The prose is evocative and compelling, but not purple. Less than Archangel ruined…” PARADISE LOST, JOHN MILTON When Lady Catherine Elderly meets her captor, Sean Culhane, her first thoughts are of Milton’s poetry:Īll his original brightness, nor appeared The chapters each have titles such as “Silken Irons,” “Into Eden,” or “The Nadir.” If it were a poorly authored book, no one would still be talking about it 30-plus years after it was published. The main attraction of Stormfire is its writing. And it’s great! The Most Controversial Bodice Ripper Ever? The ultimate in bodice-ripping, Stormfire, is a tale of two mentally unstable people and their violent, intense love. Whew! They do not write them like this anymore. So, after a couple of decades of reading romance, in the early 2010s, I finally got around to Stormfire by the late Christine Monson. Genres: Historical Romance, Bodice Ripper, Napoleonic Era Romance, Regency Era Romance
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