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Song Trilogy #3
Nightsong
The third book in the Song series. Living in exile on the island of Jamaica, Rye Evistock, better known as Captain Kells, and his beautiful wife, Caroline Lightfoot, are waiting for Kells to be cleared of trumped-up treason charges in England.
490 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1986
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October 27, 2012
What a great, rollicking, creative, romantic epic - this trilogy has been a delightful frolic through colonial America, England, and the Caribbean, complete with historical events and locations. Carolina Lightfoot, the daughter of colonial gentility, has an irrepressible disregard for consequences, which leads her into many and varied situations. Only her extraordinary beauty and luck saves her from tragic endings, and her deep love for Rye Eviskamp carry her through it all. Lords and plots and buccaneers fill the pages with fun and adventure. This is one I will definitely revisit!
November 19, 2017
I loved the first two books in this trilogy (LOVESONG and WINDSONG), so I was very much looking forward to NIGHTSONG. The first two books both started out slow for me, and took a little while for me to get caught up in. NIGHTSONG was the opposite. I was caught up right away. When the earthquake struck I was completely mesmerized. And then Carolina, believing Kells dead, finds herself in Havana, with her sister Penny, and from that point on I struggled to stay interested.
In Havana, Carolina is reunited with a very much alive Kells. As a slave bought by the governor and gifted to his friend Kells, who everyone, including Kells himself, believes is Don Diego Vivar. Normally I love an amnesia plot (Sandra Brown, THE WITNESS!). But this one just got ridiculous. Carolina tries to convince “Diego” that he is really Kells. He's insulted and angered that she would dare to compare him to a notorious buccaneer. Carolina suddenly seems convinced that he's not Kells, he's really Diego, and just looks like Kells. At which point I almost threw the book across the room. Then she realizes that he is indeed Kells, and if anyone else in Havana recognizes who he really is his life will be in danger.
Penny. In the second book I was thrilled to get to know their sister Virginia. I did not care for Penny nearly as much. And Robin Tyrell...ugh. He and Penny deserve each other.
Toward the end I seriously wondered if Carolina and Kells would ever have an HEA. And I didn't even really care. I just wanted it to be over.
Will I read this author again? Yes. But maybe not for awhile.
In Havana, Carolina is reunited with a very much alive Kells. As a slave bought by the governor and gifted to his friend Kells, who everyone, including Kells himself, believes is Don Diego Vivar. Normally I love an amnesia plot (Sandra Brown, THE WITNESS!). But this one just got ridiculous. Carolina tries to convince “Diego” that he is really Kells. He's insulted and angered that she would dare to compare him to a notorious buccaneer. Carolina suddenly seems convinced that he's not Kells, he's really Diego, and just looks like Kells. At which point I almost threw the book across the room. Then she realizes that he is indeed Kells, and if anyone else in Havana recognizes who he really is his life will be in danger.
Penny. In the second book I was thrilled to get to know their sister Virginia. I did not care for Penny nearly as much. And Robin Tyrell...ugh. He and Penny deserve each other.
Toward the end I seriously wondered if Carolina and Kells would ever have an HEA. And I didn't even really care. I just wanted it to be over.
Will I read this author again? Yes. But maybe not for awhile.
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March 24, 2017
Kells chooses to go to sea and leave Carolina behind. He doesn't come back. Carolina finds herself having to flee their home. She thinks he's dead. Then, miraculously, she finds him, alive and well...and with amnesia. Carolina has to make him fall in love with her all over again if she wants to have her happily ever after. This was my favorite one of the three.
January 30, 2016
Loved it when i read it 20 years ago..
Hope it will come out in Kindle soon.
Hope it will come out in Kindle soon.
December 17, 2016
old school romance epic saga. really disliked the main character the silver wench. the characters around her made the book. especially her sister the pirate rogue.
August 6, 2020
With "Nightsong," Valerie Sherwood wraps up her "Song" trilogy of the late 17th century romance between rebellious Tidewater maiden Carolina Lightfoot and Rye Evistock, gentleman-turned-buccaneer. Several years after their reconciliation at the end of "Windsong," the lovers are once again separated, this time by financial pressures and natural disasters. Characters from the past return to complement or complicate the plot, which moves from Port Royal, Jamaica to Havana. Will they fight their way past internal and external challenges to happiness? Does one even need to ask? There is no great suspense here, but Sherwood's love of period fashion, lively dialogue, and movie-serial-like plotting keep the actual moving along. By the time of this novel, Sherwood was a pro. The denouement is not particularly suspenseful at all, but by the time it arrives, readers who have spent nearly 1800 enjoyable pages with the story over will close the covers with a smile.
November 5, 2021
I think book three is the best out of all of them. This is the final in the series. She risks everything to rescue her beloved buccaneer after a deadly storm leaves him with amnesia. He sees himself as a Spanish Don and she ends up as a servant in his household. She tries everything to get him to remember. At the end his memories return and with help they escape. HEA ending.
April 18, 2020
I love this triology , very interesting story that will take your breath away and the character is very loveable . this is the very book that peak my interest in reading and until now i've long to read more beautiful stories and good author like valerie sherwood, this book is one of my favorites .
December 3, 2014
synopsis:
carolina and kells have settled down in jamaica, waiting for kells name to be cleared in england. kells goes on one last run in his ship. as his ship is pulling back into port after months away, an earthquake strikes, and the ship is pulled under. carolina sees kells' ship going down, and knows that she is truely alone. as carolina is heading to england, her ship is taken by the spanish and she is taken prisoner/rescued. she is given a slave, and that slave turns out to be kells, although kells doesn't know carolina or even who he is.
what i liked: honestly, it's like a soap opera, but better, because i don't really like soap operas. the drama, the he's dead, no, he's alive, wait, it might be a double, oh, he remembers! i liked that they finally got their happy ever after.
what i didn't like: this book was a little bit more over the top than the other two.
carolina and kells have settled down in jamaica, waiting for kells name to be cleared in england. kells goes on one last run in his ship. as his ship is pulling back into port after months away, an earthquake strikes, and the ship is pulled under. carolina sees kells' ship going down, and knows that she is truely alone. as carolina is heading to england, her ship is taken by the spanish and she is taken prisoner/rescued. she is given a slave, and that slave turns out to be kells, although kells doesn't know carolina or even who he is.
what i liked: honestly, it's like a soap opera, but better, because i don't really like soap operas. the drama, the he's dead, no, he's alive, wait, it might be a double, oh, he remembers! i liked that they finally got their happy ever after.
what i didn't like: this book was a little bit more over the top than the other two.
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