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Feb 20, 2012

Evangeline rated it:

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Aug 02, 2011

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Feb 16, 2012

Chanpreet rated it:

This book is a whopper coming in at over 600 pages and set in locales across the world from 1914-1918. But let me tell you, do not be discouraged by its size. This is an amazing book. It's the third book in the Rose series by Jennifer Donnelly and its release has been very much waited for.

I don't even know where to begin. Ms.Donnelly has done such an amazing job with her research. She was very thorough and included some very important and relevant historical facts. And she d More...

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Jan 01, 2012

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Aug 05, 2011

Naomi rated it:

Wow...how depressing...I can't believe I am giving this only two stars. I have been waiting for this book to come out and was INCREDIBLY excited to see it on NetGalley and even more priveledged that I was allowed to read an ARC. On that note, this isn't Jennifer Donnelly's finest work. Her other books, including her YA books have received nothing less than 4 stars from me. I found this one disappointing, forced and predictable though..and def. not up to her "standard" of writing.
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Sep 23, 2011

Christa rated it:

Jennifer Donnelly is a very good storyteller, and while I didn't always admire the main characters in this book, I got so caught up in the story that I just couldn't put the book down. I thought that the two main characters, Willa and Seamus, both made many mistakes, but I still wanted both of them to be happy. There were many great secondary characters, mostly from the previous books in the series, and I enjoyed reading about all of them.

A terrible accident separates Willa Alden and More...

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Sep 16, 2011

Karen rated it:

Author Jennifer Donnelly beautifully brings her "Rose" trilogy to a lovely and fine ending with The Wild Rose. Donnelly smartly recaps the history of the saga's characters and stories so that a new reader is not lost, and anyone who read the prior books, The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose are reminded of where we left those characters.

Again, in this Rose book as in the previous two, Donnelly's attention to period detail paints a vivid picture of the world between 1 More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Jill rated it:

This is the third book in The Tea Rose Series, which is a historical fiction saga of the Finnegan family beginning in the late 1800s with The Tea Rose, continuing with The Winter Rose, and ending, with this book, just after World War I. To punctuate the story's grandeur, many of the chapters end with highly suspenseful cliffhangers. It is written as a stand alone, so the background from the first two books is filled in throughout the story. Nevertheless, one wouldn’t want to skip the first t More...

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Aug 19, 2011

Dinjolina rated it:

I have to warn you:
You will be offended by my rew. Especially people that are firmly in the 'Jenny rocks/Willa is selfish' camp.

<spoiler>First let me tell you a secret:
I jumped in to reading this fully believing I will hate it. I did at times. Mostly when I hurt and even when I...ehm...well,cried. But the author made me feel so strongly..I just...
I do not usually read war books. I read this one because from our first character/reader introduciton I had a speci More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

3 1/2 stars. Once again, I am not satisfied with giving a book an even number of stars. Since Goodreads won't allow me to do that, I've chosen to round down as it didn't feel like a 4 star book to me.

This book had a few too many coincidences for me. As a family, the Finnegans are continually plagued with loss and heartbreak as well as bad decisions that have been borne from misunderstanding. At the same time, they are continually saved by lucky circumstances that turn the tide fo More...

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Aug 06, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

NOTE: This review is a review of all three books in the Rose Trilogy.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but the books in the Rose Trilogy reminded me of the Danielle Steel books I used to devour when I was 14-years old … and I mean that in the very best way!!

I used to love Danielle Steel’s books (though I’ve “outgrown” them after being exposed to a “better” class of books) because they featured heroines who experienced all these ups and downs but who eventually triumphed over dif More...

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Aug 06, 2011

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Willa Alden and Seamus Finnegan, soul mates who cannot seem to find their way back to each other, are strong forces that propel the reader into a maelstrom that threatens to overwhelm at times. The Wild Rose is poignant, compelling and often heartbreaking. It takes the reader into the World War I era when social structures and ways of waging war changed forever. It is an amazing love story bit it also encompasses a world More...

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Aug 05, 2011

Ashley rated it:

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Jul 07, 2011

Natalie rated it:

It took me a while to get into this book. It started abysmally with both of the main characters, Willa and Seamie, sleeping with people they didn't care about because they weren't with each other. I never really came to like either of them. Willa really annoyed me with her stupidity and Seamie with his selfishness. And poor Jennie (Seamie's wife), though she started out all right, was ruined by the pair of them. (With some help from Max von Brandt.)

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Mar 28, 2011

Erin rated it:

Got my hands on an advance copy and all I can say is … WOW!! If Tea Rose and Winter Rose were turned up to 11 in terms of drama, emotion, plot twists and unforgettable characters, Wild Rose is turned up to – I don’t know – 12? 20?? This absolutely lives up to its predecessors, and then some. It’s tied with Winter Rose for my favorite of the three … but everyone has a different favorite for different reasons!

I could gush for pages, as this is very fresh on my mind – but I don’t wa More...

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Apr 27, 2011

Lisarenee rated it:

Notes: I read the ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of this book. The book will be published on August 2nd.

Eight years ago Willa Alden had it all. She was on a climbing expedition (climbing being her passion) with the man she loved beside her. In a moment, everything changed. Tragedy struck, and an accident claimed her leg and almost her life. Sometimes in the heat of the moment, in the rage of passion, or in the midst of an uncontrollable sadness or anger a person may say something they wou More...

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Jul 15, 2011

Holly rated it:

Jam-packed with history, romance and adventure

Called by The Washington Post Book World as “a master of pacing and plot,” Donnelly paints with a vivid palette of espionage, blackmail, steamy romance, exotic places, women’s suffrage and politics. She is a born storyteller. The Wild Rose, her final installment of a trilogy is jam-packed with historical fiction, romance and adventure.

Drink mint tea in a Bedouin tent after desert wanderings sustained only by water, dates and c More...

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Jan 16, 2012

Lindsey rated it:

I was a little disappointed in this book after having read the first two and fallen in love with them. After reading others' reviews, I see that I am not alone in my opinion and it all seems to be the fault of Seamie and Willa. I didn't like either one of them from the start and I never grew to care about them. It was not like in the first two books where I wanted to see Joe and Fiona or India and Sid end up together. I could never root for Seamie and Willa. They were, to me, almost as villaino More...

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Oct 03, 2011

Anne rated it:

The Wild Rose is the final book in a trilogy by Jennifer Donnelly. This book is set during World War I and tells the story of Seamus Finnegan and Willa Alden. Seamus and Willa have known each other since they were children. They fall in love, but when Willa has a terrible accident while they are mountain climbing and loses her leg everything falls apart for the couple. Willa will not forgive Seamus for letting the Doctor amputate her leg to save her life. Seamus tries to move on with his li More...

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Aug 02, 2011

Jocelyn rated it:

Fans of Jennifer Donnelly's previous works, The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, are in for a treat with the latest book in this historical saga. THE WILD ROSE is a beautifully researched historical tale combined with an intense plot, well-developed characters and gorgeous prose. Because there are so many recurring characters from the first two books in the ROSE trilogy, I would recommend beginning with the The Tea Rose and continuing from there. However, THE WILD ROSE has enough excitement, suspen More...

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Aug 23, 2011

Lisa rated it:

Amazing, epic, beautiful, gut wrenching...all of these describe this latest installment in the Rose trilogy, but none of them do it justice. I have just loved this series and can't thank my sister enough for suggesting this series to me. This one is a lot different than the first two, in that the central characters, Seamie and Willa are very different from their predecessors, Fiona and Joe and Sid and India. They have had less struggles to get where they are, although they more than make up for More...

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Oct 09, 2011

Malin Engdahl rated it:

The Wild Rose is the third book in Jennifer Donnelly's Rose trilogy, and while it can be read independently of the other two, it will be best appreciated if the reader has read the other two novels in the series, The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, first. As these two books are among my absolute favourite books of all time, I advise everyone to run out and read them, then come back and read this review.

On the eve of the First World War, Seamus "Seamie" Finnegan is a famous p More...

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Aug 22, 2011

Shoshanah rated it:

If there ever was a book where I wished I could read faster because I had to know how things would end up this was it. I been waiting to read this book since I finished the book about 2 years ago. And the last one was actually published back in 2006, so as long as I feel like I've waited there are others who've been waiting quite a bit longer.

This book fallows the same basic formula as the first two, in that it tells the love story of one of the Finnegan children. Being the third bo More...

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Aug 20, 2011

Beth rated it:

I kind of knew that I wasn't going to like this book after I finished reading the second book in the series, The Winter Rose. You, the Rose Trilogy follows the lives of the Finnegan Siblings, Fiona, Sid and Seamie. I loved Fiona and Sid. Seamie not as much and Willa, his love interest, really not at all. That's the major problem with this book. Seamie and Willa are just not as likable as Fiona and Joe and Sid and India. Unlike the first two couples, Seamie and Willa are priviledge. They w More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Sara rated it:

This started a little slow for me. Though not due to lack of plot(s). Don’t worry out there. Donnelly has outdone herself with plots. So many intertwined threads it wasn’t until about page 250 that I realized how they were beginning to be combined. Thus, it’s actually the multitude of plots…some left over from The Winter Rose…that clog up the reading speed.

There just isn’t that “I can’t put this down” feeling in the beginning of this one. I think it’s because that spark of love between More...

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Nov 17, 2011

Sharon rated it:

This is the third book of the Rose trilogy that is set during the onset of WWI. The plot mostly unfolds around two characters who made debuts in the second book, The Winter Rose. Willa Alden is the mountain climber who lost her leg while climbing Kilimanjaro with her long-time friend and secret love, Seamus Finnegan. He is a polar explorer who becomes a naval captain when the war breaks out in 1914. Thrown in is a secret agent, Max von Brandt, who becomes involved in everyone's lives in one More...

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Sep 30, 2011

Sarah rated it:

I loved Donnelly's the first two books about these characters, and I totally enjoyed this one too. It shares the same terrifically-paced readability and blends impeccable historical research with well crafted romance. Plus London in the late 19th/early 20th century is always a bonus factor for me. But I found myself caring far less about the central characters in this story than I did about the central characters in the previous two books. Willa is simply not as compelling as Fiona or India, and More...

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Jun 06, 2011

Mj rated it:

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From the snowy crevices of Mt. Everest to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, Willa Alden and Seamie Finnegan cross paths painfully time after time. This third installment in The Tea Rose Trilogy continues the story of the Finnegan family, focusing primarily on the story of Seamie, the youngest of Fiona Finnegan’s brothers, and Willa, his climbing partner from their younger years. We met Seamie and Willa in the previous books which are part of The Tea Rose More...

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Feb 08, 2012

Julie rated it:

After reading the first two books in this series I thought it may get a little stale but I found myself enjoying this book as well. At the end I couldn't put it down either. I thought that I had figured out Jennifer Donnelly's reading style and although I did see somethings coming. I was totally surprised on others, and not altogether happy about some of those surprises. Which in my opinion is a good thing. Keeping me guessing is the way to keep me reading. Again, the author does a great j More...

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Oct 30, 2011

Robyn rated it:

I read the first two books of the "Rose Trilogy" So I was already familiar w/the Characters in the book. I really got into the first two & this one as well,although the character of Willa defied Reality;between surviving Cholera,Typhus, a drug overdose & infections(from not wearing a proper Prosthetic leg(besides falling off a mountain the previous book) Her story was becoming the "The Perils of Willa" What next? She gets tied to railroad tracks & gets saved by Lawrence of Ar More...

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