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Summary: Great Love Story!
Review: Once Around is the first Barbara Bretton novel I have read and it won't be the last! Contrary to other reviewers, I found Molly to be an evolving character, gaining strength and becoming powerful and self-assured. Bretton does a great job on character development, which enables the reader to easily embrace and relate to all of the characters. You are drawn into Molly's tragedy and can feel her pain and heartache. I found Rafe to be a strong and compassionate character and you genuinely cheer for both he and Molly and a life of happiness together.Bretton is another one of those authors expounding upon the power of love in the midst of tragedy. This story was nicely written, tender and compassionate and a story you want to savor for a long time. It is a story of hope and joy and I thoroughly recommend it!
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Summary: Great Love Story!
Review: Once Around is the first Barbara Bretton novel I have read and it won't be the last! Contrary to other reviewers, I found Molly to be an evolving character, gaining strength and becoming powerful and self-assured. Bretton does a great job on character development, which enables the reader to easily embrace and relate to all of the characters. You are drawn into Molly's tragedy and can feel her pain and heartache. I found Rafe to be a strong and compassionate character and you genuinely cheer for both he and Molly and a life of happiness together. Bretton is another one of those authors expounding upon the power of love in the midst of tragedy. This story was nicely written, tender and compassionate and a story you want to savor for a long time. It is a story of hope and joy and I thoroughly recommend it!
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Summary: Hot! Hot! Hot!
Review: Once Around sizzles. I never thought I'd see the day when a pregnant woman is allowed to be sexy. Wow! As the mother of three, I say hiphip hooray! This worked for me.
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Summary: A Great relay=tioonship drama
Review: Pregnant Molly Chamberlain has had the worst day of her life. Her spouse Robert has deserted her for the daughter of a judge and the island of Manhattan. However, he not only cut off her credit cards, Robert also entered their Princeton home while Molly was at the obstetrician and took all their furniture (even their bed). That same day, independent contractor Rafe Garrick comes to the Chamberlain home to begin a roofing job that Robert has partially paid the man to do. However, Molly cannot afford to complete the payment and Rafe no longer has the money to provide her a refund. Instead, he begins to do odd jobs to help the attractive lady. As the pair becomes acquainted, they begin to fall in love. Still, he is a Montana cowboy whose first wife and daughter left him for a richer man. That scar leaves him to believe that he cannot compete with her sophisticated lawyer. ONCE AROUND is an interesting contemporary romance, starring two couples, who fans will adopt as their neighbors. Though Robert comes across too harsh (in a failed attempt to provide counterpoint and dispute between Molly and Rafe), the novel does paint an intriguing look at the modern ultra-extended family. Barbara Bretton proves that she is one of the superior writers of romance within the modern age of complex relationships. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: The passion was as thick as the Nantucket fog...
Review: Second chances, haven't we all wished it once? If we all could be so lucky to find someone who loves us as passionately as Molly and Rafe did. Jesse and Spencer were a good diversion to cut the sexual tension that in the air everytime Molly and Rafe were together. Jesse and Spencer's courtship was interesting and unexpected. A great read for the beach, because you will need to cool off after some of the love scenes.
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Summary: I lived this story!
Review: Something simular happened to me. I know just how Molly felt and the Author captured it 110%!! I loved this book and will read it again.
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Summary: This book lacks drama.
Review: The beginning was quick to engage my curiosity but I was disappointed. Molly Chamberlain, pregnant and abandoned by her husband of 10 years for another woman, is left with little income to pay rent and living expenses. Molly lacks depth. Rafe Garrick, whose story was never adequately developed, appears and instantly falls for her. He continues to appear out of thin air throughout the book and rescue her. I kept thinking this will be a great story when it gets going - and then it was over. Jessy and Spencer add some diversion but their story is just too simple as well.
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Summary: Slow starter.............
Review: This book was a slow starter as far as the story line,but when I read more chapters,it did begin to pick up.I thought that Jessy and Spencer were a total mismatch,but happy they finally married.All in all this was a good read..........
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This book was sexy, emotional, a great summer read. I thought Molly grew up a lot from page one to the end. Rafe broke my heart! Once I started I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Sweet, Simple Story
Review: This is not the type of romantic blockbuster that Nora Roberts often turns out, but it is sweet and sensitive nevertheless, and a nice, soothing read for one of those days when you've simply had enough of everything around you. The story opens as pregnant Molly Chamberlain, pregnant and married to a Princeton lawyer, is coping with the fact that her so-called perfect husband has left her and his unborn child for a judge's daughter. Not only that, he has stripped their house bare of every stick of furniture, every knicknack, even a broken lamp. As Molly literally bends over from the shock and emits a long, heartbroken wail, she is overheard by Rafe Garrick, a handyman who just happens to be in the neighborhood. And so the scene is set. Can Molly, unaccountably attracted to the gorgeous, hunky Rafe, overcome her own prejudices, pain, and outrage over being dumped by her husband to find new love? Can Rafe, who has fallen in love with Molly on first sight, trust his heart when the secret he carries is so full of hurt? Each of these people is more than they seem...but neither will let the other one see what is inside. It's a typical romance, a typical plot, but it all comes together so sweetly that it is just the thing for a night in a warm bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, with hot cocoa and the lights down low. Barbara Bretton's books are always like that--nothing spectacular, but wonderful nonetheless.
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