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Title: Tears Of Yesterday
ISBN: 1551664178
Author:
Mary Lynn Baxter
Publicate Date: 1998-01-01
Publish: 1998-01-01
List Price: $5.50
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: So formulamatic and flat that I couldn't even finish it
From the back cover:
She'd do anything for her brother.
Desperation drove Paige Morgan to contact her estranged husband, Lane. She regretted it immediately. All the apin, the love and the passion of their failed marriage came flooding back. But she had no choice--her brother was in trouble.
Lane lived in a world of million-dollar deals and cutthroat tactics. And Paige wasn't surprised when he made her an offer she couldn't refuse. He offered Paige her brother's freedom--but the cost was her own.
And my review:
I must admit I expected a lot more from this book. After all, this is a "big name" author. Plus, I love stories of estranged spouses reconciling, so I thought I'd like this.
The story was a bit dated (it was written in 1982 after all), and you would have to get past the fashion styles and a few other shuddery moments. (Wicker furniture with green and orange cushions in the living room? Ugh!) Not, of course, that this matters all that much. After all, some of my favorite contemporary romances were written in the 80's (Lavryle Spencer, anyone?).
But that's where any similarity to Lavryle Spencer ends. This author's characters were flat and boring. And when they weren't boring, they were annoying. Lane was your typical alpha domineering male. Does anyone out there really find the neandrethal thing romantic? Because I sure don't. Paige was wimpy, whiny and annoying. I wanted to throttle her.
This was another of those typical romance formulas: they got married because they were so good in bed together (like that's a good reason!), they split up (for reasons the reader can only guess at, since the writer keeps them hidden), he still loves her but won't admit it, so insists on a divorce, but before she can sign the papers a family crisis occurs, since she needs him and asks for help, he agrees if she lives as his wife again (while continuing to act as if he doesn't love her), and everything magically works itself out. Is the fact that he's in love with her the whole time, yet continues to act like an uncaring, unloving jerk supposed to make me go "awwww!"? Because it does not work here.
When I pick up something printed by Mira, I expect a better read than a run-of-the-mill Harlequin romance. I didn't get it. I tried to force myself to finish this, so as not to waste the $3.25 I paid for it, but I just couldn't. I doubt I'll be trying any of this author's other books in the future.
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2: Special
I've owned this book twice before. Everytime I loan it to someone it never gets returned. I think that says something about the book. Needless to say, when I purchase my third copy, I will loan it to NO ONE!!!
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