Header Promotion175. Georgia Bockoven ~ If I'd Never Known Your Love ~ HEL #5 (Apr 2007)
Reviewed by kalyko on June 14th, 2008, 11:46pm
Format: Print Books
Series: Harlequin Everlasting Love
I have literally been looking for this book for a year or so. I read someone's review last year ~ a common refrain, ne? ~ and was immediately wanting to find it; it just sounded so wonderful. Thanks to Christa, I was able to borrow her copy and finally, finally have a chance to read this story and Oh. My. God. It was amazing! When I first started it I was reading a bit at a time because it was so intense, but as I got a little further in, I was extremely loathe to put the book down. Indeed, I read this book with the avidity normally reserved for the BDB.
Honestly, if you've not read this book before, hunt it down. It has joined the ranks of beyond outstanding books that I've read this year. Beautiful, beautiful, even when the pain Julia undergoes, there is such a spirit of... something ~ something that makes this a story that I will NOT soon forget ~ if ever I do.
EXTREMELY AND UTTERLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!
RATING:
Excellence: OUTSTANDING and More ~ 5.0++ stars
Steaminess: Romantic
BOOK READ:
Georgia Bockoven; If I'd Never Known Your Love; HEL #5; April 2007
FROM the BACK:
"I'm going to miss you. Every minute of every hour..."
With those words, Julia's husband stepped into his taxi and was gone. Evan McDonald, Julia's lifeline ~ and the doting father of her two beautiful children. From the moments she'd first spotted him in high school so many years before, Julia had known they'd always be together.
Now... Evan's business trip to Colombia becomes deadly when he's kidnapped, and Julia is thrown into a tailspin of horror...and waiting.
For five tortured years Julia does whatever it takes to bring Evan home. Despite her grief and rage at losing the man she loves, she vows to keep struggling. Until she receives a call that shatters her hopes of Evan's return. But then...
Books read in June: 14
Har / Sil ~ 11
Others ~ 3
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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
~ Confucius
Hey Kalyko!
I am pretty sure this one was one my top ten list last year. I loved the book, and it felt very real to me. It may have been my first LE that I read...
So glad you were able to get your hands on a copy!
Take Care,
Tammy
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"...Anna Quindlen
nervous
so glad the book lived up to your expectations. I think this was in my top ten. I think one of my other favourite EL's was The Marriage Bed. I find with the intenseness of this line I can only read it in small doses
Christa ~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008-2009 Challenge Blog
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If I'd Never Known Your Love...
This was a fabulous story and my efforts to obtain my own copy are now going to be redoubled... wow!
Tammy, this one will definitely be in my top ten; even from the review from last year, I was pretty confident that this would be "one of those stories"... one of the ones that sticks with you for a very long, long time... and I was right!
Christa, I'm so glad that I did get to read it; it was everything, and more, than I had thought. So nice when that happens. I'll also be getting your loaners back to you this week... once I got started reading them it took me next to no time at all... I just needed a kick start.
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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
~ Confucius
great blog. This was the
great blog. This was the first EL I read and I loved it. Great blog on it. You make me want to reread it!
“’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you so much...
Merri. When I do find my own copy of this book it will definitely be a once-a-year read ~ at the least. What a fabulous, fabulous story!
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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
~ Confucius