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5.0 out of 5 stars
Adversaries united in passion -- very highly recommended, March 16, 2001
This review is from: Once A Rebel: Jewels of the Sea (Paperback)
In 1760s England, three sisters face danger and adventure on the high seas as pirates to champion their noble causes. Each meets the man who is their destiny, learning to value love more than any pirate's treasure. ONCE A REBEL, the second novel of the miniseries, is the story of Joanna Fisk, the fiery redhead who will stop at nothing to achieve her purpose.
Joanna only attends the ball to please her elder sister. Attired in fabulous dress and feathered mask, her emerald eyes suite the name rumor gives her, "The Emerald of London." Using the rumor to her own advantage, Joanna gains an introduction to Nathan Alcott, a man who represents all that she despises most. But she can't resist the thrill of attraction, the electric connection they share.
Preferring her own company to the partygoers as they step into the dining room, Joanna escapes to her brother-in-law's study. There she overhears just enough information that, if she takes to the seas, will solve her pressing issue. Too often Joanna feels she's let down those who needed her, especially her little brother and Sammy who both died, and she won't let down the rest of the children. Nathan is borrowing her brother-in-law's ship and headed to France with $50,000 in gold. Plenty to pirate and use to provide much needed food and shelter for the orphans of London's streets.
The attack on her adversary was fiercer than Joanna planned, causing considerable damage to the ship. When she boards and her crew captures the gold, however, Nathan doesn't give up the money without a fight. In a desperate sword fight, Nathan beats Joanna, but she can't loose the gold. Without thinking, she thrusts her dagger into his side. Devastated by her own actions, Joanna brings both gold and Nathan back to her ship. When she learns the purpose of Nathan's desperate flight to France, she offers her help. Both Joanna and Nathan fight the electricity they share, yet these adversaries must eventually admit the passion that grows between them.
This fiery heroine and her rash decisions provide a fast-paced, addictive plot sure to keep the pages turning. Tammy Hilz has a talent for weaving impossible situations and then providing the perfect solution in just the nick of time. ONCE A REBEL is brilliantly-crafted, fabulously rendered, and a must read!...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful read, July 26, 2001
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This review is from: Once A Rebel: Jewels of the Sea (Paperback)
Joanna is a wonderful woman so unsure of herself yet she can talk herself into anything. She fights for what she believes in regaurdless of what it does to herself. When Nathan walks into her world she finds out that things are not always what they seem. And no matter how hard she tries to force him out of her life she can not fight the attraction that they share the firce argumentive complete oppisites attrack really comes into play here. I loved the book and found it to keep me going threw the end and wanting to start to read it all over again.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
I Find Jo Hard To Take, June 14, 2001
This review is from: Once A Rebel: Jewels of the Sea (Paperback)
There is nothing "strong" about Jo. I am appalled that she allows her self-centered, scatter-gun, class-envy to put her entire family's lives at risk AND do what she does to David's ship. It was a mistake when she slipped her dagger ALL THE WAY into Nathan's body? What a crock. She had been wanting to do this through the entire previous book.
I loved Morgan and David in Pirate. At least Morgan did what she had to do to survive. Jo is a self-centered little brat who can't see anything beyond her own blind rage. She was in London for how many years? Four!! And she managed to find one whole group of orphans. Big whoop. Now she's ready and willing to take steps that will get her whole family hung. Personally, I think she's stupid, bordering on insane. I think I will enjoy "Angel" much more.
I'm having a hard time finishing this book. It is my most fervent hope that Nathan drop kicks her butt straight into the ocean. That would be the only thing that would make this book worth reading to me.
Now, I will say that this author writes very well and I do enjoy her work, but she just didn't choose the right heroine this time.
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