Customer Reviews

Night Shadow

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This was DEFINITELY the best of the trilogy. NightFire was too emotionally draining and NightStorm was too abrupt or something!

Anyway, I enjoyed Knight's character. He's charming, easy going, light hearted and funny. A confirmed bachelor, no one can believe it when he takes in Lily and her three children.

Lily tells Knight that she is the widow of his cousin who was recently killed in Brussels and that she is the mother to Laura Beth and step-mother to Theo and Sam. Of course, Lily has not told Knight the complete truth and is terrified that he, unused to children, will lose patience and throw them all out into the street. She is surprised to find him tolerant of the children's antics (the scene with Laura Beth in Knight's study drawing is hysterical!) and he is surprised to find himself not only enjoying the children, but also incredibly attracted to Lily. Of course what neither of them knows is that Knight's cousin was murdered and that somewhere among Lily and the children's things are hidden jewels that two criminals are looking for thus endangering Lily and the children. So there's the mystery of the jewels to be solved, and the relationship of Lily and Knight to be resolved with lots of fun along the way.

This was a nice, sweet story and Knight and Lily make a cute couple. An enjoyable read!

I really find Knight just an amazing character. You could start to tell in Night Fire that he had great potential. His attitude about love, romance, children - so many strong feelings about things - he just thought he would marry at 40 and then have an heir and leave the child rearing to his wife and continue remotely from afar being and absentee father and husband. Wow - did his life change at 27 when his dead cousins wife, Lily appears at his door destitute and with his 3 children. Lily was such an intriguing, beautiful woman and those children just totally set his life in an unsettled state. I don't know which captivated Knight more - the children or Lily!! I guess the only reason I did not give this 5 stars would be - too much children. I realize they were important to the story but I just don't enjoy that much chilren - prefer more intense love story. and that might be another one of my complaints Knight thinks eventually that Lily is a loose woman - although he wants to wed her even though he believes this. I am not exactly sure why he felt this way. For many reasons though I would recommend this book the second in the series!!

This was a great story... It was so funny ,The characters were fun and the servants were funny. The love story was interesting with twist and turns. Lily and Knight ..I loved them . I loved how Julian St.Clair was thrown in also (from the rebel bride.I only wish Knight said "I LOVE YOU" to Lily when she wasn t sleeping or knocked out. I loved the banter between Lily and Arielle near the end about there husbands with the french spies.Knight really became a loving father,surprise for a confirmed bachelor. great fun story!!!

This one left me unsure as to my feelings for it. I LOVED the children, and the first third and last part-after their marriage-I loved, but the part in between . . . I hated the fact that Knight absolutely refused to believe that Lily was NOT, in fact, a prostitute. But I stayed up long into the night reading it anyway. I HAD to find out what happened. I was shaking during that whole portion of the book! I still didn't like it as much as Night Fire though, which has got to be one of the best books I have ever read. This book is worth reading, but it left me with mixed feelings.

Part of a 3 book series. the first book starts with shocking description of first marriage abuse as the first chapter. After that the rest of the series presents woman who have a desperate need of some kind even though they don't really know that the need can be filled by a man. The book has danger and excitement as well as romance and lovemaking scenes. After I got past the first chapter of the first book, it was all great. If you are sensitive to books with abuse you might want to skip the first book in the series. This book however has no such problem.

Knight Winthrop, the confirmed bachelor and cynic of marriage, is thrown off balance with the beautiful Lily and her ex-fiance's children. I loved this book for the humor and love shared between the children and adults especially. It is the most exciting and enticing book of the trilogy. But, forewarning don't expect this in Night Storm...it's horrible. Three cheers for Night Shadow, though.

my favorite part of this book was laughing at all of the mistakes. anyway... my other favorite part was when she took a bullet for Knight. i thought that was so sweet even though it was kind of gruesome. i could picture Monk and Boy's faces, and they looked disgusting in my mind. i thought she made the details wonderfully and i will read it as much as i can. it is the best book in the whole world. i love this book!!! it was WORTH IT! i recomend it to anyone over age 15. explicit material. great book.

Since Catherine Coulter has been delivering many disappointments, I picked up some of her earlier writing at a used book sale. I enjoyed this novel. The kids were cute, the story was well-paced and interesting, and the mystery was intriguing. As usual, Coulter delivers with steamy love-making.

Catherine Coulter once again has our complete attention while reading this book which is one of the Night trilogy. I higly recommend all 3 books. They are riveting! You're the best Catherine! Good job!

I haven't read Night Storm yet (book #3), but considering the reviews, and how much better Night Shadow (this book; book #2) was than the first one, Night Fire (which also got poorer reviews), I'm sure this will turn out to be the best of the three.

Except for the way Knight treats Lily in the middle of the book, I loved his character. He's kind and funny and great with the kids. I thought Coulter's characterization of the children was great also. They really came alive to me. The love scenes are a bit steamy, and their first true coupling wasn't the best, but if you can live with that, you'll love this book.

ETA:I felt I should add this to my review and not only as a comment to another, after re-reading one of the other reviews:
I have to disagree with the comment about 'too much children'. Normally, I'm like that. I don't like to read a lot about kids when I'm reading a romance, but this book was an exception. Not only does the hero's choice to marry the heroine include accepting an instant family, but the children were likable, their characters were well-developed, and the scenes with them were enjoyable--often touching and or funny. All in all, I think the inclusion of the kids enhanced the plot, not detracted from it. The hero's attitude toward them and his treatment of them was certainly one of the main reasons I liked him so much.