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Leslie Harris's return home after a decade of triumphs and disappointment resembles a nightmare more than the quiet stroll down memory lane she'd hoped for. A run-in with much-changed town bad girl Devon Watts, a woman she'd once secretly lusted after, rekindles small town jealousies and old heart aches--and reminds Leslie just why she left.
Two women whose lives turned out far differently than they'd once imagined discover that sometimes the shape of the future can only be found in the past--and love is strongest when dreams tremble.
Two women whose lives turned out far differently than they'd once imagined discover that sometimes the shape of the future can only be found in the past--and love is strongest when dreams tremble.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews)
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
A boring romance, Jun 12 2007
By wildlx - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When Dreams Tremble (Paperback)
In her books Radclyffe likes to use angst in order to increase sexual tension between their characters. In fact, Radclyffe has said in an interview to Just About Write: "I'm big on angst and redemption. I like darker romances with a lot of suffering". In some cases, those high levels of angst may make sense, e.g. if one of the characters is dying as in "Love's Masquerade". However in a book such as "When Dreams Tremble", there is not an apparent reason for the characters' suffering. In fact, the level of angst in the interaction between the main characters is kept so high and is so blown out of proportion, that a life-shattering event like a tree falling down on them during a storm is almost an anticlimax.All throughout this book the characters' motivations and behavior are kept a mystery. For instance, we never really know why Leslie made a 180 degree turn and chose a profession at odds with how she was brought up by her parents. Nothing is shown as to make the reader understand what made those characters what they are in the present and why they are behaving the way they do. That makes it difficult for them to be interesting and for a reader to care for them.
The plot trudges leaving both the reader and the characters exhausted before reaching the obvious ending. The first half of the book deals mainly with the main characters' past. To tell their past, Radclyffe uses a series of flashbacks where the same event is shown alternatively through Leslie and Dev's point of view. The way it is done becomes repetitive and disrupts the narrative in the present. Then, after having dealt with the past, the other half of the book is full of senseless misunderstandings and clichés that postpone the two women getting together. For instance, in the beginning of the book Leslie's relationship with another attorney is described as "Rachel lived to work. So did Leslie. It was the strongest bond they shared". So, plot wise it makes no sense for Leslie to use their relationship as an excuse to procrastinate her involvement with Dev. In summary, I found this book to be rather boring and it is definitely not recommended.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not typical Radclyffe, Feb 5 2007
By Lady J "Jackie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When Dreams Tremble (Paperback)
Let me start off by saying that I love Radclyffe's writing. I have all of her books and have met her in person. She is a very friendly/sexy soft butch and I couldn't wait to get my hands on her new book. But if I didn't know better I'd swear she had a ghost writer and just stamped her name on the cover. It just wasn't her. When you buy a Radclyffe book you know you're going to feel a connection to the characters. You like the main characters. Even when they're bad or weak she takes you so deep inside their thought processes that we actually understand them. We feel what they feel and we can identify with their actions. Not so in "When Dreams Tremble." Leslie Harris is a big time New York lawyer who comes home because of health problems. It just so happens that Dr. Devon Weber, who she fell in love with when they were both teenagers, is also staying at her family's resort doing some environmental research. When they meet, there is no question in anyone's mind that they are still in love with each other. So why does it take these two intelligent women over 225 pages to get together? I have no idea. They are both lesbian, so no coming out issues. Dev is not in a relationship and Leslie is with a woman attorney she is not "in love" with and who is not "in love" with her. It's a relationship of convenience for both of them. I didn't like Leslie and I always like Radclyffe's femmes. She made a very cruel mistake as a teenager when confronted with her feelings for Dev. All through the book I was waiting for her to admit her mistake (which she finally did) and go get her woman (not exactly). Radclyffe is known for writing about strong women. Leslie was a coward and in my opinion she never really redeemed herself. This isn't a bad book. It just isn't a "Radclyffe" book. Her characters are likeable and she teases us throughout her books with inuendo, flashbacks, or dream sequences to keep us at a heightened sexual awareness. When her characters do finally consumate the relationship we fly right along with them. This was the woman whose books gave us the phrase, "How do you want to come, in my hand, in my mouth, or with me inside you?" Can it get any sexier than that? As the book neared the end I actually got bored and didn't care if they got together or not. I'll still continue to buy her books because one so-so book out of 24 execellent ones is still hard to beat. But she needs to go back to her original formula. It's not good to mess with perfection.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Key Questions Unanswered, Mar 13 2007
By Rita Lee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When Dreams Tremble (Paperback)
I love Rad's books and really wanted to love this one too. It set up some interesting questions - Can lost love be regained? Just who is Leslie Harris and in which world does she belong? How can Leslie's high powered corporate shark life be understood by her low key, low tech parents? Can you really go home again?Well, unfortunately none of those questions get answered and we get a book full of the trite cliches of two people trying to overcome miscommunications and very easily surmountable obstacles with page after page of angst and hand wringing.
So dissappointing and so annoying when it could have been so much more. And, in Rad's capable hands, it should have been.
If you want to read Radclyffe try Fated Love, Turn Back Time, or many of her other great books. This one isn't one of her best.
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