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Summary: Summer Light
Review: I think the book was quite good, however, being a hockey fan I picked up on something. On p53 Luanne says Game 3 also went into overtime, and this time the Oilers won it 2-0. I have discussed this with many people and I don't think it is possible to win a game 2-0 in overtime. The win would be 1-0. I do get upset when authors don't research or have professionals check their work. I can't find an e-mail anywhere for Ms Rice so I am stating my comments here.
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Summary: Has Me Hooked on This Author!
Review: I was in my favorite bookstore a month or so ago and asked one of the employees for some help in introducing me to a new author. I was tired of reading the same old authors time and time again. She told me about Luanne Rice and reccomended that I read Summer Light. I bought the book and had it read within a few days time. I loved this book! I am now hooked on her books and have borrowed 5 of them from my mother!! It isn't often that an author can get me so hooked on a book that I don't want to clean house, cook, etc.!!
The plot in Summer Light has ups and downs just like real life does. The child in this story is fascinating and I am a true believer that we all have angels surrounding us. We just have to be open to it to believe. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone!! I can't wait to dive into the rest of Luanne Rice's books!!!!!
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Summary: Unbeleivably Touching and Romantic
Review: I'd only read one other Luanne Rice title before picking up "Summer Light", and although I enjoyed it (Firefly Beach), Summer Light has it beaten, hands down . It's truly been a while since I got up early to continue reading a book, but I did it for this one. This book was fantastic.It had everything. May Taylor is a quiet, reserved woman, making the best out of a life that has left her dissappointed too many times. To top it all off, her daughter Kylie is 'gifted' with the ability to talk to, and see, angels. It is through Kylie's frequent trips to various doctors and specialists that May meet hockey legend Martin Cartier.One of Kylie's 'angels' tells her that Martin needs their help, and they need him. After a chance meeting and a freak accident, May and Martin find themselves so deeply in love it seems that nothing can tear them apart.
As always happens in the books we love the most, reality is a nasty presense in the lives of our fictional heros, and May, Martin and Kylie must all face their own demons. Struggling to build their family and protect their future, the Cartier's must make their peace with the past.
By the last three chapter of 'Summer Light' I was constantly dabbing at the tears. I was totally touched by Ms. Rice's story, and found little Natalie to be as real as any other character in the book. This is a book I will HAVE to lend to friends, because I know how much they will enjoy it. And I know that I'll be keeping "Summer Light" handy enough to read again soon. Great characters, great story, great romance, great, great ending. Need I say more =:)
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Summary: Over Done
Review: If you are thinking of reading this book my advise would be, DON'T. I listened to the unabridged audio tape and have stayed till the "bitter" end. If I had been reading the book I would have given up on page 50. All the characters are so sweet "sugar wouldn't melt in their mouths" that is except for the "revenge seeking hocky player". The only word that comes to mind to describe this book is "sappy".
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Summary: Mother Goose could have written this one.
Review: In Luanne Rice's latest, a single mother with a wedding planner business is courted by a famous hockey player. May Taylor has a daughter who sees and speaks with angels. The six year old Kylie has a special gift, the gift of prophecy. Though May takes Kylie to psychiatrists and other doctors, the child continues to have "visions". Kylie's latest "vision", following the whirlwind courtship of her mother, May and the famous hockey player Martin Cartier, is that she must find a way to bring Martin and his estranged father together again. Kylie has visions, complete with angels and fairy dust, in which Martin's
dead daughter appears and speaks to her, urging her to help her mother intercede and bring Martin and his father together. But Martin Cartier has secrets of his own, fortified by his continuing failure to win the Stanley Cup for his team. The story was a little too "out there", with the author using improbable "angels" and "visions" to make it work. Much of the tale is a fairy tale, and what is real enough just doesn't make a bestseller.
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Summary: Another good one
Review: Luanne rice wrote the first romantic novel I ever read and every book i have read since the first has been exeptional. This latest effort on her part displays the same knowledge of how to make the reader feel the emotions in the book. This one grabed my attention from the start and by the end i felt as if i had been on a roller coaster ride. Even though it's clicheed, it's true. Despite that the basic story is unique and i for one couldn't put it down.
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Summary: My first Luanne Rice disappointment
Review: Luanne Rice's past two novels have been much "lighter" fare than her previous work. Her characters are still well developed and believable; their emotions and problems are real and grab your attention and heart. May and her daughter Kylie are easy to care about; a hardworking single mother dancing on the edge of exhaustion and her troubled daughter. Are the angels Kylie sees real, or is she emotionally damaged by a truly horrific walk through the woods?Into their lives comes Martin Cartier, an aging hockey star with a multitude of unresolved issues-the death of his daughter; his criminal, former hockey superstar father;his diminishing eyesight; and his quest to lead the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup. The dialogue and relationship between May and Kylie is beautiful and completely believable. I truly felt the depth of May's love for her daughter, as well as her fears and frustrations with Kylie's visions. Also wonderful is the relationship with Tobin, May's best friend since childhood. Luanne Rice excells at the small nuances that make up everyday life relationships. What was difficult for me was accepting the immediate intimacy between May and Martin. Martin came across as a fairly one dimensional character; his arrogance and self involvement led me to wonder why May and other characters found him so lovable. The exception is his complex relationship with Kylie; some of their interplay is truly heartwarming. The first three quarters of "Summer Light" roll quickly along in a fairly traditional romance novel fashion, and the book is a pleasant read. As both a passionate hockey fan and reader, the several errors regarding the sport were annoying. I was truly, truly disappointed however, with a grand happy ending that I found to be unbelievable and poorly thought out. It felt hastily tacked on, and undermined my enjoyment of the rest of the book. Luanne Rice's previous work explored the hearts of women and relationships of families with much more depth and emotion than "Summer Light". She has shown brilliance at combining elements of spirituality, love and tragedy. I look forward to reading her next book, and am hoping for a renewal of her amazing storytelling ability.
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Summary: Extraordinary Novel
Review: May Taylor is a single mother and successful wedding planner, having inherited the business from her mother and grandmother. Kylie, her sensitive six -year-old daughter, has her worried, though, because Kylie seems to see and sense things that other people don't. On a recent plane trip, Kylie sees an angel near a big giant of a man. When a fire on the plane forces the plane to make an emergency landing, Martin Cartier, the giant and star hockey player for the Boston Bruins, helps Kylie and May off the plane. Attracted to May in a way that he can't explain, Martin begins driving down to Connecticut from Boston to see her. May is different from any of the women that Martin has known. She falls in love with him as a person, not merely the handsome rich hockey star. Life is good for the Cartiers when Martin marries May, and Kylie, Martin, and May become a family. But events from Martin's past threaten to tear them apart even as the future shows signs of tribulations to come. Will their love be strong enough to keep them together amidst the trials of life? Luanne Rice has written an extraordinary novel. Brimming with emotion, SUMMER LIGHT is a tender triumph showing how love can survive even under the most difficult of circumstances. And the touch of the paranormal adds an ethereal dimension to this read. SUMMER LIGHT will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you very glad that you read this novel.
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Summary: Slow start, strong emotional resolution
Review: May Taylor is flying her daughter Kylie home when she sees an Angel hanging over a handsome man. The angel is professional hockey player Martin Cartier's late daughter seeking to resolve the issues that her death left in Martin's life. Kylie tells Martin to help them shortly before the plane makes an unscheduled emergency landing and Martin is instantly intrigued by both Kylie and especially by her attractive single mother, May. After a brief courtship, both are firmly in love and the only issue seems to be whether May should apply her wedding planning business skills or whether they should elope (Martin just wants what makes May happy). For me, this first half of the novel was pleasant but unremarkable. We didn't see what made these two people uniquely right for one another. Martin's extreme reactions to questions about his past were consistent with author Luanne Rice's descriptions of his upbringing, but were nevertheless unpleasant and unheroic as were his frequent decisions to desert May and Kylie. The second half of the novel, and especially the conclusion, were much more emotionally satisfying. Rice handled the psychic elements with a delicate touch--enough to add to the plot yet little enough that the characters themselves had to resolve their issues. If you decide to read this book, and on net, I enjoyed it, make sure you keep reading through the relatively bland beginning. The emotional payoff is at the end.
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Summary: Between 3 and 4 Stars for this one... likeable...
Review: May Taylor works as a wedding planner with her best friend and great-aunt. She has never been married herself, as her soul mate had not come along. She is the mother of 5 year old Kylie, who sees and hears things that others cannot. Her unique visions will lead her mother into a life she never imagined, and a love she never expected. Martin Cartier, is a professional hockey player on board an airplane with his team, in view of Kylie and her mother also on the same plane. Fate lands Martin, quite literally in their lap, and their love story goes forward from there. Martin is a star athlete, in need of a soul mate himself, but has many ghosts of his own getting in the way. He lost his young daughter Natalie in a tragedy, and blames his estranged father for the accident. As the story develops and his relationship with Kylie and her mother blossoms, Kylie professes to speak to Natalie and envisions her as an angel with a mission. True, this story is somewhat far fetched, but if one believes in angels and possibilities, who can say? It is entertaining, emotional and enlightening...the characters are ones the reader can connect with, and that is what good fiction is all about... this did not disappoint me. I love Luanne's latest novels and recommend this one...
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