Love and Smoke Review

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(More customer reviews)Love and Smoke is steamy alright, fascinating story, complicated plot, great descriptive writing. However, the romance between the main characters, Riva and Noel, is seriously lacking in warmth. They have passion enough, the few times they are together, but the side character of Dante is far more intriguing. He has laughter and kindness, and his romance with another character was so much better.
We never get to know Noel well enough, and Riva doesn't know him that much better than we do. Blake gives more insight into the workings of Gallant's mind than Noel's - the villain has a lot more presence. The dramatic subplot endangering the main characters is a lot more compelling than the central romance.
Noel has looks, nobility of spirit, and exaggerated martyrdom, but his character is not magnetic. ...

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Riva Staulet's cool beauty belies the passions roiling within her. Now, she has everything she has ever wanted. But it hasn't always been that way. Many years before, there was a charming, handsome man who tried to take everything from her. Now he has his eye on the governor's mansion and Riva has not forgotten his cruelty . . .

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El Tigre De Nueva Orleans / The Tiger of New Orleans (De Melilla Chronicles) Review

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(More customer reviews)Great story! Great characters! Great Action! My only complaint is that I wanted it to go on and on. I felt like I was ripped away from my own loved ones when it ended, and with the turn of every page was torn between anxiously wanting to read further and wanting to slow down so that I could continue to linger in the presence of such wonderful people and places.
Stephen Estopinal painted a beautiful portrait of New Orleans in the early 1800's but did not attempt to hide any of the warts that make New Orleans both an enthralling city and one of extremes. I can now see that the New Orleans of today is in many ways still eerily similar the city of its past.
A fantastic ability to create characters that the reader cannot help but fall in love with is what impressed me most about the author and on a personal level, his ability to immerse me in the New Orleans of the early 1800's was very satisfying.
As a youth, I spent countless days and hours playing and exploring in the river batcher, swamps and bayous, and I can say from personal experience that as I read this book, the sights and smells, the heat and humidity ,the beauty and brutality were accurately depicted as all of the emotions and sense came back to life in my memory.
I lost myself in this virtual time machine as Stephen cast me back to my youth and then propelled me two centuries further still.
Learning more about these old stomping grounds of mine made me feel especially fortunate that I was able to experience some of these places first hand. This book allowed me to recalled them anew and invited my imagination to comingle old memories with Stephen's historical fills and enthralling characters.


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