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Summary: Great!!
Review: One of her best books! A must read
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Summary: Good Mystery... Not as Romantic as Others
Review: Petals in the Storm comes as the second in the Fallen Angel Series. If you pay attention to the time line though, these books are not really in chronological order. Rafe, the Duke of Candover and the oldest of the Fallen Angels, fell in love right out of school. However, this young man that always was an aristocrat and rarely showed weakness let his pride and anger ruin his chances with the girl. When a mission takes him to Paris, much to his surprise his contact turns out to be the girl only she's now in disguise and one of the best spies for England. Margot Ashton is not the same girl that Rafe fell in love with. She has known excrutiating pain at the hands of men and only trusts one man explicitly... Robin, her protector of many years. As Rafe works through his feelings, his jealousy grows towards Robin and his fear for Margot in this dangerous masquerade begins to consume him. In the end, Rafe, Margot and Robin face their greatest enemy together and find an unlikely alliance that leads Margot and Rafe to the love they denied so many years ago. It's worth having for the bookshelf. It's more whodunit than romance. The sensuality is not really there like in Thunder and Roses. But it's still a good read and I really liked Rafe from his other roles in the Bargain and Thunder and Roses.
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Summary: Good Mystery... Not as Romantic as Others
Review: Petals in the Storm comes as the second in the Fallen Angel Series. If you pay attention to the time line though, these books are not really in chronological order. Rafe, the Duke of Candover and the oldest of the Fallen Angels, fell in love right out of school. However, this young man that always was an aristocrat and rarely showed weakness let his pride and anger ruin his chances with the girl. When a mission takes him to Paris, much to his surprise his contact turns out to be the girl only she's now in disguise and one of the best spies for England. Margot Ashton is not the same girl that Rafe fell in love with. She has known excrutiating pain at the hands of men and only trusts one man explicitly... Robin, her protector of many years. As Rafe works through his feelings, his jealousy grows towards Robin and his fear for Margot in this dangerous masquerade begins to consume him. In the end, Rafe, Margot and Robin face their greatest enemy together and find an unlikely alliance that leads Margot and Rafe to the love they denied so many years ago. It's worth having for the bookshelf. It's more whodunit than romance. The sensuality is not really there like in Thunder and Roses. But it's still a good read and I really liked Rafe from his other roles in the Bargain and Thunder and Roses.
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Summary: This was one of my favorite romance novels.
Review: PETALS IN THE WIND is one of several novels that together make up Ms. Putney's FALLEN ANGEL series. As a whole, the series is thoughtful and mature, yet passionate, without losing the sense of wonder that draws the reader to romance novels. The hero and heroine of the story are strong-willed, compassionate, and prideful ex-lovers, who after many years of separation and tragedy, must learn to forgive each other and themselves. The background for the lovestory is the political intrigue that took place during the peace talks following the Napoleanic Wars, and the story introduces the hero in Ms. Putney's later novel ANGEL ROUGE. This novel deals with mature themes while being entertaining, and without becoming morose or preachy. This one is well worth keeping, and reading again on a rainy day, particularly as part of the series.
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Summary: Hard to Finish...
Review: The only character I even liked in this never ending book, wasRobin. Our two "romantic" figures, Maggie and Rafe, by page140, have kissed heavily several times yet each time she pulls back and say "no"! What was the point? She was no maiden. It was a bore. And when Rafe suspects Robin of spying, I was ready to throw in the towel and skim to the end of the book. But I didn't and should have. All this hand gripping and fury with one another laced with latent desire was way overplayed. There was not one line of humor in the book. Passion was negligible because Maggie and Rafe acted so silly. Too many pointless starts and stops don't necessarily add passion or interest, but create an aura of stuipdity and disinterest! I had read The Rake, which I enjoyed and then Robin's story, which was okay. Maybe Ms. Putney does not realize that passion does include humor and also, believe it or not, compatibility. Nothing wrong with having some nice qualities in a hero or heroine! Rafe can take his "Duke's stare" - I prefer Robin! Have to wonder about Maggie letting him out of her bed. Don't bother with this book.
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Summary: Hard to Finish...
Review: The only character I even liked in this never ending book, wasRobin. Our two "romantic" figures, Maggie and Rafe, by page140, have kissed heavily several times yet each time she pulls back and say "no"! What was the point? She was no maiden. It was a bore. And when Rafe suspects Robin of spying, I was ready to throw in the towel and skim to the end of the book. But I didn't and should have. All this hand gripping and fury with one another laced with latent desire was way overplayed. There was not one line of humor in the book. Passion was negligible because Maggie and Rafe acted so silly. Too many pointless starts and stops don't necessarily add passion or interest, but create an aura of stuipdity and disinterest! I had read The Rake, which I enjoyed and then Robin's story, which was okay. Maybe Ms. Putney does not realize that passion does include humor and also, believe it or not, compatibility. Nothing wrong with having some nice qualities in a hero or heroine! Rafe can take his "Duke's stare" - I prefer Robin! Have to wonder about Maggie letting him out of her bed. Don't bother with this book.
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Summary: A different spies story
Review: This book is a book of english spies in the early 1800 in France, but is different because the book tells us the personal problems of the spies (of course including a love story) instead of how they do their work or who they are spying, as a matter of fact their work is taken as a second story of the book, it is interesting knowing how a spy do one thing for his country when he really wants to do another thing.
Is a nice and easy story that will relax you while you read.
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Summary: Painful!
Review: This book was terrible. Right from the beginning the characters seemed wooden and lifeless, and they remained that way right throughout the book. The story was too complicated and confusing, and too much emphasis was put on political issues instead of the two main characters. Reading this book, I felt as though I was reading a history book instead of a romance novel. The whole idea of a romance is that it flows easily and that you can relax and enjoy reading it - but for it also to contain a bit of intrigue and suspense, and of course, passion and tension and humour. This book lacked all of the above. A romance book is supposed to have you wishing you were one of the characters. Not this book. I would have hated to have been one of these characters and I was truly grateful when I finished it. And the only reason I finished it was because I kept hoping it would improve. Thankfully I didn't hold my breath.The best thing about this book was the cover!
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Summary: Good, but not quite what I'd hoped for
Review: This is the second of the Fallen Angels series in order of writing, though chronologically it occurs later than a couple of its successors. This is Rafe's story, and it is a book I've been waiting to read ever since I read The Bargain (the end of The Bargain is reprised from Rafe's point of view at the beginning of this book). In The Bargain, Rafe was presented as a cynical rake with shadows in his past, and I was really looking forward to learning more about him, particularly after meeting him again in Thunder and Roses.I was a little disappointed in this book, however. Rafe shares the limelight here with Robin, the hero of Angel Rogue, and as such we don't learn as much about him as we would like. Minor characters also occupy far more of a centre-stage role in this book than in other Putney novels, to the point of having entire scenes written from their point of view, for example. Maggie, or Margot, is a fascinating heroine, and I enjoyed her relationship with both Robin and Rafe - and yes, she did choose the right man! But I had wanted so much to get to know Rafe properly, and - particularly after reading Thunder and Roses, which is just *so* good - I found this book ultimately a bit unsatisfying. I will no doubt read it again, but by no means as often as I'd re-read Thunder and Roses and The Rake.
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Summary: My favorite
Review: This was one of my favorite stories of this series. I absolutly loved the history.
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