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An earnest and affecting portrait of life in the magical seaside town of Hubbards Point, Conn., Luanne Rice's True Blue finds childhood friends Rumer Larkin and Zeb Mayhew torn apart by a seemingly insurmountable betrayal Zeb married Rumer's older sister, Elizabeth, instead of her. Now, after a 20-year absence, a bitter divorce and a life-altering expedition aboard a space station, Zeb has returned to the Point seeking forgiveness and maybe something more. The themes of sisterhood and friendship that appear here are common threads in Rice's novels (Safe Harbor, etc.), as is the sense that there's an ethereal force guiding the lives of the Points inhabitants. With its graceful prose, full-bodied characters and atmospheric setting, this uplifting and enchanting tale is likely to become a beachside staple.
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Rice returns to the captivating Connecticut setting of Safe Harbor [BKL D 15 01], where Rumer Larkin, a 40-year-old veterinarian deeply attached to the creatures of the earth, remains rooted in her hometown, while her best friend from childhood, Zeb Mayhew, has his eyes on the stars. Just when their friendship was turning into an adult passion, Zeb broke Rumer's heart by falling in love with her flamboyant older sister instead. They married and he became an astronaut. Now divorced, Zeb is returning home with Rumer's nephew, Michael, hoping to get close to Rumer, and to reestablish a bond with his 17 year-old son. Rumer is delighted to see her nephew, but dealing with Zeb is harder than she expected it to be. Is she ready to risk devastating heartache again, and will her sister interfere? Rice, as always, provides her readers with a delightful love story filled with the subtle nuances of the human heart. Patty Engelmann
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Format: Kindle Edition
Dateigr��e: 849 KB
Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe: 514 Seiten
ISBN-Quelle f�r Seitenzahl: 0553583980
Verlag: Bantam (22. Juli 2009)
Verkauf durch: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Sprache: Englisch
ASIN: B002IPZBO0
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Hooray for Luanne Rice!! 31. Juli 2002

Von Laura Dawson - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

Format:Taschenbuch

When Luanne Rice is on the familiar territory of the shore she so obviously adores or stories of the fierce love of family, no one can beat her. She continues to weave together characters from previous novels, including(but not limited to!)Firefly
Beach and Safe Harbor.
Zeb and Rumer, best of friends as children and in love/almost lovers as young adults; until Rumer's beautiful older sister came between them. Twenty years later, the now divorced Zeb returns home, and....... a great story commences!
Luanne Rice has a gift when it comes to writing about the love between families, and no one writes a more grounded love story than she. Bittersweet and true; I can only hope that she returns again and again to these shores and the people who live there. I can't believe they let this one out as a paperback! ;)

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2.0 von 5 Sternen Be Ready to Suspend Your Disbelief 13. August 2002

Von Carolyn Bright - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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If you've read the book description and reader reviews, you already know the basic plot of the story: boy (Zeb) loves girl (Rumer), girl loses boy to sister (Elizabeth), girl and boy rediscover each other, even though boy has a troubled 15 year old son (Michael) with girl's sister who is his ex-wife. I'm sorry but I just couldn't get past the many requirements for me to suspend my disbelief to really enjoy this book. If you grew up in a halfway normal family, you may have the same issue.

First, you have to believe that Rumer and Zeb would entertain the thought of getting back together after Zeb's divorce to Rumer's sister, Elizabeth. Next you have to believe that the girls' father would welcome the man who destroyed the sisters' relationship back to town with an open invitation to go after Rumer. Is is just my dad who would have greeted him with a shotgun? Then you have to believe that Rumer hasn't met any other eligible men worthy of her love in all the years that her sister was married to Zeb. You also must believe that even though Rumer's and Zeb's love was so strong that it could overcome the quasi-incestuous (queasy incestuous for me) implications of the plot, it wasn't strong enough to overcome the flimsy obstacle that Elizabeth concocted to break them up in the first place. I won't give it away, but it is a misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with a phone call. Since Rumer and Zeb are next door neighbors, they could just have easily have discussed the issue in person. Finally, you have to believe that even though Elizabeth is a famous and talented actress, she is also a borderline psychotic sociopath (okay, maybe that's not such a stretch).

I've deducted a star from the rating because I would expect to see this family on the Jerry Springer show, not in the pages of a sweet contemporary romance. Maybe it's just my six sisters and I who look at each other's husbands and boyfriends as brothers, with all the social boundaries that the relationship implies. I think Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen sang it best: "Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister, and Lord help the sister that comes between me and my man!"

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Good, but with some oddities too 20. August 2002

Von Vicki Hughes - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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I picked up the paperback a couple weeks ago, and noticed the cover states "First Time In Print" and I wondered about why the book may have skipped the hardcover stage. As a fan of LuAnne Rice's work I found the story easy to fall into,and the characters interesting, but the wackiness on pages 98-99 threw me. One moment a character is called Michael, and the next moment he's called Colin. Then suddenly he's Michael again. I kept going back over it to see if someone else had come on the scene or not!? Apparently one advantage of printing a hardback prior to going paperback is more thorough editing?! Strangely, the amazon description also describes the main character as "Schoolteacher, Rumer Larkin", who is in fact not a teacher at all, but a veterinarian.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying the story isn't good, but if I was LuAnne Rice I'd be wondering what my agent and editors were doing.

If you've read any of Luanne Rice's other books, you will enjoy the references to other characters, and feel like you are among family once again. Read True Blue, and enjoy a nice summer read, but be willing to overlook some stuff.

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I encourage you to love as if you're riding through the storm of the century. You surf the waves, ride the crests, sail through moonlit waters with ice in your rigging but you love each other as you go. You love each other as if every day is the only day. &quote;