Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor

Forever Amber | Kathleen Winsor | Love to hate it!

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Forever Amber

	Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor Chicago Review Press, 2000 - 976 pages average customer review:based on 154 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Amazing Novel

This is the best book I have read in a long time. It really gives you a feel for the time period and is extemely interesting as well!

Love to hate it!

I read this book about eight years ago. I never read modern romances but this fell into my hands by chance and wasn't too raunchy, and once I had started it I couldn't put it down. I STILL remember these characters as if they were people that I actually knew. I remember how I felt about them too--mostly I wanted to kick them all in the shins and tell them to be better people. I remember jumping to my feet with the book in my hands and exclaiming, "What are you DOING???" to the main character. Ah! I get my hackles up just remembering it. Fantastic book!

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Expected more, nonetheless it's ok

Just finished reading the book, 972 pages long which I usually don't mind but in this case I found myself thinking" 972 pages for amber getting duped in the end by two selfish plotting men, wasn't Amber supposed to get her way at the end?" Some of you might actually think me naive or just a hopeless romantic but I truly expected Lord Carlton to marry Amber, at least some day when they were 90 something like that. Getting to the basis of my review, from which I have drifted, the book is just as intriguing as any contemporary historical romance novel it seems to be the foundation for all those great historical romance novels that are hugely popular today. It has rich descriptions and truly gives the sense of one actually living in 17th century London. Amber is a great character and I was rooting for her from the beginning, we all have a little side of Amber's evilish thoughts. On the other hand the book is too repetitive, two bad husbands is enough in my opinion, and most times I had to put it down just to simmer my anger at Bruce for being so cold to her and at Amber for being too pleading with him often asking myself "where's her pride when she needs it?!"
So basically my disappointment is that Amber got greedy and Bruce got married and even more cold towards her, and they didn't end up together. I was also disappointed in the fact that throughout all the novel I saw how Amber rose above all obstacles and later she gets tricked because of her only weakness, the novel completely lost oomph for me I wanted her to rise above EVERYTHING including Bruce. And finally the only thing that I would criticize about Amber's attitude is that she wasn't such a devoted mother, I don't know but my maternal instincts kicked in and I kept wondering about her kids all the time, and Lord Carlton was always a bigger priority than them.
Still got to say props to Kathleen for writing such an amazing book (which is today considered a classic) in such a conflicting time for women specially. I give it 4 stars for the ending, but truly i have read worse, much much worse, its pretty good!

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Took forever

i'm actully rather conflicted. There where parts of this book i liked, but the "heroine" was not one of them. I found Amber St Clare to be selfish and hateful. She's the daughter of two noble people, who, due to the civil war in england, never married. Her mother died in childbirth, and her father vanished off the face of the earth.

Now don't get me wrong, the book was well written. It kept me reading almost to the emd. I say almost, i couldnt stand the repetiveness any longer. there were no sex scenes to speak of.

What i did like . The way Bruce and Amber struggled to get through the plague together.
What i didn't like. An event like that should bring two people together, it does not.
The book ends rather abruptly, with no real resolution for either the charatrers, or the reader.

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