Tahitian Affair

Rating:
Summary: A Romance that offers a Very Sweet Ride
Review: Angie shows up in Tahiti feeling sorry for herself because once slender and gorgeous, she's gained weight and doesn't look so good anymore. Then she overhears someone refering to her as a whale and now she's really depressed, depressed and determined to get her old figure and her looks back.

She longs to stay in the South Pacific, but her funds are low. Soon she's going to have to check out of her hotel and find a cheaper place to stay. Then, through a fortunate set of circumstances, she gets a job as a cook on a sailboat. The skipper can't cook and is doing a charter, so the job is only supposed to be temporary, but Angie isn't on board long, before she longs to make the arrangement permanent, because the captain, a handsome devil of a man named Luke, quickly captures her heart.

Only problem is, Luke's heart belongs to another, a posh, gorgeous girl named Suzi back in California, who has dumped Luke and is now dating a doctor. Angie is determined to win Luke's love and she comes close, but then Suzi comes calling and Angie is devastated. She overhears the two talking and it is too much for her to take. She leaves the boat without telling Luke where she's off to, better a clean break, she thinks.

But did Angie have it right? Did Luke fall all over Suzi when she showed up? It's a romance, so the ending is pretty predictable, but then we don't read romances looking for a twist in the tale or for a surprise ending. We read romances for the ride and this one was a very sweet ride indeed.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

Rating:
Summary: More to Come?
Review: Dee Lighton has written a simple, pleasant little fairy tale romance but has thrown in some great descriptive passages which make us think there is more to this writer than first appears, "...the first two fish, shimmering like cobalt and silver in shot silk."

It is obvious also that Ms. Lighton has paid her dues as a sailor and did not get her knowledge of the South Pacific from studying old National Geographic magazines. Whether describing a storm in the night in a difficult anchorage in Cooks Bay or just the timelessness of the mountains of Moorea the author makes us feel that we are sharing her experience.

There is more than enough eroticism in the book to spark our interest and to tease us into turning the next page or waiting for the next chapter.

This is a simple read but it leaves us thinking that Dee Lighton has more to share with us and we hope she will expand on the promise of this first effort.

Rating:
Summary: Now I Wanna Go to Tahiti
Review: I read "Tahitian Affair" while I was on a ski vacation in Tahoe, watching the snow outside my mountain cabin. Yes, a ski lodge is fun, but after reading Dee Lighton's wonderful romance, I found myself longing for the sun, surf, swimming and maybe an island affair in the South Pacific.

Angie arrives in Tahiti after recovering from an illness. She's gained weight and feels frumpy and fat. She's determined to go on a diet, especially after she overhears a Frenchman commenting on the fact that she looks like a whale. She goes to town, visits the quay, checks out the sailboats, reminiscing about the Caribbean sailing vacations she'd had with her family when a squall rips through the harbor. She spies a boat in trouble, the lines have come loose. Like Wonder Woman, she leaps to the rescue. On board, she helps to save the boat by making the lines fast.

The owner, a single-handed, circumnavigator named Luke asks her come aboard as crew, because he's going to do a charter and he needs a skilled hand who can also cook. Angie falls quickly in love, but unfortunately for her, Luke is in love with another. A gorgeous, playmate type named Suzi, who apparently doesn't give a fig about him. How can Angie hope to win his heart when the competition is so stiff? I needed to know, so I gave up lunch and a day on the slopes, reading away. This is a delightful story that I enjoyed very much and I think you will too.

Rating:
Summary: It's like taking a cruising vacation in Polynesia
Review: I read this book because it's about sailing, which I love, and French Polynesia, where I spent several memorable months cruising. The rich detail of the author's descriptions brought it all back for me. I found I also cared about Angie, the main character, and how or if she'd get her problems worked out. As a man, I enjoyed seeing this beautiful world from a woman's point of view. Angie's point of view is quite appealing - and different, I think, from a typical man's viewpoint. This is a well written book, a pleasure to read.

Rating:
Summary: I want to read more..
Review: TAHITIAN AFFAIR caught my eye because of the locale, always a land of mystical allure. Not being a Romance reader, I planned to scan the book looking for parts pertaining to Tahiti and the surrounding islands. However, I was soon caught up in the story and had to backtrack to appreciate it from the beginning. The author's vibrant descriptions of the beauty of the islands, of the waters, of the people's customs, plus the intertwining love story make this a "Must Read" novel! I am looking for further works by Ms. Lighton..

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful South Pacific Romance
Review: This story takes place in Tahiti. I especially liked the foreign setting, because not only did I get a very nice romance, but I got a glimpse of what it would be like if I lived on a sailboat in the South Pacific, or if I lived on one of the many islands in Tahiti. I liked this story a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in a good love story.

Rating:
Summary: Tahitian Affair by Dee Lighton
Review: Traveling to that legendary romantic spot on the globe, the author has woven a love story around the steamy,lush background of turquiose waters and sparkling beaches of French Polynesia. Here Angie touches the realities of her life revealed by feelings for the handsome solo sailor who crosses her path. These feelings, delicately and hauntingly brushed on the canvas of this manuscript portray to the reader a sensuous journey easy to identify with. A great read.

Rating:
Summary: A Special Place, a Special Story
Review: Weep your eyes out, Mills and Boon. You have let a delicious novel slip from your grasp. This book far exceeds, in quality writing, the run of the mill romance novel. From the very start, with its delicious views onto the turquoise Pacific seas as the plane glides down, to the tropical scents, the warm air, the flowers, the colour, the hustle and bustle and noise of Papeete, the reader is hooked. Thereafter, it's a magic ride, through islands and lagoons, reefs and seas and shallows. One can see it all, smell it all, feel it all. The writing is superb.

The book is peopled with real people, including islanders, whose way of life unfolds gently into the narrative. I felt a great longing to visit these places myself, meet these people.

There are surprises, too; diving and being swept into a lagoon on the current, entirely surrounded by rainbow fish. There are steamy love-scenes, set not only in bed but in the sea ........ and there we come to the nub of the story. Love. This love-story envelops the reader in suspense; it unfurls little by little, two steps forward and one step back, keeping the reader in doubt as to the outcome, right up to the last page.

I read the book with the greatest pleasure and closed the book with reluctance.