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Title: Tangerine Dream by Ken Douglas & Jack Stewart, Ken Douglas, Jack Stewart ISBN: 0-9745246-8-9 Publisher: Bootleg Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Young and Swept Away by a Sea of Love, Wow!
Comment: Haley Harrison lives down the street from her best friends, the Sterling twins, Dylan and Taylor, daughters of the senior Senator from the great State of California. Dylan is in New Zealand with her mother Gayle and Senator Sterling is out somewhere on the campaign trail, as he's running for the Presidency of the United States, when the phone rings. Dylan and Gayle have been in an accident in Wellington. Haley and Taylor cannot find the Senator, so they rush to New Zealand along with the twin's uncle Sandford, who Haley has had a crush on since she'd been a little girl. Dylan dies shortly after they arrive and the Sterling family is thrust into mourning.
Senator Sterling, who arrives the next day, isn't nearly as Sterling as his name implies. He wants to use his daughter's death to boost his numbers, just another stepping stone to the presidency, however his surviving daughter, his wife and Haley object. The senator goes back to America after they bury Dylan in New Zealand, leaving his wife to recover from her injuries under the watchful care of his brother. However the senator doesn't know that younger bro has a crush on his wife. His wife doesn't know that he has a thing for underage girls and Haley and Taylor don't know about the sea of love that is about to sweep them away.
For me TANGERINE DREAM was an emotional experience. Never have I cried so much, but surprisingly, I felt pretty good about Haley and Taylor, about life, about myself, when I finished this book that had both the saddest and happiest ending to any story I've ever come across. Who knows when and where love will find us? And if we're lucky enough to be hit, really hit by Cupid's bow, will we stop to analyze it, to see if our love fits in with the perceptions we have of ourselves, the perceptions others have of us? Haley and Taylor don't and God willing, if it ever happens to me like that, I hope I don't either.
Rating: 5
Summary: Guaranteed to Make You Cry Big Crocodile Tears
Comment: I don't read that many mainstream novels, preferring mostly chick lit and Harlequin Blaze, however I do stray away from my preferences on occasion. I may be an airhead, but I did manage to struggle through college, so when I come across a book like Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees," or "Tangerine Dream," I'm perfectly capable of appreciating fine writing. That said, "Tangerine Dream" came to me by way of my sister-in-law, another Harlequin Dreamer girl, who thought I'd enjoy a different kind of love story.
And yes, I'll give her that, this is a different kind of love story, and you know what, romance girl that I am, I loved it. I cried at the end, then after a cup of coffee and a cigarette (that I bummed from my neighbor, because I only smoke when I cry), I started the book all over again. I just loved this story and I think you will too, but beware, because I guarantee you that it'll make you cry big crocodile tears.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hidden Secrets and Forbidden Feelings
Comment: Eighteen-year-old Gina Seely is despondent, because she believes she is responsible for the death of her parents and younger brother. She can't face herself any longer and decides to commit suicide by jumping to her death from the 15th floor of the new Sterling Hotel in Long Beach, California.
Sandford "Sandy" Sterling, is Gina's psychiatrist, and it is his family that owns the Sterling Hotel chain. When he gets word that Gina is about to jump, he rushes to the scene.
Stacy Sterling, Sandy's half brother, is a United States Senator from California and he is running for the presidency. He also seems to be on a quest to bed every underaged hooker in the Golden State.
Taylor and Dylan are Stacy's twin daughters. Dylan is in New Zealand with her mother Gayle, who Sandy is in love with.
Haley Harrison, the girl with the alliterate name, is Taylor and Dylan's best friend and neighbor. Haley has been in love with Sandy her whole life, despite the fact that he is years older than her. She is eighteen, he is in his middle thirties. Haley is black as is Sandy, because he is the product of his father's second marriage to a black woman.
All the above we learn by the third chapter. Sandy saves Gina in Chapter two, by the way. Haley and Taylor watch it on CNN. Taylor is so mushy in love with him. And they do seem perfect for each other. However, this story refuses to go where you think it should. Dylan dies in New Zealand and everybody's life is thrown out of control. Family secrets, some long buried, some not so old, come crawling out of their hiding places to wreck havoc.
The clan, Stacy, Taylor, Sandy and friend Haley rush to New Zealand to comfort Gayle, who was severely injured in the accident that took Dylan's life. Stacy, slime bucket politician that he is, wants to use his daughter's death to further his campaign. Sandy, sees and seizes the opportunity to stay down under to be with and comfort the woman he loves, his brother's wife. And strange and forbidden feelings bring Haley and Taylor together and eventually sets them on a sailing voyage in the South Pacific, a voyage that will test and forever change them.
And then their is Gina, come back to make everything right in the end. But even she, with the tough shell she's developed, cannot save them all.
This lovely story touched my heart and made me cry. Had I not known better, I'd have sworn this was written by a woman. How can two men write like this? I've not read anything else by Mr. Douglas or Mr. Stewart, but from what little I know about them, I would not have expected this, rather I would have expected car chases, bodies galore and desperate women in trouble, certainly not a tender and touching story with an ending that I'll never forget.
Sophie Cacique Gaul
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Title: Diamond Sky by Ken Douglas, Jack Stewart ISBN: 0974524697 Publisher: Bootleg Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dead Ringer by Ken Douglas ISBN: 0974524638 Publisher: Bootleg Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Little Children by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hurricane by Jack Stewart ISBN: 0974524670 Publisher: Bootleg Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Desperation Moon by Ken Douglas ISBN: 0974524611 Publisher: Bootleg Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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