5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Super, September 26, 1999
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This is an excellant book. It is the first in the wonderful Bragg series. Get this book. Miranda is a beautiful, sensitive woman from a convent in France. She comes to America to meet and marry her husband, and meets her husband's friend, a wild, half-breed named Derek. Derek falls for Miranda on the spot, and she is attracted to this rugged man but she is going to marry his friend. Together the battle each other, a passion, the wild west, an a crazy madman who wants Miranda for his own. This is an excellant, sensual book.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Rape, Rape, and more Rape, October 6, 2006
I found this book to be one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. The heroine is continually raped. I read romance novels to enter a world of fantasy and joy not a world of crime and pain! I had to force myself to finish this book to put it behind me. After reading it I was depressed and disgusted for three days! I loved Brenda Joyce's other books so I just wanted to tell you that they are usually great. I can't say I would recommend this book to a friend, an enemy definitely.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Truly unlikeable female lead, July 4, 2006
This book was irritating in many ways. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was bad, just irritating.
For one thing, the plot was way too similar to Kat Martin's Natchez Flame - though I believe Joyce's book was written first. The plots were different, but the entire premise was nearly identical. It hasn't been that long since I read Martin's book, so to read one so similar was a little boring and annoying.
Aside from that, Miranda was an overwhelmingly tiring character. She was the very extreme of the typical naive miss of the time, to the point where she just seemed damn stupid. I realize that innocence and naivte was the norm back then for women, but she was and extreme and it got freakin' annoying to constantly read all her witless babble. And it seemed kind of unfitting that such a wordly man as Derek would become so connected to her.
The plot was a bit long and tedious and repetitive. I mean, Miranda is kidnapped three times in the book. Once or twice, okay fine, but three times? It was a bit much.
I also thought that the resolution of Miranda's feelings and her situation was poorly dealt with. It was like *snap* she'd changed her mind about certain things and all was right. There was also this side storyline dealing with Miranda's father. There were some serious issues there, but that's never resolved. At the end, he comes to see Miranda. She spends about a half hour with him, where they talk about nothing serious, and Miranda suddenly thinks to herself that he's not the beast she thought he was. That was it. It was a really cheap way to resolve something that had such an impact on the story.
Anyway, Innocent Fire wasn't a horrible book, but it's not one I'd recommend to others for reading.
Rating: 2 / 5
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