Helpful Score: 3
Apparently, Lisa Kleypas decided to rewrite the movie Somersby to her liking. Though she changed to setting, she barely changed the name of the heroine I found it too much like the movie (which I'm very familiar with) to enjoy the book. The echoes of the movie were everywhere, but unlike a novelization, everything was just slightly off enough to be distracting and feel wrong. She even lifts a line of dialog straight from the movie which I found extremely jarring. Thumbs down.
Helpful Score: 1
A real twist to the story. Holds your attention until the end. One of her best books.
Helpful Score: 1
The love story in Stranger in My Arms is very complex. The hero is a man "returned from the dead" whom the heroine is forced to embrace as her hated and presumed dead husband.
The central romantic tension in the book is the very slow development of a romantic relationship between Hunter and Lara. The marriage between the couple was extrtemely unhappy and with Hunter's return as a "changed man" he has much to overcome in gaining the love and trust of his wife.
There is a continuing sense of uncertainty about whether he is whom he claims to be which establishes a mystery to be resolved through the book. I was anxious to finish the story, not so much to resolve the love story but to know whether he was or wasn't. I am not sure I was completely satisfied with how the story ended, but I think Kleypas did a fine job of writing a story that grabbed my interested immediately and kept hold through the end.
Compared to other books in the genre, 4 stars. For a Kleypas book, only 3.
The central romantic tension in the book is the very slow development of a romantic relationship between Hunter and Lara. The marriage between the couple was extrtemely unhappy and with Hunter's return as a "changed man" he has much to overcome in gaining the love and trust of his wife.
There is a continuing sense of uncertainty about whether he is whom he claims to be which establishes a mystery to be resolved through the book. I was anxious to finish the story, not so much to resolve the love story but to know whether he was or wasn't. I am not sure I was completely satisfied with how the story ended, but I think Kleypas did a fine job of writing a story that grabbed my interested immediately and kept hold through the end.
Compared to other books in the genre, 4 stars. For a Kleypas book, only 3.
Helpful Score: 1
The love story in Stranger in My Arms is very complex. The hero is a man "returned from the dead" whom the heroine is forced to embrace as her hated and presumed dead husband.
The central romantic tension in the book is the very slow development of a romantic relationship between Hunter and Lara. The marriage between the couple was extremely unhappy and with Hunter's return as a Changed Man he has much to overcome in gaining the love and trust of his wife.
There is a continuing sense of uncertainty about whether he is whom he claims to be which establishes a mystery to be resolved through the book. I was anxious to finish the story, not so much to resolve the love story but to know whether he was or wasn't. I am not sure I was completely satisfied with how the story ended, but I think Kleypas did a fine job of writing a story that grabbed my intereste immediately and kept hold through the end.
Compared to other books in the genre, 4 stars. For a Kleypas book, only 3.
The central romantic tension in the book is the very slow development of a romantic relationship between Hunter and Lara. The marriage between the couple was extremely unhappy and with Hunter's return as a Changed Man he has much to overcome in gaining the love and trust of his wife.
There is a continuing sense of uncertainty about whether he is whom he claims to be which establishes a mystery to be resolved through the book. I was anxious to finish the story, not so much to resolve the love story but to know whether he was or wasn't. I am not sure I was completely satisfied with how the story ended, but I think Kleypas did a fine job of writing a story that grabbed my intereste immediately and kept hold through the end.
Compared to other books in the genre, 4 stars. For a Kleypas book, only 3.
