Witch-Light [Paperback]

Nancy Holder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2, 1996

Returning to her New Mexico village hometown to be with her dying father, Valerie is mesmerized by the mysterious and handsome Gabriel Luz, who tries to initiate Valerie into his dark world.

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Twenty-year-old Valerie Kittridge is horrified to learn that her father has had a stroke. As an only child and with her mother dead, her father is all she has in the world, and she leaves her life as a film student in California to nurse her father back to health. On her wild, late-night car ride to Duerme, the small town in New Mexico where her father lives with his girlfriend, she is besieged with a host of strange and terrifying dark omens and flashbacks to her childhood. For there is something waiting for Valerie at Duerme, not just her stricken father, but an irresistable stranger who had saved her life many years ago--the man of her dreams.

In Witch-Light, Nancy Holder and Melanie Tem collaborate on the second of their fascinating demon-lover stories. The first one, Making Love, was a sensual variation on the Frankenstein theme. Witch-Light is the mesmerizing story of a dark, mysterious, devastatingly handsome man named Gabriel, a bruja, or male witch, who draws Valerie into a twisted romance that will take her to the very edge of love and obsession.

Full of the magic and mystery of the Southwest, Witch-Light is a bittersweet, compelling mix of romance, horror and fantasy, a dark journey into a strange and wonderful world of folk magic, superstition, and obsessive love that knows no bounds.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dell; First Edition edition (June 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440217180
• ISBN-13: 978-0440217183
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,027,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E, February 21, 2000

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This review is from: Witch-Light (Paperback)

We've got Valerie who lacks spines and is very uninteresting, drab. Then we've got Gabriel here, king of the snakes and brujo, who is an oversexed macho seducer. Valerie generally seems to look down on all the inhabitants of New Mexico, very WASP. The one exception is Gabriel, whom she lusts for. Not very original. The whole story is a dragged out love affair between them. It tries to have a plot but doesn't. It keeps on going on about the wonderful sex they're having, and how much they lust for each other, but it doesn't contain much else. There's no point in reading this. Plot? None. Characters? Not realistic, nor interesting. If you like books of this ilk, fantasy-romance, I'd advise you to instead go for Laurence Hamilton's Anita Blake series. It's much better than this thinly veiled porno book.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not their best, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Witch-Light (Paperback)

I generally liked this book except the father's medical condition was a little uncomfortable for me and ruined the experience. However there are enough flashed of the dynamic duo's sensual magical writing that it is still a good read. 'Making Love' was much more satisfying...this could have been a '5' but the medical stuff was too much for this squeamish reader.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just another porn book..., July 22, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Witch-Light (Paperback)

"Witchlight" sucks because it really is a porn book but is hidden by the cover and description on the back. I don't find reading about two people making hot sex with snakes all around very enlightning