Innocent Fire

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Summary: Very Enjoyable!!!
Review: I love this book! I have read it several times. One of Ms. Joyce's best. Will keep you up all night. It is the first of the Bragg saga. After you read this you will definitely go on to read the rest which are also must reads.

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Summary: One of the best
Review: I loved this book because it was not typical, this was a great story with a cute ending. My friend let me borrow it and I couldn't put it down, ever since then i have read almost all the Bragg Family novels.

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book because it has a great depth to love and life in this story. This romance vents how wonderful love can be, yet at the same time it expresses the toughness of living.

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Summary: Not her best!
Review: I was not impressed with this story. It was really hard for me to identify with and like Miranda. She was such a wimp and cried all the time.

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Summary: Never a dull moment
Review: Ms Joyce certainly knows how to keep a reader enthralled from start to finish. Neither the story or the characters were predictable, which is as it should be with any good novel, romance or otherwise. I look forward to the other books in the series. Brenda, you have a new fan!

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Summary: Super
Review: This is an excellant book. It is the first in the wonderful Bragg series. Get this book. Miranda is a beautiful, sensitive woman from a convent in France. She comes to America to meet and marry her husband, and meets her husband's friend, a wild, half-breed named Derek. Derek falls for Miranda on the spot, and she is attracted to this rugged man but she is going to marry his friend. Together the battle each other, a passion, the wild west, an a crazy madman who wants Miranda for his own. This is an excellant, sensual book.

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Summary: Superbly Done!
Review: This is the best romance book I have ever, ever read! Authors should look at this book for inspiration. A MUST READ!

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Summary: Splendid!
Review: This was a truly moving book. It held my attention. The characters really come alive through Brenda Joyce's creative story telling abilities!

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Summary: A THOUGHT PROVOKING BOOK. . INTERESTING
Review: This was a very good book to read, kept interest all the way through,and made you feel as if you were one of the charavters. ..GREAT!

If you are looking for other romance novels that truly touch your heart, you might try, Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher.I intended to give this book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful.

"Stolen Moments " which is reminiscent of "Love Story" is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. Like"Love Story" it is about a dying woman who has found true love. It is the love story of the nineties." It is a spellbinder. One I got reading I could hardly put it down. what terrific writing, Barbara has an exceptional gift!

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Summary: Monotonous
Review: This was one of the worst romance novels I've ever read, which says a lot since I read many of them and Brenda Joyce is a favorite author of mine. The continual Indian attacks and abductions got really tiring after a while. Also, it's a little hard to buy that an annoying weakling like Miranda could have survived the rapes, abductions, etc. that she went through. Good grief, she couldn't handle someone holding her hand, so she wouldn't have been able to handle some of the situations that Joyce puts her in. We are introduced to a convent-raised girl who blushes when someone looks her in the eye, and we're supposed to believe that she can bounce right back from rapes, kidnapping, etc.??? That's stretching it. I found myself wanting the hero to dump her and find someone more worthwhile.