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Dancing on Coals
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Well, as usual, I’m late the game. So many of my friends have read this book and raved about it. They’ve nudged me, telling me it’s amazing and that I had to read it. Every so often I’d get a reminder that I had it sitting here, just waiting for me to pick it up… and still, I put it off. But, I finally did it and, as usual, my friends were right.
When I read a book I want the time I spend to be worthwhile, so I’m always looking for stories that make me forget that I’m just reading a book. I love it when I’m swept away to another time and place, living a life very different from my own, a life I’d never otherwise get to experience. That’s what Dancing on Coals was like for me.
For the few days I spent reading this story, I’d close my eyes and try to imagine what it was like to be a lone woman in an unfamiliar land, finding myself living with a people whose traditions and ways of life were completely foreign to me. What it was like to have the wind whipping through my hair while on horseback, riding faster and faster, as if my very life depended on it, because it did. Seeing the ocean for the very first time. Falling in love with someone I had every reason to hate, and being thankful for all the horrible things that happened to me because without them, I would never have met him.
This is a tale that is, at the same time, both ugly and beautiful. It took me places I’ve never been, made me feel things I’ve never felt. And most importantly, it's a beautiful love story, and I can’t ask for more than that.
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UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish's review
bookshelves: native-american, historical-romance-native-american, format-kindle-or-kindle-compatible, author-ellen-oconnell, own-have-read, keepers, 5-stars, 2013-reads
Nov 02, 2011
bookshelves: native-american, historical-romance-native-american, format-kindle-or-kindle-compatible, author-ellen-oconnell, own-have-read, keepers, 5-stars, 2013-reads
Well, as usual, I’m late the game. So many of my friends have read this book and raved about it. They’ve nudged me, telling me it’s amazing and that I had to read it. Every so often I’d get a reminder that I had it sitting here, just waiting for me to pick it up… and still, I put it off. But, I finally did it and, as usual, my friends were right.
From the cover:I’m just going to share a few thoughts with you, since there are already so many wonderful reviews on this book.
After escaping robbers intent on murder, Katherine Grant says, "I jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Before long I'll be dancing on the coals." The highwaymen were the frying pan; the handsome young Apache who saved her from them was the fire; and the coals? Gaetan.
Rage against the enemies of his people has consumed Gaetan from boyhood. The only use he ever found for any white was to test the sharpness of his knife. Forced by his brother to endure Katherine's company, Gaetan tries to deny what he sees—the white woman has a man's temper and a lion's courage. She has an Apache heart.
In spite of hate, distrust and fear, surviving in the rugged country of southern Arizona and northern Mexico forges a strange bond between Katherine and Gaetan. When the bond turns to love, can they admit it? Can they bear the consequences?
When I read a book I want the time I spend to be worthwhile, so I’m always looking for stories that make me forget that I’m just reading a book. I love it when I’m swept away to another time and place, living a life very different from my own, a life I’d never otherwise get to experience. That’s what Dancing on Coals was like for me.
For the few days I spent reading this story, I’d close my eyes and try to imagine what it was like to be a lone woman in an unfamiliar land, finding myself living with a people whose traditions and ways of life were completely foreign to me. What it was like to have the wind whipping through my hair while on horseback, riding faster and faster, as if my very life depended on it, because it did. Seeing the ocean for the very first time. Falling in love with someone I had every reason to hate, and being thankful for all the horrible things that happened to me because without them, I would never have met him.
This is a tale that is, at the same time, both ugly and beautiful. It took me places I’ve never been, made me feel things I’ve never felt. And most importantly, it's a beautiful love story, and I can’t ask for more than that.
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Reading Progress
November 2, 2011
– Shelved
November 2, 2011
– Shelved as:
native-american
November 2, 2011
– Shelved as:
historical-romance-native-american
November 2, 2011
– Shelved as:
format-kindle-or-kindle-compatible
December 31, 2012
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Started Reading
January 2, 2013
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Finished Reading
January 24, 2013
– Shelved as:
author-ellen-oconnell
January 24, 2013
– Shelved as:
keepers
January 24, 2013
– Shelved as:
5-stars
January 24, 2013
– Shelved as:
2013-reads
June 11, 2016
– Shelved as:
own-have-read
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I finished Making Him Sweat and while sitting at the dentist office with my son, I tried to start Dancing, well... the book.... but it wouldn't download because I didn't have wireless access! GAH!
But now I'm home and starting in 3...2...1... NOW!
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Isn't it wonderful? Oh, I adored every word!!
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Agreed, Dhestiny! It was so absorbing. I was completely THERE.
Glad you loved it, too! Knew you would. I was so impressed that O'Connell could keep him silent (and mean) for half the book, and I still loved it!
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Some of the best books I've ever read are the ones I hold off reading because I'm afraid they won't live up to the hype. So glad I finally did it!!!
And yes.... I'm not much on internal dialog, but this book worked, big time!
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Thank you, honey! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!
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