Rainbows at Midnight

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Summary: Rainbows at Midnight
Review: "Rainbows at Midnight" is a beautifully blended sequel to "Midnight Sun." I enjoyed revisiting all of the characters that I came to love in "Midnight Sun" and was thrilled to meet the new ones in "Rainbows at Midnight." I was completely entertained from the first to the last page.

Amanda Harte's novels always have a fresh quality. Her plots are never mundane or predictable. It was evident that she puts deep thought and substance into her novels and thoroughly researches the subject.

"Rainbows at Midnight" epitomizes Ms. Harte's concise writing style and expert writing skills to produce fresh, rich, and carefully constructed plots where no issues are left hanging. Her skills are further demonstrated and quite evident with her unique storytelling ability to create and weave characters and story lines from her previous novel, "Midnight Sun".

Reading an Amanda Harte novel is always time well spent!

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Summary: Poorly Written, Issues Left Hanging
Review: I won't go into the story as a previous reviewer already did so. What I am complaining about are the loose ends that are never tied together. Sam's father loves him but leaves his vicious second wife and stepson in charge of his estate until Sam, who was 10 years old when he dies, reaches the age of 25 and marries. If he cared so much for his son he would have left his lawyer in charge of his home and his business. Then Sam signs over the business, after it has been run into the ground, over to his hateful step brother. Right! That's just not believeable. Next, Laura's husband has escaped from jail and wound up in Alaska. Why did the sheriff not take Roy in custody and return him to the pen? Jason, Charlotte's love, is uneducated and speaks thusly. Then, a week or so after Sam hires him he can speak perfect English and can work on Sam's accounts. From was previously written I doubt Jason could even read. Then, there is the fact that Laura started a school for the Indian children and the poor adults on the wrong side of town. Why did she not start a school for the illiterate children? Just too much unprobable happenings. I realize it's fiction, but please let's have some continuity.

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Summary: JV from Flushing
Review: To inherit his father's legacy Sam Baranov needs a bride, a woman to keep house and bear children. He doesn't expect love; in fact, he doesn't believe in such a poetic notion. Which leaves him hard-pressed to explain why one glance from the new schoolteacher sets his pulse racing, or why her smile has him offering to teach the students woodworking. Laura Templeton has traveled to Alaska to make a fresh start, not to find a husband. But after meeting Sam, matrimony occupies all her thoughts. Until Laura knows that in a land which boasts rainbows at midnight, they have discovered a love powerful enough to wash away the mistakes of the past, a love to light their future together.