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Author:
Susan Krinard
By Bantam
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $6.99
Our Price: $2.09
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Product Description
The bestselling author of Prince of Shadows and Twice a Hero again displays her incredible talent and imagination in an enchanting new romance about a love so deep it will bring a man and a woman together...in another century, another life.Jesse Copeland, an expert in mountain rescues, has returned to Manzanita after years in the Peace Corps. Despite an indomitable courage that sent her rappelling down cliffs, she is haunted by the nightmares and shadowy half-memories surrounding her mother's mysterious death. Now she is determined to find out if her mother's "accident" was murder. What she finds instead is a man as transparent as air--sensual, muscular, his blue eyes burning into hers as she cries out one word from a place deep within her: David. David Ventris, Lord Ashthorpe, late of His Majesty's Light Dragoons, is, simply put, a ghost. He's waited two centuries to be called back to earth by the woman he wronged. He knew her as "Sophie," a wondrous lady who sparked a passion so blazing that time could not dim the flames. Now he is being given the chance to guard her from danger and get back his soul--if only she will believe him real and not madness. If only she will love him enough to create a miracle...and give him life again.
Amazon.com Review
Known for her supernatural romances, Susan Krinard combines an intriguing ghost as hero with two sets of characters, one the reincarnation of the other, to create a refreshing story of redemption through love in Body & Soul. Jesse Copeland, struggling to understand a childhood trauma that left her an orphan, and threatened by the return of a man she reviles, unconsciously summons up David Ventris, who died 200 years ago in the Battle of Waterloo. David, who can take full physical form, betrayed Jesse in an earlier life and seeks her forgiveness. Krinard deftly shows these characters becoming more fully realized people as they deal with heavy emotional baggage (some of it a couple centuries old!) while also confronting a very real villain and discovering a love that's powerful enough to forgive any transgression. An original, well-written love story with many satisfying surprises. --Ellen Edwards
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didn't grab me, 2008-12-01
Jesse Copeland has returned to her hometown to lay to rest the ghosts of her past... only to be confronted by an actual ghost, David Ventris, who's there to right the wrongs of his own past so he can escape from the limbo where he's been existing since he died at Waterloo.
It seems Jesse is the reincarnation of his wife, and his guilt over how he failed her has been punishing him all this time.
Jesse, meanwhile, is struggling with her own memories. Gary Emerson is also back in town, as a campaigning politician. She's sure that Gary, her mother's lover, was responsible for her death, but she doesn't remember any details.
I'm not sure why this book didn't grab me. I'm very fond of paranormal romance, and should have enjoyed it. But David's goals seemed too unclear to me--beyond the expected guilt keeping him from embracing love. He seemed to waver between cold-blooded self-interest and guilty misery, with occasional forays into protectiveness, and only the last was well-explained.
Jesse, too, seems oblivious to her own motivations, and oblivious to the feelings of those around her.
And there's a sub-plot about an orphaned girl and her uncle that felt as though it came from a previous book in the series, but this book isn't part of a series.
Or maybe I'm just too shallow to accept a melancholy hero. I don't like to think that, but it's possible. In a romance, I admit, I do want the hero to be, well, heroic. I don't mind if they have problems, but... No, it's not just heroes--it's the heroines, too. I don't like melancholy characters in romances. Sad, tormented, dark characters are wonderful. I love them. Just don't make them melancholy.
Body and Soul, 2007-01-03
A good story done with a little Sci-Fi twist. An entertaining read.
skip it..., 2006-05-03
I agree with the reviewers-not one of her best.Plodding and boring to get through-downright depressing in some places. If your book budget is limited I'd suggust you skip this book.
An unbelievable ghostly tale, 2004-07-20
Jesse Copeland has been running away from her past and the town of Manzanita for years. Finally she decides to face her ghosts of yesteryear and returns to the town where she was brought up. There she bumps into Gary, her dead mother's ex-lover, whom she blames for the death of her mother 17 years ago.
Gary is not the only ghost of her past she encounters. A mysterious stranger starts to haunt her dreams, a ghost from her past life. Not only does he haunt her in her dreams but he makes himself seen during her waking hours. This ghost is David Ventris, Lord Ashthorpe who lived and died about 200 years ago. David has been living in a sort of pergatory for the last two centuries and has now come forward to the present to seek redemption for a mistake he made in the past. As Jesse tries to find out the clues as to the death of her mother, she finds herself attracted to David and can't help but fall in love with him.
I am a big fan of Susan Krinard's work but I really had difficulty ploughing through this book. Even with a little imagination, I could not believe in the ghostly tale. There was no chemistry between the two main characters and I could not see how they could fall in love or even care for each other. The tale was a little disjointed, jumping from the past and then into the present. Mixing the past lives with the present lives.
Skip this one and read the Forest Lord or one of the werewolf stories such as Prince of Wolves or Touch of the Wolf also by Susan Krinard.
Lea Ling Tsang
Body and Soul: my third book by Susan Krinard, 2003-05-03
Having read the Forest Lord by Susan Krinard, I knew I wanted to read more by this fascinating and original author. Body and Soul
is my third book and so far, the best! The book combines an
original love story, with a ghost story, reincarnation, reward
and punishment, salvation, and eternal love. As amazing as the
plot is, the reader will suspend disbelief and vicariously
experience a most unusual love story...with a happy ending!
I highly recommend Susan Krinard's writing, and especially
this beautiful, heart-wrenching love story!
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780553569193
ISBN: 0553569198
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1998-08-03
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 1998-08-03
Studio: Bantam |
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