neighbor, Warren. Kelly is upset and angry with her for this action. Warren has an ulterior motive for quickly marrying Sam, and that is found out rather quickly after a kidnapping.

It is a suspenseful journey for the Maclaughlin and Kent families. It is a journey that not everyone survives.

The action and the suspense were well crafted; they made you wonder what could happen next and then shocked you when you found out. The mastermind criminal was inventive and you could see that he was a genius at planning; he just picked on the wrong family.

This reader had a hard time accepting that Kelly could not divorce his wife earlier; she was not that hard to catch in the act. Kelly also seemed to cast the blame on Sam in most of the situations. It was portrayed as her fault she felt so insecure in their relationship and that she should have waited for him to possibly divorce his wife sometime in the distant future. Kelly seemed a bit egocentric and Sam very weak-willed. It made the love-story hard to accept.

Overall, it was a great premise and it was well written but the love story just didn't seem plausible.

Rating:
Summary: intense and explosive story
Review: Courtesy of Love Romances

The Kents and MacLaughlins have been close friends for generations.

Samatha Kent (Sam) and Kelly MacLaughlin grew up together and they loved each other since childhood. Now, Samatha is eighteen and it has always been her dream to marry her hero, Kelly. However, Kelly is obligated to marry another woman, out of duty and responsibility, because of her unexpected pregnancy.

Then, Sam and Eric, Kelly's brother, go to live with Sam's grandmother in San Diego to prepare their start in college. Six years later, Eric is gettting married and it is not possible for Sam to avoid Kelly any more. Seeing Kelly again brings back all the bitterness and pain that she has suffered all these years. Not much later, Sam's grandmother is drown in the pool but no one knows that she was actually murdered.

CIRCLE IN THE SAND has lots to offer readers - hate, adultery, murder, betrayal, love, suspense. The strong link between Kelly and Sam since childhood and Kelly's determination to have Sam make this story become more intense and explosive. Moreover, readers could actually feel the strong emotion and violence between the lines and keep them on their toes from beginning to end.

Rating:
Summary: intense and explosive story
Review: Courtesy of Love Romances

The Kents and MacLaughlins have been close friends for generations.

Samatha Kent (Sam) and Kelly MacLaughlin grew up together and they loved each other since childhood. Now, Samatha is eighteen and it has always been her dream to marry her hero, Kelly. However, Kelly is obligated to marry another woman, out of duty and responsibility, because of her unexpected pregnancy.

Then, Sam and Eric, Kelly's brother, go to live with Sam's grandmother in San Diego to prepare their start in college. Six years later, Eric is gettting married and it is not possible for Sam to avoid Kelly any more. Seeing Kelly again brings back all the bitterness and pain that she has suffered all these years. Not much later, Sam's grandmother is drown in the pool but no one knows that she was actually murdered.

CIRCLE IN THE SAND has lots to offer readers - hate, adultery, murder, betrayal, love, suspense. The strong link between Kelly and Sam since childhood and Kelly's determination to have Sam make this story become more intense and explosive. Moreover, readers could actually feel the strong emotion and violence between the lines and keep them on their toes from beginning to end.