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Down From The Mountain
Down from the Mountain by Barbara Gale released on Jan 23, 2004 is available now for purchase.
- GenresRomanceContemporary
256 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2004
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August 4, 2016
This was a very emotional story. David is a man who's tortured himself for years that no woman could ever love him. And he'd made himself almost a hermit. Ellen has a love of life and her confidence in herself is strong. Except when it comes to David. The signals he sends her are so contrary she's never sure what his moods will be. She does know that somewhere deep inside, David is a good man with a good heart. Very emotional. Very well done.
March 31, 2011
An okay story but mostly I wanted to just reach in and smack both the main leads.
December 1, 2018
Me gustó la relación entre Ellen y David, fue muy bonita.
La verdad me pone muy triste saber que Ellen no recuperó su vista☹️, tenía la ilusión de lo que hiciera. Me alegro mucho de que las inseguridades de David se fueran, su padre fue muy sabio al juntarlos.
Lloré unas cuantas veces mientras iba leyendo, me dio muchísimo sentimiento, la autora narró el libro tan bien. Podía sentir las inseguridades de ambos personajes y podía sentir la tristeza que desprendían, ambos por razones diferentes. Desde un principio comprendí mucho las inseguridades de David, y me partió el alma su decisión de alejarse de Ellen, lloré mucho mientras iba leyendo sus planes por alejarse de ella a pesar de que la amaba.
Ellen es muy hermosa, por lo que tiene varios pretendientes pero ella solo quiere a David y me encantó que no le diera alas a los otros a pesar de sus problemas con David.
Me encantó la tenacidad de David por casarse, fue muy bonito ver que todo el tiempo estuvieron acampando cerca de la cabaña simplemente para que Ellen aceptara casarse con ella, pero me disgustó mucho no ver un epílogo, me hubiera gustado ver un futuro donde Ellen estuviera embarazada o al menos estuvieran celebrando la boda.
“Él admiraba la belleza más que cualquier otra persona, porque estaba fuera de su alcance.”
“Aceptaba sus crueldades, sus feos, su mal humor, todo. Se preguntó si sería capaz de perdonarle su rostro.”
“—¿Por qué te ríes?
—No me río—protestó ella—. Sonrío, es distinto. Me haces feliz y te sonrío.”
“—Dijiste que estaría a salvo.
—Lo estás. Te protegería con mi vida.”
La verdad me pone muy triste saber que Ellen no recuperó su vista☹️, tenía la ilusión de lo que hiciera. Me alegro mucho de que las inseguridades de David se fueran, su padre fue muy sabio al juntarlos.
Lloré unas cuantas veces mientras iba leyendo, me dio muchísimo sentimiento, la autora narró el libro tan bien. Podía sentir las inseguridades de ambos personajes y podía sentir la tristeza que desprendían, ambos por razones diferentes. Desde un principio comprendí mucho las inseguridades de David, y me partió el alma su decisión de alejarse de Ellen, lloré mucho mientras iba leyendo sus planes por alejarse de ella a pesar de que la amaba.
Ellen es muy hermosa, por lo que tiene varios pretendientes pero ella solo quiere a David y me encantó que no le diera alas a los otros a pesar de sus problemas con David.
Me encantó la tenacidad de David por casarse, fue muy bonito ver que todo el tiempo estuvieron acampando cerca de la cabaña simplemente para que Ellen aceptara casarse con ella, pero me disgustó mucho no ver un epílogo, me hubiera gustado ver un futuro donde Ellen estuviera embarazada o al menos estuvieran celebrando la boda.
“Él admiraba la belleza más que cualquier otra persona, porque estaba fuera de su alcance.”
“Aceptaba sus crueldades, sus feos, su mal humor, todo. Se preguntó si sería capaz de perdonarle su rostro.”
“—¿Por qué te ríes?
—No me río—protestó ella—. Sonrío, es distinto. Me haces feliz y te sonrío.”
“—Dijiste que estaría a salvo.
—Lo estás. Te protegería con mi vida.”
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March 6, 2016
First, let me say that there are good things about this book. The hero and heroine are types (wounded hero/blind heroine) that I normally like. The cast of secondary characters is superb and well-drawn. The resolution of Ellen's surgery was surprising (and unusual for a romance novel). And, individually, I felt for the two main characters and enjoyed seeing them both come "down from the mountain" as the book progressed.
What I didn't always get was how they acted towards each other. David's high-handed treatment of Ellen at the beginning really set him far behind the power curve. He essentially kidnaps her--an over-21 adult--and treats her scornfully with no real reason for doing so. He runs out with her in the middle of the night, not allowing her to pack her things, blowing off a meeting with the lawyer the next day, and takes her the whole way across the country, and then leads her to believe that she'll be living in squalor. His behavior after her surgery was fairly unforgivable. His angst, while understandable, is so over-the-top that it makes me wonder how he had been able to function--the get through college and grad school and a job--for the past decade.
Ellen was more sympathetic, though I had to wonder how she had come to the point where she was living as a recluse. Some additional explanation would have helped--it is clear that she was the product of over-protective parents and an over-protective guardian, but there seems to have been no effort made by those people to make her self-sufficient and no resentment on her part or desire to break free.
That said, the big issue I had with this book was with the writing itself. I found myself constantly pulled out of the story because of the way things were worded (such as author's intrusion/explanation--"she couldn't have known that he thought..."--into a character's POV and POV that shifted from one character to the next so that you had to figure out whose brain you were in before figuring out what, exactly, was going on) and because of a meandering timeline. Was she with his father 6 years? 10 years? From when she was 17? From when she was 12? Was it 15 years since his accident? 20? It seemed to be constantly changing, to the point where it became intrusive.
So, 3 stars because, overall--it was a fairly enjoyable read and doesn't deserve less than that--but with reservations as noted.
What I didn't always get was how they acted towards each other. David's high-handed treatment of Ellen at the beginning really set him far behind the power curve. He essentially kidnaps her--an over-21 adult--and treats her scornfully with no real reason for doing so. He runs out with her in the middle of the night, not allowing her to pack her things, blowing off a meeting with the lawyer the next day, and takes her the whole way across the country, and then leads her to believe that she'll be living in squalor. His behavior after her surgery was fairly unforgivable. His angst, while understandable, is so over-the-top that it makes me wonder how he had been able to function--the get through college and grad school and a job--for the past decade.
Ellen was more sympathetic, though I had to wonder how she had come to the point where she was living as a recluse. Some additional explanation would have helped--it is clear that she was the product of over-protective parents and an over-protective guardian, but there seems to have been no effort made by those people to make her self-sufficient and no resentment on her part or desire to break free.
That said, the big issue I had with this book was with the writing itself. I found myself constantly pulled out of the story because of the way things were worded (such as author's intrusion/explanation--"she couldn't have known that he thought..."--into a character's POV and POV that shifted from one character to the next so that you had to figure out whose brain you were in before figuring out what, exactly, was going on) and because of a meandering timeline. Was she with his father 6 years? 10 years? From when she was 17? From when she was 12? Was it 15 years since his accident? 20? It seemed to be constantly changing, to the point where it became intrusive.
So, 3 stars because, overall--it was a fairly enjoyable read and doesn't deserve less than that--but with reservations as noted.
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