Night Fire

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Summary: Good love story - maybe could have been better?
Review: Airelle is certainly a young lady with a sad and horrific past and she is so fortunate to have someone like Burke Drummond to have fallen in love with her 3 years before, and devoted and patient to find a way to achieve marriage between them. This is such an unbelievable love story - I think the only weakness is perhaps the development of how Airelle began to change her feelings for Burke. Certainly he was patient and unbelievably caring and devoted and seemed to do all the right things - just on an emotional level I am not exactly sure what caused Airelle to actually accept Burke's love. And the ending with the crazed nanny and Entinne - that would have seemed to immediately drawn Burke and Airelle together - to skip then to the wedding 3 weeks later and they are still coming together just seemed a little weak - I mean most of the time when there is such an intense scene as almost dying in the fire couples cannot bare to be away from one another. For the most part though I love Coulter books and look forward to the others in this series!

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Summary: I read this book in 12 hours...
Review: I enjoyed it, but I thought it moved too slow at times. It picked up towards the end though. I thought more exciting things should have happened for Arielle to get to trust Burke. I liked the part when he protected her from getting stabbed, proving to her how much he cared for her.

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Summary: Sigh.....
Review: I have just started to write my reviews on this website. I always read the other ones before I write my own. I love how Catherine Coulter writes so differently from other historical romance writers. Her books always have taboos and serious issues. According to a lot of the reviews I read about Catherine Coulter on this website, alot of people are always putting her down for writing about things that actually did and do happen to women all over the world. I don't enjoy reading romance novels that are sugar coated, so her books always make me rush to the book store to pick them up. If things like domestic abuse and over bearing men offend some women, then quit reading historical romances. Besides, it's only fiction anyway.

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Summary: It was Good in 89 and its good now!
Review: I have read all three books in the Night Trilogy. I like it when Catherine goes back and cleans up a book or even adds to it. I personally like the orginials. This book is no exception to her skills. It was kind of hard for me to read through the abuse part but at least she had some one to love her completely.Its not for those who like your typical girl meets boy amd fall in love. I felt sorry for the nanny who lost her mind and became a murdering psycho who turns on her charge.Then there's the sister who keeps her husband with sex. Talk about a screwly family. Its a must read.

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Summary: Night Fire....a fantastic read!
Review: In "Night Fire", you find a touching and intense love story between Arielle Leslie, and the man she had an interest in as a teen, Burke Drummond. You will ride along with them as they conquer Arielle's troubled, and painful, past marriage. You can get involved in the Drummond family, and come to love them as I did. It is a great example of how abuse was dealt with in the past, and a better example of how to deal with it after the fact. So, sit back and enjoy!

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Summary: Great...but who was the editor?
Review: The book was great, but the only thing I have a problem with it was that you couldn't get the spelling of Arielle's name right. But I do recommend this book. I read it any spare time I had.

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Summary: Superb
Review: This is an excellent romance book. I hadn't read anything quite like it at the time, and this book will always remain one of my favorites. Excellent!

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Summary: Night Fire
Review: This is one of the very first romance novels I ever read. A friend of mine stole it from her mom and lent it to me in Eighth grade. Years later, my best friend and I were discussing our favorite romance novels, and this one came up. It took me 3 weeks to find it, but now that I have, I'm thrilled that it's back in my collection! This is the book that made me want to read more romance novels. I love the characters and the story, as it is very different than any book I have ever read. Arielle's character is very touching and you want her to be strong and get over her fears. Burke is one of the best male characters around. He's not rude or mean or in any way a jerk. I recommend this book for any historical romance fan!

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Summary: Not bad. 2nd best in Trilogy
Review: This was a quick and interesting read about Burke and Arielle Drummond. This is the first in the night trilogy. Night Shadow is my favorite and Night Storm can be tossed in the trash. Catherine gets a little too explicit with her 'lust' scenes, though, and I feel no real love matches were made in these books. I found myself championing for Arielle in the end.

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Summary: Barely Adequate
Review: Well, there must be something about this book, since it's been around since 1989 and has had numerous printings. I'm just not sure it's worth the effort when there are a lot of really great romance novels that are here and gone distressingly quickly. Having the heroine initially locked in an abusive marriage rang true - women in that time really would have had nowhere to turn when trapped in such a situation. Their husbands essentially owned them, and could pretty much do as they liked. I liked the hero, Burke Drummond, and could see why he was attracted to Arielle, and she to him. But the coincidental plans from two different people to abduct Arielle on the same day and in the same manner? Hmmmm. And Burke's belief that it was okay to kidnap Arielle in order to press his suit? Kidnapping wasn't illegal back then? I suppose English earls could get away with just about anything, but still.... And what's the deal with the cliche raging fever after being out in the rain for what seemed like a very short time? She couldn't have been too out of it if she later remembered stories Burke told her while she was allegedly completely unconscious. Plus, while allegedly unconscious, she did affirmatively respond to verbal commands to do things like say "I do" at her wedding, and to sign her name - as long as those commands were delivered in a stern tone of voice. Double hmmmm. The villains were okay, but Dorcas's problems (Dorcas was Arielle's old nurse/maid/compainion) later in the book were a little hard to buy into. So, overall, this book was just average, and that's being really, really charitable. Parts were good, parts not, and an awful lot was given to the reader through narrative, rather than shown through actions and dialogue. I have read several of Catherine Coulter's books now, but primarily her contemporary novels. I have several of her historicals waiting to be read, and I understand they're where her reputation was made. And I do appreciate her candor when a book has been reissued, or rewritten and reissued (with this book she says she "just cleaned it up a bit," rather than a complete rewrite) - I wish all authors would be so candid. But I have yet to discover what made this author one with a large number of appearances on the NYT bestseller lists. My recommendation on this book? If you're a Coulter fan you've probably already read it. If not, and you still want to, definitely look for it in a used book store or your local library if you feel compelled to read it. With all those twenty-some-odd printings, it shouldn't be hard to find.