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Hidden Passions
Secrets from the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox
Welcome to Harmony...
A dreamy New England Coastal town, filled with cobblestone streets, charming colonial homes ... and tumultuous secrets that threaten to tear its families apart. Only Tabitha Lenox knows the intimate details of all their stories. Most of Harmony thinks Tabitha is a "harmless eccentric." But she‘s really an irrepressible sorceress of darkness who‘s been causing the town cauldrons of trouble even before Prudence Standish accused her of witchcraft in 1693 (and Tabitha certainly hasn‘t forgotten!). Based on her secret diaries, Hidden Passions turns back the clock more than twenty years to expose the deepest, darkest secrets of the town‘s most upstanding men and women. Shocking secrets. Sizzling secrets. Shattering secrets. They‘re all here...and more. Enter Harmony, but be very careful if you should encounter a mysterious woman carrying a doll. As she‘s done with Harmony townsfolk for hundreds of years, she may very well look into your heart to see what you truly desire and grant it...for a terribly high price.
Welcome to Harmony...
A dreamy New England Coastal town, filled with cobblestone streets, charming colonial homes ... and tumultuous secrets that threaten to tear its families apart. Only Tabitha Lenox knows the intimate details of all their stories. Most of Harmony thinks Tabitha is a "harmless eccentric." But she‘s really an irrepressible sorceress of darkness who‘s been causing the town cauldrons of trouble even before Prudence Standish accused her of witchcraft in 1693 (and Tabitha certainly hasn‘t forgotten!). Based on her secret diaries, Hidden Passions turns back the clock more than twenty years to expose the deepest, darkest secrets of the town‘s most upstanding men and women. Shocking secrets. Sizzling secrets. Shattering secrets. They‘re all here...and more. Enter Harmony, but be very careful if you should encounter a mysterious woman carrying a doll. As she‘s done with Harmony townsfolk for hundreds of years, she may very well look into your heart to see what you truly desire and grant it...for a terribly high price.
416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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December 27, 2013
I was gifted this book for Christmas, and as you can tell by the "finished" date, I breezed through it.
As a fan of the now-cancelled soap, this book brought back loads of memories for me. It was pretty awesome to see the back stories of all the major couples--minus Theresa and Ethan that is--and how they came to the point they were at when the series began.
I have to say I sobbed when Ivy and Sam ended. As much as I love Sam and Grace together, Ivy and Sam never really had a fighting chance with the way things were in Ivy's family. I'd really like to see the author go back and do an alternate universe version of Sam and Ivy, and of Julian and Eve, how things might have been if Ivy hadn't given in so readily and if Julian had fought harder for Eve and their child.
I would love to have seen more of the Katherine/Alistair/Rachel saga played out--as the storylines here differed greatly from the soap. More of Sheridan and Luis's past lives would've been nice also. Finally, we saw how Grace got to Sam, and how their romance played out, but I was always curious as to who Faith allowed to romance her, and how Charity lost her father.
All in all, it was a great book, well worth the investment. Anyone who was a fan of the soap while it aired should read this, and anyone who is looking to get into the soap (can it be found on youtube?) should definitely read this first.
As a fan of the now-cancelled soap, this book brought back loads of memories for me. It was pretty awesome to see the back stories of all the major couples--minus Theresa and Ethan that is--and how they came to the point they were at when the series began.
I have to say I sobbed when Ivy and Sam ended. As much as I love Sam and Grace together, Ivy and Sam never really had a fighting chance with the way things were in Ivy's family. I'd really like to see the author go back and do an alternate universe version of Sam and Ivy, and of Julian and Eve, how things might have been if Ivy hadn't given in so readily and if Julian had fought harder for Eve and their child.
I would love to have seen more of the Katherine/Alistair/Rachel saga played out--as the storylines here differed greatly from the soap. More of Sheridan and Luis's past lives would've been nice also. Finally, we saw how Grace got to Sam, and how their romance played out, but I was always curious as to who Faith allowed to romance her, and how Charity lost her father.
All in all, it was a great book, well worth the investment. Anyone who was a fan of the soap while it aired should read this, and anyone who is looking to get into the soap (can it be found on youtube?) should definitely read this first.
September 10, 2009
This book is based on the FABULOUS soap opera PASSIONS. It was written back in the day when the soap was actually good. Remember when Tabitha and Timmy ruled the show and hell was in the closet? Ah, memories...
May 11, 2014
If you were a fan of the cancelled soap Passions this is a must read. I was obsessed with the show when it was good and when they book came out I had to read it wasn't disappointed at all. I would say Tabitha should write a sequel but when the show stopped being watchable I stopped watching, and tried to keep up but soon didn't care so really I don't know I would read the sequel as I have not watched the end of the show
November 19, 2011
If you were a fan of Passions, the now canceled soap opera, this book was written to tell the story the show never told. Through Tabitha, you learn about the original main character's early years. I read this 12 years ago and forgot to add it to Goodreads. It's an easy read and fun romp through the town of Harmony. RIP to all my soaps.
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June 11, 2024Hidden Passions
Katherine (Crane) is married to Allister Crane. He was engaged to her sister Racheal who died in a sailing accident. Katherine made a wish and it was granted by a “fairy” (rather a witch named Tabitha). At first, Katherine loved life in Harmony and being the wife of Allister but after she had her daughter Sheridan she become depressed and tired and stayed a prisoner in her castle most of the time. Her husband became more and more distant. She also had a son named Julian Crane. Katherine throughout the story just seems to resent the feelings Allister had for her sister and wish to be her. She wishes she would have had more influence on Julian who she sees is becoming more like his father, She tries to persuade her husband that Julian shouldn’t be pushed into a marriage. She also makes Julian promise to take care of his sister should anything ever happen to her. By the end of the book, her kidney’s fail and the dialysis is to hard on her body. Allister finally as she dies tells her he loves her. Before she heard him tell Julian he didn’t love her when they married, but he tells her that he just told Julian that to manipulate him. She finally gets her “revenge” on her sister but at the end of the book she dies.
Julain (Crane) is a Harvard, playboy and law student. He’s a member of “The Sack Pack” He meets Eve a study singer one night at the Blue Note. She has drinks with him after her set, but turns him down when he tries to get her to go home with him. The next time, tho she accepts his invite to go to “Studio 54” with the promise to possibly get her in with a recording deal and meet some other celebrities. Julian graduates from law school and his father tells him it’s time to settle down. He convinces him to persuade Ivy Winthrope the daughter of a associate of his whom he plans to make a merger with. Because Ivy turned him down at the party and Cranes always get what they want, he decides to pursue her. Ivy agrees to go to the Fourth Ball with him as a friend because it’s been weeks wince she heard from her real boyfriend (love of her life) Sam Benett. Only Eve is invited to the Ball to preform (by Tabitha) . He’s able to smooth his way back into Eve’s good graces and work hiself into a more than friends status with Ivy over time. Eventually he’s told by Allister that he wants him to marry Ivy so he and her father Harrison because Harrison’s shipping business is failing. He gives him permission to have his affairs on the side and he plans to keep Eve as his misters. Only he finds out Eve is pregnant with is child. He ends up marrying Ivy.
Eve (Johnson) Eve is tired of being the “good girl” her parents expect her to be so she’s taken a gig at the “Blue Note” to play the role of the sexy seductive siren. After she meets the rich, charming, (but aggressive) Julian Crane, she lets him turn her out and get her pregnant. After he finds out Julian becomes more and more distant (unknown to Eve Allister is behind this). Eve is arrested after decicind to give up the drugs and return them to her seller and thrown into jail. When she gets out, she decides to straighten up and do right by her baby. Allistor bribes her by paying for her education to pursue medical shool if she’ll have nothing else to do with Julian. But while she’s in the hospital he bribes an orderly to suffocate her child. Only little does she know the orderly has a heart and because it’s Christmas he just takes a dead child that was in another crib and put it in her son’s crib. The living child he puts in someone else’s. After this Eve goes on to be an itern and meets TC who she stitches up when he comes in because of putting his first through a plate, glass, window. She vows she can never tell him about her past with Julian or the drugs. They fall in love and eventually marry.
Ivy Winthrop (Crane) Ivy is a sorority girl (Alpha) at Rutledge College. She’s in love with Sam Benett but keeps it a secret from her sorras because Sam isn’t wealthy. So, she has to sneak out to see him at Sam’s cabin or their special meeting place (their rock on the beach). Ivy’s plan is too complete school in a few years and then her trust fund (which she thinks is worth millions) will be released to her and she and Sam can live off that. Sam doesn’t want anything to do with this and tells her he’s got a summer job working on a fishing boat. She’s been invited to work on the big upcoming Fourth Ball. Before meeting up with Sam this night, Ivy attends Julians graduation party. Julian comes on to strong and this turns Ivy off. After they say their goodbyes that night, three weeks go by and Ivy doesn’t hear from Sam. She doesn’t receive any letters in answer to the ones she’s sent him (They promised to write). So, when Julian invites her to the big Fourth Ball she accepts “as a friend”. That night he surprises her with a favorite (hard to find) drink (rootbeer). He tells her he knows she’s seeing someone and then tells her he just wants a chance. By the time he takes her home she allows him to give her a small kiss.
Because Sam doesn’t seem interested in contacting her., she continues to go out with Julian. She finds a report from someone on Sam’s ship that he’s been dirnking and womanizing and tries to find out what’s happened. Only he doesn’t respond. While on a sailing race with Julian, he tells her he loves her and during another race proposes. Ivy knows she doesn’t want to marry Julian. She’s still in love with Sam but lets herself get pressured into a short engagement by her parents. One night her maid Pillar tells her Sam came by. Ivy rushes to their spot hoping he’ll be there but finds a note wishing her good luck and a mermaid necklace (which she takes to be a wedding present). So she marries Julian.
On her wedding night, she overhears Julian and Allister talking and finds out that her marriage to Julain was a business arrangement. So she rushes to Sam. After finding out he did write her and never did the things in the rport and it was all a set up by her father they make love and plan to marry. Ivy goes to anul the wedding and promises to meet back up with him. Only her father tells her about their failing finances. Allister bribes her with a large sum to her personal account and the promise that she can see whomever she wants discreetly if she’ll stay in the marriage. She plans to keep Sam and still see him but they send her away on a six-month honeymoon to Paris. When she comes back Sam has married a woman named Grace. She’s had a son named Ethan (that’s really Sam’s) and vows to one day get him back and have Ethan take back the land that was taken from Sam’s grandfather by the Cranes.
TC: TC is a friend of Sam’s that has dreams of being the next Arthur Ashe (famous tennis player). It’s his only love and he makes it clear to Sam he doesn’t have room for another Woman. Early in the book, a silver car runs TC off the road and shatters his leg. Years later, we learn that after his accident TC got hooked on drugs and he lost his father. Eve is working as an intern when he comes in from an injury of putting his fist through a glass plate when he sees Julains face announcing he won a tennis match. He’s been taking boxing and teaching it (as therapy for his anger). He’s immediately attracted to Eve and when he comes back to get the sutures out, he asks her out. She turns him down but shows up later at his gym and asks him out for dinner. Eve and TC fall in love. He confesses that he’ll always have this anger inside him and it was because of Julian. After Eve doesn’t tell him he’ll get over it in time and that she understands its something that will never go away (thinking of her own past he proposes and they make love and plan to make children. Eve and TC eventually marry and the wedding is attended by Sam who thinks TC got lucky.
Sam (Benett) After getting sent away on a fishing job for the summer, Sam tries doesn’t get any letters from his girlfriend Ivy. When he calls, he’s told by her father she’s gone out with another guy. He finds out that Ivy went to the ball with Julian in the papers and wants to head home only his ship mate “Blackie” tells him he’ll be throwing away two months of wages. When he does come home he finds Ivy at her bridal shower. Allister tells she’s moved on and is happy. He leaves a note and a present under there rock. He attends Ivy and Julians wedding and tells her “Be Happy”. After she comes crying to him the night of their wedding and listening to her tell him about Julian he realizes that her father was behind them not getting each other’s letters. So, they make passionate love and vow to get married after Ivy sets things straight. Only she doesn’t return., When he goes to the Crane’s he’s told by Pillar that she’s in Paris on her honey moon.
It doesn’t take long for Sam to hear that Ivy gave birth to a son and thinking it’s Julian’s, he leaves Harmoney for a while and becomes a police officer. He comes back only to attend Eve and TC’s wedding. After this one day he rescues a girl from an apartment that has amnesia. He finds out her name is “Grace” -or that’s the only name he can find on a piece of paper and it fits-. He and Grace become close after he offers her a place to stay. Sam finally tells Grace he loves her but thinking of what happened with Ivy he says he couldn’t bear it if he memories returned and she belonged to someone else. She convinces him to step out on faith and thtey end up making love. Eventually they marry and we find out that they think they’ve made a baby. It’s unknown to emthat Ivy is at the wedding they’ve decided to have on the beach.
There’s a bit about Sheridan. Presently she’s just the young daughter of Katherine but when Tabitha touches her she finds out that Sheridan has lived many lifetimes and was once connected to Luis (Pillar’s young son).
Grace, Faith, and Mercy are mentioned. From early in the book, Grace has flashes when Sam is hurt. She doesn’t know him at this point but she’s asked an angel to protect her husband until she’s with him. So, nothing Tabitha’s tried to do to him can harm him. It also can’t harm Grace who she has a history with, When Grace and her sister Faith turn 18, she receives a warning from the angel and her mother that tells her evil is coming. Grace leaves determined to find her own path.
Tabitha (Lenox) Tabitha is a witch with a LONG history in Harmony. Early in the story we find out she has it out for most of the famines because their ancestors put her on trial b(because Grace’s ancestor) said tshe saw her in the woods with a bunch of demons (only one) and they had her burnt. She vowd to come baack and make them all pay. She promised her friends below that she’d kill Grace and her family but she got distracted. In the book (and show) she created a boy from a doll and named it “Timmy” and she has a cat she calls “Fluffy”. She grants many wishes in the story (for her own manipulative purposes and not for the good of the one who makes the wish). She grants The only one she seems to want to help is Sheridan and Luis. She’s the cause of Sheridan having another child, the fire that could have killed Grace, Eve’s invitation to the ball, her parents invitation to the Blue Note and, I think Allister finding out about Eve, to name a few incidents).
My Thoughts
I remember for the longest time this book was sitting on the shelf in my aunt’s old bedroom at my grandparent’s house. It was because of her I’d heard of this INSANE soap opera. I’ve never really been into soaps but this one… After reading this and remembering so many bits and pieces about the show just makes me want to go back and watch it from the beginning. Luckily, I was able to find some of the episodes on You Tube. My aunt was a big-time watcher of the show. I remember there was even a site where you could read fan fiction from other fans of the show. I wanna say there was also a site a long time ago where you *could* watch all the episodes. I really wish that site was still up.
But even tho I wasn’t a constant watcher what I read was enough to bring back what I *did* remember. I remembered Eve and Julian. Something bugged me about their son and I wanna say this was WAAAY before LBGQT that he was a she. I remembered very well Tabitha (and all the trouble she’d cause)a and Timmy. I even kind of remember the cat. I vaguely remember something about Sheridan getting in a car accident at the beginning of the show. It’s only vague bits and pieces because it’s been so long and the show ran for so long. But I enjoyed the *flashes* I got that came with the memories of remembering these characters..
The only thing I didn’t like about Hidden Passions was the end story about Sheridan’s past life with “Luke” and the Revolutionary War. As that was being read, I heard it but at the same time didn’t hear it. It could have in my opinion been skipped because it really didn’t add anything to this already twisty story. It was interesting to me how all these characters seemed to connect themselves to each other at the end of the book in some way.
Rating: 8 It’s always good when when a book makes you want to go back and look at something that’s related and connected to it. That means it is REALLY good!!
Katherine (Crane) is married to Allister Crane. He was engaged to her sister Racheal who died in a sailing accident. Katherine made a wish and it was granted by a “fairy” (rather a witch named Tabitha). At first, Katherine loved life in Harmony and being the wife of Allister but after she had her daughter Sheridan she become depressed and tired and stayed a prisoner in her castle most of the time. Her husband became more and more distant. She also had a son named Julian Crane. Katherine throughout the story just seems to resent the feelings Allister had for her sister and wish to be her. She wishes she would have had more influence on Julian who she sees is becoming more like his father, She tries to persuade her husband that Julian shouldn’t be pushed into a marriage. She also makes Julian promise to take care of his sister should anything ever happen to her. By the end of the book, her kidney’s fail and the dialysis is to hard on her body. Allister finally as she dies tells her he loves her. Before she heard him tell Julian he didn’t love her when they married, but he tells her that he just told Julian that to manipulate him. She finally gets her “revenge” on her sister but at the end of the book she dies.
Julain (Crane) is a Harvard, playboy and law student. He’s a member of “The Sack Pack” He meets Eve a study singer one night at the Blue Note. She has drinks with him after her set, but turns him down when he tries to get her to go home with him. The next time, tho she accepts his invite to go to “Studio 54” with the promise to possibly get her in with a recording deal and meet some other celebrities. Julian graduates from law school and his father tells him it’s time to settle down. He convinces him to persuade Ivy Winthrope the daughter of a associate of his whom he plans to make a merger with. Because Ivy turned him down at the party and Cranes always get what they want, he decides to pursue her. Ivy agrees to go to the Fourth Ball with him as a friend because it’s been weeks wince she heard from her real boyfriend (love of her life) Sam Benett. Only Eve is invited to the Ball to preform (by Tabitha) . He’s able to smooth his way back into Eve’s good graces and work hiself into a more than friends status with Ivy over time. Eventually he’s told by Allister that he wants him to marry Ivy so he and her father Harrison because Harrison’s shipping business is failing. He gives him permission to have his affairs on the side and he plans to keep Eve as his misters. Only he finds out Eve is pregnant with is child. He ends up marrying Ivy.
Eve (Johnson) Eve is tired of being the “good girl” her parents expect her to be so she’s taken a gig at the “Blue Note” to play the role of the sexy seductive siren. After she meets the rich, charming, (but aggressive) Julian Crane, she lets him turn her out and get her pregnant. After he finds out Julian becomes more and more distant (unknown to Eve Allister is behind this). Eve is arrested after decicind to give up the drugs and return them to her seller and thrown into jail. When she gets out, she decides to straighten up and do right by her baby. Allistor bribes her by paying for her education to pursue medical shool if she’ll have nothing else to do with Julian. But while she’s in the hospital he bribes an orderly to suffocate her child. Only little does she know the orderly has a heart and because it’s Christmas he just takes a dead child that was in another crib and put it in her son’s crib. The living child he puts in someone else’s. After this Eve goes on to be an itern and meets TC who she stitches up when he comes in because of putting his first through a plate, glass, window. She vows she can never tell him about her past with Julian or the drugs. They fall in love and eventually marry.
Ivy Winthrop (Crane) Ivy is a sorority girl (Alpha) at Rutledge College. She’s in love with Sam Benett but keeps it a secret from her sorras because Sam isn’t wealthy. So, she has to sneak out to see him at Sam’s cabin or their special meeting place (their rock on the beach). Ivy’s plan is too complete school in a few years and then her trust fund (which she thinks is worth millions) will be released to her and she and Sam can live off that. Sam doesn’t want anything to do with this and tells her he’s got a summer job working on a fishing boat. She’s been invited to work on the big upcoming Fourth Ball. Before meeting up with Sam this night, Ivy attends Julians graduation party. Julian comes on to strong and this turns Ivy off. After they say their goodbyes that night, three weeks go by and Ivy doesn’t hear from Sam. She doesn’t receive any letters in answer to the ones she’s sent him (They promised to write). So, when Julian invites her to the big Fourth Ball she accepts “as a friend”. That night he surprises her with a favorite (hard to find) drink (rootbeer). He tells her he knows she’s seeing someone and then tells her he just wants a chance. By the time he takes her home she allows him to give her a small kiss.
Because Sam doesn’t seem interested in contacting her., she continues to go out with Julian. She finds a report from someone on Sam’s ship that he’s been dirnking and womanizing and tries to find out what’s happened. Only he doesn’t respond. While on a sailing race with Julian, he tells her he loves her and during another race proposes. Ivy knows she doesn’t want to marry Julian. She’s still in love with Sam but lets herself get pressured into a short engagement by her parents. One night her maid Pillar tells her Sam came by. Ivy rushes to their spot hoping he’ll be there but finds a note wishing her good luck and a mermaid necklace (which she takes to be a wedding present). So she marries Julian.
On her wedding night, she overhears Julian and Allister talking and finds out that her marriage to Julain was a business arrangement. So she rushes to Sam. After finding out he did write her and never did the things in the rport and it was all a set up by her father they make love and plan to marry. Ivy goes to anul the wedding and promises to meet back up with him. Only her father tells her about their failing finances. Allister bribes her with a large sum to her personal account and the promise that she can see whomever she wants discreetly if she’ll stay in the marriage. She plans to keep Sam and still see him but they send her away on a six-month honeymoon to Paris. When she comes back Sam has married a woman named Grace. She’s had a son named Ethan (that’s really Sam’s) and vows to one day get him back and have Ethan take back the land that was taken from Sam’s grandfather by the Cranes.
TC: TC is a friend of Sam’s that has dreams of being the next Arthur Ashe (famous tennis player). It’s his only love and he makes it clear to Sam he doesn’t have room for another Woman. Early in the book, a silver car runs TC off the road and shatters his leg. Years later, we learn that after his accident TC got hooked on drugs and he lost his father. Eve is working as an intern when he comes in from an injury of putting his fist through a glass plate when he sees Julains face announcing he won a tennis match. He’s been taking boxing and teaching it (as therapy for his anger). He’s immediately attracted to Eve and when he comes back to get the sutures out, he asks her out. She turns him down but shows up later at his gym and asks him out for dinner. Eve and TC fall in love. He confesses that he’ll always have this anger inside him and it was because of Julian. After Eve doesn’t tell him he’ll get over it in time and that she understands its something that will never go away (thinking of her own past he proposes and they make love and plan to make children. Eve and TC eventually marry and the wedding is attended by Sam who thinks TC got lucky.
Sam (Benett) After getting sent away on a fishing job for the summer, Sam tries doesn’t get any letters from his girlfriend Ivy. When he calls, he’s told by her father she’s gone out with another guy. He finds out that Ivy went to the ball with Julian in the papers and wants to head home only his ship mate “Blackie” tells him he’ll be throwing away two months of wages. When he does come home he finds Ivy at her bridal shower. Allister tells she’s moved on and is happy. He leaves a note and a present under there rock. He attends Ivy and Julians wedding and tells her “Be Happy”. After she comes crying to him the night of their wedding and listening to her tell him about Julian he realizes that her father was behind them not getting each other’s letters. So, they make passionate love and vow to get married after Ivy sets things straight. Only she doesn’t return., When he goes to the Crane’s he’s told by Pillar that she’s in Paris on her honey moon.
It doesn’t take long for Sam to hear that Ivy gave birth to a son and thinking it’s Julian’s, he leaves Harmoney for a while and becomes a police officer. He comes back only to attend Eve and TC’s wedding. After this one day he rescues a girl from an apartment that has amnesia. He finds out her name is “Grace” -or that’s the only name he can find on a piece of paper and it fits-. He and Grace become close after he offers her a place to stay. Sam finally tells Grace he loves her but thinking of what happened with Ivy he says he couldn’t bear it if he memories returned and she belonged to someone else. She convinces him to step out on faith and thtey end up making love. Eventually they marry and we find out that they think they’ve made a baby. It’s unknown to emthat Ivy is at the wedding they’ve decided to have on the beach.
There’s a bit about Sheridan. Presently she’s just the young daughter of Katherine but when Tabitha touches her she finds out that Sheridan has lived many lifetimes and was once connected to Luis (Pillar’s young son).
Grace, Faith, and Mercy are mentioned. From early in the book, Grace has flashes when Sam is hurt. She doesn’t know him at this point but she’s asked an angel to protect her husband until she’s with him. So, nothing Tabitha’s tried to do to him can harm him. It also can’t harm Grace who she has a history with, When Grace and her sister Faith turn 18, she receives a warning from the angel and her mother that tells her evil is coming. Grace leaves determined to find her own path.
Tabitha (Lenox) Tabitha is a witch with a LONG history in Harmony. Early in the story we find out she has it out for most of the famines because their ancestors put her on trial b(because Grace’s ancestor) said tshe saw her in the woods with a bunch of demons (only one) and they had her burnt. She vowd to come baack and make them all pay. She promised her friends below that she’d kill Grace and her family but she got distracted. In the book (and show) she created a boy from a doll and named it “Timmy” and she has a cat she calls “Fluffy”. She grants many wishes in the story (for her own manipulative purposes and not for the good of the one who makes the wish). She grants The only one she seems to want to help is Sheridan and Luis. She’s the cause of Sheridan having another child, the fire that could have killed Grace, Eve’s invitation to the ball, her parents invitation to the Blue Note and, I think Allister finding out about Eve, to name a few incidents).
My Thoughts
I remember for the longest time this book was sitting on the shelf in my aunt’s old bedroom at my grandparent’s house. It was because of her I’d heard of this INSANE soap opera. I’ve never really been into soaps but this one… After reading this and remembering so many bits and pieces about the show just makes me want to go back and watch it from the beginning. Luckily, I was able to find some of the episodes on You Tube. My aunt was a big-time watcher of the show. I remember there was even a site where you could read fan fiction from other fans of the show. I wanna say there was also a site a long time ago where you *could* watch all the episodes. I really wish that site was still up.
But even tho I wasn’t a constant watcher what I read was enough to bring back what I *did* remember. I remembered Eve and Julian. Something bugged me about their son and I wanna say this was WAAAY before LBGQT that he was a she. I remembered very well Tabitha (and all the trouble she’d cause)a and Timmy. I even kind of remember the cat. I vaguely remember something about Sheridan getting in a car accident at the beginning of the show. It’s only vague bits and pieces because it’s been so long and the show ran for so long. But I enjoyed the *flashes* I got that came with the memories of remembering these characters..
The only thing I didn’t like about Hidden Passions was the end story about Sheridan’s past life with “Luke” and the Revolutionary War. As that was being read, I heard it but at the same time didn’t hear it. It could have in my opinion been skipped because it really didn’t add anything to this already twisty story. It was interesting to me how all these characters seemed to connect themselves to each other at the end of the book in some way.
Rating: 8 It’s always good when when a book makes you want to go back and look at something that’s related and connected to it. That means it is REALLY good!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 21, 2023
This was very interesting I've watched passions off and on when it was on the air and now im enjoying the episodes on YouTube so I really wanted to read this book I have always wanted to read this book I really liked it but I didn't love it because of the love scenes they're a little too graphic some of them some of the things in this book are canon and some things are not but it was a very interesting read and anyone who is a fan of passions I highly recommend you read this book
September 3, 2023
ok, goodreads friends, my secret is out.
I watch the soap opera Passions. I am in the middle of season 5 with no end in sight. So I am obviously the intended audience of this book. However, this book is still much better than I was expecting, and there is some revealing back history here if you should ever have the inkling to care about this show.
My main complaint of this book as well as the show is : HETERONORMATIVITY.
I watch the soap opera Passions. I am in the middle of season 5 with no end in sight. So I am obviously the intended audience of this book. However, this book is still much better than I was expecting, and there is some revealing back history here if you should ever have the inkling to care about this show.
My main complaint of this book as well as the show is : HETERONORMATIVITY.
June 18, 2019
Passions! First of all, if you seriously want to like this book, you have to love Tabitha and her imagination (or facts really?!). A great prequel, I guess it helps understand a lot of things which are somehow implicit in the opera. Also, it has a bit of an - America in the 70s flair - and what's not to like about that?
Read only if you loved Passions (at least the first two seasons).
Read only if you loved Passions (at least the first two seasons).
May 22, 2024
Passions was comfort show in my late teens into my 20s and I’m rewatching it now. I have always been team Sam and Ivy, but this book infuriated me after reading it again after 23 years. Ever after all this time, my heart breaks for their missed chance in the book.
June 9, 2025
loved this book. I loved the show passions as a teen watching it on TV, and I'm so happy there's a book about that same soap opera I used to watch as a teen. This book is amazing and I highly recommend it.
January 19, 2019
A must have for fans of the soap opera Passions. This book serves as sort of a prequel to the main characters that make up the bulk of the storylines.
December 10, 2019
If you loved the soap Passions, then this book will tell you the history of the shows characters.
May 6, 2020
I loved Passions.
March 16, 2021
if you loved the soap opera "Passions" you will enjoy this.
February 25, 2022
One book I can read over and over again.
I miss Passions. Best show ever!
I miss Passions. Best show ever!
April 4, 2023
Dishy!
November 9, 2024
I'm currently binge watching Passions so I thought I'd read the book. It was nice getting to know younger versions of the characters, but there wasn't anything I didn't already know.
August 10, 2012
I didn't realize until I started reading it there had been a soap based on the book...the "lasting power" of the show should have been an indicator of the quality of the book. I am finding myself consistantly disappointed by some of the things I've read recently. It's as if my expectations are unrealistically higher than they should be. I'm being underwhelmed.
This has been no exception. The stories of the Cranes, Winthrops, Bennetts, Eve & TC are reasonably well developed but what holds them together, Tabitha, is a little anemic. The character of Timmy is a nothing but "empty calories". There are meaningless threads thrown in that have superficial ties to the main story but found myself asking "What was the point?".
It makes me wonder sometimes a)How much time is being spent on story developement? b)Are these books being cranked out like a puppy mill? c)How quailified are the editors? It makes me appreciate the true gems.
This has been no exception. The stories of the Cranes, Winthrops, Bennetts, Eve & TC are reasonably well developed but what holds them together, Tabitha, is a little anemic. The character of Timmy is a nothing but "empty calories". There are meaningless threads thrown in that have superficial ties to the main story but found myself asking "What was the point?".
It makes me wonder sometimes a)How much time is being spent on story developement? b)Are these books being cranked out like a puppy mill? c)How quailified are the editors? It makes me appreciate the true gems.
June 14, 2007
I don't know if this is still any good, considering how closely tied it was to the storylines on Passions that were current when it was published. I haven't read the newer editions, which have updated stories. The writing is actually not so great, but it's purposely trashy, just as you would expect from a soap opera inspired romance novel.
February 2, 2010
I got this book when it first came out because I was obsessed with the show at the time. It was written by the character, Tabitha, (actually written by Alice Alfonsi) with the forward written by Timmy. The book tells secrets and back stories of the characters of Harmony.
I don't think I would like this book so much if I read it today.
I don't think I would like this book so much if I read it today.
September 15, 2009
This book uncovers the convoluted backstories of the four main families of Harmony, as told by Tabitha. The Julian/Eve affair alone is gold. It's sad to remember how good a show Passions once was. Sigh.
November 29, 2013
I was a huge fan of the soap Passions and even followed it to the 101 when it was cancelled on basic tv. The book was a disappointment to me. While I found what was written to be very good and informative, I was expecting more. However it was still a good book.
July 17, 2014
I haven't read this book since it came out but I came across it unpacking a few forgotten boxes. I remember at the time, I loved it. But since "Passions" has long been cancelled and I don't remember much of that world...I don't want to re-read it and find fault with it.
April 24, 2009
I loved reading the history of all my favorite characters from Passions. I miss that show :)
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March 18, 2011
I really enjoyed this book! I was a huge fan of the show and enjoyed reading abput how it all began! A must read for any Passions fan!
November 1, 2012
I read this in one day-it was predictable but then I really wanted an escape and this book provided it.
August 15, 2011
...impossible to put down to the very last page. i wish tabitha lenox would write a sequel.
February 18, 2012
It was a great book to find out background of the Characters of the soap opera Passions. However, some of the stuff in this book is not jiving with the actual soap now.
Sent to a bookcrosser
Sent to a bookcrosser
February 24, 2013
It was the most adventerous and incredible novel I ever read even though I have watch every episode of Tabitha on the television show "Passions"
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