Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Kallmaker leaves me wanting more.:

I read Touchwood before I read Watermark and I have to admit to having mixed feelings about the first book. While I thought Louisa was a great woman, I never really bought her relationship with Rayann. That said, I absolutely adored Teresa in Watermark. She was intelligent, witty, and well-written. She is, by far, one of my favorite Kallmaker characters. I was definitely hoping she and Rayann would be successful in their romance. Kallmaker handled Rayann's "hurt and pain" throughout the book realistically.... more info

Quality:

I always hear lots of complaints about the lack of quality of lesbian romances, but it seems that given a book of high quality writing, like this one, people still want a big happy ending without any mess from real life. Well I was pleased even though the ending was ambiguous for Teresa and Rayann. Mostly because the writing was so beautiful and this book is as close to life as a 'romance' can get. I really did not want things to turn out the way they did for Louisa but life is like that. It was unexpected... more info

Heartbreaking!:

This book was so sad and I cried and cried. I thought about it for days afterward. Images from it haunted me and scared me. I help my girlfriend a little bit tighter and wondered what it would feel like on some ordinary day to get a phone call like the one that Rayann did.

But like Rayann, after time went by, I began to get past all the grief, and I realized that Terese is witty and smart, honest and rash, flawed and lovable. Very, very different from the first great love of Rayann's life. Like Rayann,... more info

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