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| Original Title: | Ashes in the Wind |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Alaina MacGaren, Cole Latimer |
| Setting: | New Orleans, Louisiana,1863(United States) Minnesota(United States) |
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Paperback | Pages: 664 pages Rating: 4.18 | 8956 Users | 418 Reviews
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This one is tough for me to rate because there are some parts of this book I LOVED, and some I absolutely HATED!! First I have to say that I really enjoy the author's writing style, it's so much different from the modern books that it's like in another universe. But that's OK cause it's still great. What I didn't like here was the story, or how the author chose to develop it, and every major event that happened in the book. Almost every potential good scene between the main characters was somehow RUINED, either by them or by other characters, and a lot of things happened that made me want to give up on it completely, but I stuck through it and I'm glad because the last 35% were great. So... 1%-20% - 5 stars 20%-65% - 2 stars with sprinklings of 1 or zero at some parts 65-100% - 4 stars If I was good at math I could calculate the exact star percentage but since my brain is teeny-tiny-non-existent, I'm gonna guess and give it a 3 XD *buddy read with Glam <3*
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| Title | : | Ashes in the Wind |
| Author | : | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 664 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Historical Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Military History. Civil War. Adult |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 8956 Users | 418 ReviewsAssessment About Books Ashes in the Wind
Three Huge, Terrible Misunderstandings and still three quarters to get through? Knowing that I am going to hear h shout "you Damn YANKEEE" a thousand more times then proceed to smear dirt on her face and hair in some sort of bizarro reverse Mrs. Doubtfire scheme? I can't even.
This was a reread after many, many years--and it held up to my memory. I originally read this as a young teen and loved it. Rereading it as an adult I was wondering if it was going to be as good as I remembered, and while it wandered far afield, but at over 600 pages you have room for a story to stretch time and space, it was entertaining. I definitely understand why I liked it as a young woman. Alaina was so much of what I identified with at that age and aspired to from the metamorphosis from
I have read almost every single one of KEWs books the Wolf and the Dove is my all-time favorite and I gave that five stars! I did a DNF on Come love a Stranger just could not get into that book. AITW, although the Civil War is not a favorite genre and the whole dressing as a boy trope isnt either this was the only one of her vintage books I had not yet read and thats why I had to read it. (After all its KEW....a great writer!) I am glad I did this is a really good book. In part two of the book
What a book! As I was reading it, parts started coming back to me and I used to read a lot of Woodiwiss in the early '80s so I must have read this book. The beginning was strange. The middle was horrible, I hated Alaina so much while reading this part. Could she never say anything nice to Cole?!? The last part of the novel was better and the ending was great. Things that drove me crazy besides the above: Cole being rescued from the river - 2 times. Alaina literally running into Jacques - 4
It is scary sometimes doing re-reads, because sometimes story lines don't hold up to the test of time. But of course with the great dame KEW writing the story how could it now??? AITW did hold up and I loved the Civil War love story today just as much as I did when I was 14!
I still cannot believe I am giving a Woodiwiss book only 2 stars. It seemed to me that part one and part two were written at completely different times. Alaina jumps back and forth between really caring for Cole, to not at all. There seemed to be so many plot lines throughout the book, that the characters suffered for it. The unlikely events that happened to coincide with one another were unbelievable at best, and the villains in the story were not thought out. I never felt connected to Cole or
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