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Carrie James Haynes

Forfatter af Seductive Secrets

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Omfatter også følgende navne: Jerri Hines, Colleen Connally, Colleen Connally

Serier

Værker af Carrie James Haynes

Seductive Secrets (2012) 124 eksemplarer
The Cry for Freedom (2013) 30 eksemplarer
The Governor's Daughter (2016) 29 eksemplarer
Shadows of the Past (2011) 21 eksemplarer
Patriot Secrets (2010) 16 eksemplarer
Dreamscape (Dream Walker, #1) (2008) 13 eksemplarer
Daughter of Deceit (2012) 13 eksemplarer
The Bastard Son (2016) 12 eksemplarer
Embrace of the Enemy (2013) 9 eksemplarer

Associated Works

A Holiday to Remember [Anthology] (2012) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Hines, Jerri
Andre navne
Connally, Colleen
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Marietta, Mississippi, USA
Bopæl
New England, USA

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I read this for the insta-love square for Romance Bingo and it was also a Kindle Freebie selection.



To recap if you missed my 50% update:
Heroine falls in love w/ hero#1 by 30% and a few meetings.
Gets kidnapped and almost whipped to death by dude picked by grandparents to marry her.
Hero#1 offers what she considers a pity marriage.
Refuses.
Has sex with hero#1's bf who suddenly loves her.
Marries bf hero#2.
Now hero#2 is feeling faint/having night sweats



Second half:

Heroine gets pregnant
Hero#2 dies
Heroine kicked out by hero#2's family.
Hero#2 didn't want her to be able to leave England so somehow (completely unclear) makes a will that stipulates she can't have her own money if she leaves.
Heroine don't give a flying f and decides to go back to America, during the start of Revolutionary War.
Heroine has twins.
In one of the numerous side stories I haven't mentioned, her current maid had been raped by her step-father and he decides he wants her back.
Heroine kills step-father.
Heroine's bastard brother, who I think is around 30yrs old, gets maid pregnant, who I think is around 17-18yrs old.
2yrs go by in two chapters.
Heroine makes-out with married Hero#.5 (previously unmentioned because I didn't think we'd see him again. Imagine my surprise. But she initally was going to runaway and marry him in the beginning because she thought she wouldn't have to go to England for a season).
Hero#1 makes a surprise visit during their make-out session.
There's mentions of battles, Americans and English visit her place, she helps both. I...I think this is suppose to supply us with the feel of the times.
Hero#.5 feels extremely shafted by heroine and hires people to murder everyone.
Hero#1 saves heroine.
Heroine marries Hero#1.
She goes back to England for safety.
Reconciles with hero#2's family.
(It's going to go fast from this point on because I could barely make sense of anything)
Hero#1 presumed dead.
Children almost walk off a cliff to catch faires.
A I can't believe you're pulling this crap on the reader character betrayal.
Hero#1 makes miraculous return to save heroine from cliff.
Heroine gives birth while in a semi-coma.
Heroine's cousin who was trying to steal her money (I'm exhausted, I can't go into this storyline too and that's why you're just hearing about this) gets his due.
The end.

… (mere)
 
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WhiskeyintheJar | 1 anden anmeldelse | Feb 14, 2019 |
Please don't use this narrator again!

Narration is poor and the narrators accent distracting and inconsistent. Her use of "voices" is really bad.
Heroine is wimpy and poorly defined, trusting all, except the hero.
 
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Roseintatters | 1 anden anmeldelse | Sep 9, 2018 |
ok

I was excited to read this and found it to be a little confusing. I wasn’t sure what was happening all the time. Could have been better.
 
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EdenSteffey | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 14, 2018 |
This book is so appropriate to read at this time, just now celebrating the United States Independence. In fact, the whole series is. These United States of America had a beginning, the pulling away from a mother who held onto its young. With Jerri Hine's saga in these four books, in Winds of Betrayal, the reader experiences the angst, fear, passionate patriotism, and love which does not discriminate between nations in time of war. I loved the whole series and pray, dear reader, you will look at her work. Her writing has left an impressionable stamp upon my heart.

Jerri Hine’s writing has always absorbed me. I’ve read many of her books with great satisfaction. Her writing exposes her great passion of American history and her detail in putting a story on paper following the chronological events of history.

She laces her stories with love of family, between husbands and wives, and their children. We feel the anxiety of families fighting for what they deem precious – loyalty of nation and family. She balances well the opposing sides, providing stories which elicit the reader’s own anxiety and emotion for simply the human experience of family.

This is a story of love which does not take into account which side of the battle one is on. It is about the wrenching of normal life as we see it, for those who are willing to reach beyond and wish a better life for those we love, for a person who is able to pursue life, liberty and happiness. A wish we aspire to.

“It is moments like these that the character of man shines forth, Morgan stated firmly. “I say set fire to rain. Ignite the flames what is true and just. Torch the blaze with our courage and resolve so when we are done, all men will be free!”

Men who are good, innately so, find themselves doing what they wish not to. Marcus, one of the characters in the story wonders how much of the good is left in the man he had become? Fighting too long, a man will no longer remember the man he once had been.

In the upcoming days I will be spotlighting Hine's work and interview her. She's written several saga close to this time period, tugging at the inner revolutionary of us all and desire to be free who decide how our lives should be ordered.
… (mere)
 
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Eileen.Dandashi | Jul 8, 2017 |

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ISBN
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