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Night Tales: Nightshade / Night Smoke

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This is a re-release for a new generation of Nora Fans.

NIGHTSHADE: This is Boyd Fletcher's partner from Night Shift, Althea Grayson's story. Her 'nemesis' is Colt Nightshade. Their relationship is hot and heavy. Lots of wonderful tension. He gets under her nails and then, she lets him. Basic mystery story comes close to my profession of abuse counseling, and it was well done by Nora. I am convinced that Althea is the prototype for Eve Dallas in Nora's J. D. Robb series. It was fun recognizing the signs. The story was very good. Nora sure knows how to write a love scene.

NIGHT SMOKE: This was Natalie's story and my least favorite of the four "Night Tales". But it did bring back all the characters from the 3 previous stories. The 'family' aspect of that is something I liked a lot.

I consider all of Nora's books Keepers. They entertain and what more could you ask?

Get all three books in this series. They are great stories. Love Nora Roberts books. Good stories and easy read.

I don't know what it is about this series, but all the females in these Night stories are such snots. They're rude, conceited, snotty, and unlikeable. What do these guys see in them? I liked Ryan a lot, he was so sexy and mysterious, but Natalie was an outright biotch to him. She needed a serious attitude adjustment. I couldn't stand how she talked to him like she was so much better than him.

Both stories in this book are well written and hold your attention. I had trouble putting the book down.

Thank you Nora Roberts for a very good read

This was a wonderful series by Nora Roberts. She is an exceptional writer, takes you into the books for a wonderful adventure.

Two engaging romantic suspense stories by Nora Roberts. Strong intelligent women in both stories matched to interesting men, with good, involving story lines. Definitely a page-turner, and only the fact that there is a previous book and a book-still-to come in this series prevents one from regretting from racing through it at top speed.

More like 1 1/2 stars.

First of all, I know this is a really minor thing, but the title "Nightshade" annoyed me, because it was just the guys' last name rather than something related to the story like the other stories, which I just felt was a cop-out. Other than that, "Nightshade" was pretty good; the investigation into the prostitution ring and Althea's past was interesting, and Althea and Colt were funny together at times. However, as I've said about the other books in the series, they're just too short to include both a complete and thrilling suspense and romance at the same time, and both tend to suffer as a result. I liked the premise of "Night Smoke," because I find arson investigators very interesting, but the heroine was just stupid and annoying. When someone tells you that there's a fire and to run and call 911, you listen to them. Also, the end was just wrapped up too neat, with the bad guy turning himself in and all. Overall, although I had higher hopes for "Night Smoke," I ended up liking "Nightshade" better. That being said, I enjoyed Night Tales: Night Shift & Night Shadow best of the series, and I wouldn't recommend this to readers other than hardcore Nora Roberts fans. Try Blue Smoke or Born O'Hurley (The Last Honest Woman / Dance to the Piper) for the best of Nora Roberts.

Night Smoke was an awesome book. It had a great storyline and was a definate page turner. This Book had my attention from the beginnning. Once I got going I couldn't stop, which says a lot for Nora Roberts, considering this was my least favorite.She is a great author who always comes up with good romance novels. I can't wait to read the next Night Tale, "Night Shield."