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Come the Night

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Wow! Christina Skye has done it again. With her books you are always assured of a good read. And I mean ALWAYS. I have read Black Rose and the Ruby and also Come the Dawn which is a spin off from Come The Night and I love all of them. While the Black Rose holds a special place in my heart, being the first book i have read from Christina Skye, Come The Night is equally wonderful.

The characters are so likeable so fascinating. You end up loving both the hero and the heroine. Silver is so feisty , so couragous and Luc is gorgeous. The book is also quite humorous besides being action packed and wildly romantic.

Well....what are you waiting for? For Goodness sake if you haven't read it yet go and do it now! I assure you you won't regret it. I absolutely recommend it!

This was my first Christina Skye book, but it won't be my last! It was fast-paced, and engaging in that way where you can read it even if you're not in the mood to read. It was delightfully sensual, and had a lot of romantic build-up. The plot was kind of silly, but that's what was so great about it. It was the kind of plot you don't have to think about - you can just enjoy. It had a great villain, that you really loved to hate, and a very happy ending. You definitely get your money's worth with this quick, fun read!

One thing I must state up front, Christina Skye has not disappointed me yet. I know that whenever I pick up one of her books, it will have all the elements one could wish for in a period historical piece, devastingly handsome heros, spunky heroines and superb plots that will keep you guessing to the end.

In this offering, the hero is the famed highwayman, the Lord of Blackwood, out on the heath plying his trade, holding up those foolish enough to traverse through the "Devil's Wood". It was on this same night that Silver St. Claire, trying to make up for lost time would take the shortcut through these woods to meet an appointment. Fate would have it that she meet up with the devilish highwayman that night. After he traded barbs with her, he sent her back home only having to come to her aid again after three ruffians that set upon to rob and molest her.

Someone was out to force Silver and her brother from their home, Lavender Close - the same people, who perhaps had killed her parents. Silver had never believed the story that her father had committed suicide and the St. Clair pride and stubbornness would not let her be forced from her home and her beloved lavender fields. Silver needed to have some help and after determining that the highwayman who had saved her (twice) was not the devil that stories told of, she went about to hire him to `ruin' her and help her to save Lavender Close. Not only that, but she really wanted to see him again!

The Lord of Blackwood, was a man driven by revenge, a hatred towards the man and the people that had forced him to betray his country, and to perform despicable acts upon the innocent. These people had robbed him of his honor, and because of this, his very life and identity for he could not return to his family bearing the shame he felt after the things he had done. His mission, via the disguise of the highwayman, Lord Blackwood, was a means for him to find and revenge himself on the person that had taken his life away from him. He had hardened his heart - he needed his heart to be hard for revenge, yet this slip of a girl, smelling of lavender, and braver than any girl had a right to be was forcing him to feel, forcing soft hearted feelings and reminding him that he did have a heart and it was going to become quite difficult to wipe the memory of Silver St. Claire from his mind.

This story was a real page turner, trying to figure out who and what drove the Lord of Blackwood, the very real Lucien "Luc" Delamere. The characters are fleshed out very well, and I absolutely loved Silver and her assumptions about "manly passions". Her brother Bran was charming, as well as the two man-servants, Tinker and Josh. All in all a very delightful read. And, of course, one must not fail to mention that the pages just sizzle when the Silver and Luc do cross swords, oh yes, they do just sizzle! Another win for Ms. Skye.

This was my very first Christina Skye novel. After my first read I fell in love with both Luc and Silver who captured my heart. It was as if I was sharing their adventure with them. I really loved the way the author described the characters and surroundings - bringing them to life! The story is beautiful and touching.

Truly, a timeless work of art.

This was my first time reading a book by this author. I couldn't put it down. I recommend this book to anyone who loves excitement and suspense. I can't wait to read her next one.

I found that I couldn't put it down, always a twist at the turn of a page! I liked it so much I requested all the others from the library! I thought it was great!

Come the night was the first Christina Skye novel I ever read, yet the well developed characters and the magnificent plot had me crazy for more! You'll fall in love with Silver and all the Delameres... and you'll want to continue their story with Come the Dawn... Chistina Skye's Delameres have totally entranced me...

This book was quite simply the worst romance I've ever read. I am not an especially fast reader but I usually manage to read a good book in one or two days. This book took me an entire week before I finally tossed it aside. The plot was inconsistent and so full of errors I found myself re-reading vast sections of it to make some sense of what was going on. The two main characters seem to repeat the same passionate scene to the point that it became not passionate at all but simply redundant. I bought this book based on the shinning reviews of other readers so I wrote this to warn any future buyers, at least one person thought this was a horrible romance novel.

Like a lot of people, I read romance novels to escape. They are not complicated and they are fast and easy. I can finish a book in less than 3 days even if I'm busy. This was the first book by Christina Skye that I've read, and while I didn't think it was all that fabulous by itself, it was entertaining and promising enough that it certainly won't be my last.

The hero is introduced as a highwayman, although it's evident from very early on that he might actually be a real English gentleman because his voice is very cultured and he has knowledge of things that a typical highwayman would have no reason to know.

The heroine is 21. Her father, mother and oldest sister are all dead (and somewhat mysteriously so) so she is taking care of her 12-year-old brother and running the family business: a lavender farm until the younger brother reaches the age of majority and is able to take over the farm for himself.

Before I get completely carried away, I have to share the names of the hero and heroine. The names of romance novel characters are usually hilarious and this book is no different. Her name is Susannah St. Clair but her nickname is "Silver" because she has a silver streak in her hair. The hero's name is Lucien Reede Tiberius Fitzgerald Delamere but the people who know his real name call him Luc. A little over the top? Absolutely! And I love it!

In the first third of the novel, the author is throwing out random hints in what I felt was a very poorly executed manner and I was frustrated about the fact that she was being so secretive and random in her descriptions of the characters' pasts. For example: the father might have been murdered but it was staged to be a suicide and the mother was probably murdered but nobody can prove it and the dead sister's husband is a sex slave trafficker who wants to auction off the heroine and mean men keep showing up at the lavender farm to burn the bushes and smash the vials of perfume essence and the hero has pet ferrets (HUH?!?) who help him rob coaches and he seems to be a traitor to his country but you're never entirely sure because the sentences are even weirder and more awkward than the one you are currently reading.

And of course, while all this is going on you have the dialogue that occurs between the hero and heroine which starts out as normal romance novel tripe but quickly becomes a teeth grinding lesson in repetitious futility that goes something like:

Him: I'm a dangerous man.
Her: Hehehehe, what?!?!?
Him: I said I was dangerous, Sunbeam (which is his nickname for her, even though every other character in the book calls her Silver).
Her: OMG, whatever. No you aren't. I'm lively and spirited and I single-handedly run a successful lavender farm!!!! But you should totally help me scare away the bad guys who keep trying to burn my precious lavender bushes!!! Let's booby-trap the lavender farm!!!!
Him: You are innocent. I can't help you with your problems at the lavender farm. I would only hurt you.
Her: Hehehehehe, what?!?!?
Him: growls I need to go. NOW!
Her: Are you talking about manly passions?!? OMG! I know all about manly passions!!!! DON'T GO!!!
Him: I'll show YOU manly passions.
Intermission of KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS.
Him: I told you I was dangerous!!!
Her: You go away now. I can take care of the lavender farm by myself!!! I don't need your help!!!

And on and on and on, ad nauseum.

Eventually things liven up a bit once the author finally reveals the dark past of the hero and how he was kidnapped, victimized and forced into slavery in Algiers for five years and the dialogue between the two of them becomes less of an issue and the plot starts moving forward in a way that finally begins to make sense. And then eventually you realize that the bad men who want to destroy the lavender farm are related to the men who victimized the hero and the book ends with a hugely wonderful and unrealistic coincidence and OMG the end!
So to summarize...

The Good: Chemistry. Yup, these two have got it.

The Bad: The plot in the beginning of the book was almost as coordinated as a dog wearing ice skates and it took me awhile to get into the story.

The Creepy: Silver's Dad's Journal. AHHH!

The father knows that there are people who want to murder him so he is writing all his secrets in code (in case it falls into the wrong hands) for Silver to find and solve one day. She finds the journal fairly early on in the book. Throughout the novel, bits and pieces of the text of the journal are shared with the reader. In one particularly creepy entry, he writes, "I called your mother Silver; too, did you know that, Susannah? There was a reason for it, but it was our secret. It may hold true for you as well, but I cannot know that. Someday you will discover it, if your heart is given to a man who loves you. I pray that it will be so." As soon as I read that, I was like OHHHHH NOOOOO!!! THAT SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS ABOUT SEX!!! PLEASE TELL ME THAT WAS NOT ABOUT SEX! FATHER'S SHOULD NOT WRITE CREEPY JOURNAL ENTRIES TO THEIR DAUGHTERS ABOUT THEIR SEX LIVES!!!

Sometime during the final third of the book, Luc and Silver finally get it on under a tree in the lavender field and the author comments on the fact that at the exact moment of "her passion" Silver's eyes flash completely silver and that the phenomenon described in her father's journal entry turned out to be true for her too. I was like, oooohhhhh groooosss!!! YUCK!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! EW!!!! It made me think of creepy not-human elf eyes. Or that shiny stuff on roast beef sometimes that "flashes" if you twist it in the right direction.

Christina Skye is an author that always produces a great novel. With its fast paced sceenes, emotion, funny sceenes, and intriguing plot, Come the Night is another wonderful novel.
With the mysterious Lord of Blackwood and the independent Silver, the two main characters combine to create a romance novel that all can love.