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Summary: This is a hot book.
Review: The lovehate relationship between Faith and Gray caught me I couldn't put te book down. The mystery behind Gray's father's
dispearance was very intriguing. A very steamy book.
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Summary: Linda Howard's After the Night is a hot read!
Review: I recently read After the Night. I enjoyed both the primary and secondary plots. Faith is a woman driven to provide a place for herself and to resolve old conflicts with the one man who has haunted her all of her life. The hero is a man used to getting what he wants. The settings are rich in texture the sex it hot and steamy. The subplot of murder holds your interest and the secondary characters are also richly drawn. If you like Linda Howard books you will love this book. This one is a keeper
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Summary: Boy oh boy!
Review: Another good novel from Linda Howard!Never a boring moment.
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Summary: GIVE THIS ONE A TRY
Review: I don't know if I read the same book as the reviewer who thought Gray was mean to Faith. It was obvious he loved her and any "meanness" was due to his need to have her. I liked this story and all its characters very much. The mystery was also great and I must say I didn't guess who the villian was. The story held me spellbound and the mystery unfolded evenly throughout the text. The love scenes were terrific and there were just enough to enjoy without overpowering the story and the mystery. Give this book a try. I think it should appeal to both mystery and romance lovers. I gave it four stars instead of five because I thought there were parts that were overly drawn out and I skimmed a few areas, but it was well worth read.
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Summary: One of her best (one of many)
Review: I read this book in 1998 and have continued to reread it again and again through out the years. Linda Howard is a talented author who can combine mystery and romance perfectly. If you like both you will love this book.
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Summary: Romance and suspense
Review: Faith Devlin has always worshipped Gray Rouillard from afar since she was a child. He was from a rich kid from Prescott, Louisiana and she came from the otherside of the tracks, living in a run down shack with her drunken father and flirtatious mother, three brothers and sister. Gray was already in college when Faith, as an 11 year old child, would hoard pieces of information about her hero. She lived in a world of daydreams to escape from her humdrum life. Her life is turned upsidedown when at 14 years old, her mother is suspected of running away with Gray's father. Suddenly she and her remaining family are turned out of their home and driven from Prescott by Gray, who is angry about his father running away with Faith's mother.
12 years later, Faith has made a life for herself, pulling herself up and out of the slums. She was accused of being trash and returns to Prescott to prove to the habitants that she is not trash and also to find out about the disappearance of Gray's father, Guy Rouillard, for she now knows that he did not run away that fateful night with her mother.
As Faith investigates the disappearance of Guy Rouillard she is comes across many many stumbling blocks and many enemies. Her enemy number one is Gray Rouillard himself. When they meet again after 12 years, the mutual attraction is instant. However, Faith knows that falling for the charms of Gray will only bring her heartache and Gray wants Faith out of town at all costs as he does not want her stirring up old wounds.
This was an exceptional read indeed. The tension between Gray and Faith is electrifying. You ride a roller coaster of emotions with Faith, first when she is a young child with the World on her shoulders and later when she is tracking the disappearance of Guy. Gray is mean but caring at the same time. Although he hurts Faith's feelings he is also protective towards her. The suspense in the story is heart stopping and I did not guess about the villain in the book until near the end. A very highly recommended read.
Lea Ling Tsang
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Summary: Page Turner
Review: This was the first Linda Howard book I read and since then I have bought 3 others. If you are looking for a good romance novel with an actual story line, this is the book for you. Faith is a beautiful girl with a bad family name, who moved away and made something of herself, while Grant is a rich boy with a great name who is intrigued when this beautiful woman comes back into his life. He is torn with the decission to keep his good name or follow his heart.
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Summary: One of her best (one of many)
Review: I read this book in 1998 and have continued to reread it again and again through out the years. Linda Howard is a talented author who can combine mystery and romance perfectly. If you like both you will love this book.
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Summary: GIVE THIS ONE A TRY
Review: AYE, this book drove me NUTS! I read until she grew up, and then I took 2 weeks off the book because the story was already so real. It made me depressed just because I know this happens to people.Once I picked the book back up I got really into the story. LH writes great, strong characters so I knew I wouldn't be disappointed. The storyline was well, and real, but for some reason this book just didn't blow me away like the others. It was a great story, and worth the time, just not her best.
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Summary: took so long to get started
Review: I viewed a lot of lists concerning Linda Howard's novels, and I saw "After the Night" a couple of times as their number 1 favorite. When I finally got a copy of it, I was so excited, saying mentally, " this is going to be good, i know it..." As it turns out, it's started to be good at PAGE 172 or so.I didn't know that. And while I was reading, I was asking over and over again, am I in the good part yet?" That was the disadvantage of SOLELY relying to other ppol's opinions. They have different tastes.
Anyway, back to the novel in question...It wasn't that bad. As I was saying, the momentum began when I was halfway through it. I didn't like Gray that much and his change of heart towards Faith...well, let's just say that all I can see brewing up is the sexual attraction between them. Howard added a spoonful of protectiveness in his character just so it wouldn't be completely phony...As for Faith, my goodness, wat's there to doubt? She's the most "faithful" heroine I ever read. Her love for Gray never simmered through the years and she didn't let their family feud destroy her feelings for him. The difference between their emotions is that, Gray's affections were rooted from lust-oh okay-a bit of that protectiveness I mentioned above...and for Faith, they started as a child's innocent admiration and were strengtened as she battled poverty and her family's legacy.
So there yo go, too cold for Gray and too hot for Faith and u have lukewarm, not the best comparison...but close enough.
Finally, if it's Howard, then u can surely put ur money that there will be a mystery. I thought it was a good plot, but it was very easy to guess the culprit because Howard didn't really supply us a lot of candidates. All in all, I give it a four, it was an OK read, but not best of her works, in my opinion.
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