Raven [Mass Market Paperback]

Norah Hess (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 391 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843946113
• ISBN-13: 978-0843946116
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time, April 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Raven (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was a complete waste of time. It was so bad that I actually bet a friend that she had never read such a bad book (sadly, I won). I have never read such drivel as Ms. Hess has attempted to use to pass off as a book. I think the author has watched way too many westerns and has no real concept of western life. People do not ride stallions typically yet all her characters rode them, she kept changing the animals right and left one moment it was a stallion then a gelding then a mare....that is a pretty good trick if you can get away with it. Every thing under the sun happened to these people and then AMAZING...the very next day it is all resolved. The people are not people I care about, she would throw someone in for interest and then poof, they are gone again. I am sure that living during that time was very difficult, however, some of the situtations were a little far fetched. And then at the end everyone is happy and life goes on. I am sorry but I doubt that I will ever want to read Ms. Hess again.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It was okay...., September 21, 2000

By 

Tracy Talley "Book Addict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Raven (Mass Market Paperback)

This story has so much promise, then never really delivered. I don't like to knock books, because the authors work so hard writing them, but I was a bit disapointed in this one. The main character Raven was great, I liked her strong lead, but the male lead of Chase, I wasn't crazy about. The story was based on a woman who was married to a gambling husband who insisted she sleep with a handsome stranger (Chase) for $1000, this being in the 1800's, that was alot of money. She she reluctantly did it because she feared her husband if she didn't. When it was over, Raven soon became a widow by accident. Chase never knew and went on his way to his ranch in Montana. Raven was now alone and runs into her brother. They buy a ranch in Montana, and she soon finds out her neighbor is none other than Chase. This is where the book should have taken off, so to speak, but it never did. Chase didn't really seem to care that her dead husband used her like that and I had to wonder what kind of man Chase was to even ask to spend the night with the man's wife. It nagged me the entire book and when he felt he loved her already, I didn't feel convinced. There was also a second romance going on in the story that never ended or really took off either. The villains were real and true villians, but they also never took off, so to speak. This book had soooo much potential and it upset me that it never truly got off the ground.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Raven, April 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Raven (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the worst book I have ever attempted to read. I say "attempted" because I was unable to finish it. The characters were one-diminsional, and spoke like children. There were also too many coincidences. No matter how bad something was that befell someone, it was all better in the morning. I did not care about anything that happened to Chance, Raven, or any one else, and I stopped trying halfway through the book. What a waste of time! I really don't think this book deserves any "stars" at all.