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[Someone to Love] (By: Jude Deveraux) [published: December, 2007]
After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy's mysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping through one of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages, bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there." The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibility of understanding Stacy's suicide, Jace seeks out the property - Priory House, a big brick fortress in Margate, England - and buys it.It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.
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Jude Deveraux
199 books7,042 followersJude Gilliam was born September 20, 1947 in Fairdale, Kentucky. She has a large extended family and is the elder sister of four brothers. She attended Murray State University and received a degree in Art. In 1967, Jude married and took her husband's surname of White, but four years later they divorced. For years, she worked as 5th-grade teacher.
She began writing in 1976, and published her first book, The Enchanted Land (1977) under the name Jude Deveraux. Following the publication of her first novel, she resigned her teaching position. Now, she is the author of 31 New York Times bestsellers.
Jude won readers' hearts with the epic Velvet series, which revolves around the lives of the Montgomery family's irresistible men. Jude's early books are set largely in 15th- and 16th-century England; in them her fierce, impassioned protagonists find themselves in the midst of blood feuds and wars. Her heroines are equally scrappy -- medieval Scarlett O'Haras who often have a low regard for the men who eventually win them over. They're fighters, certainly, but they're also beauties who are preoccupied with survival and family preservation.
Jude has also stepped outside her milieu, with mixed results. Her James River trilogy (River Lady, Lost Lady, and Counterfeit Lady) is set mostly in post-Revolution America; the popular, softer-edged Twin of Fire/Twin of Ice moves to 19th-century Colorado and introduces another hunky-man clan, the Taggerts.
Deveraux manages to evoke a strong and convincing atmosphere for each of her books, but her dialogue and characters are as familiar as a modern-day soap opera's. "Historicals seem to be all I'm capable of," Jude once said in an interview, referring to a now out-of-print attempt at contemporary fiction, 1982's Casa Grande. "I don't want to write family sagas or occult books, and I have no intention of again trying to ruin the contemporary market." Still, Jude did later attempt modern-day romances, such as the lighthearted High Tide (her first murder caper), the contemporary female friendship story The Summerhouse, and the time-traveling Knight in Shining Armor. In fact, with 2002's The Mulberry Tree, Deveraux seems to be getting more comfortable setting stories in the present, which is a good thing, since the fans she won with her historical books are eager to follow her into the future.
Jude married Claude White, who she later divorced in 1993. Around the same time she met Mohammed Montassir with whom she had a son, Sam Alexander Montassir, in 1997. On Oct. 6th, 2005, Sam died at the age of eight in a motorcycle accident.
Jude has lived in several countries and all over the United States. She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and has an additional home in the medieval city of Badolato, Italy.
She began writing in 1976, and published her first book, The Enchanted Land (1977) under the name Jude Deveraux. Following the publication of her first novel, she resigned her teaching position. Now, she is the author of 31 New York Times bestsellers.
Jude won readers' hearts with the epic Velvet series, which revolves around the lives of the Montgomery family's irresistible men. Jude's early books are set largely in 15th- and 16th-century England; in them her fierce, impassioned protagonists find themselves in the midst of blood feuds and wars. Her heroines are equally scrappy -- medieval Scarlett O'Haras who often have a low regard for the men who eventually win them over. They're fighters, certainly, but they're also beauties who are preoccupied with survival and family preservation.
Jude has also stepped outside her milieu, with mixed results. Her James River trilogy (River Lady, Lost Lady, and Counterfeit Lady) is set mostly in post-Revolution America; the popular, softer-edged Twin of Fire/Twin of Ice moves to 19th-century Colorado and introduces another hunky-man clan, the Taggerts.
Deveraux manages to evoke a strong and convincing atmosphere for each of her books, but her dialogue and characters are as familiar as a modern-day soap opera's. "Historicals seem to be all I'm capable of," Jude once said in an interview, referring to a now out-of-print attempt at contemporary fiction, 1982's Casa Grande. "I don't want to write family sagas or occult books, and I have no intention of again trying to ruin the contemporary market." Still, Jude did later attempt modern-day romances, such as the lighthearted High Tide (her first murder caper), the contemporary female friendship story The Summerhouse, and the time-traveling Knight in Shining Armor. In fact, with 2002's The Mulberry Tree, Deveraux seems to be getting more comfortable setting stories in the present, which is a good thing, since the fans she won with her historical books are eager to follow her into the future.
Jude married Claude White, who she later divorced in 1993. Around the same time she met Mohammed Montassir with whom she had a son, Sam Alexander Montassir, in 1997. On Oct. 6th, 2005, Sam died at the age of eight in a motorcycle accident.
Jude has lived in several countries and all over the United States. She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and has an additional home in the medieval city of Badolato, Italy.
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January 14, 2008
What has happened to Jude Deveraux? She used to write such great books...the last few I've read by her have been mediocre at best. Maybe she has a different editor, or she's enough of a bestseller that she doesn't really get edited anymore...
Anyway, the writing was creaky, the characters boring, the romance anemic, and the mystery stupid. Honestly, romance writers need to stay away from mystery, if the only way they can think to solve it is to introduce completely new, unforeshadowed twists and characters in the last 50 pages.
I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because I did want to finish it. And because it was better than Holly, which was just unbelievably badly written.
Anyway, the writing was creaky, the characters boring, the romance anemic, and the mystery stupid. Honestly, romance writers need to stay away from mystery, if the only way they can think to solve it is to introduce completely new, unforeshadowed twists and characters in the last 50 pages.
I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because I did want to finish it. And because it was better than Holly, which was just unbelievably badly written.
January 2, 2009
A quick little mystery with a building romance (with no heaving bosoms or manly hardness and furred chests, thank goodness). I needed something like this to help get me through a weekend illness. the only part that bugged me was the reason the 2 ghosts were hanging around at the very end, and what made them finally happy. That was trite, IMO.
From the Publisher
After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy's mysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping through one of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages, bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there." The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibility of understanding Stacy's suicide, Jace seeks out the property - Priory House, a big brick fortress in Margate, England - and buys it.
It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.
From the Publisher
After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy's mysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping through one of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages, bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there." The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibility of understanding Stacy's suicide, Jace seeks out the property - Priory House, a big brick fortress in Margate, England - and buys it.
It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.
July 10, 2009
Why I'm even bothering to call this romance, is beyond me.... no sex, none! No romance- just a kind of ghost hunt... seriously- WTF? Jude? I dropped off reading her stuff after they got too repetative and lame about 5 years ago. I'll give her that this plot line was different from every other one I've read- but it's not calling me back to the fold anytime soon. Will be taking another 5 year break from her again.
June 29, 2019
This was good. A little different but I enjoyed all the different story lines and the ghosts.
January 20, 2008
Jude Deveraux is one of my "must read" authors, in that whenever I see a new paperback with her name on it I pick it up. I may have to rethink that after this last one. I don't expect great literary backflips, but I do expect a fun, engaging romance novel with characters that I care about and an interesting story. This novel delivers neither, as the storyline is rushed through so quickly you feel as thow Deveraux is just tossing the plot points at you, rather than letting you experience the action of the story. The love story between the two main characters is not convincing -- "I loved you from the moment I saw you" is not an acceptable excuse for skipping the parts where two people actually fall in love -- and I felt that two many side plots were either left dangling or wrapped up so quickly that I didn't care about them.
August 27, 2008
Another Montgomery family book yipee!!
I Loved this book.
Jace Montgomery lost the woman he loved and was to marry 3 years before. He is now on a mission to solve the mystery of her suicide. He does not believe for a minute that Stacey was unhappy enough to have committed suicide. There is now a clue that is sending him to England.
Jace buys a huge monstroicitity of a estate in England called Priorty House. Part of the Estate houses Nigh's little cottage. Nigh actually writes a very nasty article about Jace that he wants to sue her over. But they end up liking each other quite alot. Nigh ends helping Jace in his quest. This Montgomery story was WONDERFUL... there are even ghosts.
I Loved this book.
Jace Montgomery lost the woman he loved and was to marry 3 years before. He is now on a mission to solve the mystery of her suicide. He does not believe for a minute that Stacey was unhappy enough to have committed suicide. There is now a clue that is sending him to England.
Jace buys a huge monstroicitity of a estate in England called Priorty House. Part of the Estate houses Nigh's little cottage. Nigh actually writes a very nasty article about Jace that he wants to sue her over. But they end up liking each other quite alot. Nigh ends helping Jace in his quest. This Montgomery story was WONDERFUL... there are even ghosts.
November 26, 2009
Simply Audio sent this to me by mistake. I listen to audio books during my commute and had nothing else to listen to at the time, so I listened whilst Simply Audio worked on sending me the correct audio book. Definitely not my kind of book. Definitely not my kind of genre. One of those rich-American-inherits-the-English-mansion-that-is-haunted-by-a-beautiful-woman-with-a-tragic-story romances that is so far away from the sort o book I enjoy that I can't provide a useful review for people who do enjoy this kind of book.
October 15, 2018
Jace Montgomery is investigating a possible murder, both in the present and the past. After buying a haunted house in Margate, England, he sees the ghost of a woman who has supposedly committed suicide on her wedding day one hundred and twenty-seven years earlier, not the ghost that everyone has been telling him haunts the house. He meets Nigh, a globe-trotting reporter who is home on indefinte leave after a traumatizing experience in the Middle East. Both characters are fascinating. I wasn't sure I was going to like Nigh at first because she came across as possibly promiscuous, but once I realized it had been an act and that she was nothing of the kind, I began to enjoy her teasing of Jace, who has taken a vow of celibacy until he determines whether the two deaths were the suicides everyone else thinks they are or murders disguised as suicides. Enjoyable read in spite of the ghosts. There were lots of fun characters.
January 3, 2024
Pretty good
I was hooked from the beginning. I didn't give it 5 stars because the ending wasn't all that great so I was a little disappointed but all on all it was a pretty good read.
I was hooked from the beginning. I didn't give it 5 stars because the ending wasn't all that great so I was a little disappointed but all on all it was a pretty good read.
July 3, 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve read a deveraux book, and I completely forgot how easy they are to read. Based on the summary I was expecting the ghost to be a bigger character, especially as it was a self proclaimed “paranormal romance”. But the ghosts were really there to help drive the mystery aspect of the story. It was a very entertaining mystery, and I was intrigued right up until the end. It was good to see callbacks from other books like the raider and it was good to see another Montgomery character. I had a great time reading it and I enjoyed the English setting as well as the plot. Jude’s books are kind of in their own genre for me, so while it’s not my favorite of hers, it has the same charm, wit, and personality of all her books.
February 6, 2014
Esta é a minha estreia com a autora Jude Deveraux, apesar de ter mais dois livros dela na estante para serem lidos. Estava mesmo a apetecer-me ler um romance com uma nota leve de mistério e pela sinopse, este livro parecia ser perfeito para o meu actual estado de espírito. Não é segredo nenhum que o meu género literário favorito é o policial e se tiver algum romance à mistura, ainda melhor.
Por isso mesmo estava com expectativas de gostar bastante deste livro, que fazia recordar as belas leituras de Sandra Brown, tão intensas e apaixonantes. A capa e o cheiro das páginas, marcas tão características da Quinta Essência, todos estes elementos faziam prometer uma grande leitura. E foi realmente uma leitura agradável com uma história interessante, misteriosa e com todos os ingredientes para criar suspense e interesse... mas ficou a faltar algo.
Alguém Para Amar conta-nos a história de um viúvo que desde há três anos tenta encontrar uma explicação para o suicídio estranho da sua mulher. Jace não acredita nas razões apresentadas para o suicídio da mulher e por isso mesmo decide que precisa de fechar essa porta e desvendar finalmente o mistério que se encerra por detrás da morte da sua noiva. O livro começou muito bem e devo dizer que em nenhum momento me senti aborrecida com a escrita da autora. O mistério e o tom de romance e até um toque de humor, estes elementos estão todos.
Contudo, com o desenrolar do enredo comecei a ficar desiludida. Primeiro, o romance que se começou a desenvolver pareceu-me incrivelmente forçado e não me conseguiu convencer de maneira nenhuma. Para mim é virtualmente impossível que 3 dias ou coisa que o valha sejam o suficiente para criar uma relação como esta que se originou aqui. Pareceu-me tudo muito fantasioso e demasiado conto-de-fadas para ser credível.
Depois, o próprio mistério acabei por criar as minhas suspeitas e quando cheguei ao fim confirmei com facilidade que as minhas suspeitas estavam correctas. O mistério, que esperava que me surpreendesse, acabou por ser uma desilusão.
Já a explicação da morte de Stacy, bem... não foi das piores, mas pareceu-me uma motivação tão fraca que não fiquei igualmente satisfeita.
Confesso que esperava muito mais deste livro e apesar da escrita da autora ser agradável e este ser um livro que se lê de forma muito fluída, a história não encanta por aí além e parece-me pobremente estruturada. Não sei se foi das expectativas que criei ou se o romance e restantes elementos são realmente fraquinhos, mas esta leitura ficou bem aquém das expectativas. Foi um entretenimento leve com os seus momentos de diversão, mas não passou disso. O que é pena.
Agora tenho para ler da autora os livros da série Edilean, que segundo as opiniões que já vi, é muito melhor, por isso ainda tenho esperanças que esta autora se revele apaixonante. aqui
Por isso mesmo estava com expectativas de gostar bastante deste livro, que fazia recordar as belas leituras de Sandra Brown, tão intensas e apaixonantes. A capa e o cheiro das páginas, marcas tão características da Quinta Essência, todos estes elementos faziam prometer uma grande leitura. E foi realmente uma leitura agradável com uma história interessante, misteriosa e com todos os ingredientes para criar suspense e interesse... mas ficou a faltar algo.
Alguém Para Amar conta-nos a história de um viúvo que desde há três anos tenta encontrar uma explicação para o suicídio estranho da sua mulher. Jace não acredita nas razões apresentadas para o suicídio da mulher e por isso mesmo decide que precisa de fechar essa porta e desvendar finalmente o mistério que se encerra por detrás da morte da sua noiva. O livro começou muito bem e devo dizer que em nenhum momento me senti aborrecida com a escrita da autora. O mistério e o tom de romance e até um toque de humor, estes elementos estão todos.
Contudo, com o desenrolar do enredo comecei a ficar desiludida. Primeiro, o romance que se começou a desenvolver pareceu-me incrivelmente forçado e não me conseguiu convencer de maneira nenhuma. Para mim é virtualmente impossível que 3 dias ou coisa que o valha sejam o suficiente para criar uma relação como esta que se originou aqui. Pareceu-me tudo muito fantasioso e demasiado conto-de-fadas para ser credível.
Depois, o próprio mistério acabei por criar as minhas suspeitas e quando cheguei ao fim confirmei com facilidade que as minhas suspeitas estavam correctas. O mistério, que esperava que me surpreendesse, acabou por ser uma desilusão.
Já a explicação da morte de Stacy, bem... não foi das piores, mas pareceu-me uma motivação tão fraca que não fiquei igualmente satisfeita.
Confesso que esperava muito mais deste livro e apesar da escrita da autora ser agradável e este ser um livro que se lê de forma muito fluída, a história não encanta por aí além e parece-me pobremente estruturada. Não sei se foi das expectativas que criei ou se o romance e restantes elementos são realmente fraquinhos, mas esta leitura ficou bem aquém das expectativas. Foi um entretenimento leve com os seus momentos de diversão, mas não passou disso. O que é pena.
Agora tenho para ler da autora os livros da série Edilean, que segundo as opiniões que já vi, é muito melhor, por isso ainda tenho esperanças que esta autora se revele apaixonante. aqui
February 7, 2016
Peguei neste livro quase como se de uma necessidade se tratasse.
Precisava urgentemente de um livro ligeiro, romântico e sentimentalista que contrariasse a seriedade e o ritmo dos meus últimos dias. E foi quase isso que encontrei...
O livro começa com a apresentação de Jace Montgomery e do seu drama.
A poucos dias do casamento, a sua linda noiva americana Stacy viaja até à Inglaterra para se encontrar com alguém num casarão vazio e supostamente assombrado e aparece morta. Quase toda a gente supõe que Stacy se suicidou para fugir de um casamento e a sua madrasta e meia-irmã viajam rapidamente para o vilarejo onde tudo aconteceu com uns papéis a confirmar que Stacy já sofria de problemas psicológicos há anos.
Mas...
Porque é que ninguém sabia dos problemas médicos de Stacy?
Porque é que Stacy a típica beldade americana que toda a gente supunha que nunca tinha viajado para Inglaterra (à excepção de uma viagem turística rápida a Londres há muitos anos atrás) e muito menos para o vilarejo de Margate, decide encontrar-se com uma pessoa a poucos dias do casamento e tudo em segredo? Com quem se encontrou?
As respostas a estas perguntas e muitas outras (leiam o livro) é o que pretende Jace. Isso e voltar a ter a sua consciência e paz de espírito de volta, o que não acontece desde que toda a família de Stacy o acusou de ser o causador do suicídio da noiva.
Após 3 longos anos de pesados sentimentos e muitos momentos de tristeza e depois de ter encontrado um misterioso bilhete escondido num livro, Jace viaja até Inglaterra em busca da verdade.
Num impulso compra a famosa mansão Priory House e vê-se inundado com a esperança de convencer o fantasma que habita esta mansão a ajudá-lo a descobrir o que se passou com Stacy há 3 anos atrás naquela mesma casa.
O que Jace descobre é que não pode confiar em ninguém e que todos os seus passos estão a ser vigiados e quase cronometrados. A juntar a isto surge uma estranha mas intensa mulher que vai colocar todos os pensamentos de Jace num redemoinho.
Este livro foi-se tornando aos poucos numa leitura rápida e até um pouco viciante, mais para o final. Gostei de tudo no livro incluindo os elementos do fantástico, mas admito que achei o desenlace um pouquinho arrepiante.
Quem ler este livro ou quem já o leu, com certeza que entende o que estou a falar.
Uma bela leitura para dar as boas-vindas aos primeiros dias de sol que começam a aparecer.
Precisava urgentemente de um livro ligeiro, romântico e sentimentalista que contrariasse a seriedade e o ritmo dos meus últimos dias. E foi quase isso que encontrei...
O livro começa com a apresentação de Jace Montgomery e do seu drama.
A poucos dias do casamento, a sua linda noiva americana Stacy viaja até à Inglaterra para se encontrar com alguém num casarão vazio e supostamente assombrado e aparece morta. Quase toda a gente supõe que Stacy se suicidou para fugir de um casamento e a sua madrasta e meia-irmã viajam rapidamente para o vilarejo onde tudo aconteceu com uns papéis a confirmar que Stacy já sofria de problemas psicológicos há anos.
Mas...
Porque é que ninguém sabia dos problemas médicos de Stacy?
Porque é que Stacy a típica beldade americana que toda a gente supunha que nunca tinha viajado para Inglaterra (à excepção de uma viagem turística rápida a Londres há muitos anos atrás) e muito menos para o vilarejo de Margate, decide encontrar-se com uma pessoa a poucos dias do casamento e tudo em segredo? Com quem se encontrou?
As respostas a estas perguntas e muitas outras (leiam o livro) é o que pretende Jace. Isso e voltar a ter a sua consciência e paz de espírito de volta, o que não acontece desde que toda a família de Stacy o acusou de ser o causador do suicídio da noiva.
Após 3 longos anos de pesados sentimentos e muitos momentos de tristeza e depois de ter encontrado um misterioso bilhete escondido num livro, Jace viaja até Inglaterra em busca da verdade.
Num impulso compra a famosa mansão Priory House e vê-se inundado com a esperança de convencer o fantasma que habita esta mansão a ajudá-lo a descobrir o que se passou com Stacy há 3 anos atrás naquela mesma casa.
O que Jace descobre é que não pode confiar em ninguém e que todos os seus passos estão a ser vigiados e quase cronometrados. A juntar a isto surge uma estranha mas intensa mulher que vai colocar todos os pensamentos de Jace num redemoinho.
Este livro foi-se tornando aos poucos numa leitura rápida e até um pouco viciante, mais para o final. Gostei de tudo no livro incluindo os elementos do fantástico, mas admito que achei o desenlace um pouquinho arrepiante.
Quem ler este livro ou quem já o leu, com certeza que entende o que estou a falar.
Uma bela leitura para dar as boas-vindas aos primeiros dias de sol que começam a aparecer.
April 20, 2011
This is the 5th Jude Deveraux book I've read and since I adored the past 4 I cracked this one open with enthusiasm. When I finally finished I had mixed feelings. I did like the story for the most part, but there were just some parts that didn't really make much sense and seemed kinda tossed in to just finish it up fast. Almost like the plot got veered off where the author wanted it to go and so she had to just make up something to tie it all up at the end. It didn't really make sense.
From here on out some people might consider this spoiler so... you have been warned.....
Ok, so the main character Jace is all tore up over his fiances apparent suicide. So he buys this old haunted mansion in England near the place where she killed herself in hopes of finding out why it happened. At first I thought OK the ghosts had something to do with it, and the author sure makes you think that through the first half or so of the book. But in the end, the ghosts have nothing to do with it, we find out that the fiance actually had a lover way back in the way back and went off to see him the night of her death yadda yadda.. I wont tell you exactly what happened but it had NOTHING what so ever to do with the ghosts...
I also expected a little, ya know sex and romance. And most of you know I can't stand a book with nothing but sex scenes every other page but seriously....to wait until the very end to have the two main characters get it on and then.. to have their first experience be while they are possessed by the damn ghosts is just... I dunno STRANGE and I didn't like it.
This could have been a really good book had the plot panned out with any sense! It is a good premise for a romance but I just didn't think it meshed well in the end. I was left a little unfulfilled and one thing I want from a good rmance novel is FULFILLMENT
So 3 stars...cause it wasn't horrible but it definitely wasn't a home run.
From here on out some people might consider this spoiler so... you have been warned.....
Ok, so the main character Jace is all tore up over his fiances apparent suicide. So he buys this old haunted mansion in England near the place where she killed herself in hopes of finding out why it happened. At first I thought OK the ghosts had something to do with it, and the author sure makes you think that through the first half or so of the book. But in the end, the ghosts have nothing to do with it, we find out that the fiance actually had a lover way back in the way back and went off to see him the night of her death yadda yadda.. I wont tell you exactly what happened but it had NOTHING what so ever to do with the ghosts...
I also expected a little, ya know sex and romance. And most of you know I can't stand a book with nothing but sex scenes every other page but seriously....to wait until the very end to have the two main characters get it on and then.. to have their first experience be while they are possessed by the damn ghosts is just... I dunno STRANGE and I didn't like it.
This could have been a really good book had the plot panned out with any sense! It is a good premise for a romance but I just didn't think it meshed well in the end. I was left a little unfulfilled and one thing I want from a good rmance novel is FULFILLMENT
So 3 stars...cause it wasn't horrible but it definitely wasn't a home run.
July 14, 2024
I was weirdly nervous about reading Jace's story because Montgomery men love hard and I wasn't sure how things would work out since he'd been so in love with Stacy before her untimely death. That said, I should have (as they say) trusted the process because Jace came to terms with his past and found a way to move forward. Sure, he needed a little nudge from a ghost and a different type of nudge from Nigh, but he got where he needed to be eventually.
So. Jace is in a bad place mentally after Stacy's death. He buys a monstrosity of a house in England in an attempt to try to figure things out and, well, that's where things start to get a little complicated. Because the house comes with a ghost (which Jace was well aware of before purchasing it) and a whole lot of secrets and Jace starts to see parallels between Ann's death and Stacy's death although a whole lot of years separate the two.
Then he meets Nigh and those two DID NOT start out on the best foot. But Jace gets over that and it isn't long before the two are teaming up to work through the scant clues they can dig up from both the distant past and the more recent past as them attempt to figure out the circumstances in both Ann's and Stacy's deaths.
A house full of secrets, ghosts, local legends that have taken on a life of their own, more secrets, a lady who is drawn to the house (and Jace) for reasons of her own, and a man who has to come to terms with the past before he can have a future. MAN, I have fun with these Montgomerys and all their trials and tribulations.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
So. Jace is in a bad place mentally after Stacy's death. He buys a monstrosity of a house in England in an attempt to try to figure things out and, well, that's where things start to get a little complicated. Because the house comes with a ghost (which Jace was well aware of before purchasing it) and a whole lot of secrets and Jace starts to see parallels between Ann's death and Stacy's death although a whole lot of years separate the two.
Then he meets Nigh and those two DID NOT start out on the best foot. But Jace gets over that and it isn't long before the two are teaming up to work through the scant clues they can dig up from both the distant past and the more recent past as them attempt to figure out the circumstances in both Ann's and Stacy's deaths.
A house full of secrets, ghosts, local legends that have taken on a life of their own, more secrets, a lady who is drawn to the house (and Jace) for reasons of her own, and a man who has to come to terms with the past before he can have a future. MAN, I have fun with these Montgomerys and all their trials and tribulations.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
October 14, 2011
Ultimamente tenho dado prioridade a novos autores, bem, novos na minha estante, desta vez foi Jude Deveraux.
Já tinha ouvido falar desta autora, através do seu livro “Jardim de Alfazema”, mas ainda não tinha tido hipótese de ler nenhuma obra dela, mas no outro dia ao visitar um supermercado, encontrei o livro “Alguém para amar” com promoção de 40% e resolvi aproveitar.
Comprei e não estou nada arrependida por tê-lo feito. Se todos os romances da autora forem tão bons como este, então não tenho duvidas que irão para o meu TOP pessoal.
“Alguém para Amar” mistura romance, mistério e paranormal.
Tudo começa quando Jace encontra um misterioso bilhete que supostamente teria sido enviado para a sua falecida noiva, há três anos atrás, bilhete esse que marcava um encontro entre ela e outra pessoa, numa casa que Jace nunca tinha visto na vida. Pela data que se encontra no bilhete, percebe que a sua noiva suicidou-se no dia seguinte ao encontro e então resolve comprar a casa para perceber o que realmente se passou naquela noite.
É então que ao fazer a mudança se depara com um “staff” completo e mais uma aquisição extra…uma mulher fantasma que lhe só lhe aparece a ele. Ao tomar conhecimento da história da mulher, Jace encontra semelhanças na sua morte e na de sua falecida noiva e começa a investigar com a ajuda de Nigh, uma jornalista que tem uma curiosidade enorme pela história de Priory House.
Um romance muito bonito que nos demonstra que podemos encontrar o amor mesmo quando julgávamos estar tudo perdido. Recomendo!!!
Já tinha ouvido falar desta autora, através do seu livro “Jardim de Alfazema”, mas ainda não tinha tido hipótese de ler nenhuma obra dela, mas no outro dia ao visitar um supermercado, encontrei o livro “Alguém para amar” com promoção de 40% e resolvi aproveitar.
Comprei e não estou nada arrependida por tê-lo feito. Se todos os romances da autora forem tão bons como este, então não tenho duvidas que irão para o meu TOP pessoal.
“Alguém para Amar” mistura romance, mistério e paranormal.
Tudo começa quando Jace encontra um misterioso bilhete que supostamente teria sido enviado para a sua falecida noiva, há três anos atrás, bilhete esse que marcava um encontro entre ela e outra pessoa, numa casa que Jace nunca tinha visto na vida. Pela data que se encontra no bilhete, percebe que a sua noiva suicidou-se no dia seguinte ao encontro e então resolve comprar a casa para perceber o que realmente se passou naquela noite.
É então que ao fazer a mudança se depara com um “staff” completo e mais uma aquisição extra…uma mulher fantasma que lhe só lhe aparece a ele. Ao tomar conhecimento da história da mulher, Jace encontra semelhanças na sua morte e na de sua falecida noiva e começa a investigar com a ajuda de Nigh, uma jornalista que tem uma curiosidade enorme pela história de Priory House.
Um romance muito bonito que nos demonstra que podemos encontrar o amor mesmo quando julgávamos estar tudo perdido. Recomendo!!!
September 29, 2012
Jace Montgomery é nos apresentado como um homem cuja vida se confronta com a dor de um passado recente no qual perdeu a sua noiva num suposto suicído cuja explicação o move em direcção a um mistério numa pequena Aldeia Inglesa.
Americano de Nascensa e pouco habituado aos rituais Ingleses, adquire uma casa cujo passado e presente é assombrado por um fantasma...mas quem acredita neles??? Jace descobre que para além de estes afinal existirem existe algo que o impele em ajudar o fantasma de uma rapariga que também ela aparentemente se suicidou como resultado de uma história de amor inacabada.
Assumindo o papel que quem procura uma história para escrever sobre uma casa assombrada aos poucos vai descobrindo as peças do que realmente o levou a Inglaterra: um passado desconhecido por si daquela que amava. E numa luta interior muito grande, encontrar as peças todas leva-o a locais inexistentes no que chamamos de o nosso ser interior, quando conheçe a jovem jornalista e se apercebe que afinal o fim não existiu, porque se no tempo da dor julgou ser incapaz de amar novamente, no futuro que desconhecia e agora vive, é no amor que ele encontra não sou a alegria perdida como o seu eu...e a razão da natureza humana: amor e amizade!!!!
É um livro apaixonante, na minha humilde opinião, cuja narrativa é repleta de diálogos, alguns deles que me fizeram rir com gosto!!!! É sempre bom rir um pouco ao ler certas histórias, porque como me disseram hoje rir é realmente uma excelente terapia e uma manifestação de alegria enorme!!!
Americano de Nascensa e pouco habituado aos rituais Ingleses, adquire uma casa cujo passado e presente é assombrado por um fantasma...mas quem acredita neles??? Jace descobre que para além de estes afinal existirem existe algo que o impele em ajudar o fantasma de uma rapariga que também ela aparentemente se suicidou como resultado de uma história de amor inacabada.
Assumindo o papel que quem procura uma história para escrever sobre uma casa assombrada aos poucos vai descobrindo as peças do que realmente o levou a Inglaterra: um passado desconhecido por si daquela que amava. E numa luta interior muito grande, encontrar as peças todas leva-o a locais inexistentes no que chamamos de o nosso ser interior, quando conheçe a jovem jornalista e se apercebe que afinal o fim não existiu, porque se no tempo da dor julgou ser incapaz de amar novamente, no futuro que desconhecia e agora vive, é no amor que ele encontra não sou a alegria perdida como o seu eu...e a razão da natureza humana: amor e amizade!!!!
É um livro apaixonante, na minha humilde opinião, cuja narrativa é repleta de diálogos, alguns deles que me fizeram rir com gosto!!!! É sempre bom rir um pouco ao ler certas histórias, porque como me disseram hoje rir é realmente uma excelente terapia e uma manifestação de alegria enorme!!!
June 25, 2012
'After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy's mysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping through one of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages, bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there." The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibility of understanding Stacy's suicide, Jace seeks out the property - Priory House, a big brick fortress in Margate, England - and buys it.
It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.'
It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.'
January 21, 2009
The Montgomery/Taggert series is one of my favorite in romance novels; as a rule, any Deveraux book that features a Montgomery or Taggert will always get at least a 3-star rating from me (The exception to the rule being the "Forever and Always" series - for some reason, the 2nd and 3rd books grated like nails on a blackboard for me).
That having been said, "Someone to Love" was like eating M&M's when I was hoping for Cadbury mini-eggs. Tasted good, but less filling. The characters were predictable, the conflict wasn't too dramatic, and we all know who'd Nigh would be going home with in the end.
I liked the shout outs to previous Montgomery novels, but it made me wish for another novel like "The Raider" or "Sweet Liar" from Deveraux instead of "Someone to Love".
That having been said, "Someone to Love" was like eating M&M's when I was hoping for Cadbury mini-eggs. Tasted good, but less filling. The characters were predictable, the conflict wasn't too dramatic, and we all know who'd Nigh would be going home with in the end.
I liked the shout outs to previous Montgomery novels, but it made me wish for another novel like "The Raider" or "Sweet Liar" from Deveraux instead of "Someone to Love".
July 26, 2009
I have never read a book with a title that was so WRONG to it as this one. It should have been called 'The Ghosts of Priory House' OR 'Stacy' OR 'The Suicide of Stacy' OR anything else BUT 'Someone to Love'... (Eyes rolling...) It's a book that anyone interested in mysteries would enjoy !
I started reading this one at a friend's insistence, and she was right: the story has nothing to do with the sugary title... Gosh !
And the characters are reasonably well built too. it's a book for which I'd give a 3 stars out of a possible of 5; nothing intellectual, of course, but really entertaining, which I needed at this VERY BUSY time of the year...
I started reading this one at a friend's insistence, and she was right: the story has nothing to do with the sugary title... Gosh !
And the characters are reasonably well built too. it's a book for which I'd give a 3 stars out of a possible of 5; nothing intellectual, of course, but really entertaining, which I needed at this VERY BUSY time of the year...
February 9, 2016
A pontuação justa seriam 2,5*. Não chega às 3º pois não seria justo para muitas e boas 3* que dei entretanto.
Esta foi a minha estreia com Jude Deveraux e confesso que não me encantou!! Talvez as expectativas fossem demasiado altas.
Falta algo na história, a meio tornou-se um pouco chato e o final do livro é completamente apressado...
Ainda me diverti em algumas partes e a escrita é boazinha, por isso ainda quero dar uma oportunidade a outro livro da autora.
Um romancezinho, com um toque de sobrenatural, que se lê rápido mas que lhe falta "substância"...
Esta foi a minha estreia com Jude Deveraux e confesso que não me encantou!! Talvez as expectativas fossem demasiado altas.
Falta algo na história, a meio tornou-se um pouco chato e o final do livro é completamente apressado...
Ainda me diverti em algumas partes e a escrita é boazinha, por isso ainda quero dar uma oportunidade a outro livro da autora.
Um romancezinho, com um toque de sobrenatural, que se lê rápido mas que lhe falta "substância"...
July 28, 2008
I don’t read trashy romance tripe, but I have been a long-time reader of Jude Deveraux’s work. They are romances at heart, but she writes great dialogue, witty and fast paced. She has written probably 20 books with characters all in the same family, from the 1100’s on to current day. This one had a ghost story and a mystery and was a good, quick read (in one day). It’s not heavy literature, but very enjoyable.
November 17, 2015
Espantoso libro. ¿Qué pasó con Jude Deveraux? Lo tengo en formato ebook, pero si lo tuviera en físico me habría llevado una gran desilusión por gastar dinero en semejante porquería. Las descripciones, aburridas. Los protagonistas, inaguantables. La historia, increíblemente densa. El final te deja con esa sensación dual de "qué bueno que por fin acabó" y "qué manera horrible de perder el tiempo". Una estrella me parece incluso demasiado generosa...
February 24, 2016
A autora teve todos os ingredientes para transformar esse livro numa obra. Tinha amor, suspense, tragédia e até um pouco de espiritismo. Porém apesar dela ter tido todos os ingredientes em mãos, não foi o suficiente, ao meu ver, para prender a atenção do leitor. O livro tornou-se como mais um qualquer, sem emoção e com um começo longo que martelava a mesma idéia em quase todos os parágrafos do primeiro capítulo.
February 2, 2016
Adorei a história que nos escreve Jude Deveraux, uma mistura de romance, mistério e fantasmas.
E absolutamente encantadora e romântica não só a história de amor de outros tempos, assim como a que começa com Jace e Nigel , e como ele descobre o mistério da morte de Stacy.
Um livro bem á minha medida que adoro ler sobre mistérios do passado.
Um livro que se lê rapidamente e que encanta.
E absolutamente encantadora e romântica não só a história de amor de outros tempos, assim como a que começa com Jace e Nigel , e como ele descobre o mistério da morte de Stacy.
Um livro bem á minha medida que adoro ler sobre mistérios do passado.
Um livro que se lê rapidamente e que encanta.
March 9, 2011
Not one of my favs - I really enjoy a great mystery with a little romance, this was opposite of that - it was a bad mystery with a whole lot of eye rolling romance with a "you have got to be kidding" ending.
January 17, 2012
First and last book that i will ever read by this author.
Weak story, weak characters and a creepy finale.
Never thought that someone would think, that being "possessed" by a ghost would be romantic.
Weak story, weak characters and a creepy finale.
Never thought that someone would think, that being "possessed" by a ghost would be romantic.
April 6, 2015
This book is a mix of paranormal, a little crime and romance all rolled into one. However, I felt that the end has lost whatever depth the characters had tried to show because of the paranormal ingredient. Nevertheless, it was entertaining enough for me.
September 8, 2007
See Terri's review
January 8, 2012
É um excelente livro com romance e mistério. Personagens bem construídas. Um livro que me prendeu até ao final ansiosa por descobrir a solução do mistério.
November 4, 2012
It was a slow beginning with no real love story they just love eachother straight away and the ending was super weak and kinda icky
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