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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