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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I first fell in love with The Bride Trilogy.. I never looked back since then. A wonderful and well written story about Anthony and Cassandra. I was bit apprehensive when i first read the story, but its definitely a page turner! Anthony is such a strong, proud and determined character as well as having a beautiful inner strength and understanding! One of the best males character i've ever read. This book has stirred so many emotion within me..i was laughing and grinning..totally heart wrenching!!
Cassie is such an innocent and strong willed character. Faced with the hardest and tragic situations in her life, she emerged as the winner! I have full respect for her and how she overcome obstacles. Nevertheless there are moments where i don't understand why can't she see reasons..quite frustrating!!
Plenty of wonderful settings in the book, esp. Anthony's villa in Genoa (love to have a place like that)
Its all about TRUST, fighting and finding for your TRUE LOVE and NEVER GIVING UP!!. They are both so right for each other, Anthony and Cassie though nothing comes easy.
Anyway i think those whose never read Catherine books, this is an excellent one to start with. You'll not regret getting this book. Its a definitely a KEEPER! A fair warning, keep an open-minded while reading a certain scene in the book...please don't dismissed the book completely because of it!!
P/S: Do check out The Bride Trilogy esp. Douglas and Alex story (The Sherbrooke Bride)and don't forget Sinjun's story (The Hellion Bride)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Here is a man who loves and wants a woman. The woman thinks she loves and wants somebody else. He takes her anyhow, and during the story she learns who it is she really loves and wants.
Cassie is a somewhat archetypal self-willed, untamed beauty who is shown to need some taming. She doesn't come close to me as a person. Maybe this is because Ms. Coulter has written her as having two selves that are strangers to each other and that first mingle at the end of the book: her physical being is attracted by Anthony against her will, and her psychological being wants another and fights against Anthony. In her relations to men, not only Anthony, she is less a subject than an object, because her will and her body are often forced to act in a certain way, and maybe therefore it is not easy for me to identify myself with her.
Anthony Welles is a very well-written person, strong, sexy, with intelligence and some sort of tired, amused cynicism in him that come forth as soon as he opens his mouth. This is why it is impossible for me not to like him, even though he treats Cassie in a way that I would strongly condemn, were the perpetrator less likeable than Anthony. On the other hand, Anthony's behaviour is quite a cliché in romantic literature: She doesn't want him (or thinks she doesn't), he forces himself on her and seduces her body time and again, and by so doing he little by little teaches her to want him, to love him, and (!!!) to trust him. Is this possible, I ask myself. Anyhow, that is what happens in this book (as well as in many others), and because of the delectable Anthony, I allow it to happen. I did not recognize this when I first read the book, but now I must admit that I liked to read about things that I myself would think horrible if they were happening to me. Why is this? The eternal appeal of the undeniable alpha-male is so great that I accept what he is doing, as long as I know that everything will be well on the last page?
Anhony's rape and seduction of Cassie is physically almost non-violent compared to the very graphic rape-scene in the middle of the book. Does Ms. Coulter want us to see what real rapists are, compared to Anthony who is rather nice? On the other hand, Ms. Coulter seems sometimes to have a predilection for sado-masochistic scenes; there is a whipping scene in both Devil's Embrace and its sequel Devil's Daughter - in both cases the whipping of the heroine is justified to the reader - and raping is in the picture in Devil's Daughter as well.
Having reached this point, I feel I must be a total cynic to give Anthony (because I actually liked Anthony) three stars, as it seems to me now that I didn't like the book or his doings in it very much. Well, so be it. For people who look for a generous dose of eroticism in a book (although situated almost exclusively in the first half of it) with lots of action and a tremendous male leading figure (although even he figures more in the first half), this is the book.
Cassie is a somewhat archetypal self-willed, untamed beauty who is shown to need some taming. She doesn't come close to me as a person. Maybe this is because Ms. Coulter has written her as having two selves that are strangers to each other and that first mingle at the end of the book: her physical being is attracted by Anthony against her will, and her psychological being wants another and fights against Anthony. In her relations to men, not only Anthony, she is less a subject than an object, because her will and her body are often forced to act in a certain way, and maybe therefore it is not easy for me to identify myself with her.
Anthony Welles is a very well-written person, strong, sexy, with intelligence and some sort of tired, amused cynicism in him that come forth as soon as he opens his mouth. This is why it is impossible for me not to like him, even though he treats Cassie in a way that I would strongly condemn, were the perpetrator less likeable than Anthony. On the other hand, Anthony's behaviour is quite a cliché in romantic literature: She doesn't want him (or thinks she doesn't), he forces himself on her and seduces her body time and again, and by so doing he little by little teaches her to want him, to love him, and (!!!) to trust him. Is this possible, I ask myself. Anyhow, that is what happens in this book (as well as in many others), and because of the delectable Anthony, I allow it to happen. I did not recognize this when I first read the book, but now I must admit that I liked to read about things that I myself would think horrible if they were happening to me. Why is this? The eternal appeal of the undeniable alpha-male is so great that I accept what he is doing, as long as I know that everything will be well on the last page?
Anhony's rape and seduction of Cassie is physically almost non-violent compared to the very graphic rape-scene in the middle of the book. Does Ms. Coulter want us to see what real rapists are, compared to Anthony who is rather nice? On the other hand, Ms. Coulter seems sometimes to have a predilection for sado-masochistic scenes; there is a whipping scene in both Devil's Embrace and its sequel Devil's Daughter - in both cases the whipping of the heroine is justified to the reader - and raping is in the picture in Devil's Daughter as well.
Having reached this point, I feel I must be a total cynic to give Anthony (because I actually liked Anthony) three stars, as it seems to me now that I didn't like the book or his doings in it very much. Well, so be it. For people who look for a generous dose of eroticism in a book (although situated almost exclusively in the first half of it) with lots of action and a tremendous male leading figure (although even he figures more in the first half), this is the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter, I had not expected it to be much more than a semi-interesting read. However, with every page turn, I became more and more attached to the novel's heroine, and actually found it very difficult to put the book down. Since reading this book, I have highly recommended it to all my girlfriends. It's a beautiful story about life, love and friendship filled with excitement, heartbreak and hope. I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet!!
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Unforgettable
I know this book has received a lot of bad reviews, but it just happens to be one of my favorite books...so here I am trying to defend it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sue Lyndon
Not for the starry eyed romantic
In agreement with another review that has been written about this book, I would say that the rape scene in this book was a bit graphic... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2000
One of the best books ever written!!!!
This is one of those books you read and re-read and re-read... I recommend this book as a standard of romance reading. The love Anthony holds for Cassandra is awesome. Read more
Published on 19 May 1999
A Fantastic book For romance Dreamers !!!!
This is one of Coulter's greastest book she's ever written. You'll fall in love Cassandra when she gets "taken away". Read more
Published on 7 April 1999
Extremely tantalizing
Catherine Coulter's books always intrigue me. She always creates a setting realistic enough that you wish you were present during the time period. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 1999
I did not like this book.
I read a few of Coulters books, but I must say I did not like this book at all. I had no idea what this book was about. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 1998
the best!!!!!!
I've read lots of romance novels, and this was one of the best. Catherine Coulter is one of the most enthralling romance novelists.
Published on 29 April 1998
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