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Title: Here I Stay by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0-06-104470-9 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Yet Another Good Book by Michaels
Comment: While I read this book hungrily and bonded with all of the characters, the ending left me feeling disinterested. I agree with the reader from Maine that the story would have been much more interesting if told by Jim, to whom all the supernatural things are happening. It was still a good book, though, and I recommend it to any Barbara Michaels fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: AN EXCELLENT READ!!!!!!!
Comment: This is such a great book!! B.M. is such a great writer. She makes you get so involved in the characters and you feel like you'r right there, with them.I felt as if I knew Martin,Jim, and Andrea.The supernatural events that occured gave me the chills.I didn't want the book to end!!!This is a must read if you love Barbara Michaels-or if you love a really good mystery!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great anti-cliché
Comment: Since I don't like romantic novels -that is, novels that are centered on the romance between the characters- I began to read this with extra caution and a pinch of prejudice. I also bore in mind that it is extremely difficult to find a "gothic" novel that is not full of the usual "blood-curdling" clichés. But I knew this author already as Elizabeth Peters and thought that she narrated wonderfully well with a great sense of humour, and I had heard such good things of her as Barbara Michaels that I decided to give it a try .... Boy, was I wrong! This writer is particularly good at character building (more so than in the Amelia Peabody series, where the characters are funnier but more like charicatures), so much so that we feel we are getting to know real people. This is especially the case with the main character, Andrea, who is bound to learn a great lesson and evolve throughout the story, and from whose point of view the events are told.The romance comes really as a natural consequence of the evolution of these characters, and it is never forced or far-fetched -and, of course, thank heavens!, it is not a romance between physically perfect, young and extraordinary people, but quite a realistic affair between two common middle-aged persons. The "gothic" atmosphere is never cliché and it is very intelligently contrived, so that rational, intelligent readers don't have to laugh or feel indignation...It is, well, there and not there (I can't say more without revealing). But the most important thing is that this novel centers on the evolution of well-built, round characters and the lessons they learn about life. The romance is part of this evolution, and never the most important element, and the "gothic" is part of the setting and never full of clichés or the justification of the events. I expect to read more from this author soon.
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Title: Search the Shadows by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0061044725 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0061044733 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Grey Beginning by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0061044717 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0061044695 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Sons of the Wolf by Barbara Michaels ISBN: 0425116875 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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