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Words Spoken True (2012)

by Ann H. Gabhart(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0800720458 (ISBN13: 9780800720452)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Fleming H. Revell Company

review 1: I'll be honest, I stopped 30% the way in. It was dragging way too much and Adriane made me want to break my Kindle. The opening pulled my attention, but then went limp real quick. I was promised a book about a feisty woman who worked in a newspaper back in the late 1800s and her romance with a rival editor and a serial killer. That is not what I was finding and I do not have the patience to read another 30% to see where it "picks up", as most of the other reviewers seem to say it would. Adriane got on my nerves quick. In fact, both of our protagonists did, and they both fell quickly into the roles of very typical and boring romance protagonists. Adriane is only feisty when she's alone, with Blake (whose "sparring" dialoge was not witty to me), or with people who would thin... morek the way she does. When she's actually faced with speaking her mind, she clams up to the point where I fail to see her as the quick-witted heroine that the author wanted us to see. And I found her to be very dishonest from the start. For a book about truth, she was a big fat liar from the get-go.What annoyed me the most was the obvious "You can only have one ONE TRUE LOVE" device. Here is Adriane, who somehow got one of the most eligible and rich bachelors in town to chaperone her to events, stringing this man along for her own gains, and then laments for what is now a third of the book over how much she is appalled that he dared to ask for her hand in marriage (to which her own clamming up has now gotten her engaged). We're supposed to see her as a suffering heroine and him as this despicable jerk. Well, I don't. I feel sorry for poor Stanley. Let's switch them a second. You have Stanley who is willing to toss his own convention in the wind and marry a woman he is in love with, one who he must have been over the moon when he started chaperoning her to events and got to say yes to his proposal (he proposed in a carriage because she made a huge stink over him going to her father, and she never did tell him no), is planning a wedding and life together, only to find out that she doesn't love him and was using him for her own gains. Does she sound so great now, because that is what it looks like at this point. Oh, I'm sure he turns out to be a jerk, because otherwise it would ruin the ONLY ONE TRUE LOVE. He'll be a jerk and Blake would be the hero. Blake also annoyed me. At first sight, he decides that Adriane must not love Stanley (even though he has no proof of this since she's hardly talked to him at all) and plans on stealing her away from him. Again, if he was not the hero, that would be a jerk move. But, because he's the ONE TRUE LOVE, we must agree with him.I found them all to be unrealistic and the storyline nonexistent. I don't plan on reading anymore to find this magical place where it all gets interesting. I'm used to sagging middles in books, but not a sagging beginning. If the characters were more interesting beyond obvious cut-outs for typical romance characters, I might have read on.
review 2: Ann Gabhart outdid herself on this novel, "Words Spoken True"I loved the story of Adriane Darcy as she grew up in her fathers shadow around the pressroom, you see he was a newspaper man, they say that this little girl could set type at a young age.This woman stands ready to defend her daddy's newspaper no matter what, even if it means losing out on Love.Yes, romance comes into the picture with Blake Garrett, a brash young editor from the North with a controversial style of reporting, he works at a competing newspaper and he and she seem to be always at odds with one another...sparks fly.Neither one is ready to admit there could be a relationship somewhere in the middle of those sparks.There are stories of a serial killer in their midst, and a ruthless man has political aspirations and doesn't care who he steps on or over to get there. Civil unrest everywhere as a secret group band together to challange beliefs of the common man.you will want to read this amazing story with all the emotional paragraphs and words spoken true, I hope we will hear more about Blake Garrett and Adriane in Ann Gabhart's words. less

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