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Title: Storm Winds by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0-553-29032-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Prepare To Be Swept Away
Comment: Storm Winds is a novel unlike any that I have read. It may take place during the French Revolution, as many other historical romance novels do, but this one is exceptional.
Juliette is courageous and yet vulnerable. Alone in the world except for her paints. She meets Jean Marc and the two are drawn to one another. Jean Marc is dark and brooding. It seems as if he must wear a mask to hide his true feelings.
Juliette forms a friendship with Catherine, Jean Marc's cousin. Catherine is kind and sweet. At first she may seem shy and weak, but after everything that she and Juliette go through, she becomes strong and sure of herself and finds love as well.
Jean Marc and Juliette risk everything for the Wind Dancer. And in the end Juliette finally feels needed and loved and Jean Marc finds that he can love and trust a woman again.
Iris paints a fascinating picture with words. She makes you feel everything you read, everything a character is going through, you can see it through their eyes.
All in all if you want a book and an author who is utterly unique read Storm Winds and you won't be dissapointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: ENCHANTING!!!
Comment: I have read a lot of historical romances and this one is absolutely on the top of my list, and I am a very critical reader. I have read all three of the triology, and I find that Iris's style of adding another romance to the main plot very interesting indeed, because not a lot of authors at all do that. Some of my freinds found that irritating, for they say that the second-romances could have been made into books of their own and not as a sidedish pushed into the story. But I think it is quite an catching style. The double scenes gave an enthralling contrast as to the two pairs personalities and their love story. For instance, I personally do like Juliette and Jean Marc's romantic story better, most likely because I am much more found of Juliette's character over Catherine's. But Catherine and Francois have a class of their own, thier story is so different yet so much attached to that of Juliette and Jean Marc's. And Iris chose,wisely, what I think is the best setting for romatic books, during wartime. The background gave the story much more taste, for the characters change so much during the book, which I think such dramatic changes can only be seemly with along the setting, and war is the perfect solution.
I've heard that a lot of readers found this book too bloody and barbaric...
This is absolutely fantastic book, read it, and maybe you have just found a jewel for your romatic fantasy world, because I had.
Rating: 5
Summary: Probably my favorite book ever!!
Comment: One reason that this book is so great is that it is long enough to let us get to know and care about the characters. This is the second book in her Wind Dancer Series...after THE WIND DANCER and before REAP THE WIND. The book FINAL TAGET is also related to the series.
First of all I should mention that this book has two aspects that not all readers might enjoy. The hero of our story is overbearing. He's hard on her...he makes her do things that are rough on her but help her in the end. For the most part the men in this series are a little that way, so if you think that will bother you, this might not be the book for you! Secondly, this book takes place during the height of the French Revolution. Some pretty nasty things happen to the aristocrats of the novel...including the main characters. I don't want to give it all away, but these aren't women that are fresh out of a school room...dancing at balls and meeting men...it is a well-researched romance novel about a war against aristocracy ...including women and children.
That being said, I love love loved this book! Johansen's writing style in great...I loved Juliet, our neglected, frieldless herione. She has that all too true "fix-it" attitude with everyone around her takes charge of almost every situation. The novel takes us all over France, which I liked, and lets us follow the stories of the more minor characters without feeling like we are losing time with the main ones. We also get some time lapse which was nice because Johansen really let us get to know her in her adolescence and then shows us how that changed her later. This book is great and I think everyone should check it out!!!
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Title: Reap the Wind by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553586122 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dark Rider by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553299476 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Magnificent Rogue by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553299441 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Last Bridge Home by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553298712 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Golden Barbarian by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553296043 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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