Come Lie With Me
by Linda Howard
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Come lie with me and be my love. How Dione Kelley longed to hear those words. But Blake Remington could never speak them to her.An accident had left him unable to walk, and her therapy had made him whole again. She had given him back the strength he needed to be a man--and in so doing robbed him of the chance to see her as a woman. How could she believe his words of love, when she knew they were spoken only out of gratitude?
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I LOVE this romance story. Linda Howard does a wounded hero and scarred heroine perfectly. Blake is physically wounded and has given up the will to live. Dione, his physical therapist, is emotionally scarred but is a fighter who never gives up. Together these to fight until they nearly kill each other all the while falling in love and forming an amazing unbreakable bond neither has ever had before.
The sexual tension is great and when they finally get together you nearly weep for them because it's highly emotional. When Blake stands for the first time in two years and he breaks down and cries you have to cry with him. He was such a strong, adventurous man who almost lost everything, but Dione brought him back and won his heart. And Blake show more not only won Dione's heart, but also her trust- something she's never fully given another human being in her life because of her abused past.
A griping, touching and oh so romantic love story. A great fast read that I highly recommend. show less
The sexual tension is great and when they finally get together you nearly weep for them because it's highly emotional. When Blake stands for the first time in two years and he breaks down and cries you have to cry with him. He was such a strong, adventurous man who almost lost everything, but Dione brought him back and won his heart. And Blake show more not only won Dione's heart, but also her trust- something she's never fully given another human being in her life because of her abused past.
A griping, touching and oh so romantic love story. A great fast read that I highly recommend. show less
Good, good, good book! This is the kind of book that makes me want to find a wounded man and make him whole. Ok, I REALLY didn't just type that did I? LOL Anyhow, this is a great read. Meet two people with emotional scars (not to mention a few physical ones, too) that heal each other and fall in love. A similar read is Adam's Fall by Sandra Brown (which I read years ago).
This one started out right from the get go not working for me. First off, the story is told completely from there heroine, Dione’s POV. I like to see the hero’s POV but we never get it in this book. Thus I did not like Blake. He got on my nerves even before we ‘meet’ him with his ‘willing himself to death because he can’t walk’ attitude. Sure it’s a rotten thing to have happened to him. He was a vital and risk taking kind of guy, but to me he was a coward with his attitude and since we never see his thoughts. I couldn’t get past that. We never got to know him in any sense of the word – unlike most Linda Howard books.
I mostly liked Dione, the heroine, although her poor me, I’ll never be a ‘normal woman able to show more love and bear children’ got a bit wearing after a while. Once we got to see why she was like that, her secrets, it was a bit more understandable
And back to Blake. I often see readers say they doubt the hero/heroine can have a HEA but me being the optimist that I am, rarely see this in a book. But in this book, I wouldn’t give them a snowball’s chance in hell of making it past a couple of years at most without Dione getting therapy. She had been emotionally damaged much earlier in life and although Blake claimed to understand her, he never really did and made a couple of real dumbass mistakes. At one point in the book Dione and his sister shared a look that he caught and insisted on knowing what it was all about. Then when she wouldn’t tell him, he got a bit rough with her. At that point, she should have left his sorry ass but she didn’t. And then he put on an annoying display of jealousy and mistrust not long after that. Sorry, but jealousy in a guy is just another way of saying you don’t trust your woman. Then later still he steamrolled all over what she was trying to say – that it won’t work out. He just kept on – not listening to her.
Like I said, I finished the book. But I really didn’t like it. show less
I mostly liked Dione, the heroine, although her poor me, I’ll never be a ‘normal woman able to show more love and bear children’ got a bit wearing after a while. Once we got to see why she was like that, her secrets, it was a bit more understandable
And back to Blake. I often see readers say they doubt the hero/heroine can have a HEA but me being the optimist that I am, rarely see this in a book. But in this book, I wouldn’t give them a snowball’s chance in hell of making it past a couple of years at most without Dione getting therapy. She had been emotionally damaged much earlier in life and although Blake claimed to understand her, he never really did and made a couple of real dumbass mistakes. At one point in the book Dione and his sister shared a look that he caught and insisted on knowing what it was all about. Then when she wouldn’t tell him, he got a bit rough with her. At that point, she should have left his sorry ass but she didn’t. And then he put on an annoying display of jealousy and mistrust not long after that. Sorry, but jealousy in a guy is just another way of saying you don’t trust your woman. Then later still he steamrolled all over what she was trying to say – that it won’t work out. He just kept on – not listening to her.
Like I said, I finished the book. But I really didn’t like it. show less
Physiotherapist Dione helps Blake to walk again, after an accident, and helps him to rebuild his mind as well as his legs.
By accomplishing that, she seems to have unleashed an overbearing, jealous tyrant, who rides roughshod over her feelings, as she helplessly falls in love with him.
I'd like to have seen the story from Blake's viewpoint, though, there were snatches, here and there.
Uneven and unsatisfying
By accomplishing that, she seems to have unleashed an overbearing, jealous tyrant, who rides roughshod over her feelings, as she helplessly falls in love with him.
I'd like to have seen the story from Blake's viewpoint, though, there were snatches, here and there.
Uneven and unsatisfying
After re-reading Tears of the Renegade I decided to re-read this one. Although a bit dated, this remains a strong romance. There isn't enough male POV for me, though.
This was written in 1984. An unusual story. Two people who found a partner to complement their deepest needs.
Re-read book, review on my blog: http://moonlighttotwilightblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/come-lie-with-me-by-linda-ho...
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Linda Howard was born on August 3, 1950. She went on to a small community college, as the only journalism major, but soon dropped out to work at a trucking company as a secretary. She sold her first book to Silhouette Books in 1980. She has written over 50 books including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To show more Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, Dying to Please, Open Season, All the Queen's Men, Kill and Tell, Mr. Perfect, Son of the Morning, Troublemaker, and The Woman Left Behind. She has received several awards including the Romance Writers of America's RITA, the Silver Pen for Affaire de Coeur as well as the Romantic Time's Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Sensual Romance, the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award for Series, and the W.I.S.H. Award for her character Joe Mackenzie. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1984-06-01
- People/Characters
- Blake Remington; Dione Kelley
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- Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Arizona, USA; Wisconsin, USA
- First words
- The ocean had a hypnotic effect. Dione gave in to it without a struggle, peacefully watching the turquoise waves roll onto the blindingly white sand.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She laughed again, drunk with pleasure. She lifted her arms to the sun. "For as long as you want me," she promised. "Then you'll go to your grave as my lady," he said. "And even that won't be the end of it."
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The first edition of Come Lie With Me was published by Silhouette, New York, (1984) as Silhouette Special Editions #177, with ISBN-10: 067153677X.
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