Online Read: An Enduring Love by Jillian Hart

The link to it is messed up on the read for some reason, but here's a good link to that discussion.

Was trying to be helpful, because I think that's what papaya was looking for.

I hate the way his mother is such a snob.  I think I'm going to have to wait until the story has been told entirely to read it, since drips and drops will be torture.

Exactly the same thought I had Papaya!

Waving Dream!

Am I just getting cynical in my old age, or does anyone else think his mother will do something mean because of the ball? I wonder what she has against Lanna, but it's pretty clear she's not so innocently steering Joe away.

 FF, no worries, we're all in this together, trying to help each other out.

Great to see you, Sally and April! How's life?

Definitely agree on the letters. 

You know me, can't sit still if I tried. Tax season is starting, so they're keeping me busy with that. We bought a new house this summer, and we're still unpacking. Kiddos are growing like crazy, but they have a tendency to do that.

School sounds like fun, what are you studying?

This is the first book I've read in serial format! I can't decide if I like it or not. The waiting... the wondering... but think how it prolongs the enjoyment!

Last year when I read A Tale of Two Cities and learned that it was originally published in serial format, I happily envisioned families sitting around of an evening eagerly listening to the book as it was read out loud. Then the commotion in the community during the week as all spectulated on what would happen next to their favorite characters. Well, now I get a little better glimpse of the TORTURE those poor people had to live through waiting for the next installemnt!

I agree the mother is Nasty! How can someone with a nasty mother turn out a gentleman? Perhaps we need to see something of the father to understand. Hmmm...

Do you think she will get to the ball? What will she wear? Hmmm...

Friday? I have to wait until Friday? (sigh)

Blessings,

I'm nice that way. I'll email her and see if I can coax her this way.

For the record, I've decided weeklies are my least favorite online read. You have to wait too long for the next installment. It's killing me, I tell you, killing me! 

I'm with you on the weeklies Dream.  We have to wait to long and I'm not the most patient of people! 

for sucha nearly point in the story.  My heart is hurting.  What will that nasty mother do?

I'm getting the awful feeling that the Mother is going to use the party as a time to announce to everyone the "engagement" as things are going too smoothly right now. 

telling her than she is with telling him.  Now for the BBM, when the nasty mother tries to ruin everything.

This is a great story...it really draws me into it but it frustrates me that I have to wait so long for another chapter. 

I really like how sweet and romantic Joe is turning out to be.  Who wouldn't swoon over his last line??  I think if this were a regular novel I'd be a teary mess...

who would want her for a mother-in-law?

I mean I wouldn't marry the guy even if you paid me a million dollars

so unless Jillian is going to kill off the MIL (and this is LI Historical, not LI Suspense ) I can't buy the HEA

Hugs

Sadhbh 

a couple of b-words alright. I too hope he stands his ground. But since we still have 3 chapters, I think it's not very likely that this will be resolved easily. *sigh*

Great read Jillian. I've read some of your romances and everytime it get's better.  Like everybody else...who would want a MIL like that snoby woman...thou this story reminds me a little of Mother in Law with Jennifer Lopez (movie) thou I know it is not the same context...maybe at the end she'll finish accepting his son's decision.

Now don't take me wrong...but the MIL, in her own twisted way, is doing what she thinks its best for her son.  It is in Joe's hands to let his family know what he really wants in life...

Cheers everyone! Rabel

I guess the dad is just is as much an a-hole as the mother is a witch with a b!  I'm glad Joe stood his ground.

I bet when he get's home they hassle him. Wonder what they are going to do to Lanna. Bet she gets fired from her job!

*sigh*  I really love Joe.  He's a TRUE man.  His father is a jerkwad and I won't even start on his mother.  I think you all have nailed her personality. 

Not wanting to see the black moment, but I guess we need it to get the HEA.  And I REALLY can't wait for the HEA!!!!!

Another brilliant chapter, Jillian!

Thanks for all your kind words.  I'm glad you all are enjoying the story.  I need to apologize for the next chapter.  <g>  It's going to get worse.  I'm sorry!

Jill

As a reader, I love black moments.  As a writer, I would rather avoid them.  <g>

 Jill

Hey Jill,  I expect the "shirt" to hit the fan in the next chapter  and a healing and wrapping up to the HEA in the last chapter.   I like the black moments then the working through it to the HEA

If the author cries while writing it, then it's got to be good!

 Is it tomorrow yet?

I wish Lanna would have a little faith in Joe.  She immediately jumped to the conclusion that he would fall in with his mother, even though she knows his mother is a witch and that Joe is not.  It makes me soooooo frustrated when heroines don't trust the heros that deserve trust!

Well said Fake Frenchie.

She needs to have more faith in him and not buy into his Moms garbage. She fell for it once she shouldn't again.

 I agree Papaya that she should have had backbone.

I wish we could fast foward the week to next friday. This the greatest online read I have read yet. L should at least give Joe a little credit, huh. I mean maybe he had pitty on his face because he was ashamed of his mother. Anyway, I will be hoping and waiting for next week.

May God bless ya'll!!!