Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780373293605
ISBN number: 0373293607
Label: Harlequin
Manufacturer: Harlequin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: July 01, 2005
Publishing house: Harlequin
Sale Popularity Level: 414474
Studio: Harlequin
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This is the very first book I've read from Cheryl St. John, and it has left me wanting to read more of her books. I thought she did an excellent job of engaging me in a tender and beautiful love story. Kate had married Levi Cutter, but after a couple of weeks, he told her he needed to find a good job and would come back for her. After five months of his absence, his brother, Noah shows up to tell her that Levi was shot. Kate soon realizes that Levi had no intention of coming back to her since he was off sleeping around with other women, so she doesn't hold onto any sentimental feelings for him.
When Noah witnesses Kate's mother talking down to her, he offers to take Kate to his ranch where he can provide for her and her unborn child. She accepts and off they go. I loved the fact that she was a chatterbox and he was silent. She was beautiful and he hides his face under long hair, a beard and a hat because of an accident that left him scarred. It reminded me of the movie "Beauty and the Beast". Noah has a good heart and does what he can to make things easy for her, which in turn, makes her feel useless and she begins to think he is only interested in his unborn nephew or niece rather than her.
Getting to know what both characters are thinking made me understand that he did care for her and this caring developed into love overtime. Afraid of losing her and her unborn child because of his step-mother's suggestion that Kate will find a man to marry, Noah proposes marriage. Considering that it will secure her and the baby's future, she agrees. Even from the moment they marry, it's apparent they care more for each other than the other one thinks. Noah's never been with a woman, which I found refreshing because of the many romances that do not have virgin heroes.
Since they aren't communicating what they really think, they assume what the other one is thinking. Noah fears that she feels obligated to be with him because he's providing for her. Kate fears that he is only doing his duty to her for the sake of the baby. This is a great book with two major themes: it's not the outward appearance that makes a person lovely and what we assume someone else is thinking can be wrong. I highly recommend this and will read more books by this author.
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After her husband leaves her and never returns, Katie Cutter has tucked her dreams away. She has lost all hope of having a family of her own. Every day washing clothes at the local laundry house makes her bitter and resentful at this abandonment as he has left her pregnant and alone.
A stranger appears at her mother's doorstep informing her that he is Noah Cutter, her brother in law - and that her husband has been killed. He offers her to come with him and Katie jumps at the opportunity to leave Boulder CO and start her life away from her mother's constant harping and meanness.
Noah offers to bring Katherine to his ranch. Although he has no use for women and has been around very few, he feels obligated to give his brother's widow and unborn child a home and sanctuary.
Katherine is a pretty little thing and as chatty as a magpie. She is outspoken and honest - always saying what is on her mind. He is a shadowed man, who speaks little and feels even less. His scars run deep - physically and emotionally so he has learned to avoid people and their censure.
St. John's marvelous storyline and character development in this book is sensational. It is a tender and sweet tribute of two people that find their need and love for each other. This was a great book - the love scenes where tender and the story lovely. Enjoy.
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I find it beneficial to reconsider a book before reviewing it.
Sometimes the mood I am in at the time of reading colors my perception of the story.
Noah Cutter was scarred inside and out. His perceptions of others reactions were colored by the treatment he received after his injury. [I find that our perceptions of others are never accurate.]
Katherine Cutter was pregnant and no longer hopeful of having a better life, especially for her child. On her mother: [You fast loose your emotional connections to someone who keeps putting you down.]
Noah loved his brother, yet still knew him in reality. His brother, Levi was not one to acknowledge responsibility.
Was it really the child he wanted to protect or the young woman he brother had claimed in marriage?
Noah found it easier to take Kate into his home as she didn't seem to find him different or repulsive. Her acceptance went a long way to changing his life.
Kate was finding it hard to live with Noah, as he kept telling her she didn't have to do anything. How would she spend her time? She was used to working.
This is a tender romance with a lot of changes to live through and misunderstandings to clear up. MaMa Cutter had definitely developed into a person with class distinctions as a rule to live by. [I would like to know where her income came from?]
A nice change of pace with some past history to clear up and an entertaining read.
Definitely Recommend - Again - Try it you may like it!
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There's just something not "there" about this romance. Despite all the good things about this book, something is lacking.
The basic plot is tightly written & a good one: Katherine (Kate), abandoned by her husband, who married her basically because he wanted sex with her & she wasn't offering it without marriage, is taken into her brother-in-law Noah's home after the husband is killed in a brawl. Noah is outwardly scarred from a terrible accident involving barbed wire, when he was a young teenager, and inwardly scarred due to his cold upbringing by his stepmonster (not a typo). Kate is due to have her husband's baby in a few months. Yet they gradually feel attracted to each other and eventually marry, falling in love with each other as they learn about each other.
The writing is all right; the romance is warm & heartfelt, developing slowly (which I like), and the characters are believably motivated. Noah and Katherine have depth, and I really appreciate Kate's determination to make a go of her new life & her hope for deeper love with Noah. And yet, somehow the book is not a keeper. Maybe it's because the writing is just "all right", that I'm not feeling it. Some of the writer's writing is a little abrupt, a little flat, perhaps.
It's a good book, even a very good book, but even though it touched all the bases, I feel disappointment with it. Odd, isn't it, how one person's hit is another's miss?
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I have liked some of Cheryl St. John's earlier books, but this one just missed, for some reason. The characters were inconsistent and not very well fleshed out. Noah's step-mother is supposed to be a woman from hell, who viciously made his life unbearable when he was a kid, but instead, she pretty much is portrayed as a snob. Katherine's mother is supposed to be abusive and oppressive, but instead, she just appears to be someone who denigrates her daughter, telling her "I told you so." Katherine's desire to leave her totally seems unwarrented. Noah is so silent much of the time and his thoughts are not told as much as I would have liked. I found myself skipping whole paragraphs that repeated--one again--the same thoughts. Much of the conflict in this novel is both h/h assuming that they know what the other is thinking, and, of course, each is wrong. I found myself impatient with both h and h. Katherine especially acted pretty stupidly in one time expecially. This novel needed to be sharper with more consisent characterization. The plot premise itself is intriguing, but it lacks depth. Instead of being shown characterization, we are told it. Reading this book is like eating Wonder bread when you crave a good, crusty roll with sharp cheese. It needed another--at least one--draft.
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