Once More with Feeling (Hidden Games)

By Nora Roberts

Book Overview

A New York Times Bestselling Author Nora Roberts explores the exciting, heartbreaking world of the music business in "Once More With Feeling." Raven Williams was a singer who had an overwhelming need... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373218621
• ISBN13: 9780373218622
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Silhouette Books
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A sweetly romantic, easy to read, feel good story

from the back cover: Their songs and their passion would electrify a waiting world. Raven Williams was a singer who had an overwhelming need to love and be loved, and whose voice of rich dark velvet had catapulted her to fame. Brandon Carstairs was a musician in whom the charming Irish Dreamer warred with a practical British reserve. The music they made together was exciting, disturbing and erotic. Soon it would reach a dangerous crescendo. From inside the front cover: Singing with Brand was more moving than a kiss, more sexual than a caress. When they finished, their voices hung for a moment in the air. Brand saw her lips tremble before he brought her close to him and took them. Spotlighted before thousands, Raven didn't hear the roar of applause, the cheers, the shouts. cameras flashed like firworks, but she felt wrapped in velvet darkness. She lost all sense of time. His lips might have moved on hers for seconds, hours, or even days.... ******* This book was far superior to other Nora Roberts' older books that I've read, almost reaching the quality of her current releases. Although written in 1983, the story itself and the style of writing wasn't at all dated. I loved the well-written way the romance and attraction was presented, with very subtle erotic undertones, but without being overtly graphic at all. Set against an artistic musical background, much of this story takes place in beautifully described Cornwall England, adding a depth to the story that most romances of this type don't have. And both heroes were very likable people, whose dialogue flowed naturally and for the most part, without silly hostile bickering, another unusual feature of many of these types of romances. Raven and Brand were a couple five years earlier, but went their separate ways in a hurtful manner after a terrible misunderstanding, yet each had never truly gotten over loving the other. When their brilliant musical minds are thrown together to write the score to a musical, they must face the issues that had separated them in the past, and come to a new understanding, reconciling their love. I deducted one star because the story came to a natural ending point once the professional project had ended. However, another silly misunderstanding was unnecessarily thrown in to separate the couple once again. To me, it sort of undid all the beauty of the previous 200+ pages.

What a page turner!

This is definately one book by Nora Roberts you will not want to miss! A real page turning story!

Once More... with Nora

One of my favorite books by the great Nora Roberts. It was really interesting to see what would come out of their time apart and how they worked out their problems."Their songs and their passion would electrify a waiting world. Raven Williams was a singer who had an overwhelming need to love and be loved, and whose voice of rich velvet had catapulted her to fame. Brandon Castairs was a musician in whom the charming Irish dreamer warred with a practical British reserve. The music they made together was exciting, disturbing, erotic. Soon it would reach a dangerous crescendo."