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Summary: Poignant drama
Review: May Taylor, boarding the plane with her beloved six-year-old daughter Kylie, notices all the couples. May feels lonely in spite of her cherished daughter and she feels hurt because the child's father deserted them. Kylie begins talking with an angel that no one else can see. This frightens May who worries that her child is schizophrenic. However, that concern goes on the back burner when the plane makes an emergency landing. Hockey superstar Martin Cartier helps mother and daughter jump down the slide. He wonders how Kylie knew trouble was coming because she had stopped to ask him to help her on her way back from the restroom. Kylie says that his daughter told her, but Martin knows his child is dead. Still Martin feels a bond with Kylie and an attraction to May, but his personal life is filled with tragedy and sadness while May has little faith in men and in her daughter's clairvoyant abilities. Only a loving child with the help of angels could turn this duo into a couple, but that may prove too big a mission. SUMMER LIGHT is a fabulous relationship drama that uses the paranormal to focus on lonely people. The story line is beautiful as Martin and May struggle with attraction and love while worrying about Kylie's mental health. The paranormal not only feels real and right, it helps propel the plot and provide understanding to the lead trio. Fans of contemporary romance with a dash of the paranormal will find Luanne Rice's latest novel a poignant, interesting, and entertaining tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Great Read
Review: One child's ability to see and converse with Angels brings together a sweet gentle wedding planner and a troubled Hockey Star. Luanne Rice's well plotted, well told romance keeps readers flipping pages through to the perfect ending for this Best Selling tale. The author captivated my imagination and convinced me to read her other novels. Good Job, Luanne.
Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge
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Summary: Quick, entertaining read...
Review: One of my friends handed me this book saying "I know you don't really go for the mushy stuff, but this book has a hockey player in it!" I think it only took 24 hours for me to read this one. (I admit I read some while at work)
I'm obviously a hockey fan, and I got a chuckle out of the 2-0 overtime win too. My one hockey gripe though, was the "facemask" thing. The players I see wear helmets, and occasionally a face shield on the helmet. Only the goalies have full face protection (unless you're in juniors).
All in all, a good quick read that I enjoyed enough that I'm thinking about buying my own copy to read again sometime (we passed the copy I read on to another female hockey fan - share the love!). I'd love to see another hockey novel like this - showing the players as very human.
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Summary: I love Ms. Rice.
Review: She's a super writer! I love her books & the subjects that they cover. Don't delay, pick up one of her books & read it.
You'll be an automatic fan. I'm still working my way through her books, and I haven't been disappointed yet. This is one of my fav's.
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Summary: I love Ms. Rice.
Review: She's a super writer! I love her books & the subjects that they cover. Don't delay, pick up one of her books & read it.
You'll be an automatic fan. I'm still working my way through her books, and I haven't been disappointed yet. This is one of my fav's.
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Summary: Disappointing Book!
Review: Since 1988 I have been a loyal and avid reader of Luanne Rice's books. While browsing at the library years ago I first came across Crazy in Love and today I always look forward to a new Luanne Rice book. That said I must now admit that Summer Light was one of Rice's more disappointing books. Yes it did contain many of Rice's themes I've come to enjoy which include the love of a couple for each other, the love of a parent for a child and relatives who disappoint us. But ultimately this book was not a satisfying read. And this may very well be the author's concentration on angels communing with the dead and the author also delving into the world of extra sensory perception. May is a wedding planner in Hubbard Point, Conn. and the single mother of a very unusual young girl Kaylie. After the death of her great grandmother and a traumatic event, Kaylie begins to see things before they happen and also talks to people who have died. Fearing for her daughter's sanity, May seeks the help of paranormal experts who have few clues as to what is happening to Kaylie. On a flight home from an appointment in Canada with these experts, Kaylie asks a man to help save her mother and herself when the plane crashes. The man is a great hockey player, Martin Cartier, who has secrets of his own. These include the death of his young daughter a few years before, and his hatred for his father Serge, also a former hockey player, who is now in prison. This chance encounter between May, Martin and Kaylie and the subsequent plane crash which Kaylie predicted will have far reaching consequences which will lead to their association and the book progresses to another tragedy and a predictable conclusion. Unfortunately for me this was a poor example of Luanne Rice's plot and characters development. I never found myself either interested in these people or their situation. I do suggest reading some of Luanne Rice's really good books like Blue Moon or Safe Harbor to see how good this author can present a book which leaves you yearning to read more by her. I'm sorry to say Summer Light just wasn't one of them..
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Summary: Disappointing Book!
Review: Since 1988 I have been a loyal and avid reader of Luanne Rice�s books. While browsing at the library years ago I first came across Crazy in Love and today I always look forward to a new Luanne Rice book. That said I must now admit that Summer Light was one of Rice�s more disappointing books. Yes it did contain many of Rice�s themes I�ve come to enjoy which include the love of a couple for each other, the love of a parent for a child and relatives who disappoint us. But ultimately this book was not a satisfying read. And this may very well be the author�s concentration on angels communing with the dead and the author also delving into the world of extra sensory perception. May is a wedding planner in Hubbard Point, Conn. and the single mother of a very unusual young girl Kaylie. After the death of her great grandmother and a traumatic event, Kaylie begins to see things before they happen and also talks to people who have died. Fearing for her daughter�s sanity, May seeks the help of paranormal experts who have few clues as to what is happening to Kaylie. On a flight home from an appointment in Canada with these experts, Kaylie asks a man to help save her mother and herself when the plane crashes. The man is a great hockey player, Martin Cartier, who has secrets of his own. These include the death of his young daughter a few years before, and his hatred for his father Serge, also a former hockey player, who is now in prison. This chance encounter between May, Martin and Kaylie and the subsequent plane crash which Kaylie predicted will have far reaching consequences which will lead to their association and the book progresses to another tragedy and a predictable conclusion. Unfortunately for me this was a poor example of Luanne Rice�s plot and characters development. I never found myself either interested in these people or their situation. I do suggest reading some of Luanne Rice�s really good books like Blue Moon or Safe Harbor to see how good this author can present a book which leaves you yearning to read more by her. I�m sorry to say Summer Light just wasn�t one of them..
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Summary: Heatwarming and Tender Tale
Review: Summer Light by Luanne Rice is a wonderfully heartwarming and touching story. This is definitely Rice at her best! It is romantic and sentimental, without being overbearing, with a touch of the mystical thrown in! May Taylor is a single mother with a "gifted" daughter, who claims to speak with angels. While flying home to Connecticut, Kylie is warned of the impending aircraft danger by one of her angel friends, and seeks the aid of Martin Cartier to help her and her mother to safety. Not knowing why, Kylie knows that this man will somehow play a role in their lives. Cartier, a tough, kind, and greatly sought after bachelor, is a hockey player with the Boston Bruins. He pursues May until she agrees to marry him. Rice once again weaves magic with her characters and one cannot help but fall right into their lives and into their emotions. Balancing issues of death, single parenthood, dual careers, scandal, parental issues, as well as hailing from two different countries, Rice brings home to her readers that any relationship requires commitment, work, dedication, honesty, and most of all love. I was endeared to this quote from the book, "That's what a married couple does . . .love each other through sickness and health, for richer, for poorer, in good times and bad. They love each other's children and try to honor each other's parents - even when the whole thing seems impossible." Their marriage is tested, challenged and tested again and Rice's portrayal of a family ripped apart by the trials of life and past events is uncannily real. I could not put this latest bestseller down and was completely swept away and into the saga. I absolutely loved this book and Rice confirms once again, that only love is real. This is one book that will touch your heart and warm your soul - a definite keeper.
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Summary: i love it. i love it. i love it.
Review: SUMMER LIGHT is a first from Luanne Rice for me, and I am certainly looking forward to her upcoming releases--and FIREFLY BEACH. Luanne Rice's tale is heartwarming and has the realism of the real-life. I love it. Luanne tops Danielle Steel.
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Summary: Summerlight from Twee HB
Review: Summer Light is my favourite !! I think this is the best novel of Luanne Rice. Summerlight was the first book that I read of Luanne. Through Amazone, I came across and gladly found her novels !! Summerlight proved that my believe, "Angels and love", do exist in this world. What, May Taylor and her daughter, Kylie experienced in their life as Kylie helped her mother to find love and hapiness as what my daughter and I went through life together in few years back. May Taylor of the Bride Barn also mentioned "Twice" in Firefly Beach at Firefly Ball. May Taylor knows Caroline Renwick. My smile came to me when read this part in Firefly. How wonderful I thought!! I think that it is so great that Luanne Rice had put the above excellent personal touch into her novels. I think it makes the reader, I don't know about others but for me it did, feels involved and want to read more and more of her next book. As I now just discovered that her next book "Safe Harbour" has Sam Trevor, Joe Connor's brother, of Firefly Beach as a main male character. This is so great, Just can't wait for "Safe Harbour" to come to New Zealand.
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