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Home at Last: Song of the West / Unfinished Business
These two classics by #1 New York Times bestselling author NORA ROBERTS prove that home is where your heart is.
Song of the West
Former world-class gymnast Samantha Evans's sole purpose for being in Wyoming is to help her sister through a difficult pregnancy. So when she meets handsome Jake Tanner, she wills herself to resist the intense attraction between them. After receiving the offer of a lifetime from her former coach, Samantha feels torn between the new opportunity in California and her growing desire for Jake. When a sudden blizzard strands Samantha at Jake's home for three days, their mutual passions flare, but Samantha still isn't sure if she should follow her dreams…or follow her heart.
Unfinished Business
Vanessa Sexton used to know what she wanted. Her dreams of glamour and fame were out there, waiting. But at twenty-eight, nothing comes easy. Not even going home. She misses her mother, but can't even say the word mom. She needs time and space to sort things out, but rational thought is impossible when she runs into Brady Tucker, her first love—her only love. Old passions soon resurface, but Vanessa's unsure about the future. How can she give herself to someone else when she's still figuring out who she is?
Song of the West
Former world-class gymnast Samantha Evans's sole purpose for being in Wyoming is to help her sister through a difficult pregnancy. So when she meets handsome Jake Tanner, she wills herself to resist the intense attraction between them. After receiving the offer of a lifetime from her former coach, Samantha feels torn between the new opportunity in California and her growing desire for Jake. When a sudden blizzard strands Samantha at Jake's home for three days, their mutual passions flare, but Samantha still isn't sure if she should follow her dreams…or follow her heart.
Unfinished Business
Vanessa Sexton used to know what she wanted. Her dreams of glamour and fame were out there, waiting. But at twenty-eight, nothing comes easy. Not even going home. She misses her mother, but can't even say the word mom. She needs time and space to sort things out, but rational thought is impossible when she runs into Brady Tucker, her first love—her only love. Old passions soon resurface, but Vanessa's unsure about the future. How can she give herself to someone else when she's still figuring out who she is?
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Nora Roberts
1,209 books59.7k followersNora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Hideaway, Under Currents, Come Sundown, The Awakening, Legacy, and coming in November 2021 -- The Becoming -- the second book in The Dragon Heart Legacy. She is also the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
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November 12, 2020
Here’s what this book is about:”
Song of the West
Former world-class gymnast Samantha Evans's sole purpose for being in Wyoming is to help her sister through a difficult pregnancy. So when she meets handsome Jake Tanner, she wills herself to resist the intense attraction between them. After receiving the offer of a lifetime from her former coach, Samantha feels torn between the new opportunity in California and her growing desire for Jake. When a sudden blizzard strands Samantha at Jake's home for three days, their mutual passions flare, but Samantha still isn't sure if she should follow her dreams...or follow her heart.
Unfinished Business
Vanessa Sexton used to know what she wanted. Her dreams of glamour and fame were out there, waiting. But at twenty-eight, nothing comes easy. Not even going home. She misses her mother, but can't even say the word mom. She needs time and space to sort things out, but rational thought is impossible when she runs into Brady Tucker, her first love—her only love. Old passions soon resurface, but Vanessa's unsure about the future. How can she give herself to someone else when she's still figuring out who she is?”
I enjoyed both of these stories. They were cute.
Song of the West
Former world-class gymnast Samantha Evans's sole purpose for being in Wyoming is to help her sister through a difficult pregnancy. So when she meets handsome Jake Tanner, she wills herself to resist the intense attraction between them. After receiving the offer of a lifetime from her former coach, Samantha feels torn between the new opportunity in California and her growing desire for Jake. When a sudden blizzard strands Samantha at Jake's home for three days, their mutual passions flare, but Samantha still isn't sure if she should follow her dreams...or follow her heart.
Unfinished Business
Vanessa Sexton used to know what she wanted. Her dreams of glamour and fame were out there, waiting. But at twenty-eight, nothing comes easy. Not even going home. She misses her mother, but can't even say the word mom. She needs time and space to sort things out, but rational thought is impossible when she runs into Brady Tucker, her first love—her only love. Old passions soon resurface, but Vanessa's unsure about the future. How can she give herself to someone else when she's still figuring out who she is?”
I enjoyed both of these stories. They were cute.
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August 5, 2015The first one of here I didn't like. Unfinished business was fair but hated Song of the West. Was really surprised as I generally like her work.
June 27, 2020
Two books in one. The first is set in Wyoming. Samantha has come to help her twin sister, who is on bedrest as she waits for the arrival of her baby. Sabrina's husband owns a ranch and there is no one who could stay with her until Samantha arrived. There are romantic sparks when Sam meats the owner of the neighboring ranch.
Unfinished Business Also a romance....or two Vanessa returns home after 12 years of playing piano all over the world, winning awards and seeing many sites. Her father, manager, took her from home and they never returned. Vanessa wants to find out what happened and why her mother didn't try to contact her. She also hopes that in this small Maryland town of her birth will she find out what happend to the boy/now a man that she was in love with at 16 Sparks fly when she finds he has returned to town also.
Good easy reads just to help you forget what is happened in our world today.
Unfinished Business Also a romance....or two Vanessa returns home after 12 years of playing piano all over the world, winning awards and seeing many sites. Her father, manager, took her from home and they never returned. Vanessa wants to find out what happened and why her mother didn't try to contact her. She also hopes that in this small Maryland town of her birth will she find out what happend to the boy/now a man that she was in love with at 16 Sparks fly when she finds he has returned to town also.
Good easy reads just to help you forget what is happened in our world today.
October 29, 2017
Originally written in 1982 and 1992 and republished in 2014 together. Not my favorite Nora Roberts stories, but typical of her early category romance writing.
December 27, 2017
Enjoyable quick romance read.
September 14, 2018
Ok read but too perfect.
January 2, 2015
Song of the West - 2/5 - Another one of Nora's early books in which the Hero, Tanner has a brand of arrogance that is supposed to pass for charm, but actually makes him seem like a jackass. He's walks around the entire time saying, "I'm going to make love to you." or "I always get what I want, and I want you." Meanwhile, there's no chemistry between these two. And the heroine really does seem to find Tanner resistible. Their first kiss - out of the blue with no chemistry at all. So she understandably gets upset that he's just manhandled her. And he spends the entire book doing that - he grabs her, pulls her close and kisses her. Then she gets angry and tries to stomp off. Lather, rinse, repeat. So after two or three such episodes in which she gets absolutely furious and they don't really get along, she decides that she's in insta-love with him. WTF? Why? And then there's that miscommunication that has the overly stubborn heroine running instead of simply asking the hero about it.
And after all this my biggest question is...How is a man supposed to "go sterilize some towels, lots of them" in relatively short period of time to prepare for the birth of a baby? Does he have a UV light? He could boil them and dry them, but that would take more than a few minutes. Weird...
Unfinished Business - 3/5 - Another Nora Roberts that frustrates me...she seems to have this theme in some of her early stories where the long lost child comes home after years without contact and instead of a round of explanations, the characters evade. Vanessa, a piano player, has not seen or heard from her mother in 12 years...after her father took her on a concert piano tour and her mother never fought to keep her with her or stay in touch. For that matter, there's Brady (the hero) who stood her up for the prom, 2 days before she left, and never kept in touch either. Now most people, I would think, would come back and start searching for answers. Vanessa, does not. Instead, she decides she's not ready for the answers, or she hears part of an explanation and gets so emotionally worked up that she can't hear anymore. She puts off knowing why her mother let her go for over a month! How realistic is that? Instead of a demanding an explanation from Brady, she tells herself that it was so long in the past that it hardly matters - which is bullshit since she rails about it at least twice in the first 30% of the book. We're 50% in before we learn the real reason Brady didn't show up for prom. But I guess we can't have full explanations within a month of returning, or the book wouldn't actually work.
The romance is slightly better, but no less frustrating. Vanessa needs to find herself and learn about who she is and what she wants, and that's great. But then she has no business getting into a relationship with a guy when she doesn't know what she wants. Her actions IMHO were a bit selfish - especially And why is it so difficult for him to understand that she needs to figure things out before she can offer him anything? I just didn't understand these two very well. And honestly, despite all the complaints listed, my inability to understand the characters or their behavior, the story was engaging and I enjoyed reading it. I liked it, but found myself with a lot of questions after reading. Also - while this story was TONS better than it's companion in this anthology, it just wasn't enough to save the book after the disaster called Song of the West
And after all this my biggest question is...How is a man supposed to "go sterilize some towels, lots of them" in relatively short period of time to prepare for the birth of a baby? Does he have a UV light? He could boil them and dry them, but that would take more than a few minutes. Weird...
Unfinished Business - 3/5 - Another Nora Roberts that frustrates me...she seems to have this theme in some of her early stories where the long lost child comes home after years without contact and instead of a round of explanations, the characters evade. Vanessa, a piano player, has not seen or heard from her mother in 12 years...after her father took her on a concert piano tour and her mother never fought to keep her with her or stay in touch. For that matter, there's Brady (the hero) who stood her up for the prom, 2 days before she left, and never kept in touch either. Now most people, I would think, would come back and start searching for answers. Vanessa, does not. Instead, she decides she's not ready for the answers, or she hears part of an explanation and gets so emotionally worked up that she can't hear anymore. She puts off knowing why her mother let her go for over a month! How realistic is that? Instead of a demanding an explanation from Brady, she tells herself that it was so long in the past that it hardly matters - which is bullshit since she rails about it at least twice in the first 30% of the book. We're 50% in before we learn the real reason Brady didn't show up for prom. But I guess we can't have full explanations within a month of returning, or the book wouldn't actually work.
The romance is slightly better, but no less frustrating. Vanessa needs to find herself and learn about who she is and what she wants, and that's great. But then she has no business getting into a relationship with a guy when she doesn't know what she wants. Her actions IMHO were a bit selfish - especially And why is it so difficult for him to understand that she needs to figure things out before she can offer him anything? I just didn't understand these two very well. And honestly, despite all the complaints listed, my inability to understand the characters or their behavior, the story was engaging and I enjoyed reading it. I liked it, but found myself with a lot of questions after reading. Also - while this story was TONS better than it's companion in this anthology, it just wasn't enough to save the book after the disaster called Song of the West
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January 2, 2016
this isn't a book i would typically read or choose for myself so im probably not the best person to rate it however i will say that the 1st half of the book is painfully slow, boring and the story itself is lame/basic/boring/ "hick." then you get to the 2nd part and I was originally shocked and thought to myself why is this even in the same book?! but it was good or a lot better. that part of the book seemed more modern/relate-able and had more of a story to it. theres the mom, dad and child - the mom has issues from her past that she delt with/accepts and moves on from, the dad is very controlling/dominant/opinionated and eventually gets sick and dies. this then leaves the girl to do some "soul searching"/evaluating/ figuring who she is and what she wants out of life.
December 26, 2014
The love interests in both stories are rude, referring to the women as "stupid" and "idiot." Plus both insinuate rape. Not charming or romantic to me. I hated the men in this book. Not cool!
October 10, 2015
The stories were decent and most of the characters likeable enough.
March 25, 2016
Both of these books were a pleasant reading. Nora Roberts knows how to keep you wishing for more even though the pages has come to an end.
December 7, 2015
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