Swept Away

by Gwynne Forster

Swept Away by Gwynne Forster released on Mar 24, 2000 is available now for purchase.

Genres: African American Romance, Romance

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Gwynne Forster (1922-2015) was the pseudonym of American novelist, short fiction writer, demographer, and sociologist Gwendolyn Johnson-Acsadi. Forster was best known as an early innovator of the African American Romance fiction tradition. Forster was a prolific writer who authored more than 50 books, as well as multiple studies in the field of demography. Forster won a wide readership with her novels and garnered awards, including the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a re-read for me, originally read 11/2010.

It was really painful to read. Although the attraction was written on the pages between Schyler and Veronica I just couldn't feel the chemistry when reading it. I also think the characters were written way beyond their years. Veronica was only 32, and Schyler 36 and he said things like:

"I’m a man who believes in making people live up to their notices, and I’ve got a fistful of yours. You with me?”
and
“I go for a woman who has a hearty appetite and doesn’t pick over the food. It doubles my pleasure in her company"

I know this book was originally published in 2000, but I don't think women would go for these lines then or now. Veronica had some awful punchlines as well. The 2nd time around I tried really hard, but just couldn't force myself to finish this one. Too bad though, because the story had a lot of potential to be a really good love story.

[KAREN MCCRAW · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a story

I'll just say wow. Skyler and Veronica, Richard, Esther and Sam , then Jenny all made this a good story. Oh and I can't forget Enid finding love. I would read it again. You always trust your family to tell you the truth and when they don"t it can be painful.

[Lorraine Darrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unbelievable!

So many stories within. I enjoyed seeing how persons could be charitable to those struggling, how person could be put in their place without out right rudeness.

[Darcia Scates · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was overwritten. I liked the fact that it took place in Owings Mills, Maryland, but it just moved too slow. The middle part where her dad was on the missing plane, and they feared he died. That was just fluff to prolong the story. Readers such as myself demand and deserve an interesting romantic story filled with strong, necessary sentences that can sometimes be finished in 200 pages. This book was way too long. Some facts could have been shared sooner, such as why the biological dad did not try to contact Veronica while she was growing up. The problem could have been solved in 10 minutes! Why take ten chapters that are 35 pages long to reveal why the dad stayed away? Veronica's animosity towards her biological father could have been eliminated in ten minutes. I still don't know why the dad stayed away, because I refused to finish the book after chapter 5. I skipped to the last page and learned what inevitably and predictably happened to the main characters, which I predicted..The one good thing that was exciting in the book was the description of
Veronica's skiing trip to Switzerland. Ms. Forster has been proven to be a great writer in her other novels, but this one slipped through her fingers as a bad one.

[Celeste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Past of pain and suffering

Schyler and Veronica. Amazing how the sins of the parents come to haunt the children. In this tale we get to see the perils of life choices. What happens when a forbidden love cause for everlasting pain. This story is one where a death bed ask leads to an overcoming that would chart the future of Veronica and Schyler.

[Ezraela-Baht · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a page turner, I loved it, the character in this book was a advocate for abused children, the same man who was trying to destroy her reputation, she ended up falling in love with.