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i was reading a book just recently and a part of the book was about the vietnam war. this immidiatly brought me to think about albert french's "patches of fire" which has stayed with me for ever after reading it a few years back. the reason this book is so special to me is that not only is the book so touching and amazing but i had the most unforgettable chance to meet the man himself. i so happened to be working at a restaurant where albert french was being interviewed by an english newspaper. this man was something out of the ordinary and was the kindest to me. we got talking while is was taking their order and i will never forget that moment. alert said he just wanted a simple lunch nothing to fancy, as long as it came with fries. he explained how he had been eating or rather not eating during his time in vietnam and how that had affected him for life. he started telling me a story, which is also in his book, about how his food had bacically been "alive" one day during his servicetime but cause of hunger and no other option had to simply eat it etc and his story could had gone on but i was busy serving other customers. and to cut a long story short, he said he was going to have his book sent to me, so i could sort of hear him out and so it happened.
reading "patches of fire" had an enormos impact on me, and i must admit that i truly cried finishing the book.
i give my highest recommandations for this book.

i was reading a book just recently and a part of the book was about the vietnam war. this immidiatly brought me to think about albert french's "patches of fire" which has stayed with me for ever after reading it a few years back. the reason this book is so special to me is that not only is the book so touching and amazing but i had the most unforgettable chance to meet the man himself. i so happened to be working at a restaurant where albert french was being interviewed by an english newspaper. this man was something out of the ordinary and was the kindest to me. we got talking while is was taking their order and i will never forget that moment. alert said he just wanted a simple lunch nothing to fancy, as long as it came with fries. he explained how he had been eating or rather not eating during his time in vietnam and how that had affected him for life. he started telling me a story, which is also in his book, about how his food had bacically been "alive" one day during his servicetime but cause of hunger and no other option had to simply eat it etc and his story could had gone on but i was busy serving other customers. and to cut a long story short, he said he was going to have his book sent to me, so i could sort of hear him out and so it happened.
reading "patches of fire" had an enormos impact on me, and i must admit that i truly cried finishing the book.
i give my highest recommandations for this book.

French gives the reader real insights into what war is like, and what Viet Nam did to the men that fought there. I have struggled to find books about Viet Nam and other wars from the point of view of real soldiers, not generals and journalists. This one does the job terrifically well.

French, as an African American gives us insight into what race meant before, during, and after the war. But the book does much more than that. What is remarkable and compelling for the reader is to see how much the black and white soldier had in common in the foxholes and rice paddies in Viet Nam, and then, as deeply troubled psyches, in the decades of recovery that our soldiers have gone through.

Finally, French's book is a fascinating book about writers and writing. Here is a man that first had to write to heal. In that he discovered his remarkable talents as an unschooled, but brilliant writer.

Albert French writes not only from the perspective of an American fighting in Vietnam, but also as an African-American, a view which is often neglected. I read this book for a college history course, and never before has an assigned text moved me to the point of tears. This book brings to life a time and place that many of us know little about. Though French obviously cannot, nor does he attempt, to speak for all Vietnam veterans, his story does offer an example of the long term effects of that period of time.

I fell in love with "Billy" and with "Holly" and French continues his exciting work with "Patches of Fire." I was expecting a story similar to his earlier work, and soon realized that this was going to be something different. A man who has found the strength and the means to share not only his horrific experiences of war but also his fellow soldiers. French's raw and at times conflicting narrative grip the reader with the same pain and torment with which he has been living with since the war. French has let us into a world that few can ever imagine. His story has allowed him to share his burdened conscience with his readers. The one that won't let him forget the smiles and the hopes and dreams of all these young men that perished needlessly. "Patches of Fire" is not simply a story of redemption for French, he is also redeeming the memory of his fallen comrades

This book is OUTSTANDING! I am so convinced by the program in this book that I tell everyone I know that has back problems about it. I bought one for my sister. I bought it because of past back problems and more recent because of my knees, which have all stopped hurting. This book should be called Personalize your fitness program.If you are committed to doing something about back pain or need a fitness program, you should buy this book. It is straightforward, honest and sensible information, everything you heard for years about getting out of pain and or getting FIT. Finally someone writes it where it all makes sense!

If a person with back problems reads and follows the advice in this book, their situation will improve. There is no magic fix for back pain, but the vast majority, regardless of the diagnoses, will be reduced or even eliminated by correcting the imbalances in the hips. This book tells how to do this. The imbalances were developed over many years, so it will take some time to overcome them. If you want a healthier back, this is the answer, provided you are willing to put in the time and effort.

I and my wife are physicians. She suffers from lower back problems. This book contains easy to follow picures and directions for the exercises. I was very pleased to see their balanced (and truthful) comments regarding durgs and alternative therapies. I agree with their advice toseek professional opinions as other diseases can mimick lower back problems.
A well written and illustrated book.

I bought the Wharton's Stretching book and liked it, finding it very useful as a martial artist. This book, however, merely rehashes everything in the Stretching book, but in an inferior manner. Although it has photos instead of drawings, the Wharton's Stretch book clearly shows acceptable ranges of motion for each stretch. In addition, the Back Book has a section on training with weights that bordered on ridiculous. The author's clearly know little about neither weight training as therapy nor weight training for strength and flexibility. This book was a real disappointment. Buy their first book, avoid this one.

This book offers practical exercises that almost anyone can do to strengthen the body and prevent and eliminate back pain. I highly recommend it!

I got just what I wanted:great English language recorded poems.The readings are rpofessional and the choice is pretty logical considering the amount of space,otherwise you'd need twenty CDs to record the most important English literature poems...and still you might say that many gems were left out.
Of course anyone might say that ...maybe some more Shakespeare sonnets or Coleridge or T.S. Eliot...would have made this collection more perfect.
Anthologies are not made to please everyone.

All I know is that I checked this out from the library expecting it to be annoying because of the other review, and expecting to just have it play in the background while I ignored it. But I figured why not it's from the library & to my surprise, I was quickly drawn in.

I will expand on this review as soon as possible (at the moment I am only briefly near a computer). But I think these readings are sensitive, subtle, lyrical & the collection exquisite (see table of contents). I really did not find the woman's voice to be screechy at all, in fact it is very calm but maybe a bit too formal. She reads a large segment on the first side of the first tape right after the cuckoo song, (actually until 200 for those who have a tape counter) but afterwards very little. Again, a better description on the way.

A worthwhile collection, but a track listing didn't seem to be included with my CDs, nor is it posted here. So here are the tracks as I wrote them down while they were playing. (And if you count carefully, you'll notice there are only 80 tracks listed, not 81. Two of EB Browning's sonnets are together in one track.)

CD-1
01. Anonymous Early Song: The Cuckoo Song
02. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt
03. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
04. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
05. Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella
06. Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
07. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
08. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
09. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
10. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 - Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
11. Thomas Campion: When to Her Lute Corina Sings
12. Thomas Campion: Rose-cheeked Laura
13. Thomas Campion: There is a Garden in Her Face
14. John Dunne: Song - Go and catch a falling star
15. John Dunne: The Sun Rising
16. John Dunne: Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud
17. Ben Johnson: Song: To Celia
18. Robert Herrick: The Argument of His Book
19. Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder
20. Robert Herrick: To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
21. Robert Herrick: Upon Julia's Clothes
22. George Herbert: The Collar
23. George Herbert: The Pulley
24. George Herbert: Love (III)
25. John Milton: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)
26. John Suckling: Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
27. John Suckling: Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover)
28. Richard Lovelace: To Althea, from Prison
29. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
30. Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love
31. Henry Vaughan: The Retreat
32. John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
33. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
34. William Blake: from Poetical Sketches, Song
35. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, Introduction
36. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, The Lamb
37. William Blake: from Songs of Experience, The Tyger
38. Robert Burns: To Mouse
39. Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose
40. William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
41. William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
42. William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up
43. William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much With Us
44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan

CD-2
01. George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
02. George Gordon, Lord Byron: When We Two Parted
03. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
04. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
05. Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark
06. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55)
07. John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
08. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
09. John Keats: Bright Star
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Rhodora
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43
13. Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen
14. Edgar Allan Poe: The City in the Sea
15. Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee
16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break
17. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Songs from The Princess, The Splendor Falls
18. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears
19. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
21. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar
22. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
23. Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts from Abroad
24. Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31)
25. Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!
26. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
27. Emily Dickinson: 303 - The Soul selects her own Society
28. Emily Dickinson: 986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass
29. Christina Rossetti: Up-Hill
30. Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Garden of Proserpine
31. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
32. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty
33. Alfred Edward Housman: Lovliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
34. Alfred Edward Housman: With Rue My Heart Is Laden
35. William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
36. William Butler Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

This collection is terribly read, especially the woman's voice, the strange crying tune she had bothered me so much that none of the words registered. If you like to buy an audio reading of poems, I highly recommend the collection producted by BBC, it is so far the best.

In Breathing In, Breathing Out, Ralph Fletcher empowers the reader with the concept of a writer's notebook. Through realistic and exposing examples, Fletcher shows not only the workings of his own writer's notebook but also those of other authors, published and non-published alike. Written in a logical order of digestible chapters, Fletcher guides his reader through what may be uncharted territory, ultimately succeeding at sharing his suggestions of nonconformity for writing. As a teacher, Fletcher's book has assisted me in not only rethinking my own writer's notebook but how I use writing notebooks in my classes as well. Though a good read, the limitations of Breathing In, Breathing Out are limited to classroom use, though with some hands-on application work it easily could be adapted for any classroom.

i already keep several writing journals in various locations. They all come in handy at inconvient times, driving, showering sleeping and hiking, but gratly needed in case my brain is poor at recall. Much is common sense as writers should already be noticing the world aroud them and all that detail has to offer. our writing group has selected this book to help jog our memories for the basic simple reminders that are important and those which are not. A great read for a beginning writer. Take notes along the way, don't be afraid to underline and make notes on the edge of the pages as you read. Enjoy the exercises.

Fletcher leads the reader through the value of keeping a writer's notebook in his easy read Breathing In, Breathing Out. He offers valuable insights, experiences and ideas as to how to begin, keep, and find inspiration for a writer's notebook. Although this book does not lay out practical applications for the classroom, it does speak easily to those who like to write.

The only thing I didn't like about this book was the price. A writer's notebook, or what I refer to as a writer's journal, is where ideas are born. The author shows you how to capture those ideas, fertilize them, and grow them into real live pieces worth publishing. An excellent book that includes excerpts from several writer's journals, including the author's.

The book is very usefull if you use it as reference, but it doesn't explain genetics in general in a complete way, and the fact that its pages are black and white is difficult to consider it a text book for a genetics course.. I would recomended to people who study genetics and know their material well to use it as a quick reference..

This was a good reference for both my general genetics and microbiology courses. Explains molecular genetics concepts and methods very well. I would recommend this book.

This book is a good summary of genetics but one will need to read another book in conjunction with this one. It is great for quick reference and will suit students well as a study aid, as the authors give a set of key notes at the beginning of each chapter. The authors avoid any discussion of highly advanced topics, but instead emphasize the raw basics. However, they don't leave out some of the more exciting topics, such as population genetics, cloning, gene therapies, and the human genome project. The order of presentation is logical, with the properties of DNA beginning the book, with Mendel's laws explained based on the genetic code. In addition, this reductionist approach to explaining the biology of organisms is one that is most compatible with the requirements of sequence analysis and algorithms in computational biology. As such, this is a good set of notes for mathematicians who are moving into the area of sequence analysis and need a background in genetics.

As the title suggests,this is not meant to be a textbook of genetics.The basic purpose of this book is to put across key points and concepts in a simple,concise fashion for easy understanding. This book is most useful if you already have some exposure to genetics through classes or more traditional texts.

The strength of this book lies in its clear,brief and logical presentation of topics with good cross referencing.It would be especially useful to students before examinations when reading through lengthy texts or notes is not practical

This was an appropriate conclusion to Shakespeare's career. Not only are the characters such as Henry VIII, Cranmer, and Wolsey convincing, but the poetry and images are beautiful. In addition, through the fall of several characters such as Wolsey, we can see reflections of Shakespeare himself as he wrote his 37th and final play. It is also poetically appropriate that one of the greatest writers England ever knew ended his career by writing a play about one of the greatest kings that England ever knew! I DO NOT believe that Shakespeare only wrote parts of this play as many people do. With the beautiful images, poetry, and captivating characters, I am very confident in the belief that this play was written entirely by the one and only William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare managed to describe the later life of King Henry the eight, with much intelligence and gracefulness. This play, written centuries before, has captured my attention unlike any present-day play or novel. King Henry VIII was based on the life of the notoriously known King Henry the eight of England. To my dismay, only two of King Henry's wives were mentioned. This play showed how King Henry's life was never truly complete: he couldn't trust anyone, he was unfaithful to the Lord, his wives and his country, and he was never blessed with a son, to be heir to his throne. For myself, the climax of the play was viewing how the king dealt with the change of wives and the birth of his daughter, Elizabeth. The play King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare is a wonderful recommendation for anyone who wishes to understand the tidings of King Henry the eight from a fictitious, historical, personal point of view, rather than from historical facts.

I have tried to abide by a discipline to read at least one Shakespearean play a year. I rarely if ever have reviewed any of them because they are so picked over that I don't feel that I have anything to add. However, it was with a good deal of anticipation that I stepped away from the renowned to the obscure by reading "King Henry VIII". I say that because it was the subject that interested me and I admit that it made quite a difference reading a play about someone I knew something about. This, in turn, gave me pause to consider many things about "King Henry VIII" that I would never have even known to consider about his other histories. It's not that I read many of his other histories but those that I had read left me completely at the mercy of the Bard for any sort of perspective or overview.

What I found most interesting about "King Henry VIII" is the limited scope that the play covered. Let's face it: even today Ol' King Henry VIII is a treasure chest of plots and subplots. Yet Shakespeare treated his subject with a great deal of respect and, essentially, rewrote history before it was even written. The four or five main characters (with the exception of Cardinal Wolsley) all come across in good light. Perhaps Ann "Bullen" is a bit empty-headed but certainly Henry, Anne of Aragon and the lesser known (outside of the Church) Thomas Cranmer are all noble through and through. There is little of the bawdy, glutonous Henry that history has given us. You would guess that Shakespeare would have done great things with such a subject but he didn't and the question that I asked myself was; WHY?

I have not studied anything about this play. I prefer to always see what the play says directly to me before being told by others as to what it means. Thus I may be stating the obvious but I came away with the conclusion that "King Henry VIII" was written for Shakespeare's Quenn Elizabeth. It was pretty obvious when reading Cranmenr's final speech and it put everything into perspective. All that went before were noble and all that came after were not even mentioned. The "noble" divorce of Henry and Ann of Aragon was necessary so that Henry have the proper opportunity to sire Elizabeth. I'm not sure enough of my timetables to know if Elizabeth I was still alive when this play came out but even if she weren't it would still be the Bard's tribute to her.

I had come to expect that most of the "good stuff" of Shakespeare (with the exception of "King Henry V") was to be found in his tragedies primarily and comedies next with the histories coming up a poor third. However, I kept my pencil busy underling passages in "King Henry VIII". It is a good play, it's not "MacBeth", but it's a good play. I'd have considered rating it 5 stars but then we'd have to rate some of the rest as 7's 8's and 9's. Most people who'd take the time to read Shakespeare probably already have a pretty good working knowledge of at least the popular history of the King with six wives. Read it for yourself and I think that you, too, will find that history is better understood when you are already familiar with the subject.

... the reviews for King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (and all their other books as far as I can tell) as if different editions have the same content - obviously in the case of classics that is far from true.

... 3 editions of Henry VIII at this time: (1) Hardback edited by Gordon McMullar published in November 2000 (2) Paperback edited by Jay L. Halio published in September 2000 (3) Paperback edited by R. A. Foakes published in February 1998

Their editorial reviews describe ALL 3 of these editions as "This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade and includes up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the play, including dating authorship, printing, sources and stage history." I don't think so! The reader reviews don't distinguish the editions but they are the same reviews posted for the different books. I wish I could contribute the answer but I am still trying to figure it out -- in the meantime, purchase cautiously or you may be disappointed.

I cannot stress forcefully enough the enormous importance of this book.

With the current worldwide political climate, especially relating to events in the Middle East, it is essential that we understand the background and true context of news reports emanating from that region. Ultimately they will affect each and every one of us.

David Lewis provides a thorough, comprehensive and incisive analysis of this very issue. His easy to read and in-depth analysis of the media reports and the political & religious background to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is absorbing.

Lewis supports his analysis through a range of thought-provoking interviews with a number of political figures who possess a vast knowledge of the historical and political core issues of the present unrest.

Having read this book, one will forever examine our TV News and International Media reports with a fresh outlook. This book is of great assistance in achieving just that.

This is a well-written book. It expresses the type of frustration felt by those who understand that the Arab goal is still, as it was in 1948, to drive the Jews into the sea. This book discusses the ways in which the so-called Palestinians have turned their propaganda to make them appear to be the victims and how the international news media have fallen for it. And how that has endangered the world -- for the ultimate goal of Islam is to conquer the world for Islam!

This book is absolutely correct. It is an accurate account of the Last War. Dr. Lewis is a fine Bible teacher. His books are Biblically accurate. He doesn't speculate or put his views into it. The Bible is the final authority. You won't regret purchasing this book or any of Dr. Lewis' books. Buy one and give it to a friend after you read it.

Was hoping to read an unbiased history of the conflict in the Middle East. Instead entire book is so heavily slanted toward Israel that had to put it down after a few chapters. If you are genuinely trying to educate yourself about this important region, don't bother purchasing this book. Just more pro-Israel rhetoric.

The Unofficial Casebook is a great guide for fans of the television show especially now that A&E is airing the series. Trivia, highlights, facts on the various actors, and a synopsis of each episode. A must have.

This book is a reminder of what MURDER, SHE WROTE was. Let it remind all that Murder, She Wrote was one of the most successful dramas with a female leading role ever. And this book also tells some of the unknown secrets, like who Jessica Fletcher was really ment to be, it wasn't Angela Lansbury. However, more importantly, this book lights the way for new Jessica Fletcher fans that are just discovering the wonder of the female writer from Cabot Cove. I personally recomend that all Murder, She Wrote fans get this book. A collection is incomplete with out it.

I rented this book from the library, and I absolutly love it. I watch the Murder, She Wrote reruns on A&E and I always look up the episode I'm watching in the book. The Highlights and Trivia sections are great. I also enjoy the biographies of Angela Lansbury and other cast regulars. I highly recomend this book.

To those who have read Parish's long list of publications it is obvious he didn't write "The Unofficial Murder, She Wrote Casebook" as a bonafide fan of the series. He wrote it as an addition to his list of conquests as a writer on things Hollywood. I like watching the "Murder, She Wrote" reruns on A & E myself. In comparing what Parish writes in the episode descriptions with what goes on in the corresponding episode being aired on TV it is becomming increasingly apparent there are more mistakes in the book than perhaps Mr. Parish would like to admit to. This isn't to say the book is totally useless -- it just means beware of the pitfalls and proceed accordingly. Mr. Parish has done mystery lovers a disservice by not being more careful with his subject matter.

My students loved the poetry in this book. Fun, serious, all types! Great for imagery!

This book is over priced. And, the poems are average. My 8 years old kid asked why I wasted money and time on this book. I don't know why other people gave it high marks. This book is definitely a waste of money.

thats the word that discribes the illustration in this book. it's a must buy!

If you have a hard-hearted middle school boy who might be a poet, this book is just the thing to get them writing. Illustrations are terrific, the poems are funny, real, from the heart, not a sappy one in the batch. For teachers struggling to get boys to write poems, this will surely do the trick. Use it with Jack Prelutsky's new book, READ A RHYME WRITE A RHYME and you'll have the whole class turning out poems.

This is a really good book, it made me laugh out loud! After reading this book i got some of the authors other books just as good or better. I recommend this book.

Cullen Longton has no time to grieve the death of his beloved Alaina; with her last breath while lying in his arms she whispered he sired a son that he never knew existed. He heads to a convent in the Scottish Highlands to learn more about his offspring especially where the child is from resident Sara McHern, whose father has incarcerated her there until she obeys his order to marry some odious oaf.

Sara sees Cullen as the answer to her prayers as she prayed to the Lord to send her a husband. She will help him find his child if he agrees to marry her. Though attracted to the fiery Sara, he has doubts, but reluctantly agrees to her terms. He helps her escape and they begin a trek to rescue his son from a ruthless enemy. As they fall in love, the Earl of Balford has plans to destroy Cullen; Sara makes a perfect pawn in his nefarious scheme. Additionally her irate father adds to their woes

THE HIGHLANDER'S BRIDE is an enjoyable Scottish historical romance starring two desperate individuals. Cullen is obsessed with finding his son while Sara figures although he loves a ghost, he is better for her than what her father will bring forth. Readers will appreciate their Highlands adventure as they fall in love (though he has quite a task to persuade her) while trying to mount a rescue and stay alive as enemies seem everywhere so that they can only trust one another.

Harriet Klausner

This story opens with Sara on her knees, praying in the chapel for God to send her a husband. She has been banished by her father to the abbey because she had failed to find herself a husband, and when her father had chosen one for her, she had blatantly refused him. And now after having spent two years banished in the abbey, Sara is desparate to regain her freedom.

Cullen Longton has come to the abbey on a mission, and he will not leave until he learns the truth about his son's fate, after having just recently lost the love of his life, Aliana. Aliana's father, the earl of Balford, is a cruel man, who sent his daughter to give birth in the abbey and then ordered the baby to be killed, while Cullen had been imprisoned.

When Sara sees Cullen in the abbey, she knows that her prayers have been answered. So she strikes a deal with Cullen. Sara had secretly saved the baby, and then told the abbess that the baby had died of the pox. The nuns had allowed Sara to burry the child, since they didn't want to risk getting infected by the disease.

Sara is willing to take Cullen to his baby, if he will agree to marry her. And when he is reunited with his baby, he can leave her. That way, Sara will have gained her freedom, since she will be considered married even though her husband is away. And her father will not be able to force another husband on her, or send her to the abbey again. Cullen agrees to the bargain.

And from there on out the adventure starts, as they set out to get Cullen's son, and for Sara to get her life back. A friendship blooms between them, and sparks start to fly. The banter between them is funny and memorable, and the sexual attraction/tension sizzles. I also loved how they were honest with each other, always. The reader feels and sees them falling in love, as they get to know and learn about each other, their likes and dislikes, etc.

This was a really good read, not one dull moment in it. Cullen and Sara are very likable characters. Cullen is great, and Sara is a strong yet vulnarable woman.

However, I just found it frustrating that Cullen refused to admit his love for Sara until the last 5 pages of the book. Now I understand and admire the fact that Cullen is faithful to his love, Aliana, who had died but several months back. But the whole "confused feelings" he was having for Sara, and his indecision about the issue, just dragged a little too long.

Nonetheless, this is a very good and enjoyable read! Recommended!