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Fire on the Wind
Fleeing the chaos of revolution in India, freethinking Sarah Faulkner finds herself drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English duke and a man who is hiding a painful secret. Original.
426 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1992
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Barbara Dawson Smith
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A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara also writes romance as Olivia Drake.
Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.
A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara also writes romance as Olivia Drake.
Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.
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March 16, 2025
Read: 3/14/25
2.5 stars
Setting: Indian Rebellion of 1857
This could have been as good as Duke of Shadows by Meredith Dunne, if not for the h. She ruined the whole book with her white savior complex. She's opinionated and mean to the Damon. She lectures him CONSTANTLY. The man saves her life and is the only reason she is still alive, but is she grateful? No!
A perfect example of her white savior moments is when she is incognito as a native. She doesn't like how all the women are treated like slaves by their husbands. She asks Damon to treat her better so she can be a better example to the women on how they should be treated. 🙄. This is what matters in the middle of a rebellion?
Is the h a screw to everyone? No. The little hypocrite can keep her mouth shut around her own society. She will voice her opinions only so far before stopping. She won't jeopardize ruining her chance to marry and have children. So maybe stop trying to save another culture that you pretend to admire!
I could rant about the h all day. The last 100 pages, her personality finally improved, but I was done by then. If she had been normal and grateful, this would have been a very good book. I liked the damaged Damon. He deserved to end up with a better woman.
2.5 stars
Setting: Indian Rebellion of 1857
This could have been as good as Duke of Shadows by Meredith Dunne, if not for the h. She ruined the whole book with her white savior complex. She's opinionated and mean to the Damon. She lectures him CONSTANTLY. The man saves her life and is the only reason she is still alive, but is she grateful? No!
A perfect example of her white savior moments is when she is incognito as a native. She doesn't like how all the women are treated like slaves by their husbands. She asks Damon to treat her better so she can be a better example to the women on how they should be treated. 🙄. This is what matters in the middle of a rebellion?
Is the h a screw to everyone? No. The little hypocrite can keep her mouth shut around her own society. She will voice her opinions only so far before stopping. She won't jeopardize ruining her chance to marry and have children. So maybe stop trying to save another culture that you pretend to admire!
I could rant about the h all day. The last 100 pages, her personality finally improved, but I was done by then. If she had been normal and grateful, this would have been a very good book. I liked the damaged Damon. He deserved to end up with a better woman.
July 14, 2020
Storia carinissima, raccontata con un stile romanzato degno di uno di quei film che fanno il pomeriggio in tv su rete 4.
Senza fronzoli o scene surreali, ma con semplice vita scadenzta dagli avvenimenti bellicosi o sociali.
Lui, bello ed incompreso, burbero ma con il cuore stretto nella morsa del so passato oppresso e senza amore materno. Lei, semplice inglesina pari, con voglia di far emergere le proprie idee e convinzioni ma con il timore delle convenzioni sociali dell'epoca.
Un'incontro perfetto, non programmato o forzato che li porterà ad affezionarsi l'uno all'altro e a scoprire le vere potenzialità di entrambi senza compromessi o finzioni.
Con le stesse sfumature dell'India, delle tradizioni e dei suoi colori, Kamasutra a parte è una storia piacevole che ti prende senza farsi accorgere e che ti riscalda l'inizio di una giornata come tante.
Senza fronzoli o scene surreali, ma con semplice vita scadenzta dagli avvenimenti bellicosi o sociali.
Lui, bello ed incompreso, burbero ma con il cuore stretto nella morsa del so passato oppresso e senza amore materno. Lei, semplice inglesina pari, con voglia di far emergere le proprie idee e convinzioni ma con il timore delle convenzioni sociali dell'epoca.
Un'incontro perfetto, non programmato o forzato che li porterà ad affezionarsi l'uno all'altro e a scoprire le vere potenzialità di entrambi senza compromessi o finzioni.
Con le stesse sfumature dell'India, delle tradizioni e dei suoi colori, Kamasutra a parte è una storia piacevole che ti prende senza farsi accorgere e che ti riscalda l'inizio di una giornata come tante.
January 30, 2016
Tutta la prima metà, e forse anche più, per me era da 4 stelline piene. Ambientazione coloniale indiana ben ricostruita, personaggi e dialoghi credibili, avventura... Poi, quasi all'improvviso si trasforma in un romanzetto rosa come mille altri, infarcito di tira e molla assurdi, complicazioni esagerate e inverosimili. Poi, francamente, questa storia che "non ti posso sposare perché la mia mamma non mi voleva bene e quindi sono incapace di amare (ma sono capacissimo a trom*are)" , dopo un po' stufa alla grande... Anche le scene hot sono tipiche dei romance datati, piene di "eccitate virilità", "fremiti" e "vortici di passione". Peccato, perché ho trovato la prima parte veramente avvincente...insomma, non siamo a livello di "Padiglioni lontani", ma storia e stile mi sembravano davvero buoni. Poi è come se l'autrice avesse voluto innestare (male) in un bel romanzo d'amore e avventura un altro romanzo, completamente diverso e carico di prevedibili cliché. Insomma, secondo me consigliato solo alle amanti del romance "storico", sul genere Woodwiss & Co.
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