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Title: What the Heart Knows
ISBN: 0380803097
Author:
Kathleen Eagle
Publicate Date: 2000-06-01
Publish: 2000-06-01
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: GOOD GRIEF - DEFINITELY A MINUS - A SHAME!
I thoroughly enjoyed the story - the characters - the plot and always anything of the American culture and beliefs.
But to have to put up with the gutter language was almost too much. Just because it is used so commonly used today it is a shame to invade a wonderful romance with such tripe. I haven't crossed out so many words [except for one author that I refuse to buy now]before I pass it on [or burn it].
Mrs. Eagle sure ruined my enjoyment of a good story.
Ho! Hum! live and learn.
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2: Fun to read, with no reservations!
I enjoyed this look at contemporary life on an Indian reservation, as well as an inside look at the casino business. The characters are real and appealing. As a mother and author myself, of NEW PSALMS FOR NEW MOMS: A KEEPSAKE JOURNAL, I especially appreciated the interaction between Helen and her son, Sidney.
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3: Emotionally accurate and real
Kathleen Eagle is a good writer. This is a book that is simultaneously a romance, a story about cultural change and ethnicity, and a story about family and personal discovery. While there are certain points where all of this is hard to balance and handle with appropriate justice to the complexity of the issues, this is a book that rings true. The characters are strong and they deal realistically with with real feelings.One of the things I liked very much about this book is that it is a serious story about adults slowly growing and finding their way along in love and feeling very real passion, but it doesn't slip into being gratuitous. This is one of the things that would make me put this in a "fiction" rather than "romance" category.
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4: MRS. EAGLE AT HER FINEST!
Mrs. Eagle: I just read What the Heart Knows again and am reminded why I became so addicted to your books! This book was the reason. The first I read of yours - and the reason I went backwards looking for them ALL! I know you know, but NO ONE builds the characters like you do... so close you feel you know them as your personal friends. This book is the reason I have 31 of yours. You have an amazing talent! The way you characterized Reese is what fed the addiction. I wanted to hate Helen, but, as in real life, without the struggles, the love would be taken for granted. I have loved all your books, but this one is #1 - tied with The Night Remembers! Aren't you writing a sequel to The Night Remembers!?? I want to make sure I've got it on pre-order! Write faster!
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5: Kathleen Eagle is THE veteran in modern romance!
Helen goes back home to the Bad River Lakota Reservation to go undercover as a dealer in the Pair-A-Dice gambling casino, when her boss mysteriously ends up dead, his son, famed basketball star Reese Blue Sky. After a thirteen year absence, how do you tell someone he fathered a son and you had to leave town when you were pregnant? But Reese takes the news in stride and accepts his son, but is disappointed that Helen didn't let him know before, as they start to fall in love all over again...as a family.Kathleen Eagle writes the best contemporary modern romances with cross-cultural themes and crossover mainstream appeal. "What the Heart Knows" is no exception! If you like contemporary/modern romance. Get this book!
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