Promise Me Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 5, 2010

I have all their books.

Hi! I bought "Promise Me" thinking it would be my traditional "buy a Christmasy book that makes me cry and I get pissed because it made me cry and yet I can't stop reading it", well I was right - it did and I did.Although I have to admit the first half of the book, I was just okay with and unfortunately I felt the way Beth made you feel about her upcoming family Christmas dinner at the very beginning to be a tad overrated but it did what I'm sure the author intended - hooked you into reading the story to find out why she felt the way she did. I know it worked with me cause I wanted to find out what the heck she was so afraid of. I did love that the book was in first-person with Beth telling the story - I absolutely love books like that cause I really get more into the story that way.Beth with her 1st husband, I could have smacked the bejeezes out of him, but the fact that Beth helped him, was exactly what I expected her to do for him. Her meeting Matthew is a dream for a lot of woman - you're at your lowest point in every way, with low self-esteem and here comes Mr.-SoapOpera-Star-Looks and he wants a relationship with you. What woman wouldn't want a gorgrous man pursuing you?I really started enjoying the book when Beth wants to stop seeing Matthew (no I'm not really giving anything away by saying that). From that point on I absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed the book and yes I did cry at various points, especially at the end. I also wish, as I'm sure a lot of people, someone had given me a manilla envelope like the one Beth is given toward the end. The truth about Matthew? Personally, I never would have guessed who he really was, I actually thought he was someone else, but I was totally wrong in that scenario.The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because I didn't feel the same about the ENTIRE story. Would I recommend this book to someone else? Yes I would but I would be honest about my feelings about the beginning part.

What d'ya do when one of your favorite authors offers a free Kindle to the reader with the best Amazon review of his latest book ... but you don't have the book - and the book store is a one-hour round trip away?Try this: Go to Amazon. Find an application called Kindle for PC. Load the program, buy the book and start reading 15 minutes later.Ya gotta love technology. I even forgot I wasn't reading a real hold-it-in-my-hands book! Wow, what a book!I set out to do here what I do with many of my reviews - tell you the author is gifted at his craft, weaves words into visual and sensual and emotional images to make the reader feel as if she's right there living the narrator's life, and creates characters as real as your next door neighbor or as surreal as an angel dropped in your midst. Sure, it's all true. Anyone who has ever read Evans knows all this, right? Hmm, what can I say to grab your attention and Evans's?In the opening pages of _Promise Me_, the author hooks us with two things - jewelry from old lovers and a secret. Readers with any of these in their pasts - jewelry, old lovers, or secrets - are instantly drawn in and pulled back to their own stories. All readers are propelled forward - a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a page, a chapter at a time. Along the way, Evans leads his readers down a path strewn with love, sadness, hope, disappointment, trust, betrayal, adventure, and more. As with his other books, the story keeps drawing the reader in, offering a roller coaster ride with peaks and valleys, twists and turns, and a 'Whew! We made it! What a ride!" kind of ending.Don't be misled into thinking, "Oh, another Christmas book. La-de-da. How many more can he write?" _Promise Me_ is fresh and new and spellbinding. I locked myself in my room until I finished it - and, believe me, it was worth it!Just think, Richard, if I win that Kindle, I can read all your books this way - maybe even my own someday! Promise Me

Promise Me "PROMISE ME" WILL TAKE YOU ON AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, TO A PLACE IN YOUR HEART YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED.. IT IS A PROFOUNDLY HEART WRENCHING LOVE STORY BETWEEN A MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER AND AN AMAZING MAN WHO CHANGES EVERYTHNG. TRULY AMAZING AND UNPREDICTABLE CHAPTER AFTER CHAPTER. ONCE YOU ENTER IN, THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL WANT TO PUT IT DOWN, AND YOU WILL NEVER WANT IT TO END.. SOMEHOW IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY, IT NEVER REALLY DOES END. ITS SECRETS AND TWISTS WILL HAVE YOU RESPONDING OUT LOUD AS YOU JOURNEY THROUGH IT. THE DETAILED PLACES WILL MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE RIGHT THERE.IT'S A STORY THAT WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING, CRYING, THINKING, AND BELIEVING IN MIRACLES.. I FOUND MYSELF HUGGING MY DAUGHTER MORE INTENCELY AFTER READING THIS STORY AS THE CHILD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOCUS, AND I RELATED TO THIS FABULOUS BOOK SO MUCH, BEING A YOUNG WIDOW AND HAVING ONE DAUGHTER. I KNOW ILL BE READING THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND CHERISH THIS STORY FOREVER. THE YUMMY BONUS RECIPIES ARE A SUPRISE GIFT, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL EVEN MORE PART OF THE STORY! DON'T WAIT GET "PROMISE ME" NOW...YOU WILL LOVE IT, I PROMISE YOU! THANK YOU RICHARD PAUL EVANS, THIS BOOK WILL JOIN THE MANY OTHER MUCH TREASURED RICHARD PAUL EVANS BOOKS IN MY SPECIAL LIBRARY.............(¯`O'¯)............*./ | \ .*..............*'*.........., * '*'* ' * ,....... '** '''**'..... ' *, * '' ' * ,* ' ....' * * '*'*'* * ' ... * , * Merry' * , * ' ...* ' *''*'*'' * ' * ' ' ' * Christmas . * ' ' ' ' ' * '''*'*'''* * ' '..............x'x................' ''''''''''''''''''' ''<3 "PROMISE ME" <3 ' '''''''''''''''''''

I'm a fan of Richard Paul Evans. His stories seem simple but they are profound. Promise Me made me cry a few times. I guess it was just the end (no spoilers) that made me cringe. Anyways, I'm always looking forward to more of Richard P. Evans' stories!

Good book