Always to Remember
by Lorraine Heath
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Author: Lorraine HeathEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 1998-08
ISBN: 0786215208
Number of pages: 466
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Book Review: Overdone Melodrama
Summary: 1 Stars
Expected a warm, sweet, romance sent in post-Civil War Texas. Instead got a melodramatic, soppy soap opera with every character either so bad or so good that they ended up as stereotypes of the people they were supposed to be. I was so, so disappointed. I mostly like Lorraine Heath's novels and this got such excellent reviews that I was really expecting a star. I can respect that the hero, Clay, is a conscientous objector and put up with lots of abuse because of his unpopular stance but when the abuse just keeps going on & on & on without his responding until the very end of the book, he slid from a brave loner to a wimply doormat in my estimation. Meg is impenetrable to me--she hates Clay because he "betrayed" his best friend (her husband) and plans to torture him by hiring him to carve a monument to the fallen soldiers. If he's as low as she thinks he is, what noble impulse is going to move him to carve this monument? Of course, by the end of the book, everyone realized how brave Clay really is & sort of forgives him, but he & Meg still leave the town & move on--this makes absolutely no sense. Meg doesn't have any reason to love Clay, other than the author decides it's time for some warm fuzzies. Meg is able to sneak out of her house at any hour of the night or day for hours at a time and no one ever catches her or sees her at Clay's farm--yeah, right. I've lived in small, rural towns & the places are nice but full of gossip and watching eyes. And all the good deeds heaped on Clay eventually make you want to gag--he buried all his friends with his own hands after the Battle of Gettysburg, the prayer he gave right before his execution convinced all the soldiers not to shoot at him, he works in a hosptital after he's released from prison, he puts up with endless cruel abuse from everyone except his younger brothers, he volunteers to make this huge monument for free with no thought for the time it will take away from his farm, he starves himself so his family can eat, he stays up for two nights in a row to protect Meg from NOTHING during their trip to get the stone for the monument, he saves a little girl from getting run over by a wagon by throwing his body over her, etc. Meg's brother & father are over-the-top in their hatred of Clay. I was just so tired of this story by the time I finished it, but I kept on reading it in hopes it would come through & get better. What a disappointment.
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