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The acclaimed author of Firefly Beach and other New York Times bestsellers, Luanne Rice explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life’s unexpected second chances. Now, returning once more to the Connecticut beach town at the center of many of her most beloved novels, she touches our hearts with a spellbinding story of a love lost--and saved--by the power of what was always meant to be . . .
True Blue
Schoolteacher Rumer Larkin never felt the need to stray from Hubbard’s Point. Rich with legends of seafaring spirits and lost treasures, the rustic village still echoes with the memories of Rumer’s past--even after those she loved have left. But now, so many summers after Zeb Mayhew broke her heart, he has returned with his teenage son, and Rumer knows her quiet life will never be the same again.
Zeb has come back to hoping to reconnect with his son, with the past and all its mistakes. Suddenly facing Rumer again, Zeb discovers where he belongs. He could never forget the girl who used to climb onto his roof with him to watch the stars. But neither Zeb nor Rumer knows if it’s too late to do more than regret the path not taken--or if every path leads us back to the one true love of our life . . .
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsHooray for Luanne Rice!!31 July 2002
By Laura Dawson - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When Luanne Rice is on the familiar territory of the shore she so obviously adores or stories of the fierce love of family, no one can beat her. She continues to weave together characters from previous novels, including(but not limited to!)Firefly Beach and Safe Harbor. Zeb and Rumer, best of friends as children and in love/almost lovers as young adults; until Rumer's beautiful older sister came between them. Twenty years later, the now divorced Zeb returns home, and....... a great story commences! Luanne Rice has a gift when it comes to writing about the love between families, and no one writes a more grounded love story than she. Bittersweet and true; I can only hope that she returns again and again to these shores and the people who live there. I can't believe they let this one out as a paperback! ;)
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 starsBe Ready to Suspend Your Disbelief13 Aug 2002
By Carolyn Bright - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you've read the book description and reader reviews, you already know the basic plot of the story: boy (Zeb) loves girl (Rumer), girl loses boy to sister (Elizabeth), girl and boy rediscover each other, even though boy has a troubled 15 year old son (Michael) with girl's sister who is his ex-wife. I'm sorry but I just couldn't get past the many requirements for me to suspend my disbelief to really enjoy this book. If you grew up in a halfway normal family, you may have the same issue.
First, you have to believe that Rumer and Zeb would entertain the thought of getting back together after Zeb's divorce to Rumer's sister, Elizabeth. Next you have to believe that the girls' father would welcome the man who destroyed the sisters' relationship back to town with an open invitation to go after Rumer. Is is just my dad who would have greeted him with a shotgun? Then you have to believe that Rumer hasn't met any other eligible men worthy of her love in all the years that her sister was married to Zeb. You also must believe that even though Rumer's and Zeb's love was so strong that it could overcome the quasi-incestuous (queasy incestuous for me) implications of the plot, it wasn't strong enough to overcome the flimsy obstacle that Elizabeth concocted to break them up in the first place. I won't give it away, but it is a misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with a phone call. Since Rumer and Zeb are next door neighbors, they could just have easily have discussed the issue in person. Finally, you have to believe that even though Elizabeth is a famous and talented actress, she is also a borderline psychotic sociopath (okay, maybe that's not such a stretch).
I've deducted a star from the rating because I would expect to see this family on the Jerry Springer show, not in the pages of a sweet contemporary romance. Maybe it's just my six sisters and I who look at each other's husbands and boyfriends as brothers, with all the social boundaries that the relationship implies. I think Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen sang it best: "Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister, and Lord help the sister that comes between me and my man!"
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsGood, but with some oddities too20 Aug 2002
By Vicki Hughes - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I picked up the paperback a couple weeks ago, and noticed the cover states "First Time In Print" and I wondered about why the book may have skipped the hardcover stage. As a fan of LuAnne Rice's work I found the story easy to fall into,and the characters interesting, but the wackiness on pages 98-99 threw me. One moment a character is called Michael, and the next moment he's called Colin. Then suddenly he's Michael again. I kept going back over it to see if someone else had come on the scene or not!? Apparently one advantage of printing a hardback prior to going paperback is more thorough editing?! Strangely, the amazon description also describes the main character as "Schoolteacher, Rumer Larkin", who is in fact not a teacher at all, but a veterinarian.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying the story isn't good, but if I was LuAnne Rice I'd be wondering what my agent and editors were doing.
If you've read any of Luanne Rice's other books, you will enjoy the references to other characters, and feel like you are among family once again. Read True Blue, and enjoy a nice summer read, but be willing to overlook some stuff.
