Reviews for A prologue to love

The average rating for A prologue to love based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-23 00:00:00 Norman Cohan I read this book many years ago and was struck not only by its haunting message but also the exquisite language throughout the conflicting yet powerful messages of greed and love. When I ran across it on my bookshelves in 2010, I selected it for my Christmas week reading. I wasn't disappointed. The book was as splendid a read as it was originally.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-20 00:00:00 Brett Alstatt Taylor Caldwell remains one of my all-time favorite authors and I find her books relevant and wonderful today. A Prologue to Love -- "her father led her to glittering success but no one taught her how to love" -- is a novel about a wealthy woman in the first half of the 20th century. While the book is sweeping, it is, in the end, a simple parable about how we can be blind to what is truly important and enduring because of deprivation of love, fears born of ignorance, and abused innocence. I love Caldwell's vigorous intelligence, crisp avoidance of sentimentality for pure and honest emotion, and the sheer force of her language. She doesn't write about money for it's glamour as does Danielle Steel, but for it's importance to people -- how it drives them and shapes them.