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Summary: Engrossing ride through the gamut of human emotions
Review: Evening Star is one of those rare wonderful books that the reader feels forlorn after it is over. Our hero and heroine, Alex Saxton and Giana Van Cleve, are such well-drawn and fascinating human beings that they become the reader's riveting intimate friends as their very realistic yet exciting lives are played out in a delightfully sensual, heartbreakingly emotional and always entertaining plot with endless twists. The novel is so engrossing that I had to read its 420 pages in one sitting.
The willfully independent Giana is saved from the matrimonial clutches of a cunning fortune hunter when her wealthy shipbuilding mother Aurora sends her from London to Rome for a very enlightening summer education with her Uncle Daniele. What Aurora doesn't know is that Daniele not only gives her a glimpse of the seedier side of life but makes her hang out in a high class brothel posing as one of its girls, though no one is allowed to touch her. Her ultimate test is her posing as one of the virgins to be sold at the astounding Roman Flower Auction. But nothing goes as planned, and Alex Saxton wins the bid for the intriguing and saucy Giana. Four years after her incredible escape from him and his festering humiliation, he encounters her again in London-a formidable opponent in a major business negotiation. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and the desire to have her no matter what. What he gets is something he never bargained for. For a breathtaking and thoroughly entertaining ride through the gamut of human emotions, don't miss Evening Star. Like many Catherine Coulter novels, it's a sure bet.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Great read! I enjoyed this book so much. If historical romance is your favorite genre please don't miss this one.
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Summary: CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
Review: i actually paid full retail for this book!! what a great waste of [price]. the first 175 pages was nothing but soft porn, no storyline whatsoever....i really had no plans on reading anymore, but i figured i would skim here and there. there is no story. i definitely will not read any more of coulters books. if you feel compelled to read this, try the library or used book store!!
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Summary: An OK book but not great...
Review: I have read many romances and this wasn't in the category of the best read, yet it wasn't the worst. It had it's moments toward the begining of the book, but lost its luster toward the end. I expected more... The motives of the characters didn't really ring clear for me toward the end of the book.
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Summary: CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
Review: I needed to kill a few hours waiting for my train, so I bought this. It was well worth the (money). I have read a lot of her romance novels, mostly her modern ones- this was my first of her historical romance novels. I thought what her mother did was harsh to force her daughter to "special education" in order to make her see what it means to be married. I don't really blame her uncle (mother's friend), he was just trying to save her from the fortune hunter. I really like how independent and intelligent her character was. She was a business women and didn't care what others thought of her using her brains.
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Summary: I loved it
Review: I needed to kill a few hours waiting for my train, so I bought this. It was well worth the (money). I have read a lot of her romance novels, mostly her modern ones- this was my first of her historical romance novels. I thought what her mother did was harsh to force her daughter to "special education" in order to make her see what it means to be married. I don't really blame her uncle (mother's friend), he was just trying to save her from the fortune hunter. I really like how independent and intelligent her character was. She was a business women and didn't care what others thought of her using her brains.
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Summary: Cheap Trick
Review: I read this when it was originally published as SWEET SURRENDER. While I enjoyed it the first time through (4 stars), I was very upset to find that this "new title" was the identical book, republished with a new name. No rewrite. Not something I missed along the way. Just a verbatim copy of SWEET SURRENDER - renamed to "fit" the original Star Trilogy and make it a Quartet. As a long time fan of C.C., Catherine, you're better than that.
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Summary: Ridiculous
Review: Once again Catherine Coulter has written a very stupid book! I could not believe she could actually call this a love story. If I want to read porn books, I would go to the adult shop. I hate the explicit sex scenes in her books. I am looking for love, not lust. And then to have an uncle who would treat a neice this way, like a sex object, come on Catherine. I hate her books and have read quite a few, almost all hoping for a good one. Well there have been maybe 2 out of the 100 or so she's written. Jade Star was my favorite. She is drawn out and boring in most of her books,and she always overuses words.Can't she come up with any new ones? Don't bother with this one girls, yuk.
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Summary: Waste of money and time
Review: The heroine Giana is an idiot who willfully falls in love with a fortune hunter. By the end of the book she has been enlightened by a tacky summer trip to Italy with her Uncle Daniele to tour brothels, etc. In one instance in particular, her uncle makes Giana strip in front of himself and another whore. Giana gets home and immediately dumps fortune hunter boy because she all of a sudden recognizes his faults. Her mother technically okays the trip. It is hard to believe; however, that the whole fiasco could ever have happened because, regardless of her mother's business practices, a typically well bred english woman would never do this to her daughter. The story jumps around too much. The hero Alex practically rapes the heroine both the first time they meet (without success) and the second (with success and even though she is sick with the flu). He then forces her to marry him after she makes it clear to us and to him that she doesn't like him. He treats her badly and she still falls in love with him despite all she learned about him during her Italy trip. The only story in this book worth reading is the one about Giana's mother, Aurora. The author should have written this as her story from the beginning instead of wasting time on the other two sorry main characters. Giana's character really seems like two different people. Spoiled little idiot rich girls don't change that much or that quickly. This is a silly book. This author does not write books that I consider be good and this one is no exception. I won't be reading any more of her books.
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Summary: Waste of money and time
Review: The heroine Giana is an idiot who willfully falls in love with a fortune hunter. By the end of the book she has been enlightened by a tacky summer trip to Italy with her Uncle Daniele to tour brothels, etc. In one instance in particular, her uncle makes Giana strip in front of himself and another whore. Giana gets home and immediately dumps fortune hunter boy because she all of a sudden recognizes his faults. Her mother technically okays the trip. It is hard to believe; however, that the whole fiasco could ever have happened because, regardless of her mother's business practices, a typically well bred english woman would never do this to her daughter. The story jumps around too much. The hero Alex practically rapes the heroine both the first time they meet (without success) and the second (with success and even though she is sick with the flu). He then forces her to marry him after she makes it clear to us and to him that she doesn't like him. He treats her badly and she still falls in love with him despite all she learned about him during her Italy trip. The only story in this book worth reading is the one about Giana's mother, Aurora. Should have written this as her story from the beginning instead of wasting time on the other two sorry main characters. Giana's character really seems like two different people. Spoiled little idiot rich girls don't change that much or that quickly. This is a silly book. This author does not write books that I consider be good and this one is no exception. I won't be reading any more of her books and the only reason I am giving her two stars is because she manages to have Aurora's story and the book is about 400 pages long.
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