- Paperback
- Publisher: Diamond Books (September 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1557737657
- ISBN-13: 978-1557737656
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,212,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When feisty Irish beauty Bridget meets Jacob and his daughter, her heart instantly goes out to Jessica, Jacob's mute child in need of mothering, but Bridget's own tragic past could threaten her relationship with Jacob. Original.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This author has done it better, July 20 2010
By Gemma "bookworm" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mountain Dawn (Paperback)
From the back cover:
She changed his life forever--with a gift of love...
Bridget
A fiesty Irish beauty, she met life's hard knocks head on. Now her heart went out to a little girl who lost herself in silence after a shattering tragedy...
Jacob
In Bridget he saw hope for his beautiful daughter Jessica. But the lawman's own heart was entwined in fear--of loving again...
Bridget also longed to quell the unexpected fires that flared between them. For if Jacob knew of her tainted past, surely he would have a changed of heart... Could they build a family from the threads of their lives? Or was their dream a whisper in the wind?
And my review:
I bought this book because I loved Catch a Fallen Angel and greatly enjoyed Dreamweaver by this author (who also writes as Maureen Child). I was hoping for a similar read. CATCH A FALLEN ANGEL and DREAMWEAVER were both wonderful historical romances with a paranormal twist.
Unfortunately, this book didn't have any paranormal in it to liven things up. Now that's not a big complaint, as my favorite genre is straightforward historical romance; I don't need a paranormal element to enjoy a good love story. However, if you've read as much historical romance as I have, you've probably read every element in this book before. The red-haired hot-tempered Irishwoman down on her luck and on the run from the law, a gold-rush boomtown, a tortured hero whose first wife was a shrew, the hero's lovely child who draws the characters together, and the one-dimensional evil villain who is intent on killing the heroine.
It's not that the story was cliche or formulamatic, it's simply that the spark I've come to expect from this author was lacking. The most compelling part of this story was watching Jessica blossom from haunted silence into a carefree little girl. The love story between Bridget and Jacob seemed to pale in comparison.
I found myself putting this book down a lot. Usually I can read a novel of this length in 2 - 3 days. This one took over a week to finish. Maybe I expected too much, given how much I've enjoyed this author's books in the past. To see what this talented author is capable of, pick up one of the other books I mentioned. They were keepers.
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