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Summary: SUMMER LIGHT WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK.
Review: SUMMER LIGHT WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK. LUANNE HAS BECOME ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES. EACH BOOK IS SUCH A WONDER, CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH PEOPLE SHE WRITES ABOUT. HAS ALSO HELPED ME IN MY PERSONAL LIFE. CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER. I HAVE ALL HER BOOKS AND I AM SAVING THEM FOR MY DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. THANK YOU LUANNE RICE!!!!
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Summary: 462 pages - 2 days
Review: This book was absolutely perfect for a romance novel and hockey fan like myself. Luanne Rice has to be one of the best writers that I have come accross in a long time. Her take on family relationships is unriveled by any other author I have recently read. This book is a perfect mixture of romance and sports. Don't listen to the reviewer who slammed the book because of its "inconsistencies" - If I want reality, I'll turn on the news. I want romance and a book that tells about the power of love on multiple levels - and this is it!
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Summary: great book
Review: This book was one of those that inspires one to want to write. The ability of miss Rice to capture life and put in on paper. This book in particular. It was well written technically but even better emotionally. She captured the emotions of the characters an dforces the reader to feel tham too. The characters them selves are vivid and come to life on the page. I for one could hardly put it down in the day it took me to read it.
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Summary: A Beautiful Love Story
Review: This is a story of love,betrayal and love renewed.It revolves around Martin Cartier,May Taylor and her daughter,Kylie.Martin is a professional hockey player and a sport's legend;May is a wedding planner and Kylie possesses a sixth sense, which enables her to see/talk to angels. On a flight that is in trouble Martin comes to the aid of May ,facilitated by a vision from Kylie.This meeting opens the door to a great love between them. After Martin's believing that they were meant for each other,he feels betrayed by May and disappears, only to reappear and marry May. Their love is so intense,but Martin's moods govern his behavior,and one does wonder how May can remain so loyally loving to a man who disappears at the least provocation.Martin's estranged father,Serge, a former championship hockey player himself, is in prison. His daughter,Natalie,died accidently when with Serge, and Martin refuses to forgive him.Natalie's angel appears to Kylie,wanting her to reunite the two, as does May, who has secretly visited Serge. A tragedy causes Martin to totally withdraw from May and Kylie,but there is a miraculous resolution between all parties that seals their love. This is a beautifully written story and Luanne Rice so well portrays the enotions of the various characters. She weaves a tale that will leave you happy with the outcome despite the unexpected events that change the course of their lives. This book is as compelling as "Dream Country."
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Summary: More Luanne Rice lite
Review: This is a very good book, but again (as with Rice's recent Firefly Beach) it's more of a lite sampling of the character depth that Luanne Rice has delivered so consistently so many times in the past. It's an engaging, original story of single mom wedding planner May raising her magical daughter Kylie and marrying charismatic but troubled hockey star Martin Cartier. Martin deals with the earlier tragic death of his own young daughter, Natalie, by repression and denial and is mired in unforgiveness towards his convict father, himself a hockey legend, for contributing to Natalie's death and for perpetrating other family betrayals. Rice weaves a fabric with many interesting threads - Kylie's magical prescience and angel friends, a wedding planner's enabling role in true love, the importance of childhood friends in the adult experience, the origin of sports rivalry in childhood disillusionments - but somehow the whole cloth of the book remains patchy, almost threadbare in spots. I never understood how Martin could be so closed-in emotionally for most of the story and still attract May, who overall impressed me with her own emotional maturity and self-awareness. As with all her books, she uses a few gripping, almost gruesome scenes to advance character exposition and plot. This is absolutely where Rice shines in her latest two books. While extending such intensity would probably make for too painful a read, I find myself wishing something in the story had lasted longer or had been explored to greater depth. That said, even a less than top rated Luanne Rice book will provide much more reading satisfaction than most of the 5 star reads out there.
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Summary: Bravo, Luanne Rice
Review: This is one of Luanne Rice's best. If you have never read Rice before, or tried to read her before,(say, Cloud Nine-Dream Country) but couldn't, "Summer Light" is a very fast paced novel and better than her previous works. I had to force myself to put it down. I don't always like to finish a novel in one sitting, but I could have with this. There were several times when I was near tears, which doesn't always happen when I read romances. The themes of forgiveness, miracles, and lots of medical terminology running through this novel, as one of the main characters, Hockey player, Martin Cartier, is going blind--very sad and tragic, as he tries to wield a hockey puck but can't see. Martin Cartier needs a miracle, and he just might have found it in his love interest, May Taylor, and her "psychic" daughter, 6-year-old, Kylie. Luanne Rice is a very emotional writer, more emotional than intellectual. The writing isn't as thought-provoking as it is emotion-feeling provoking. But this is what most romance readers want: writing that makes you feel, rather than think. Although, out of all the romance writers, Luanne Rice (along with Barbara Delinsky and Nicholas Sparks) is the most intelligent and realistic. If you liked Barbara Delinskys "Lake News" or Nicholas Sparks "A Walk to Remember" then you would like "Summer Light". So, on to Luanne Rice's "Firefly Beach", as I am looking forward to reading a lot more by this author.
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Summary: Bravo, Luanne Rice
Review: This is one of Luanne Rice's best. If you have never read Rice before, or tried to read her before,(say, Cloud Nine-Dream Country) but couldn't, "Summer Light" is a very fast paced novel and better than her previous works. I had to force myself to put it down. I don't always like to finish a novel in one sitting, but I could have with this. There were several times when I was near tears, which doesn't always happen when I read romances. The themes of forgiveness, miracles, and lots of medical terminology running through this novel, as one of the main characters, Hockey player, Martin Cartier, is going blind--very sad and tragic, as he tries to wield a hockey puck but can't see. Martin Cartier needs a miracle, and he just might have found it in his love interest, May Taylor, and her "psychic" daughter, 6-year-old, Kylie. Luanne Rice is a very emotional writer, more emotional than intellectual. The writing isn't as thought-provoking as it is emotion-feeling provoking. But this is what most romance readers want: writing that makes you feel, rather than think. Although, out of all the romance writers, Luanne Rice (along with Barbara Delinsky and Nicholas Sparks) is the most intelligent and realistic. If you liked Barbara Delinskys "Lake News" or Nicholas Sparks "A Walk to Remember" then you would like "Summer Light". So, on to Luanne Rice's "Firefly Beach", as I am looking forward to reading a lot more by this author.
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Summary: The first I've read by this author; definitely not the last!
Review: This is the first book that I've read by Luanne Rice, the beautiful cover actually drew me to it on the shelf; however, once I started reading it, I could not put it down. I really enjoyed this story - through the good times and the bad. I cannot wait to read more books by Luanne Rice - I hope they are just as good as this one.
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Summary: A keeper
Review: This is the first time I've read anything by LuAnne Rice, but it definitely will not be my last.
I'm inspired by the way she draws the reader into the lives of these characters and you suddenly find yourself wrapped up in their emotions as if they were your own. I'm eager to see if she is consistent with her style and technique. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not a good book
Review: This was my first time reading Luanne Rice, and I must admit I wanted to read the book mostly for the hockey storyline. I was, unfortunately, very disappointed and couldn't even finish the book. The storyline was not believable. I had a hard time with May constantly staying after Martin to talk about Natalie and his father, and I couldn't figure out why she could not seem to understand why he was so upset with his father. I never got a sense of a great love between this couple either - there was nothing that made me really believe that they really were passionate about one another or had any "sparks" between them. I didn't really dislike either character, but they did not seem to fit one another. I also found some of the hockey aspects of the book to unbelievable - I won't get into details, but suffice it to say I wondered if there were any other players on the Bruins team or just Martin? The whole thing was just so sickly sweet that I couldn't stomach it.
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