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Blue Skies (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan #4)
Known for her amazing talent, the New York Times bestselling author of Only by Your Touch and Always in My Heart delivers an extraordinary new tale of two people who, in the most unexpected of circumstances, discover the healing power of love...
Mass Market Paperback, 407 pages
Published
January 19th 2004
by Signet
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Michelle
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I really like this book! So far every book in the series has been EXCELLENT! Anderson's stories are always so tender and sweet. I love her less than perfect heroines who find their prince charming in the hunky cowboys who’d move heaven and earth for them!
I was so drawn into the story at page one. Carly was blind all her life but recently went through surgery to regain her sight so when she first sees Hank Coulter at a local bar she thinks he’s the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen. ...more
I was so drawn into the story at page one. Carly was blind all her life but recently went through surgery to regain her sight so when she first sees Hank Coulter at a local bar she thinks he’s the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen. ...more
Ok, I couldn't spare more than 3 stars for this one. I was about one third through Blue Sky and the story line was SO irritating me. The heroine, Carley, has an eye disease that has caused her to blind since birth. After college, she has a surgery that restores a good percent of sight. She has been able to see for about 3 weeks when she goes to the bar with her friend, and proceeds to get hammered, then she sleeps with a stranger in the back of his truck. I forgot to throw in that she was a vi...more
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Blue Skies is such a great book!
I laughed, cried and yelled at this story.
I fell in love with Hank. All the Coulter brother's are hard not to fall in love with. The way the he fall's in love with Carly was so sweet.
I laughed, cried and yelled at this story.
I fell in love with Hank. All the Coulter brother's are hard not to fall in love with. The way the he fall's in love with Carly was so sweet.
This book irked me a little. I didn't like the way a lot of the characters behaved, and when they started behaving better, it got a little too sappy for me. Carly, the heroine, just had surgery that's given her vision after being blind all her life. Two weeks after the surgery, she goes to a bar and gets knocked up by Hank Coulter. She was told that getting pregnant right after the surgery would be very bad and now she's going to go blind again, can't afford to take care of the baby on the w...more
I've read a few of Catherine Anderson's books and they are generally sweet romance stories about two people who overcome some emotional and external hurdles and fall in love. Normally I like them ok, but this one really didn't do it for me. The 'heroine', Carly, was hard to like. She goes into a bar and meets Hank Coulter. He sweet talks her, they have a drunk one night stand and she ends up pregnant. Hank feels guilty about what happened and when he finds out he tries to talk to her and help in...more
This is the first book I've read from Catherine Anderson. I recently raided my grandmother's shelves and found this, liked the summary, and figured I'd give it a try. First off, I did like this book. I didn't love it and it definitely had its flaws, but I will begin with what I liked about the book first.
The author is a good storyteller. She knows how to pace stories where the plot doesn't get boring and when something needs to happen to progress the book, it does. I also liked ...more
The author is a good storyteller. She knows how to pace stories where the plot doesn't get boring and when something needs to happen to progress the book, it does. I also liked ...more
i swear,the more books i read from catherine anderson,the more i think i need to stop reading her books altogether.
i didn't make it very far into this book at all.
it's a rare thing when i slam a book down without continuing. but its somethin im often tempted to do.
in this case,i think it saved me from a truly crappy book.
lets start off with the main character.
1st off,who celebrates being able to see after 28 years by heading to a bar? if i had just opened my eyes fo...more
i didn't make it very far into this book at all.
it's a rare thing when i slam a book down without continuing. but its somethin im often tempted to do.
in this case,i think it saved me from a truly crappy book.
lets start off with the main character.
1st off,who celebrates being able to see after 28 years by heading to a bar? if i had just opened my eyes fo...more
Absolutely fabulous love story...human, beautiful, tragic, and perfect!
Full disclosure: I am legally blind, a far cry from the blackness that our heroine, Carly, has had to deal with her entire life, but it does make me feel drawn toward blind and visually disabled characters. On the other hand, I am also very, very picky about how those characters are portrayed. So often, I feel like perhaps the author put a blindfold on and tried to walk around for a few hours, without really getti...more
Full disclosure: I am legally blind, a far cry from the blackness that our heroine, Carly, has had to deal with her entire life, but it does make me feel drawn toward blind and visually disabled characters. On the other hand, I am also very, very picky about how those characters are portrayed. So often, I feel like perhaps the author put a blindfold on and tried to walk around for a few hours, without really getti...more
The heroines of this series often have interesting and unusual histories (paralysis, brain damage, domestic violence, agoraphobia), and this one is no exception. Carley has lattice dystrophy, a childhood blindness that she just had surgery for, and she can see for the first time. Then she gets pregnant, which causes the disease to return with a vengeance.
This story just has too many out-of-character moments to be among Anderson's best. Carley's life-long best friend takes her to a s...more
This story just has too many out-of-character moments to be among Anderson's best. Carley's life-long best friend takes her to a s...more
I really don't know why this book has really good reviews, I was half bored haf the time. I even fell asleep which is strange.
The thing I don't like about her, and many other romance authors is that they make the male charicter in book too PERFECT that they sound fake.
The male charicter knows how to do everything. The guy is the Nices man in the world. Now, I'm not saying that there isn't nice guys out there. They are several, It's just that when she was pissed, he was ...more
The thing I don't like about her, and many other romance authors is that they make the male charicter in book too PERFECT that they sound fake.
The male charicter knows how to do everything. The guy is the Nices man in the world. Now, I'm not saying that there isn't nice guys out there. They are several, It's just that when she was pissed, he was ...more
Great story, Just reread it. Carly has a rare eye condition and has just gotten surgery so her sight has been restored. Hank has really no plans to settle down but a chance encounter with Carly changes everything.
I can see Anderson has a ongoing rhythin in the Kendrick/ Coultier series with women who have disabilities or who are recovering from a battered past. These. Cowboys come into rescue and are challenged when the fears of their potential wives, soul mates don't make it too easy on them.
This particular story deals with Carly, who is blind and is also very inexperienced in the boy department. After regaining her sight, she falls for the hunkY cowboy, Hank. After a drunken night of not s...more
This particular story deals with Carly, who is blind and is also very inexperienced in the boy department. After regaining her sight, she falls for the hunkY cowboy, Hank. After a drunken night of not s...more
Pamela(AllHoney)
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It was a good read but not my fave of Catherine Anderson's. I felt that there should have been more happening to develop the characters and the story itself.
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Sans
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What this book had to make it awesome that the last couple stories in the series didn't, I couldn't say. Was it the fact that Hank was an asshat in the first couple of chapters and seemed more human than our last couple of heroes? Or that Carly was somehow more likable and realistic? That there were no child molesting step-dad's, homicidal ex-husbands or off-the-deep-end stalkers to cause conflict between the main couple, or nary a rabid bear to be seen? That our hero didn't pluck our heroine ou...more
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Yet another absolutely wonderful Catherine Anderson book. It was nice to step away from the Kendricks and see the Coulters. I'll admit that I didn't read the third book in the series, but to be honest, there wasn't that much confusion. It was an absolutely touching story, as always, but it did remind me a lot of Phantom Waltz, so it would have been nice to see a little bit more variation. Other than that though, it was a really good book!
I gave this one three stars only because I did not like the way she didn't take any blame for her admittedly stupid conduct in the beginning. She stood there like a raging four year demanding a new ice cream cone because she threw hers down on purpose. And poor Hank came through every time. She did get better at the end, thank you character development, but it still took something away from her "likeability" factor.
It's a nice novel, but I wonder what crossed the author's mind when she made the heroine discover she is pregnant just a week after having sex with the hero... It's not impossible but highly unlikely. I didn't understand the rush. Such things are excusable when they come from beginners...
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This is a horrible book. It is one of those "Woman falls in love with man who sexually assaulted her" romance books. I have no tolerance for that any longer. I am actually planning to use this book for kindling the next time we burn sticks outside and I am not kidding.
This is overall a pretty good book. I've sen a few others comment on Carly's actions and the situations she put herself. A few poeple condemned Catherine for forming Carly's character that way, not agreeing with the decisions the Carly made, etc... All I can say is unless your blind and have been in a similar situation, who knows what you'd actually do. Even at that, a book isn't written to tell a story about how you would react and what you think is right or wrong or stupid... it's just me...more
I read this book years ago! I really wanna read it again to refresh my memory! I remember it being the best love story that I had ever read up until that time. Great book...and it must have been since I want to read it all over again.
I love this series, so I'd be hard pressed to give any of them a bad review. I'm not reading them order and still really enjoy them mostly because the female characters usually have disabilities and I like reading how the H/H work through whatever it is together and that their love will and does conquer all. If you want HEA without a lot of angst you are sure to get it from Anderson's books.
This is one of many Catherine Coulter's books that I have read. I like her writings and will keep readting her.Catherine Coulter
Really enjoyed reading this. Exciting and inspiring. Catherine Anderson is an exceptional author. The books are hard to put down and I have now read four in the series of 10 (#11 will be published in 2011.)
I loved Blue Skies. Hank is the perfect cowboy. What every woman wants a cowboy to be. Honorable, kind, loyal, you get the picture. And Carly, you just can't help falling in love with he too.
Good book for a beach read. Comparable to Nora Roberts. Occasionally slow-moving plot, but overall, I really felt invested in the book enough to skip watching t.v. in order to finish it.
This is the first of the Coulter family series that I read and it started me on a whole new path in my reading. I started to love cowboys! Hank is fun and full of surprises as he persues Carly. I love that he shows the great pricipal's that he gained from a good family. Carly is beautiful and strong in her handicap. She teaches Hank and learns herself that love is important in life and that we need to treasure those we love.
Another page turner by Catherine Anderson. The things some men will do for love. These books that have disabled heroines are really good. The hero's aren't bad either.
This one made me cry!! Alot. lol. But it was still good. I'm totally reading this series out of order, but it doesn't really affect my understanding of the plot line.
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