Finding Home: Duncan' Bride / Chain Lightning / Popcorn and Kisses

By Linda Howard, Elizabeth Lowell, Kasey Michaels

Book Overview

Finding Home by Linda Howard\Elizabeth Lowell\Kasey Michaels released on Mar 25, 2001 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373484437
• ISBN13: 9780373484430
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Silhouette
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

5-Stars for Howard's "Duncan's Bride" ONLY

This is a "three-fer" republication of Linda Howard's "Duncan's Bride" (the whole reason I purchased the book), Elizabeth Lowell's "Chain Lightening," and Kasey Michael's poorly written, waste of ink and paper, "Popcorn and Kisses." As always (almost always...Killing Time and Angle Creek were not worth re-reading in my estimation) Linda Howard's story was wonderful. Madelyn and Reese Duncan are a great couple. This is a true romance novel. No suspense or anything to dilute the building of the relationship between the two characters. The secondary characters were wonderful, too. This is the first of two connected books - the second being "Loving Evangeline." "Chain Lightening" is a ho-hum Elizabeth Lowell book. The setting, Lady Elliot Island (actual place off the Great Barrier Reef near Australia), is exciting (I want to go). The story could have been so much more - as Elizabeth Lowell has proven countless times, as she is a stellar author without peer, at times - but it wasn't. I would not have purchased this book alone. My opening statement pretty much clarified my opinion of Kasey Michael's offering "Popcorn and Kisses." If I could cut it out of the book without ruining it, I would.

Great reads for a new romance reader!

Having read only a few novels so far by Nora Roberts and Linda Howard, I do not have the reservations about reading a compilation of novels already previously published that some of the other reviewers have. Since several of the novels I've read so far were originally published in the mid-1980s, I have learned to read the original published dates in the front pages of each book, to give myself some perspective on the time in which the book was written.Even though I am new to reading romance novels, I greatly enjoy Linda Howard's work. Unfortunately, my last experience with Howard's work before "Duncan's Bride" was "Almost Forever," a real stinker as far as I'm concerned. So I was a little reserved about reading "Duncan's Bride." Now this is my favorite Howard book thus far.Most romances I've read so far revolve around a couple meeting, finding that they each have reservations about one another. Then they have sex within a week or two of meeting, and are married within a couple of months. End of story. But "Duncan's Bride" is far different from the typical formula. It deals with the characters over the course of a year or so of their lives. Madelyn finds rancher Reese Duncan's personal ad both revolting and intriguing at the same time. She travels to Montana to meet him, and winds up marrying him after a few days- more a marriage of convenience than a soul match. She figures he will warm up to her soon, but he was very scarred by his previous marriage to a money-grubbing woman who took most of his ranch, along with his heart. Both characters are highly complicated, and Howard's character development is great for such a relatively short novel (only about 200 pages). The sex scenes, true to Howard's reputation, are very steamy, but the read leading up to the sex scenes are well worth the time as well."Chain Lightning" is also very well developed. As I had never read anything by Elizabeth Lowell, I had no idea what to expect, but this book was very well paired with "Duncan's Bride." Although neither character seems ready for any kind of relationship, they work together well. Mandy is severely traumatized from the deaths in an ocean plane crash of both her husband and her unborn baby, and she nearly drowned as well. Now the former oceanographer is terrified of the sea that she once loved. Unwilling to tell anyone about her fears, she is sent on a surprise trip to the Great Barrier Reef with Damon Sutter by her boss, who does not know of Mandy's past. Sutter, an adventurer, feels that he will be terribly bored being forced to stay in a small tent with Mandy, the bundle of fears. But time brings them closer together, making for a heartwarming story, and some very hot sex scenes as well."Popcorn and Kisses" is seemingly mismatched with the other two books in this compilation. I won't say that Kasey Michaels is a bad writer, because she's not. I enjoyed reading about the seemingly mismatched Sharon and Zachary St. Clair. But after ha

Have read 2 out of the 3 stories too...

I also bought this book without a clue, thus was misled by the packaging, i.e. title and cover. It is actually a reprint of past Silhouette titles by Linda Howard and Elizabeth Lowell, plus a new story, Popcorn and Kisses, by Kasey Michaels.Duncan's Bride is my favorite mail order bride story as Howard portrayed the spunky and hardworking Madelyn Patterson very well. The love scenes between Maddie and Duncan are hot! Had read Chain Lightning by Lowell some years ago and it is still as tantalizing as ever. Lowell sizzles with her trademark passion in this story set in the Great Barrier Reef, and you can really feel pulled in by the tale of Mandy and Sutter. This novel is definitely value for money if you have not read the stories by Howard and Lowell and would like to give them a try. I would suggest though, that the publishers be more ethical in future and let readers know in advance what the soon-to-be released books are about, to save the unnecessary grief for unsuspecting readers out there. Otherwise, this collection would've easily earned 5 stars from me.

Thought I was getting original stories, but alas....

Finding Home contains three stories, Duncan's Bride by Linda Howard (1990); Chain Lightning by Elizabeth Lowell (1999) and Popcorn and Kisses by Kasey Michaels. Of the three stories, Chain Lightning was my favorite. I had already read Duncan's Bride and prefer Linda Howard's more recent offerings, although the ascerbic waitress character tickled me. Popcorn and Kisses was light-hearted fun reading but a tad formulistic. Chain Lightning by Elizabeth Lowell grabbed my attention and never let go. I felt as though I were on an island and I didn't want to leave. This is the first book I've read by Elizabeth Lowell but it won't be the last!