Customer Reviews

Devil's Daughter (Devil's Duology)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

After reading Devil's Embrace which was really good and rates up there with the best of Coulter's work, I looked forward to reading Devil's Daughter. However, I was disapointed. I am a fan of Ms. Coulter, infact, she is my favorite author. This was the first book that I've read of hers (and I have read many) that didn't totally measure up to her abilities. It was almost half way through the book before it started to get interesting. It was nice to know what became of the characters from Devil's Embrace, though not exciting. There were so many characters in this story that none other than Arabella and Kamal (they deserve the 3 star rating) seemed to get any real development. Adam and Rayna had potential but were not given the depth in development, they could of had their own book. The book finally got interesting when the story got into Arabella and Kamal, but this was the last half of the book if even that. Also, the story was less realistic than usual. Romance novels are fantasies and do lack, to a certain extent, in what the real world of love is or would be. The ending was brief and unbelievable in that after two months of pain, (Arabella thinking the relationship is over), he walks back into her life and she doesn't even question what the problem was. Oh well, not even Coulter is perfect. As a side note: I wish all authors would give a clue as to how to correctly pronounce some of these names they use!

The first halve of this book deals mainly with Adam, the son of the h/h in Devil's embrace. Although it wasn't bad, the book really picks up speed during the second halve of the book with the story of Arabella, the daughter of the h/h in Devil's embrace. Arabella and Kamal are two very stubborn characters and their relationship was not a smooth one (to say the least). It was some what less than realistic, but still interesting enough to keep me reading. However, those who are dead set against forceful heroes and encounters be warned, there are several bodice ripping scenes including a very brief encounter where the hero outright ... the heroine.

I read this as a teenager in the 1980's and looked for it forever it seems (my dumb brother forgot to pack it or something!) I finally found the name when I emailed Ms. Coulter and she told me what it was called! I was so ecstatic I bought both the old version and the new one! Ms Coulter is a great writer and the characters in this book really stand out! The leading lady and the sultan are like oil and water on fire at first! Then the sparks really fly! YOU MUST read this if you're a Coulter fan or like a good book that gives you enough fun and sensuality and laughter to keep you turning the pages til the end! I have several of her books and I love them all!

The first thing that totally grabbed me was the realization that the oh so compelling Earl of Clare was 60 years old in this book. Somehow you want your favorite characters to be ageless - He still seemed a compelling character and no, I know the book was not about his and Casandra this time but you want them to be blissfully happy! Well they certainly bred a couple of interesting children - and how the present manages to repete the past - that Adam would end up with Edward's daughter (who seems nothing like her father) and that Arabella would find love with the women's son most hated from the first book. I too - because I loved this family so much could have had seperate books for both Adam and Arabella - however since the plot works so well and it all is so interesting and intriguing I will not fault Coulter's combining the stories. You just have to love the way Adam and Rayna find one another - but most especially the love between Arabella and Kamal - wow that just sizzled!!!!! And his shame at the end because of his horrible mother was so understandable for a proud man. And the Earl's little manipulation for his daughter - how unlike him to help things along! What a great father! This was just a beautiful story - I loved every moment of it!!

If women so loath being treated like dirt why do they read so many novels in which the main male character treats his women this way?

I ask myself this question when reading this novel and a number of other romances.

She is basicly abducted from her home and given to this guy who mistakes her morals due to the lies his mother has given him. He treats her like dirty cloths. He tosses her into his harem to be kept as a slave. He thrashes her. He ravishes her. He treats her like dirt.

Eventually they fall in love.

The twists in this one are really interesting.

Still, do women actually enjoy being treated like this?

I am just starting to read Catherine Coulter's novel for sometime now and I thought this one was pretty good. What I like about it the most is that she's telling 2 stories in one about the brother and sister but its mainly about the sister. WHAT i also like about her books is that she gives great details in the beinging of the book and doesn't jump right into the story, I loved Adam and Rayan story, also Arabella and Kamal and the great details she gives for both stories. I got angry when Arabella did laugh when she did and dislike kamal when she did and fell in love with him when she did THATS how you know your reading a good book when you feel what the the 2 people are feeling where your understanding his point of view and her point of view.. The book is very good you might read a couple of bad reviews but its that 1 or 2 review that is good that is going to make you want to buy this book...go for it I think you will love this book.

I finished this book in 2 days...would have been shorter if only I didn't require sleep! I'm giving it a 4 instead of the 5 I gave Devil's Embrace because it did start off a little slow, but if you hang in there it's worth it. I loved seeing all the characters from Devil's Embrace come out to play again, and Cassie and Anthony's kids were fun characters. Adam and Rayna have great chemistry and I would have loved to read more about them. Arabella, of course, despises Kamal until shortly before the end of the book, but their love seems genuine. I'm sometimes hesitant to read sequels of romance novels, but I'm glad I read this one.

This book has it all. I read it years ago and I still think about it. Two great love stories intertwined. Funny and sexy throughout.

... The book lacked her usual intrigue. It was confusing.. And agree also we needed an english teacher to pronounce most of the names in it.. I found I could not get myself totally involved because one spends to much effort trying to figure out the names, and titles, & places.. It was just very difficult to read and stay with. I have many of her books and have enjoyed them all up to this one. It seem to take forever to get into the story line and was hard to follow. Hope her books that follow are better.

Trashy, trashy, trashy novel!

He is an abusive hero with two sides to his personality-since he is half English and half Arabic. Frustratingly, his less redeeming qualities is attributed to his Arabic culture and Muslim religion, which is very insulting for anyone who comes from the Middle East, and his admirable qualities-not surprisingly- stem from his English background. The heroine is just as abusive as the hero, yet hailed and praised by the author because she happens to be "English"-extremely stereo-typical and racist for both characterization.

Does Coulter ever take into account that many romance readers have ethinic backgrounds and that she has to be a responsible writer and must depict some form of veracity-good and bad- when she takes on a project that deals with a culture that is not her own? Many innocent readers may be mislead and misinformed about a culture they do not know about and mistake these types of fictions as a true historical background when in actuality, women tended to possess political, economical and social powerful positions within the harem and were not these submissive, useless women Coulter made them out to be. All I ask of an author is to balance the good and the bad so as not to misinform the public-which Coulter failed in this novel.

I am not normally picky when it comes to historical truths in fictional Romances; in fact, I write many reviews telling oher readers to lighten up when it comes to historical errors the author may have made inadvertantly. However, this is an exceptional case because of the extreme lenghts Coulter went to in insulting and degrading this particular culture without adding any positivty to form some sort of balance in the story-line-very infuriaiting.

My advise is to skip this novel, I could not even finish it and threw it away.