Northern Nights

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Summary: Northern Nights a sure delight!
Review: I just finished reading this pretty thick book in just under 2 days and nights. That more or less means that I enjoyed it, because while I am a swift reader, this particular plot did keep moving very quickly and kept me interested.

I did read the background of the author and did feel though, that while she created a very believable character in Issac, I felt that the behaviours of Elizabeth were not keeping with a prim and proper lady of the late 1800's- and possibly the author could have portrayed her just a bit more realistically. She seemed more a free spirit who would have been better suited to the 1960's with the quick abandoment of her virtues and beliefs.

But overall I did enjoy this book- it produce that much wanted tugging at my heart strings at the appropriate climaxs of the book.

Thank you Ms. Scott for a wonderful read.

Rating:
Summary: Northern Nights a sure delight!
Review: I just finished reading this pretty thick book in just under 2 days and nights. That more or less means that I enjoyed it, because while I am a swift reader, this particular plot did keep moving very quickly and kept me interested.

I did read the background of the author and did feel though, that while she created a very believable character in Issac, I felt that the behaviours of Elizabeth were not keeping with a prim and proper lady of the late 1800's- and possibly the author could have portrayed her just a bit more realistically. She seemed more a free spirit who would have been better suited to the 1960's with the quick abandoment of her virtues and beliefs.

But overall I did enjoy this book- it produce that much wanted tugging at my heart strings at the appropriate climaxs of the book.

Thank you Ms. Scott for a wonderful read.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Review: I really enjoy reading Theresa Scotts books and couldn't wait for her new one to arrive in the stores. I went right out and bought this book the moment it hit the shelves, however, this one disappointed me. Elizabeth was too naive, she kept quoting from etiquette books and when mentioning the white gloves you just want to strangle her. She falls in love and loses her virginity way too quick. She also gives up too quick and when she thought he was dead Elizabeth doesn't waste too much time before she marries. As soon as her husband died from a tragic accident, the same day of his buriel, she is already insisting that they marry. She hardly mourned a full day! That just seemed extremely selfish.

The most frustrating part of the book was that she kept telling him "now we can get married" and this is after his 10th time of saying "I want you but can't marry you". Than she accompanies him to his village thinking he changed his mind and now wants to marry her, but he only thought she needed to get away for awhile. Yet she still insists that they will marry. The girl even pays of one of his people (without his knowledge) to adopt her so he can marry her and he still says "It's nice you now have a new mother, but I still will not marry you". She spends most of this book trying to get him to marry her. Now really, she should have just walked away from him after the first no he said on the subject and told him to get his act together and than come look for her. Very frustrating to see a woman beg a man to marry her especially if she is supposed to be so good and so beautiful. Not at all want I would have hoped for. But I will still look out for any new books Theresa Scott puts out, after all the ones I did read weren't all that bad.

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Summary: bored instead
Review: One of the things I always expect from Ms Scott's novels is well-done research. This book lived up to my expectations. Whenever I can learn about another time or another culture while enjoying a good story at the same time, I turn the last page with a sigh of satisfaction.

While I thought the heroine was a little naive, the hero more than made up for it. He's courageous, honorable, and an all around hunk. I'm looking forward to Ms Scott's next release.

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Summary: Research always pays
Review: One of the things I always expect from Ms Scott's novels is well-done research. This book lived up to my expectations. Whenever I can learn about another time or another culture while enjoying a good story at the same time, I turn the last page with a sigh of satisfaction.

While I thought the heroine was a little naive, the hero more than made up for it. He's courageous, honorable, and an all around hunk. I'm looking forward to Ms Scott's next release.

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Summary: Northern Nights - a book worth reading.
Review: Theresa Scott's "Northern Nights" is a fascinating look at the driving forces within the human soul. When we first meet the heroine, Elizabeth,she looks for answers to life's questions in a book of etiquette written by Emily Cowperth. A young lady, on the cusp of womanhood, Elizabeth has not yet had life experiences that test her strength or her resilience. That changes when she meets the hero, a Haida warrior, Isaac. Believing that she is the wife of a man guilty of killing an important chief from the village of Isaac's mother, he kidnaps her as part of a plan for vengeance his uncle has hatched up. Isaac has lived his life under the cloud of slavery and is determined never to allow himself, or his family to face that degradation again. He agrees to help his uncle in exchange for stature in his uncle's tribe. Something at this point, only his uncle is capable of giving him.

Elizabeth and Isaac's adventures lead to love.... Elizabeth must learn to face life in all its aspects, rely on her own strength to go forward and grow into true womanhood. Isaac once again battles the moniker of slave and it is not until he can banish that mark from his life that he will be free to love or care for Elizabeth.

This is a story of honor and courage, one you that will bring out the reader's emotions. This book is a sterling example of the themes of mercy and compassion that run through Theresa Scott's work.


Rating:
Summary: Northern Nights - a book worth reading.
Review: Theresa Scott's "Northern Nights" is a fascinating look at the driving forces within the human soul. When we first meet the heroine, Elizabeth,she looks for answers to life's questions in a book of etiquette written by Emily Cowperth. A young lady, on the cusp of womanhood, Elizabeth has not yet had life experiences that test her strength or her resilience. That changes when she meets the hero, a Haida warrior, Isaac. Believing that she is the wife of a man guilty of killing an important chief from the village of Isaac's mother, he kidnaps her as part of a plan for vengeance his uncle has hatched up. Isaac has lived his life under the cloud of slavery and is determined never to allow himself, or his family to face that degradation again. He agrees to help his uncle in exchange for stature in his uncle's tribe. Something at this point, only his uncle is capable of giving him.

Elizabeth and Isaac's adventures lead to love.... Elizabeth must learn to face life in all its aspects, rely on her own strength to go forward and grow into true womanhood. Isaac once again battles the moniker of slave and it is not until he can banish that mark from his life that he will be free to love or care for Elizabeth.

This is a story of honor and courage, one you that will bring out the reader's emotions. This book is a sterling example of the themes of mercy and compassion that run through Theresa Scott's work.


Rating:
Summary: Northern Nights - a book worth reading.
Review: Theresa Scott's "Northern Nights" is a fascinating look at the driving forces within the human soul. When we first meet the heroine, Elizabeth,she looks for answers to life's questions in a book of etiquette written by Emily Cowperth. A young lady, on the cusp of womanhood, Elizabeth has not yet had life experiences that test her strength or her resilience. That changes when she meets the hero, a Haida warrior, Isaac. Believing that she is the wife of a man guilty of killing an important chief from the village of Isaac's mother, he kidnaps her as part of a plan for vengeance his uncle has hatched up. Isaac has lived his life under the cloud of slavery and is determined never to allow himself, or his family to face that degradation again. He agrees to help his uncle in exchange for stature in his uncle's tribe. Something at this point, only his uncle is capable of giving him.

Elizabeth and Isaac's adventures lead to love.... Elizabeth must learn to face life in all its aspects, rely on her own strength to go forward and grow into true womanhood. Isaac once again battles the moniker of slave and it is not until he can banish that mark from his life that he will be free to love or care for Elizabeth.

This is a story of honor and courage, one you that will bring out the reader's emotions. This book is a sterling example of the themes of mercy and compassion that run through Theresa Scott's work.

Rating:
Summary: bored instead
Review: this book was so boring! I enjoy Ms Scott's writing but with this one I had to skim from the middle to the end in order to finish. The heroine was not a likable character. She thought she was better then him and she didn't seem to respect his feelings. I didn't understand why the hero loved her. The aunt got on my nerves with her nastiness. I would have liked to know what happened in her marriage to change her mind. There were so many lines to a much deeper plot that the author could have used and didn't. I expected more from this book.