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Summary: he's a cheat!!!!
Review: The book might have been good if Ms. Coulter hadn't turned the main charater Graelam in an insecure adulter, I also hated the fact the his adultery was never really delt with. The book was 463 pages long and he only realized he loved his wife after 422 pages. That was just too long Ms. Coulter. The sad this was even after she lost their 1st baby he was still eyeing other women and the adultery didn't stop. I'm glad he realized he loved Kassia but I still can not imagine him ever acutually being faithful to her under any circumstance. The book was heartbreaking to say the least, and the so-called happy ending came just a little to late for my taste.
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Summary: It an exceptionally intellectual and sensual read
Review: This book skillfully depicts the life of women back in the medieval times. It very accurately shows the environment and culture. It seems that the author, Catherine Coulter, spent a great deal of effort and time in extensively and completely researching the time that this trilogy takes place in. It seems that she did not just sit down and write what came to her, but diligently researched and thought about her topic. It is a very historically accuracte novel, and it is an exceptionally intellectual and sensual read.
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Summary: LOVED IT!!
Review: This book was one of the best books I have ever read. When I first started reading this book I thought Kassia was going to be one of those "weak heroines." I was wrong. Kassia is very strong, and stayed strong throughout the book without being stupid. You know what I mean: those women who disobey and put their husband in danger and thereafter are considered intelligent and free spirited (please). Well, Kassia is not one of those . . . free spirited women. She is intelligent and caring without being weak. Graelam believes that a woman is only good for breeding and pleasing her husband. Well, how many books have we read with a hero like this? I agree. However, Graelam is somehow different. It takes him a long time to come around and during this time he does do cruel things to Kassia: sleeping with the servants and raping Kassia. Still, somehow you've got to feel sorry for a guy whose wife refuses to sleep with him. You have to remember that it's a book and what other way for a book to be a page-turner other than to have every emotion imaginable? Emotion is what this book has plenty of. How boring a book when it's all roses.
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Summary: Good Story, Bad Hero
Review: This is a story that you cannot put down until you finish. The hero, Graelam, was introduced in a preceding novel by Catherine Coulter called Chandra. I read Chandra before Fire Song and read about the way Graelam ruthlessly raped a young woman who was a virgin. He did it out of some sort of power trip, and it made me thououghly disgusted with his character. After reading that, I could not see him in any sort of heroic light and it sort of ruined fire song for me. A man who commits any kind of rape, is no hero and I don't like how the author makes him out to be one in this novel. I believe it gives the message that rape is okay and it makes me sick. I do not care what century this book takes place in, rape is wrong.
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Summary: Bad characters, not at all romantic
Review: Well I was really disappointed in this book. First of all the characters were really bad. The women was such wimp and she never gets better. The man is pure jerk and even though she tries to improve his character at the very end, it is just too late. For me a romance novel is suppose to be more fantasy than reality and this book is pure horror. I absolutly hated it.
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