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Angel, Hawk and Raven #2
Love Song For A Raven
After Carlson Raven rescues Janna Moran from the stormy sea off of the Queen Charlotte Islands, he revives her with his intimate embrace, and she wakes up in the arms of the mysterious dark-eyed stranger. Reissue.
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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About the author
Elizabeth Lowell
208 books1,921 followersIndividually and with co-author/husband Evan, Ann Maxwell has written over 60 novels and one work of non-fiction. There are 30 million copies of these books in print, as well as reprints in 30 foreign languages. Her novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery. After working in contemporary and historical romance, she became an innovator in the genre of romantic suspense.
In 1982, Ann began publishing as Elizabeth Lowell. Under that name she has received numerous professional awards in the romance field, including a Lifetime Achievement award from the Romance Writers of America (1994).
Since July of 1992, she has had over 30 novels on the New York Times bestseller list. In 1998 she began writing suspense with a passionate twist, capturing a new audience and generation of readers. Her new romance novel Perfect Touch will be available in July of 2015.
To get a full list of titles as well as read excerpts from her novels, visit www.elizabethlowell.com.
In 1982, Ann began publishing as Elizabeth Lowell. Under that name she has received numerous professional awards in the romance field, including a Lifetime Achievement award from the Romance Writers of America (1994).
Since July of 1992, she has had over 30 novels on the New York Times bestseller list. In 1998 she began writing suspense with a passionate twist, capturing a new audience and generation of readers. Her new romance novel Perfect Touch will be available in July of 2015.
To get a full list of titles as well as read excerpts from her novels, visit www.elizabethlowell.com.
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January 2, 2025
Lonely Raven
Raven was in his boat, The Black Star when he saw a woman fighting a motorized row, boat bailing water while still trying to row. She worked furiously, but in the end the small boat was swamped by a wave. Without thought, Raven dove into the water and cut the woman free before the floundering boat went under with the woman still attached.
Raven brought the woman on board and kept her safe through the storm. She was beautiful and he was just big and nothing a woman like her would want. Funny thing, was that Janna seemed to think Raven didn’t want her.
I read this book years ago, and I thought it was very romantic. It’s not that it isn’t romantic, but it is stage of my life I’ve read too many romances with the “I’m confused about how you feel” trope. This was pure spice and romance, but a great example of a romance novel. I think I would’ve given it five stars the last time I read it, but I’m going to go with four this time. Tastes evolve.
Raven was in his boat, The Black Star when he saw a woman fighting a motorized row, boat bailing water while still trying to row. She worked furiously, but in the end the small boat was swamped by a wave. Without thought, Raven dove into the water and cut the woman free before the floundering boat went under with the woman still attached.
Raven brought the woman on board and kept her safe through the storm. She was beautiful and he was just big and nothing a woman like her would want. Funny thing, was that Janna seemed to think Raven didn’t want her.
I read this book years ago, and I thought it was very romantic. It’s not that it isn’t romantic, but it is stage of my life I’ve read too many romances with the “I’m confused about how you feel” trope. This was pure spice and romance, but a great example of a romance novel. I think I would’ve given it five stars the last time I read it, but I’m going to go with four this time. Tastes evolve.
April 30, 2021
Lightweight read from EL with miscommunication/misunderstanding playing waaaay too big a part of the conflict/tension. This is the companion to A Woman Without Lies, which I found equally forgettable other than its beautiful Vancouver Island setting and more jerkish hero (EL is great at descriptive settings, which she skillfully and lyrically weaves into the narrative).
My main problem with this one is that the MCs are just a little too perfect, and their love is just a little too insta, and the conflict is so heavily based on misconceptions. Raven rescues Janna when her boat overturns in heavy seas, they fall into bed and into love almost at once, but then they both spend almost 300 pages agonizing internally about how the other doesn't REALLY love him/her. She thinks he's still hung up on the heroine of the first book; he thinks she feels gratitude rather than twue wuv, and it gets irritatingly repetitive. (Although not as irritatingly repetitive as the hero of the first book's endless avowals that he'll never find a "woman without lies"--EL sometimes beat things to death in her early books.)
Ze prose, it is a bit purplish, the hero's mustache isn't as much a character in its own right as some other EL mustaches from this era but it gets quite a few mentions, the banter is clunky, but the sex scenes are pretty hot as is usual for EL. Overall, while it passed a couple of hours pleasantly enough, it wasn't one of her more memorable stories. But if you like strong besotted heroes who aren't jackasses and heroines who have all the feels, then you might like this one--it is romantic and sweet overall, just not my cuppa (I prefer a more bitter brew ;-)).
My main problem with this one is that the MCs are just a little too perfect, and their love is just a little too insta, and the conflict is so heavily based on misconceptions. Raven rescues Janna when her boat overturns in heavy seas, they fall into bed and into love almost at once, but then they both spend almost 300 pages agonizing internally about how the other doesn't REALLY love him/her. She thinks he's still hung up on the heroine of the first book; he thinks she feels gratitude rather than twue wuv, and it gets irritatingly repetitive. (Although not as irritatingly repetitive as the hero of the first book's endless avowals that he'll never find a "woman without lies"--EL sometimes beat things to death in her early books.)
Ze prose, it is a bit purplish, the hero's mustache isn't as much a character in its own right as some other EL mustaches from this era but it gets quite a few mentions, the banter is clunky, but the sex scenes are pretty hot as is usual for EL. Overall, while it passed a couple of hours pleasantly enough, it wasn't one of her more memorable stories. But if you like strong besotted heroes who aren't jackasses and heroines who have all the feels, then you might like this one--it is romantic and sweet overall, just not my cuppa (I prefer a more bitter brew ;-)).
October 11, 2010
After hearing so many raves about the wonderful hero in this one I think I was expecting too much. The story starts out when the heroine's boat gets caught up in a storm and begins to sink. Raven spots her boat going under and quickly arrives in time to save her life. While the storm rages (for what felt like several days) he nurses her back to health and they fall in love. But it's not as easy as all that because they both have wounded hearts and must first come to grips with their old heartaches and insecurities before they can love each other freely.
This was an okay read but it just didn't grab me. The hero was a perfectly sensitive, nurturing and tortured guy and the heroine was pretty likable but they had big trouble communicating with each other and spent a huge chunk of the book hiding and avoiding their feelings. I also had a bit of a problem with the speed in which relationship developed. I realize this is a short book but their love seemed to blossom unbelievably quick. There were tons of steamy love scenes but I kind of wish they had spent more time talking than tearing up the sheets. Geez, what a bore I'm becoming :) And the final thing that bugged me were all of the references to what I believe must have been the prequel about a woman (Angel) who broke the hero's heart. I can't help but think that I would've felt more compassion for Raven if I had read that story first.
This was an okay read but it just didn't grab me. The hero was a perfectly sensitive, nurturing and tortured guy and the heroine was pretty likable but they had big trouble communicating with each other and spent a huge chunk of the book hiding and avoiding their feelings. I also had a bit of a problem with the speed in which relationship developed. I realize this is a short book but their love seemed to blossom unbelievably quick. There were tons of steamy love scenes but I kind of wish they had spent more time talking than tearing up the sheets. Geez, what a bore I'm becoming :) And the final thing that bugged me were all of the references to what I believe must have been the prequel about a woman (Angel) who broke the hero's heart. I can't help but think that I would've felt more compassion for Raven if I had read that story first.
August 2, 2015
I'm such a sucker for Elizabeth Lowell! Even if I know that the book is likely to be cheesy as hell and too short for any decent character development (that's how all of her rereleased 80s books that I've read have turned out), I can't go past the name of Lowell. I grew up reading her books from the late 80s and early 90s and I guess I'm trying to recreate the happy feelings those early romances gave me. Unfortunately these republished, and sometimes renamed, but not reworked books are the worst of Lowell's writing. The characters have no depth, each one is pretty much cut from the same mould, with a few physical differences. Lowell seems to be very inspired by the beauty of the natural world, so all of the books from this era seem to feature storms or mountains or horses or sailing. So with interchangeable heroes and heroines and a repeating cycle of the same scenery the books all start to merge together. This book reminded me a lot of one of her other books, Desert Rain, which opens with a raging storm that one of the characters needs saving from. Despite all those negatives, and this not being the first of her early books that I've noticed similar problems in, if I happened across a republished edition of A Woman Without Lies (the first book in the Angel, Hawk and Raven duo I would absolutely pick it up (from the library, I'm not paying money for them, I'm not that much of a sucker).
Forgot to add that I was not a fan of Janna's ridiculous opinion that if she had been more of a woman her closeted gay ex-husband would have been more of a man and found her attractive enough to have sex with. In other words if she had been the perfect ideal (in her opinion) of a woman (blonde, short, and busty, 'kittenish' as she put it) she could have 'straight'ened her ex out. That idea really made me feel antagonistic towards Lowell, unfortunately hints of homophobia is another theme that runs through a lot of her older works.
Forgot to add that I was not a fan of Janna's ridiculous opinion that if she had been more of a woman her closeted gay ex-husband would have been more of a man and found her attractive enough to have sex with. In other words if she had been the perfect ideal (in her opinion) of a woman (blonde, short, and busty, 'kittenish' as she put it) she could have 'straight'ened her ex out. That idea really made me feel antagonistic towards Lowell, unfortunately hints of homophobia is another theme that runs through a lot of her older works.
February 20, 2015
This was still as good as I remember!
October 10, 2012
Yes, yes great read be sure to read the companion 'Lover in the Rough'. This is an author that I have read a lot of and have added her books to my 'keeper' book shelf. Most I have read at least twice and some even more than that. Always in depth characters that anyone can identify with on some level.
January 14, 2014
Is this not one of the best Romance books ever written... Elizabeth Lowell at her very very best !
June 6, 2020
I think this is my favourite book of all time.
I owned this as a paperback many years ago and read it so many times I lost count. Finding it in eBook format made my day. I just wish it had been proofread first and the errors removed.
I have to say all these years later I still found this gripping, humorous and hauntingly beautiful.
Love both Janna and Raven.
He is not in this book but I wonder if Derry, from Angel and Hawks story, A WOMAN OF LIES, ever got his story.
I owned this as a paperback many years ago and read it so many times I lost count. Finding it in eBook format made my day. I just wish it had been proofread first and the errors removed.
I have to say all these years later I still found this gripping, humorous and hauntingly beautiful.
Love both Janna and Raven.
He is not in this book but I wonder if Derry, from Angel and Hawks story, A WOMAN OF LIES, ever got his story.
May 22, 2011
Miscommunication ran rampant between this couple.
The UST was thick...and I felt that once they actually admitted to wanting each other, the inlet would probably boil...and I was right!
Wow, actually.
I worried that their lack of communication would keep them apart.
The UST was thick...and I felt that once they actually admitted to wanting each other, the inlet would probably boil...and I was right!
Wow, actually.
I worried that their lack of communication would keep them apart.
January 2, 2011
One of the first books I read from Ms. Lowell. It was very intense for it's time and genre. This is the book that pushed me into being a lifelong fan.
August 25, 2013
Just as catching as it was when I first read it 25 years ago.
December 18, 2025
Leio ou releio romances para acalmar a ansiedade, para me divertir, para me emocionar, ou para relembrar quando era jovem e os via como contos de fadas para adultos. Comecei relendo (ou lendo, faz tanto tempo que alguns livros não sei se já tinha lido) Linda Howard, e passei para Elizabeth Lowell. Alguns desses romances publicados entre a década de 1980 e 1990 ou um pouco mais à frente eu guardei na minha biblioteca do Kindle. Alguns eu tenho até em paperback. Outros eu descartei (e outros desses eu me arrependi de ter descartado e comprei de novo - coisa de doido).
Lendo assim no "atacado", consolidei algumas observações e adicionei outras. É óbvio que sempre soube que essas escritoras (e outros escritores do gênero) têm como que um modelo, e repetem características de personagens e argumentos, às vezes até ambientação, mesmo que variem regiões de um mesmo país ou até outro país. Não significa que não saibam escrever. Em tempos de inteligência artificial, não troco essas autoras clássicas do gênero por qualquer inteligência artificial ou por outras que não sabiam a diferença entre um "you're" e um "your" (leio preferencialmente em inglês, ler romance traduzido é igual a ver filme dublado, patético). Esses autores me irritam, bem como os inexistentes ou igualmente ignorantes editores. Porque falta muita edição/revisão. O que é uma observação recente que fiz nos livros de Lowell que tenho lido. A displicência das editoras é revoltante. Enfim.
Vou repetir este texto em todos os livros que li na última semana, porque a conclusão é a mesma. Embora alguns livros tenham me entretido mais, e outros tenham me parecido exagerados na suposta sensibilidade dos personagens principais. E nem é só da mulher. Em "Love Song for a Raven" o "herói" é irritantemente sensível... e aparentemente por causa da sua altura. Fiquei o tempo todo pensando se os jogadores de basquete têm esse tipo de problema.
Os livros que escolhi (como emendei um no outro, fui mais pelo preço ou pela possibilidade de estar disponível no Kindle Unlimited para empréstimo) são de uma época em que a autora podia passar incólume pelo padrão de "homem que odeia mulheres porque elas o feriram" e mulheres que apesar de terem uma carreira, são "inexperientes", seja total ou parcialmente, sempre devido a um ex que também odiava mulheres e as traumatizaram. Não que atualmente não haja homens patéticos (haja vista os chamados red pills, e como pouco mudou a cultura de homens que acham que são proprietários de mulheres e as maltratam ou fazem até coisa pior). Mas fica muito difícil acreditar que em tempos de internet, ainda haja alguém que desconheça as facetas múltiplas do relacionamento físico entre pessoas.
Isso posto, concluo que realmente uma das razões pelas quais esses livros me entretêm é ressoarem numa pessoa que consegue entender o que é uma relação mal-sucedida entre seres humanos por razões absolutamente triviais, ou mesmo por falta de caráter de uma das partes. Os seres humanos são defeituosos desde sempre. E romances continuarão a ser lidos porque uma parte de nós não acredita mais em conto de fadas realizado.
Lendo assim no "atacado", consolidei algumas observações e adicionei outras. É óbvio que sempre soube que essas escritoras (e outros escritores do gênero) têm como que um modelo, e repetem características de personagens e argumentos, às vezes até ambientação, mesmo que variem regiões de um mesmo país ou até outro país. Não significa que não saibam escrever. Em tempos de inteligência artificial, não troco essas autoras clássicas do gênero por qualquer inteligência artificial ou por outras que não sabiam a diferença entre um "you're" e um "your" (leio preferencialmente em inglês, ler romance traduzido é igual a ver filme dublado, patético). Esses autores me irritam, bem como os inexistentes ou igualmente ignorantes editores. Porque falta muita edição/revisão. O que é uma observação recente que fiz nos livros de Lowell que tenho lido. A displicência das editoras é revoltante. Enfim.
Vou repetir este texto em todos os livros que li na última semana, porque a conclusão é a mesma. Embora alguns livros tenham me entretido mais, e outros tenham me parecido exagerados na suposta sensibilidade dos personagens principais. E nem é só da mulher. Em "Love Song for a Raven" o "herói" é irritantemente sensível... e aparentemente por causa da sua altura. Fiquei o tempo todo pensando se os jogadores de basquete têm esse tipo de problema.
Os livros que escolhi (como emendei um no outro, fui mais pelo preço ou pela possibilidade de estar disponível no Kindle Unlimited para empréstimo) são de uma época em que a autora podia passar incólume pelo padrão de "homem que odeia mulheres porque elas o feriram" e mulheres que apesar de terem uma carreira, são "inexperientes", seja total ou parcialmente, sempre devido a um ex que também odiava mulheres e as traumatizaram. Não que atualmente não haja homens patéticos (haja vista os chamados red pills, e como pouco mudou a cultura de homens que acham que são proprietários de mulheres e as maltratam ou fazem até coisa pior). Mas fica muito difícil acreditar que em tempos de internet, ainda haja alguém que desconheça as facetas múltiplas do relacionamento físico entre pessoas.
Isso posto, concluo que realmente uma das razões pelas quais esses livros me entretêm é ressoarem numa pessoa que consegue entender o que é uma relação mal-sucedida entre seres humanos por razões absolutamente triviais, ou mesmo por falta de caráter de uma das partes. Os seres humanos são defeituosos desde sempre. E romances continuarão a ser lidos porque uma parte de nós não acredita mais em conto de fadas realizado.
March 15, 2022
A good read. Caught in a storm on the choppy seas of the Charlotte Islands Janna is in great danger. Her boats engine fail, and water is entering the boat faster than she can bail. It’s a miracle that Carlson Raven spotted her in the midst of the storm. As her boat capsizes Raven immediately jumps in after her, bringing her aboard his boat. They’re hidden in the safety of an inlet surrounded by deep forest and silence. When Janna awakens she is amazed to find her savior so captivating and Raven is just as intrigued by her beauty. As the storm continues on the sea they are safe in their own private paradise. The problem is they both don’t believe they are capable of being loved.
Really sweet story. I loved the forced proximity, plus the inlet setting was so cool. They kept describing it as Eden and I can only imagine that’s what it looked like. Like all Lowell books, the plot is fairly simple. Janna is unable to see herself as desirable after her failed marriage, and Raven is convinced he’s not the type of man that can be loved (yea cause who doesn’t a wealthy 6’4 hunk with sculpted muscles??). Anyways they are super attracted to one another but can’t imagine that both would feel the same. This made for some great tension. Really poetic dialogue that was honestly just really pretty. The setting really made the book, loved both characters and enjoyed the story a lot. 10000/10
Really sweet story. I loved the forced proximity, plus the inlet setting was so cool. They kept describing it as Eden and I can only imagine that’s what it looked like. Like all Lowell books, the plot is fairly simple. Janna is unable to see herself as desirable after her failed marriage, and Raven is convinced he’s not the type of man that can be loved (yea cause who doesn’t a wealthy 6’4 hunk with sculpted muscles??). Anyways they are super attracted to one another but can’t imagine that both would feel the same. This made for some great tension. Really poetic dialogue that was honestly just really pretty. The setting really made the book, loved both characters and enjoyed the story a lot. 10000/10
October 8, 2020
I liked this book because it is different from others 🙂 and maybe I would recommend it 🤔, but there are things that should be rewritten or improved 😬.
For example, it is a short story in which although the male main character (Raven) expresses his "love" physically to the female main character 🛏️, in many other circumstances he hurts her deeply 💔 and he keeps rejecting her 🙅🏾 ... He doesn't think Janna loves him sincerely 👩❤️💋👨, he doesn't even trust her words 🗣️ and her TOTAL and COMPLETE belonging but suddenly when she leaves him, a light turns on💡and he understands everything ... At that moment he goes to behind her and she accepts him as like nothing had happened? 🤔🙄 That makes me noise 🔊 ... As much as that end SO OPEN... I mean it's a second book, the last one... 😬
What can I say about Raven talking to Janna about Angela all the time and giving her Angela's things? 😬😬
What can I say about Raven talking to Janna about Angela's art? 😬😬😬
For example, it is a short story in which although the male main character (Raven) expresses his "love" physically to the female main character 🛏️, in many other circumstances he hurts her deeply 💔 and he keeps rejecting her 🙅🏾 ... He doesn't think Janna loves him sincerely 👩❤️💋👨, he doesn't even trust her words 🗣️ and her TOTAL and COMPLETE belonging but suddenly when she leaves him, a light turns on💡and he understands everything ... At that moment he goes to behind her and she accepts him as like nothing had happened? 🤔🙄 That makes me noise 🔊 ... As much as that end SO OPEN... I mean it's a second book, the last one... 😬
What can I say about Raven talking to Janna about Angela all the time and giving her Angela's things? 😬😬
What can I say about Raven talking to Janna about Angela's art? 😬😬😬
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March 8, 2025
This is typical early Lowell. Two characters, hurt by the ones they loved, who can't believe anyone would love them. Lots of angst, incredible repressed lust as Raven tries to be honorable, and as Janna believes that Raven loves someone else so much he could never love her. The inevitable parting until Raven's friend says the magic words that frees him.
This was another free book I found at the Sedona Public Library. An enjoyable read, even with the hyperbolic emotions. And apparently the second in a series, which I suspected about halfway through the book. This reminds me of one her other series, the Mackenzie-Blackthorn books, especially Outlaw. Enjoyable and completely predictable.
This was another free book I found at the Sedona Public Library. An enjoyable read, even with the hyperbolic emotions. And apparently the second in a series, which I suspected about halfway through the book. This reminds me of one her other series, the Mackenzie-Blackthorn books, especially Outlaw. Enjoyable and completely predictable.
July 5, 2019
I read this years ago but I recently re-read A Woman Without Lies and I couldn't remember Carlson's story. I feel curiously let down after reading it! Raven, as he goes by, had the chance to be such a unique character....if we had more of his background of his struggles growing up Haida I think I would have enjoyed it more. Angel dominated way too much of this story too. It felt way too much like a love triangle (which I hate!!) even though Angel is happily married to Hawk.
October 18, 2018
A story about a young woman who married a man who was her neighbor and best friend is devastated when finally admits he is gay (he couldn't make love to her). Escaping to the Queen Charlotte Islands, she ends up being rescued after her boat capsizes, but a Native man is way above average height and weight. Both have been in relationships that didn't last.
June 14, 2022
A book I love to read
Elizabeth Lowell does not disappoint in this elemental re release of an older book. I purchased this one sometime ago along with its prequel, A Woman Without Lies. The details of the scenery in this novel made me long to visit the formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands. As usual, the deep emotional aspects held me enthralled until resolution.
Elizabeth Lowell does not disappoint in this elemental re release of an older book. I purchased this one sometime ago along with its prequel, A Woman Without Lies. The details of the scenery in this novel made me long to visit the formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands. As usual, the deep emotional aspects held me enthralled until resolution.
July 6, 2018
Real Entertainment
I admit I have always loved anything Elizabeth Lowell writes, but even now she still surprises me with emotion. Every book teaches me something and touched my heart even the her older categories. Don't miss this author.
I admit I have always loved anything Elizabeth Lowell writes, but even now she still surprises me with emotion. Every book teaches me something and touched my heart even the her older categories. Don't miss this author.
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September 16, 2020This book is bursting with romance.i really liked how the hero and heroine are thrown together by circumstances.love blossoms between them.eventhough the hero initially mistakes heroine's love for gratitude at the end of the novel he realises her love for him and accepts her.
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September 26, 2017
This book felt like a love letter .. it hit the spot
January 16, 2019
I love reading a good Elizabeth Lowell book and this one did not disappoint. I just wish it was a little longer.
May 2, 2019
A beautiful pull my heart string love story.
September 17, 2019
i loved the hero though he is dumb sometimes.
October 22, 2022
Sweet story about passionate love
October 22, 2022
reprint of Angel, Hawk and Raven - 2, Mills & Boon Desire - 355, Silhouette Desire - 355
Copyright Date of first printing is 1987
Copyright Date of first printing is 1987
March 11, 2018
Carlson Raven has spent the past few years trying to get over the lost opportunity of his love for Angel, who he is now insanely happy for, even if he wishes things could have been different. He manages to rescue Janna from drowning in a storm and they find themselves trapped in an inlet for a few days. Janna was married, but was devastated to discover that she could not entice her gay ex-husband and she determined that she must be completely undesirable to men. So when Raven tries to do the honorable thing and not take what he wants (Janna) when she must surely be feeling gratitude and other confusing emotions, she thinks he doesn't want her. And when she falls in love with Raven, she believes he'll never love her back because he'll forever love Angel.
This is another great angst-fest from Ms. Lowell. The angst has angst in this story. No outside stories, mysteries or anything like that - just straight up emotional drama. Raven is a big, soggy hero - he's a big teddy bear and he's terrified of hurting Janna. He got on my nerves a bit at times, but other times I thought he was sweet. Janna I liked for the most part, except for her hang up about thinking her ex-husbands "problem" was her fault. I liked that it wasn't miscommunication that caused the angst. There was plenty of direct communication with the two of them. Their problem came from their own insecurities and their tendency to misinterpret said communication through the lens of their insecurity. This story just reaches that point where you want to smack them both and tell them to open their eyes, but stops shy of me throwing kindle. It's a delicate balance. So I truly did enjoy this story.
This is another great angst-fest from Ms. Lowell. The angst has angst in this story. No outside stories, mysteries or anything like that - just straight up emotional drama. Raven is a big, soggy hero - he's a big teddy bear and he's terrified of hurting Janna. He got on my nerves a bit at times, but other times I thought he was sweet. Janna I liked for the most part, except for her hang up about thinking her ex-husbands "problem" was her fault. I liked that it wasn't miscommunication that caused the angst. There was plenty of direct communication with the two of them. Their problem came from their own insecurities and their tendency to misinterpret said communication through the lens of their insecurity. This story just reaches that point where you want to smack them both and tell them to open their eyes, but stops shy of me throwing kindle. It's a delicate balance. So I truly did enjoy this story.
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December 7, 2014
This is an interesting quick read.. picked it blindly off the the library shelf. I was intrigued by the characters, Janna and Raven, who discover one another after Raven rescues Janna from drowning in an unexpected storm. They are instantly drawn to one another and the sexual chemistry is intense (whew!!) The frequent miscommunication between the two is, at times, engaging but most times, downright annoying. Both Janna and Raven have anguished pasts that make it difficult for them to accept that someone else actually has fallen in love with them. The love scenes are tastefully descriptive, but a little hokey. As a side note, Raven did not appeal to me (huge guy with black hair and a mustache! lol!)
February 12, 2016
3.5 Janna, a marine biologist, was caught in a sea storm with a broken boat. Raven was in the right place at the right time, because he saw Jenna struggle and was able to rescue her. They spend several days on his boat, sailing back to land. Janna is recently divorced and feels undesirable, because her ex-husband was gay. Raven also feels undesirable and unloveable, because he is too big. Raven tries to stay away from Janna, because he thinks she would give in to him from gratitude. These two were perfect for each other, they made each other laugh. This was sweet and melancholy.
July 27, 2016
The writing was just gorgeous. I love how we got to place ourselves in each of the characters shoes and get the chance to see what they see. To feel what they feel. The love they have for one another is just so inspiring, that one envy's their feelings for awhile. Because when one yearns for a love that is true, one can only wish for the same. I fell in love with this book and I am so happy to have finished it! Can't wait to see what other books the author as written. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's into romance novels.
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