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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strong characters, fully developed, and GREAT love scenes..., December 12, 2006
Nicole Jordan is an amazing writer who combines well-drawn, believable characters, believable secondary/ancillary characters (I could actually SEE Panna and Miklos, two of the Gypsies, when I read about them, and Vincent Foster was also quite real on the page), wonderful plot twists, and --always-- great steamy love scenes. Oh, and one more thing. She does her historical/cultural homework. I learned more about Gypsy culture (they figure prominently in the story) from this one novel than I have learned in all my previous years, and, well, I'm not a teenager, nor in my 20's or 30's.. you get the idea, lol. She paints pictures in her scenes, so full of detail that you 'fall' into the story. The characters do that to you. She has a real gift for this.
Blaise, the heroine, is not my fave type of female character --she is very headstrong-- but to her credit she IS brave, true, and very ingenious. She loves Julian almost immediately, and so did I! By the way, he wasn't a cold fish at all, as someone mentioned. That was a front. He proves to be rather HOT, in fact...
In turn, Julian gradually begins to love Blaise for her spirit and joie de vivre, her true love of life, and, in the end, for bringing his soul back to life. That's a very tall order : he has been through hell on the Continent in the Wars, and is widely believed to have murdered his first wife, Caroline. The evidence against him is circumstantial but quite damning, and Julian blames himself, as well. He feels responsible for her death, and is stuck at an emotional crossroads which most of us (who have lived long enough) can easily relate to. Blaise wants to help. (So did I!)
Brava! I love Nicole Jordan's books, and I'll be reading every one of her novels. I hope she keeps writing for a LONG, LONG time.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good read, August 27, 2002
This review is from: Touch Me With Fire (Paperback)
Blaise is an independant, adventurous woman who runs away from her aunt to avoid marriage of her aunt's choosing. She meets Julian, Viscount Lynden before she could escape and helps her avoid her aunt even without knowing her true identity. He takes her to be with her Gypsy family whom she claims that she is betrothed to one of them. However, Julian doesnt' seem to care, he wants her passionately. Although Blaise refuses to be his mistress, Julian stays in the camp and seduces Blaise to sleep with him. She brings him peace and makes him alive after years of feeling numb and bad memories. He was rumored to have killed his wife, so out of guilt he left his family home and joined the military. He decides to go back, and along the way Blaise helps him deal with his ghost and of course, they fall in love. I enjoyed reading the book. The characters were developed well. A little twist in the story. Not as passionate as her other books, but worth reading.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reissue Touched with Fire, February 4, 2007
Touch Me With Fire is a story that blazes with passion and senuality, as the handsome and charasmatic Julian Morrow, Vicount Lynden pursues the beautiful violet eyed, raven haired, Blaise St. James. Julian, an injured war hero is now home from Spain struggling with not only the deep physical and emotional pains of war, but the struggles and rumors surrounding the death of his first wife, which originally caused him to run off and fight so far away from England. Upon his return home, he happens across young Blaise, dressed as a servant, as she is on the run from her guardians and an unwanted arranged marriage. Julian does not realize Blaise is a "lady" and wants her as his mistress. He offers to take her to her gypsy friends and there in the romantic setting of the gypsy camp pursues her with lust and passion that the young, innocent Blaise struggles with and does not truly understand. Under the guidance and love of her gypsy friends, which are like family to her, she begins to fall in love with Julian. While Julian knows he lusts for Blaise, he struggles with his true feelings of love, as he watches the young, kind, loving Blaise care for him and others in the gypsy camp. He sets many alluring passionate traps for Blaise, who is drawn to this handome, sexy, yet troubled man. Finally he can no longer wait and arranges to have her, only to be caught and discover that she is not truly his firey gyspy, but a "lady" of the ton. He feels betrayed and manipulated and Blaise is confused, as their troubled, sensual marriage begins and the mystery surrounding the death of Julian's first wife begins to unravel to a surprise ending. The book is well-written and researched with strong characters, deep mystery, inner emotional stuggles, passion, desire, and love scenes beautifully written that keep the reader riveted to the page. It was a pleasure to read this book the first time around and it was even more pleasurable to visit it again as a reissue.
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