Forever the Flame [Hardcover]

Norah Hess (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: LESCO Books (1987)
• ASIN: B0014D9VIE
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,545,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This story had great potential as a great romance but..., January 22, 2006

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

This review is from: Forever the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

What kind of man has sex with a near unconscious woman who thinks he's her husband and has no idea who he is ? Apparently our "hero" Sate Mcgruder is such a man.
He finds the heroine Juliana in a blizzard and takes her back to his cabin to save her life.he gets in bed with her in order to warm her up so that she doesn't get frostbite.He finds her extremely desireable but tries to control his baser urges but ultimately takes advantage when she mistakes him for her husband.The squaw who had been using sexually is in his cabin and seeing all this but he doesn't care.I was disgusted with this aspect of Sate.I thought he could have restrained himself.Having said this I had great hopes for their relationship as Sate had tender feelings for Juliana he wasn't only interested in sex from her and she also liked him.However fate intervenes in the form of Juliana sister in law.Juliana had left to find her brother,Sate later goes to see her and meets her sister in law who tells him lies about Juliana which he believes,as a result when he meets Juliana he treats her badly and she allows another man to court her and then marries him.Sate then realizes what a fool he has been but he believes it is too late and doesn't tell Juliana of his feelings before she marries his friend,if he had told her I don't think she would have married another man. Also I found it hard to believe that Juliana would be so attracted to another man(Roth Adams)while she's so in love with Sate.Maybe we are supposed to think she would be because she was starved for affection and intimacy when she was with her first husband.Anyway Sate decides to leave when Juliana decides to marry Roth.She moves to Roth's isolated cabin where they are together until fate intervenes,unknowingly she is carrying sate's child who she believes is her dead husband's.Sate returns soon after she has her child,she immediately has sex with him although she later refused her husband as she hadn't recovered from the birth as yet.I found this disgusting on both their parts.She should have been angry at his previous treatment of her and he could only think of getting her in bed although she is married to his friend.I found both their behaviours reprehensible because neither one of them felt any guilt about what they had done. Her husband dies soon after this and she discovers that she is pregnant again for Sate.He believes that she and his son have also dies and goes away to mourn.He later learns that she is alive and returns to find her and they make up.
I found certain aspects of the hero's character helped to redeem him in my eyes.He constantly thought of Juliana when she was lost to him both times he tried to stay faithful to her refusing to sleep with Doxy when she was married to Roth and when he believes she was dead he didn't sleep with the whores at the post.He eventually slept when a squaw but didn't do this often as the memory of Juliana made him feel guilty.Juliana also admitted she wasn't in love with Roth and she thought of Sate a lot.This could have been a great love story if only the author had not put so many obstacles in the way of the hero and the heroine.Kentucky Bride is a much better read although this is a good story.I personally prefer that the hero and heroine have sex only with each for me to be believe that it is a true romance-I agree with the previous reviewer about this and about his callous treatment of Doxy and Bessie the other women he used sexually when the mood struck.I also don't like the author's treatment of Indians in some of her books.Quite a few of them have a rejected Indian maiden who constantly makes trouble for the hero and heroine(Blaze,Kentucky Bride).I also didn't like the fact that he so easiily believed her sister in law's lies about her.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE!, January 16, 2006

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Michelle Crisp "goodonewilson" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of the WORST romance novels I have ever read. And I've read hundreds!

Although the blurb sounds great, the novel kicks off with a scene that portrays the hero as anything but! At times I liked the hero and heroine, but those times were few and far between.
Every mistake that could be made in a romance novel was made in this one. It was about nothing but sex - the hero having sex with anything in a skirt and sharing her around with anyone who wanted a go. Even the heroine gave up on the hero, married someone else, and enjoyed having sex with the new husband she'd known only a few days!
Sex is vital to a good romance story, however, in my opinion it is a sacred bond that the hero and heroine share ONLY with each other.

I had no respect for either the hero or the heroine. Especially the hero as he had no respect (or thought) for the women he associated with.

I have read other Norah Hess books that were enjoyable, but I had to force myself to finish this one to see if it got better - It didn't!

Not worth the reading time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVED IT!, March 7, 2005

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Mindy Kurtz "MK" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever the Flame (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was amazing...obviously the other comments made were by people who don't really care for the erotic romance novels. Norah Hess--you're a genius. I could not put this book down and recommend it to everyone. The love scenes were hot, the lines weren't corny, the story overall was, in book world, believable. I loved it!!!