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Another Chance to Dream
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Lynn Kurland
- Publisher: Berkley
- Release Date: December 1998
- ISBN-10: 0425165140
- ISBN-13: 9780425165140
- List Price: $7.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryHeiress Gwennelyn of Segrave falls in love with landless knight Rhys de Piaget when she is a child of 10 and he's only 14. Unfortunately, her father has already betrothed her to Alain of Ayre, the spoiled, mean-natured son of a neighbor. Nevertheless, Gwen is determined and once she learns that Rhys loves her in return, she refuses to bend to Alain's will. All seems lost when Alain forces Gwen into marriage but despite the obstacles thrown in their way, Rhys and Gwen's love and commitment holds firm. The path of true love is strewn with seemingly impossible setbacks as the two lovers struggle to find a way to be together. In the end, Rhys and Gwen must risk everything they hold dear in a final attempt to claim a love forbidden by king and church. Another Chance to Dream mixes humor with pathos and English medieval grit with gallantry in a charming historical tale of a love to last a lifetime. --Lois Faye Dyer |
Customer Reviews
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Another Chance to Dream
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This book was a delightful way to spend the afternoon, much better than the movies. The story was heart wrenchingly touching. It was not like other books where you know pretty much where the story is going and you just go along for the ride. This book produced twists and turns that I was not expecting. Deffinatly a must read for Lynn Kurland fans. Bravo for Ms. Kurland, who knows how to create a good love story with passion and desire, while at the same time keeping it suprisingly clean.
Slowly told romance, average historical
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A great deal of this romance was very well written (the beginning few chapters were exceptional), but in the long run, I found it simply tedious. The plot could have moved along much more quickly and with a great deal more action. There was a great deal of "mooning" between Rhys and Gwen, and a lot of "thinking" and "talking", with precious little actual "doing". There was way too much "rolling of the eyes", which had me rolling MY eyes by the end of the book. It was simply annoying. One more "roll" and the book would have met the wall. For the most part, the author avoided any majoy historical missteps by keeping the historical background sufficiently vague to duck major criticisim. However, she did make a major stumble in referring to Eleanor of Aquitaine's divorce from King Philip of France, when Eleanor was actually married to and divorced from Philip's father, Louis. An inexcusable flub.
Bottom line: Another Chance to Dream is definitely more romance than historical. If you're looking strictly for the former, the book was okay. If you're looking for a read including any actual historical "meat" on the bones, look somewhere else.
The best Kurland Book, I think...
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I loved this story of Rhys and Gwen. I actually read This is All I Ask (Chistopher and Gillian) first, which had Robin as one of the characters. Then I read If I Had You (Robin and Anne) which had Rhys and Gwen. Rhys and Gwen's love story was the best one yet, as it started out when they were 14 and 9 and continued until they finally had their happily ever after, of course after all the travails, etc. I loved that Rhys waited for Gwen practically his whole life. I really like Lynn Kurland's stories intertwining all over the place. I want to see a story on Nicholas and Amanda - do they end up with each other (they're not blood related after all)????
Emotional but Great
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Another Chance to Dream is the first in Lynn Kurland's series about the de Piaget family. This is the story of Rhys de Piaget a knight in the army of the Ayre family and Gwennelyn of Segrave, the young lady that Alain of Ayre is betrothed to as children. When Rhys and Gwennelyn first meet in their youth they fall instantly in love and Rhys vows he will win land and monies enough to claim Gwen for himself. He leaves determined to be back in time to stop the wedding of Gwen and Alain. When Gwen and Alain's parents die, Alain's evil brother Rollan convinces him to move up the wedding so that he can take over Gwen's dower properties early. Rhys and Gwen hope to escape but are unable to get away, Gwen sneaks into Rhys room and gives him her virginity on the eve of her wedding. She knows Alain can be cruel so she vows he may force her into marriage but her heart will belong to Rhys. Rhys is blackmailed by Alain to remain as Gwen's guard on the basis that at the end of 2 years he will give him his own keep and property. After the two years are up, Alain goes back on his word and refuses to give him the land. Rhys leaves vowing to raise money to win back his land, bribe the king into giving Gwen a divorce and to take Gwen and her young son Robin as his own. Gwen flees to her mother's keep to wait for Rhys, but Alain visits there and leaves her pregnant with daughter Amanda. Rhys is delayed but eventually returns and together he and Gwen fight to be together. During all this time, Alain's brother Rollan plots to kill Alain and Rhys and take Gwen and all the property for himself. Eventually all works out and after many heartbreaks the two wind up together.
Lynn Kurland delivers some of the best developed characters of any author out there. At the end of her stories, you are intimately aware of what makes each character think and act as they do. She does not ever write explicit love scenes and mostly leaves the sex to your imagination. I have never been bored with any of her books and the characters are always perfectly delightful, humorous and real.
This was a great, fun read!
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I really dislike reading all of the "a reader" reviews on Amazon. Who are these people? This was a great book that I really enjoyed! Great lead & secondary characters the whole way through!
This was a fun read that held my attention without all of the graphic sex (that I am getting really tired of).
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