Forever Amber
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451027177 (0451027175)
Publish date: February 1st 1971
Publisher: Signet
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Epic,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Historical Romance,
Banned Books,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
17th Century
Amber (the character) may be tiresome at times, but I think it's fair to say that the book is compulsively readable.
One of those so-bad-it's-good potboilers. It totally delivered on expectations. A raunchy (for the 1940's) Gone With the Wind.
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I've seen this more than once compared to Gone With the Wind as the epitome of historical romance. I'm afraid I didn't find this compared well, and given the nature of the heroine, aspects of the plot, and that this was written after Gone With the Wind, I couldn't help but feel Forever Amber was hea...
I hated the main character. Hated, hated, hated her. The whole time I was reading I kept waiting for her to learn a valuable life lesson and grow the hell up but she never did. She NEVER did. The only reason I finished the book was because I was praying she got owned in the end and while she did (is...
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