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Bittersweet Rain | 
| Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: EBooks
List Price: $6.99
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 10334
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B001D08CO2
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and Rink were teens, he had introduced Caroline to her first tremulous taste of love - and then broke her heart. Now Rink is back. He says he wants to settle his father's estate. But driven by a storm of emotions as undeniable as before and more dangerous than ever, what he really wants is to settle the score with Caroline.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Not Great April 21, 2008
I've only just finished this book yesterday and I've already forgotten much of it. It's just plain unremarkable. There is a villian, the heroine's evil older husband. There are two romances in the story; one of the heroine, and one of the hero's younger, developmentally-disabled sister. The love scenes are trite and although they do not go into graphic detail, there's something vulgar about the language. This novel was written in 1984, and perhaps it read differently then, but I found the dialogue and descriptions during love scenes a bit smarmy. It's not terrible, but there's not much to enjoy either.
 An "Oldie" but still a "Goodie"! April 17, 2008
I read this book a long time ago, but recently revisited it.
We have to remember that "Bittersweet Rain" was first published in 1984 under the name of Erin St. Claire, so the writing and style reflects Sandra's writing of that time period.
It is a straight-up romance, and a very good one.
Caroline Dawson, the daughter of the town drunk, has always dreamed of living in a house like The Retreat, where the Lancasters live.
She is also "smitten" with Rink Lancaster, but although he could meet her secretly during their magical summer, she knew he'd never want to be with her in public.
She realizes her goal of living at The Retreat... but is it worth losing the only man she's ever loved?
 Not very convinving May 12, 2007
Characters didn't seem real and the sex invoved is too much like her other novels. Seems formulaic.
Very Good Story! October 26, 2006
I am always looking for stories that have a bit of a twist and this one does.Good character and plot development. I enjoyed reading it.
How is mauling a woman romantic? August 30, 2006
I could accept the premise of star-crossed lovers seperated, only to be brought back together by unhappy circumstance. Even if the circumstance was the marriage of the heroine to the hero's father. Okay, so the father was evil was orchestrated everything. He was cruel and used the heroine, verbally abusing her as well as being physically rough with her.
So how is the son different from the father? When he gets angry with her (which is most of the time), he grabs her, mauls her, tells her she's trash, while she fights to get away from him. How is it we're supposed to believe she loves him? Their summer romance was when she was 15, and this is some 12 years later. He certainly doesn't rekindle any romantic feelings by being kind.
The sex scenes are embarassing with their euphemisms and overall lameness.
The book wasn't a horrible premise. It was just horribly done. A hero should be likeable and it should be obvious why the heroine wants to be with him.
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