By: Deborah Smith Publisher: BelleBooks Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: BelleBooks Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 345 Publication Date: November 15, 2007 Release Date: November 15, 2007
Product Description: A Connecticut heiress learns she's adopted and travels to northern Florida "cracker"cattle ranch to find her birth parents. There she also finds unexpected romance with the ranch's owner.
Too Slow Okay, I'll admit it: This review is LONG overdue! Truth be told, this was one of my first review copies I got in the mail, and the fact that I haven't finished it shows my level of interest in it. It's a bit of a tricky book to review. There's nothing terrible wrong with it as far as I can tell. The story of an adopted girl falling in love with a rancher while discovering her past is easy enough to relate to for many people. In fact, I'd venture to guess that many people will love this novel. More power to them I say. But after a few months none of the characters really connected with me, and I have to finally admit when I'm beat. So while the story seems to be in good shape, I found the book too slowly developed for my tastes.
Typical romance I'm not really one for all out romance novels but I did find this book to be fairly engaging for all that it's fairly typical. I did enjoy the narrators voice immensly but found the story to be just another romance novel.
A pleasant read Amusing holiday reading, although the first half of the book promises more than what the second half delivers. Sweet characters and good setting ... but the story becomes more and more incredible as it develops. A pity, since the author obviously knows how to deliver a good, witty and engaging narrative.
Unique style, but predictable There's a nice unique style to how this book is written, from the perspective of the different people in the story. But it's fairly predictable in many places. Overall, it's just an okay story - not too bad, but not that great either.
A Wonderful Story! When this book was recommended to me two of my friends, I was like, "It's first person." I rarely do first person. But the raves kept coming so I said, "What the heck. Why not?" and got the book. Boy, oh boy, am I glad I did!
A Gentle Rain isn't your normal book. You won't find Navy SEALs, serial killers, or drug dealers. You won't find wannabe gangsta vampires. You won't find billionaires whose secretaries are secretly having their babies. You won't even find hot, steamy sex. No, with A Gentle Rain you find so much more. Between the covers of this book you will find emotion, acceptance, and forgiveness. You will find uneducated and "simple" human beings who are so much more than they look to be. You will find a woman searching for her "identity" and finding exactly what she needed.
Deborah Smith's A Gentle Rain will teach you "a lesson in humility" (that's a quote from Jennifer B). It's an amazing story that touched my heart from the get go. On page 5, I fell in love with Ben. Read page 5 and you'll see why.
Ben was nine years old at the time and he was amazing. He's this young and this accepting. This young and could see his brother for something more than the "retard" the doctors and nurses were calling him. And he loved and accepted him just as he was. Imagine, nine years old and capable of this. Now imagine how much more amazing he is as an adult. While Ben is uneducated, he's extremely intelligent. The beginning of the book had me teetering on the edge of reading on and putting it aside because it's not the type of book I normally read... it's much deeper. But it was Ben and his compassion and Kara and her plight that had me continuing on.
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