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After the first quarter of the book, I was hooked. I think the author accomplished her goal to get the reader involved in the story. I definately would buy the next book.


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Home Schooling The Fire Night Ball Anne Carlisle 9781621417439 Books Reviews

This is one of those books that's hard to stick into a category. It's part historical fiction (set 35 years ago in the late 1970s), part mystery, part romance, with a touch of the supernatural - but just a touch, so if you're wary of paranormal stuff, don't worry. This kind of supernatural could just be the imagination of the characters, or the suggestion of a memory of a long-gone-by curse.

I'll skip summarizing the plot; you can read that yourself in the book description. I'll mention that despite the romantic elements, there aren't lengthy graphic sex scenes; it's a very cerebral romance and very adult, trending more towards the literary fiction side. It spends its time in the often-conflicted minds of the main characters as much as in the physical world.

"Fire Night Ball" has a lot going for it. It's well-written; incorporates funny character names (Sarah Bellum); employs lots of wit; presents good, distinct characters; and the conversation sounds reasonable, like what the characters would say - I can imagine them saying the words. There are good descriptions of interiors, and to cap it off, few typos (although some), good grammar & sentence structure, and good flow.

After a little scene-setting in the beginning, it begins to pick up pace, and I read the last third of it in pretty much one sitting. I'm not sure if the sequel is out yet (there's a teaser at the back), but this is one I'll most likely follow up on. The ending was a little disjointed, but had a couple surprises and twists and turns I didn't anticipate.

My few gripes (and they're minor) there are chunks where there's a lot of description followed by chunks where there's lots of narrative; it would be nice to intersperse it a little more. There are a few anachronisms (DNA testing in the 1960s - not available prior to 1970 at the earliest; possible reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall, which didn't happen until 1989), and a few mistaken uses of terms (a scapula is a shoulder-blade, not located in the chest - that would be the sternum). There is quite a bit of head-hopping going on (sudden changes in point of view, without explanation), but oddly, this didn't bother me as much as it often does. The frequent use of passive voice in action scenes detracted from the immediacy and forward motion of those scenes. And I was puzzled how several people could jump into and swim around in water in the middle of winter without suffering hypothermia or at least mentioning how gaspingly cold it must have been.

Overall, this is very well done and whatever the genre is, I enjoyed it. I care enough about the characters to want to know What Happens Next. This is one of very few books I've read recently where I'll be looking up the sequel. Recommended.
This story features a heroine I took to at once - it's she who makes the jokes, she's stunning, sensual, ambitious, charming, clever - it's outrageous that she's had the misfortune to be besotted by a prize philandering cad, the brutally insensitive and sex obsessed Harry Drake for years, and she's about to find out that her birth control has failed as well....

Never mind, Marlena Mae Bellum isn't a woman given to despair or seeing herself as a victim - even though, or perhaps because - at times it seems as though she's the late twentieth century reincarnation of her enchantress ancestor Cassandra Vye, the one time scourage of a small town in Wyoming, who was also the recipient of a curse supposedly to blight the lives of generations of descendants.

This book is an intriguing read which through earthy humour and a cast of vivid and recognisable characters transforms a classic story - a curse destined to cut across and link the lives of generations of a family - into something new and intriguing.

Like many good stories, it isn't one that is easy to define. Roughly it can be called a `Paranormal Romance with a Historical slant' but that hardly does it justice.

The supernatural elements in this book are subtly depicted; though undoubtedly there, they are brought into play through a series of synchronicities. Prosaic corruption in corporate business over land use is subtly connected to a past resounding with a tragedy which draws in the characters, cutting across time, individual personalities, plans and desires with a tangled skein of peculiar co-incidences.

This, the first volume of the series, isn't a simple story. Neither, as in real life, can the solutions which the characters use to try and resolve their problems wholly satisfactory; but I was constantly struck by how strong the female characters in this story are - whether it's Marlena herself, her hidebound, strictly religious mother or her dispassionate, cerebral psychiatrist older cousin. Then , there are the machinations of that wonderful siren, Lila.

There are so many funny scenes and so much throwaway humour in this that I find it hard to make a choice for a quote. The put down given to the lecherous Harry Drake by gay woman Stretch, `Keep it in your pants, buster. I'm batting for the other side' is my favourite.

Then there's Chloe's reflections on Harry Drake `Poor Harry, always one day late and a dollar short in the when it came to emotional commitments'.

I was very impressed by this vivid writing and lively characterisation and shall look out for the rest of the series. I recommend it to anyone looking for a story which contains the spine chilling, the ridiculous and the moving all seamlessly combined.
After the first quarter of the book, I was hooked. I think the author accomplished her goal to get the reader involved in the story. I definately would buy the next book.