| Title | : | The Dreamer, Her Angel and the Stars |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 |
| Publication | : | First published May 15, 2011 |
Twenty-five year old Ariel Thorsen is content with her life. She has a job as a physics professor at a local college, a loving family, and a beautiful girlfriend. She is unaware Kiernan O'Shay has chosen her to fill the role of wife, and mother of Kiernan's heir.
Kiernan offers Ariel and her family monetary wealth if Ariel will agree to marry her. Ariel refuses until a tragic event forces her to accept Kiernan's offer. What starts out as a business arrangement turns into more for Kiernan. However, Ariel resents Kiernan, believing she was behind the tragic event that forced her into this marriage.
Can Kiernan win Ariel's love?
The Dreamer, Her Angel and the Stars Reviews
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Wonderful!
This book was so well written I would never have guessed it was a debut novel.
Ariel is caught between a rock and ahard place, her only way out is through an agreement with the powerful Kiernan O Shay. The pair overcome betrayal and more in their quest to find themselves and each other.
I really, really enjoyed this story. It was very well written and had all the trauma and drama that is essential for a classic romance tale. The love scenes were very spicy and oh so good! There were several scenes that had my on the edge of my seat, as I anxiously awated the fate of our heros. It was definatly not a book I wanted to put down!
A perfect 10 for Ms. North, Thank you! -
4.5 stars. Linda S. North has quickly become one of my favorite authors. This is another story in which I felt emotionally involved. There were times I wanted to reach through the pages and throttle the characters and not because they were annoying. I just felt that invested in them I didn't want to see them making the mistakes they were. I've thought about how I wanted to write this review and decided I didn't want to give anything away because I would have been disappointed to know anything ahead of time. Assumptions I made based off of the blurb were wrong and I was happy to have those surprises, whether they made me happy or angry. If you've read this author's other books and enjoyed them, give this one a whirl. The future Earth portrayed seems believable to me but is a second to the love story.
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The first quarter of the book was promising but the rest of the book made no sense. As far as Arial knew, Kieran had framed her mother and threatened to send her to prison and impose a fine on the family that they could never pay, so she could make Arial marry her. Just a few weeks into the marriage she threatens to dump her and send her Mother to prison if she doesn’t do as she is told.
How does Arial react to this?
She goes on a date with Kieran and has sex with her! Then everything is ‘Sweetness and Light’ between them and Arial has forgotten what a ruthless conniving bitch she is! How can she forget this women was willing to sacrifice her family!
I found some of the reviews of this book very strange, it seems that readers think Arial should make the best of the marriage and give Kieran a chance. WHY? It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t Kieran who instigated the conspiracy against Arial and her Family, as far as Arial knew her choices were simply allow her Mother to be imprisoned and her family split up and put into lifetime debt or marry Kieran. She was in effect forced into a marriage.
Even though everything works out in the end I was still not happy with the author, for example near the end of the book Kieran is surprised Arial is still willing to give the marriage a try,
Kieran says: “After being bullied into this marriage and bullied by my threats?”
Arials reply is: “Bullied? You offered me a business proposition and I accepted,”
Is this what the author really thinks happened? -
All in all it was a very nice read once the romance began to take shape. Reason to round up the 3.5 stars to 4. -
Arranged marriages are a staple of straight romance, but for obvious reasons, they’re rare in lesbian romance. So, since this book features an arranged lesbian marriage, I was instantly intrigued. Usually, you marry someone you love, right? You meet, go through dating and maybe you live together and get a pet. You discuss kids. THEN comes the wedding.
Ariel and Kiernan do it backward except they meet first. As is usual in many love affairs, the feelings are deeper on one side at first (Kiernan’s side in this instance). Ariel resents having to marry Kiernan, but eventually she comes to realize that while the marriage was arranged, she did have a choice in the matter. She chose to marry Kiernan, and it’s up to Ariel to decide how she reacts. She can continue pouting or make the best of it.
She decides to make the best of it—and not a moment too soon.
This book is an interesting break from traditional lesbian romance and well worth picking up for that reason alone. Kiernan is a believable LIPS (Lesbian in a Power Suit).
This book has no forced intercourse and no Stockholm syndrome, as a couple of reviews indicate.
I felt a few scenes were too long and/or unnecessary, but overall, a solid debut novel. I’d definitely read Linda S. North again. -
I'm guessing it was because of the wording but I read the characters voices in a british accent! But anyway, I loved this book, one of the most different I've read so far, especially the storyline. The characters were awesome as well, I personally adore intelligent Women, fiction or otherwise. I had trouble putting it down because I was so eager to see how Kiernan got past Ariel's animosity, it seemed impossible...at first and I loved the turnout (sigh). Ariel got extra deep towards the end it was ummmm...yeah...deep. I was interested in how the children were born? They were so sure they were having daughters and nothing was said about sperm donors only that their own dna would be put into an ovum or something... So because it was only their dna and Women don't carry the y gene to produce a boy I assumed that's why they were so confident they would have a daughter, which they did. I liked that little tidbit a lot, wouldn't mind of it were really possible actually! A book with a happy ending that leaves me floating on a cloud is always perfect for me. This was one of them.
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If you are a Janeway/Seven of Nine fan this book is for you. If you love sci-fi this book is for you, if you love romance definitely this book is for you. You get my drift.
It's 2098 and Kiernan O'Shay's dream to build spaceships is thwarted by the stipulation in her grandmother's will that she marry and produce an heir by 40. Desperate, her eye falls on attractive physics professor Ariel who has a girlfriend & a happy life. But a family crisis for Ariel results in a marriage of convenience - or can it turn into love?
This book is refreshing so different from the hackneyed wounded, anguished leads of current lesbian lit. It's long on plot and character,with plenty of romance and smoking hot love scenes that are well, (don't want to give anything away), definitely unearthly.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially as I'd been in a reading slump, bored by the sameness of the current crop of lesbian books.Dear Ms. North please write some more! -
A lot of the time when I encounter with a premise like this it is often poorly executed, so I was holding my breath when I started reading it. Of course I was pleasantly surprised that the writing is not at all juvenile - which is often the case with these cheesy premises.
The drama, the angst was well plot out. Though toward the end it became trite but is forgivable since it is nearing the end. I do wish that it was longer so that the author could have expanded more on developing the relationship between Kiernan and Ariel.
Anyway, this is a well written lesbian soap opera/telenovela book so if that is not your thing you better stay away from it. It just so happen that I am a sucker for such things hence I love it! -
Don't know why I kept on reading even though as time went by the book became more and more shallow, predictable and most of all, so "straight" (I got the exact same feeling as my old days reading some popular, cheap hetero romances with obnoxious rich guys and persistent poor girls).
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See review on newer edition -
Good read.
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Where can I read this? I can't get it on Kindle.