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Blue Skies | 
 enlarge | Author: Catherine Anderson
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 217972
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0451210751
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451210753
ASIN: 0451210751
Publication Date: January 2004
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Known for her amazing talent, the New York Times bestselling author of Only by Your Touch and Always in My Heart delivers an extraordinary new tale of two people who, in the most unexpected of circumstances, discover the healing power of love...
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 JUST AS YOU SAID "LIKE NEW" October 5, 2008
I would buy from this company again. The book was second hand but looked brand new and still in it's shrink wrap. It came quickly and without any problems. I would buy from this company again
Sincerely Audrey Mayes
 A Disappointing Read April 23, 2008
Blue Skies is a dime a dozen, cliche modern-day cowboy/rancher romance with an innocent ignorant heroine and a hunky chauvinistic womanizer hero. The dialogue is corny and clumsy. The characters are superficial and underdeveloped. The plot has been done before. Pickup at a bar, one night stand. Pregnancy. Hero does the honorable thing--marries the heroine temporarily just until the baby is born, blah, blah blah. So what. Secondary characters introduced so that you'll supposedly be compelled to buy the other Coulter saga's--if you have to , use the library instead.
And the medical diagnosis for the blindess is written like a clinical college lecture--too forced for me.
I've read other Catherine Anderson novels that I thought were a lot more entertaining than this one. Definitely not worthy of the overall 4-star rating.
Heartwarming, pacient love story....... March 20, 2008
I really loved this story! I loved the way Hank was apologetic and did his best 100% of the time to make up for his mistake. I read the other reviews and some were against the story because of her attitude toward him, BUT I thought she was in her right to feel the way she felt towards him. She had a rough time in her past with men, and let's not forget the way Hank met Carly. The day he met her at a bar it was her first time at a bar as a spectator, so of course she was swept off by Hanks good looks and charm. As soon as he realized she had no experience he regretted it, and I loved Hank for that, but Carly didn't know this so that explained her defensive behavior through out the story.I have to admit I couldnt put this book down until I finished reading it at 3am;I cried and went to sleep happily! Highly recommended!
Writes well but no cigar..... January 25, 2008
Catherine Anderson can construct a sentence with the best of them but her characters--her heroines especially--are so unsatisfactory that it's hard to identify with them. Even when she tries to give them human foibles, she can't really commit. When Carly, the 28-year old blind from birth virgin who throws caution to the wind one night and has unprotected sex with a stranger in a pickup truck, finally admits that her resulting pregnancy is at least partly her fault, you get the idea that Anderson herself doesn't really believe it. The fault is clearly Hank's, for he is the one Anderson makes pay. He willingly gives up many things to "do right" by Carly, who is nauseatingly Pollyanna-ish one moment and self-sacrificing the next, hurting both herself and Hank, and apparently giving little thought to her unborn child. Anderson pushed sympathy for Carly so hard that I could not help rebelling. I liked Hank marginally better but by the end, I was tired of them both. Added to this is Anderson's tendency to tell far more than we either need or want to know about her particular hobby horse--her heroine's disability. The research shows and it gets tiresome.
Anderson seems to want to teach, preach and play social worker, all while writing a romance novel. Writing well can't overcome this uncomfortable mix, at least for me. If she wants to write about heroes and heroines overcoming disabilities--and clearly she does since most of her books are in this vein--she should take a look at how Laura Kinsale did it, with humor, understanding, compassion, and a satisfying resolution. Otherwise, I'll take my romance straight, thank you, without the pathos.
Annoying Characters January 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm probably in the minority here but the main characters were downright annoying. I would feel badly for anyone losing their sight and the problems it would incur but Carly is just too annoying for me to feel a lot of sympathy. She's so independent she isn't going to let anyone help her. There is just so much a blind person can do on their own without help. Then Hank is blamed for everything. Carly was responsible for her actions as much as Hank. At least he tried to own up to his resposibility and take care of Carly in any way he could. Nothing he does is right and even after he falls in love with her, Carly still is unkind to him. Even when she goes home to her father she lets him believe Hank is at fault. IT was her choice to run away. Some reviewers talked about crying and I kept looking for something to cry about. Never did find it. I have read other Catherine Anderson books I enjoyed but this one was just irritating. Hank's character was more likable than Carly's at least after the first few chapters, but still not up to the other Coulters or Kendricks.
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