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Stardust Kindle Edition

by Parris Afton Bonds (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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STAR CROSSED?
She, from Ireland ~ he, from Russia

From the moment of their first meeting, an extraordinary bond was forged between them. A bond that was more than passion. A bond born of national revolutions and personal rebellions. Irish-born Maggie Moran and Russian born Wolf Nichols’ paths were intertwined by the gods ~ and in America they were fated to defy their yearning, both ordained to face their greatest fear ~ that when two powerful wills such as theirs collided, one had to subjugate or destroy the other.

Their's is a bond more than passion and greater than fate.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00T5IW006
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paradise Publishing (February 3, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4633 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 239 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #3,693,842 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,127 in 20th Century Historical Romance eBooks
- #12,964 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books)

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I'M DANCING ON SUNSHINE because you have dropped by my little part of Parris's Paradise. We have some things in common ~ that we believe good overcomes evil; that love triumphs over everything, even death; that we love a tension-packed story; and that we feel the best books enhance our lives.

I write for the reckless of heart. Not surprisingly, I identify with my novels' characters. I suffer with their bewilderments and angsts and rejoice in their joys and triumphs. And I believe that if we heroically hold fast to our own vision for ourselves in our journey’s confrontations and challenges, then Life WILL manifest our dreams and goals and visions, as it does for my characters in my novels.

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Parris Afton Bonds is the mother of five sons and the author of more than fifty published novels. She is co-founder and first vice president of Romance Writers of America.

Declared by ABC’s Nightline as one of three best-selling authors of romantic fiction, the New York Times best seller Parris Afton Bonds has been featured in major newspapers and magazines and published in more than a dozen languages.

The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor a published writer who has given outstandingly of time and talent to other writers. Prestigious recipients of the Parris Award include Tony Hillerman and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Norman Zollinger.

She donates spare time to teaching creative writing to both grade school children and female inmates, both whom she considers her captive audiences.

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KRM

she never fails to deliver a great historical romance

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016

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Bonds does it again! she never fails to deliver a great historical romance! Maggie and Wolf are strong believable, passionate, characters and survivors. through all the twists and turns fate continues to bring them together. Both born in 1900 follow their story across the ocean and America and across the years. i only wish it had not ended so soon!

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Not her usual

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016

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I've read several novels written by PAB and all were well written. If you're looking for light romance, keep searching. The stories I read were sad and often violent. Star Dust wasn't a happy romp in the park, but it was less depressing. I would recommend.

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016

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I enjoyed the plot, the writing style, and the historic references. However, I had trouble liking the hero and heroine.

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weebiscuit

UGH!

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016

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Let me preface this review by stating that I detest romance books. If the cover of the book has some muscle-wrenched, bare-chested man on it, bent over a woman with exposed breasts, I'll pass it by. I guess I should have looked at the covers (and also content) of some of the author's other books before I started reading this one. Covers can be deceiving! In fact, the cover of this book was the best thing about it.

I like historical fiction, if it's well done. I will never understand why an author feels the need to inject porn into what could have been an interesting story. Part of the "spiel" for this book states, "From the moment of their first meeting, an extraordinary bond was forged between them. A bond that was more than passion." When I read that I thought to myself, "Good... more than passion.... these two people must go through some terrible times and surmounted tragedies that bonded them together." I was thinking of the beyond-death relationship in the movie "Ghost," or the passion of Heathcliff and Catherine in "Wuthering Heights," or that of Dr. Zhivago and Lara.... all passionate relationships that were memorable NOT for any sex scenes, but because of incredibly deep, astute, and clever writing which brought them to the public eye. This was not the case with "Star Dust."

The book starts off with a boy being born in pre-Revolutionary Russia, around the turn of the 19th Century, and a girl being born at the same time in Ireland, dominated by the British. They are both born into poor families, and circumstances causes them to flee their countries when each one is in their mid-teens. They end up taking the same ocean liner across the Atlantic and become briefly aquainted with each other. They part after being processed at Ellis Island, only to find themselves suddenly employed by the same very-wealthy family. The boy, named Wolf, becomes their chauffeur, and Maggie, the young lady, becomes their maid. From there, they are once again split apart, as Maggie marries the wealthy employer's son (with his resultant disinheritance by his parents), and Wolf heads out west to find work.

While the first chapter of this book was well-written and interesting, bringing in a lot of history of both the Russian and Irish political and social strife of the era, it quickly devolved into a "let's see how many times we can bring sex into it" sort of story. Wolf starts having sex with wealthy women around age 13 to earn money. Maggie is raped by two British soldiers at age 12. The rest of the book was hell-bent on trying to include as many descriptions of nipples, fingers inserted in warm places, and other cheap sex scenes as possible.

This turned out to be far less historical fiction and far more soft porn. I'm certainly no prude. I was a teenager during the decade of "free love," but as a woman in my 60's now, there's really nothing "new" about sex. Don't authors understand that once a sexual act has been described there's really not a whole lot more to add? We've ALL BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT! But we pick up a book billed as "historical fiction" because we WEREN'T present during the Russian Revolution, or the Irish famine, or the suffragette movement. THOSE are the things I want to read about.

If the blurb describing this book had mentioned even one little thing about the overt, gratuitous, or overly abundant sexual content, I would not have ordered this book. As it was, I made it 70% of the way through it and simply threw in the towel.

I gave this two stars instead of one, however, because the author is not a bad writer, and also because there are many historical events in this story that were fairly well-researched and informative. But for me, the pandering sex acts far outweighed any mitigating historical interest. If you are looking for a book with sexual content, then you'll like this one. But if you prefer a story that is so well-written that it can stand on it's own without throwing in sexual content, pass this one up! The story-line simply was not strong enough to keep me interested.

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Kathleen J Ruggio

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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A story of a woman and a man whose destiny was meant to be. The many trials from scraping from the bottom and having the determination to rise and be successful. Great book that was well thought out.

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017

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Loved this one! The historical/political background is really good and enhances the plot. This one is a great historical romance novel and interesting women's read! Recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2016

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Don't bother reading this one. It took a long time to get into. Was predictable from almost the beginning. There are so many good books to read,don't waste your time on this one.

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016

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Great book. Super story line. Romance, mystery and so many twists you cannot put it down. You end up reading until the story is finished.