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	• A Promise to Cherish LaVyrle Spencer Jove, 2004 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great read!

This is a great boook to read on a rainly afternoon. I am one of LaVyrle's greatest fans, but this is not my favorite romance. Although the characters were totally believable, I thought the ending was a little rushed.
We all know LaVryle retired, and her talent is greatly missed. Of all the romances, it was always LaVryle's books that I reached for first.

A Sweet Romance

The pace of this book is quite fast - the entire book is focused on the romance of Lee & Sam (the couple). Unlike most romance novels - there is no real background plot. The story deals with how Lee Walker, a divorced mother of two boys (they don't live with her) struggles with working in a male-dominated industry (she is a construction estimator) with a pig of a male boss. She meets Sam Walker, a man who co-owns his own construction firm when the two accidentally swap suitcases at the airport on a business trip unbeknowst to either of them. She meets him later on when they end up bidding for the same construction job. Recognising each other's names - they each collect back their respective suitcases after having opened them with surpise earlier (and investigated the contents!). With a massive chip on her shoulder about her Indian heritage and lost confidence in what she believes as her failure as a wife and mother, Lee is antagonistic towards Sam Walker from the moment they meet. Suspicious of his motives, dubious of his character after discovering a porno mag in his suitcase Lee has no intention of giving Sam the time of the day. Sam sets out to charm her and slowly but surely wins her over. After being forced to quit her job, she is offered a position from Sam at his firm. Wary, but aware the deal is a generous one, Lee accepts with reservations. After all, he is by all indications, interested in pursuing a relationship with her. Can she take the risk of an office romance? Will she risk her wary heart again? Can she trust his motives? Lee struggles with her personal issues as Sam ardently pursues her headlong into a relationship.

The story is a good one but is left with an unanswered question which I'm sure many a reader would like to know the answer. After the fast pace of the book, while there is a happy ending, the reader is feeling incomplete because of it. The ending should have been better constructed. It is rather light-hearted and while that is okay, it would have been nice to have a deeper scene where the two exchange tender words as well, and reaffirm their love.

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Outstanding

This book is wonderful, exciting to the very end. Like all of LaVyrle Spencer's books, a must.

Average

I have read almost all of Lavyrle Spencer's books and, in comparison to her other writings, this one leaves something to be desired. Keep in mind that I am only comparing this to Ms. Spencer's other books, not to all other romance novels in general.

I just felt that the character's relationship was not as well developed as those of some of her other storylines. By the time they have declared their love for each other, Sam and Lee have barely spent any time together. It is hard to conveive that they could have fallen in love over nothing more that a short weekend. On top of that, Sam seems so nonchalant and unaffected by Lee that it is a surprise that he has any real feelings for her at all, much less that they apparently run so deep. As the male lead, he is so different from any of the other's in the books that I have read by Lavyrle. He comes across as almost unpassionate about anything that might be developing with Lee. Part of the problem might be the length of the book -- most of her others are fairly long and this one was about half the normal length. By far, not the worst romance novel I have read but, this book cannot even begin to compare to the powerhouses that are "The Gamble", "Vows", and "Seperate Beds".