It is worth the read! I thought the ending was just pure will make you laugh. Well, 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. After all, didn't he use her time and time again? He KNEW she loved him dearly yet he refused to marry her. That's why even though Amber gets a 'bad rap' in this tale for her behavior I cannot help but think that Bruce is not as innocent as he seems. I also had to put my personal feelings aside for how women were treated by the men! I realize it had to be historically accurate, but I got tired of reading how they were cast aside or paid off after their time with them was no longer useful. While the drama of Amber and her elusive love Bruce drags on there is a myriad of other characters that are woven into the tale that reads like a soap opera. Especially how she displays her excellent nursing and housekeeping skills during the Plague when she nurses Bruce back to health (and he in return). I truly had to put my personal feelings aside for Amber as her true character emerges: self-absorbed, greedy, and shallow. It is riveting as the reader follows Amber as a young 16 year old girl to her mid-twenties. I couldn't help likening the story between 'Fatal Attraction' and 'Dangerous Liasons'. Prior to adopting the moniker of Kathleen Winsors racy novel Forever Amber, the group played the lucrative local cover band circuit of private parties and the.

When I found out that this classic was once a 'banned' book for it's explicit sexual content well.I thought it must be REALLY good! Despite the fact that the book is 900+ pages it is an excellent period piece set in 1660's London.

Forever amber book review