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Christabel [Paperback]

Laura Adams
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Naiad Press,U.S. (Oct 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1562802143
  • ISBN-13: 978-1562802141
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,647,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Investment broker Dina Rowland is given the account of wealthy fashion designer Leo Goranson, whose lifestyle and overtures she ignores, preferring to concentrate on the business in hand. That is, until she meets Leo's new model Christabel, a woman of exquisite beauty and strange vulnerability.

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Reclaiming "Geraldine"
In Colerige's epic poem, Christabel falls under the spell of the unnatural witch Geraldine, and rescued by Sir Leoline. In my version, Christabel is Leonard's victim and it falls to Dina to break a cycle of pain and lost love that has repeated over hundreds of years.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Mystical and magical 27 Aug 1998
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Format:Paperback
I enjoyed Night Vision so much that I ordered this book as soon as it was available. It is so different from Night Vision in subject, but the belief in lesbian magic that reaches beyond space and time is as pervasive here, as healing and as vastly enjoyable! I recommend this book to anyone who believes that love can trescend any pain and any evil.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Pure Lesbian Gothic Romance 1 Jun 2001
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Christabel, from the prolific Karin Kallmaker's Laura Adams persona, is a gothic romance, a tale of the supernatural and how an evil entity torments one woman's soul through generations. There are two stories told: first, how the evil found and took a young woman, Christabel, for his own in colonial New York. The second story is of the modern la Christabel, supermodel, spinning out yet another life to provide the suffering that the evil thrives on.

In Coleridge's version of this tale, even nature itself is evil (so green, so female), as is the witch Geraldine, who bewitches young Christabel with veiled references to lesbianism. Christabel is just a victim and the rescuer is Sir Leoline, who must fight both the witch and nature for Christabel's soul.

Laura Adams turns this story upside down. Geraldine represents the peaceful, natural world of the native Manhattans, and when the young Christabel meets the native woman, passion soon follows. Their joyous happiness is discovered and fouled by a demon Puritan preacher, who contrives Geraldine's downfall. Easy to do when Halley's Comet has appeared overhead -- blame it on the nearest nonconformist female and call her a witch. As the preacher takes possession of Christabel in the past, the modern day Christa has adopted desperate measures to try to break the cycle. An investment banker, Dina has renounced the part of her heritage that has passed down over time, but one touch of Christa's hand brings the power -- and the passion -- surging back. Defeated in the past, she arms herself for another battle in this lifetime.

The story weaves back and forth in time with perfect clarity. Minor characters from the past have their roles to play in the present. Even an ancient tree contributes -- significantly -- to the link between the two stories.

The plot makes for a good read, and the writing is pure Kallmaker/Adams -- prose matching time period and, of course, unbelievably erotic tension between her characters. The reality of life on the island of Manhattan in the late 1600s is well researched. The resolution is electric and quite, quite satisfactory. Once you start, you won't put it down until the last page.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing and Gripping 16 Nov 1999
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Format:Paperback
Love can conquer anything, even time and always evil. That's the message of this book, which I could not put down. Two timelines are intertwined to tell a story of two women who must defeat a powerful evil that has captured and tormented one of them through centuries. I was completely captured by the concept and fervently pulling for these women, right to the very last page.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Mystical and magical 27 Aug 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed Night Vision so much that I ordered this book as soon as it was available. It is so different from Night Vision in subject, but the belief in lesbian magic that reaches beyond space and time is as pervasive here, as healing and as vastly enjoyable! I recommend this book to anyone who believes that love can trescend any pain and any evil.
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