Fire Song (Song Novels) [Paperback]

Catherine Coulter (Author)

Book Description

Series: Song Novels | Publication Date: December 1, 1985

Originally published in 1985, this is the first novel in Catherine Coulter's stunning Song series: Fire Song, Earth Song, and Secret Song-and the prequel Warrior's Song. In Medieval Cornwall, Kassia de Lorris of Brittany cheats death only to find herself wedded to a stranger-the ruthless warrior Lord Graelam de Moreton.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Onyx; later printing edition (December 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451402383
• ISBN-13: 978-0451402387
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,106,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh House, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take and TailSpin. She lives in northern California.

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars burnt out, January 10, 2003

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amf0001 (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Song (Song Novels) (Paperback)

I know Catherine Coulter treads a not so fine line, but in this case her 'hero' is a serial rapist, who, when unduly angered by women, takes them by force. He is consistently awful to his wife and then in the last 10 pages, for no apparent reason, totally changes his tack and decides to love her.

I'm never really sure why she loves him, aside from his physical strength, for there is little that is admirable or lovable about him. This is not a tortured soul looking for healing through love, this is a cruel, quite stupid man who raped a woman in a previous novel, and then rapes his wife in this one.

This one goes straight into the resale pile.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I'm a big Coulter fan, but..., December 11, 2003

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Elaine McCarthy "ECM" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Song (Paperback)

I really hate novels where there's some nasty person who has everybody convinced she's a helpless little victim and thereby makes trouble for the heroine. I really hate novels where the hero RAPES the heroine! I REALLY hate novels where the heroine falls in love with a so-called hero who's being high-handed, brutal, and unfaithful to her. What kind of idiot does that make her? If you agree with me that Patient Griselda should have stuck a knife in her husband's wizend little heart, then you probably won't like this book either. Apologies to Catherine, but I like her later books a lot better.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I kept waiting for her to leave him, December 4, 2005

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Pat "readaholic" (Atlanta,GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fire Song (Paperback)

The hero is a cold,mean brute who does not deserve his gentle wife Kassia.He should have been made to marry Joanna the shrewish woman he was betrothed to.I couldn't get past Graelam raping Kassia,I really couldn't.I know this is medieval England and women were more or less treated like chattel,but come on.Kassia is a gentle sweet girl who does everything to please this philandering,brute of a man.He sleeps with one of the servants after he marries Kassia, when she confronts him he threatens to beat and rape her which he had already done(I shuddered again right there).There's not one but two women undermining Kassia's authority and she sits back and takes this,please!The servants and his own soldiers abhor his treatment of Kassia throughout the book.I prayed for her to runaway with Dienwald or for Guy to fall in love with her and take her away from Graelam.The women who made Kassialife hell were rewarded for their treatment of her,they are never made to pay for what they did to her which is another thing that put me off this book.I like to see the heroine giving as good as she gets even if she's not a particularly strong character.Kassia was far too soft and gentle for this brute as a result he walked all over her quite literally.I wanted him to really suffer for his treatment of her which he didn't,this is why I bothered to finish this book for him to get his comeuppance which hedidn't.She capitulated far too easily in the end when he came to get her at her father's castle.I know that he's a warrior but didn't knights have a chivalric code?