The Brevity of Roses - Linda Cassidy Lewis Read my full review at: http://bit.ly/N55wtXI must admit that I loved this book. It was an intelligently written romance...although, I think it fit more into simply a contemporary genre due to the "moral" of the story being something much deeper than one would find in a traditional romance novel.As a debut author, I was particularly impressed with Ms. Lewis' ability to weave an intricate story line while developing characters so rich and deep that one felt they were in the scenes as dialogue was occurring. Even the description of scenery was done in such a poetic fashion seen more in her more published contemporaries. I absolutely love it when I find authors (or they find me), such as Ms. Lewis, because it is wonderful to find a rock star just beginning to shine and one can say "Yep...I knew her when!"