Comments on: REVIEW: The Southern Devil by Diane Whiteside

By: Sybil

Sybil — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:02:17 +0000

le sigh…

I liked The Irish Devil. Adored The Switch. Bought The River Devil (new, trade size) and put it down after a few pages never to pick it back up.

I really hoped this one would rock. And well the cover is awesome.

Western Erotic Romance… I LOVE that! too bad it sucked… have you tried Sarah McCarthy’s Promise books yet?

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:16:19 +0000

It’s just you Rosario. Just kidding. I can see the shadow casting the zorro like image.

By: Rosario

Rosario — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:45:15 +0000

Is it just me or did anyone else think at first sight that the guy is wearing a mask like Zorro?

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:07:38 +0000

Wendy – you are totally right that the slavery issue was glossed over. There needed to be some explanation for the abolitionist tendencies.

Jaye – I got the sense that Diane Whiteside really knew her time period but her way of portraying the era seemed lost amongst all the other problems.

Rosie – I wanted to like this book too. Western. Sexy. Historical. Way disappointed.

Seton – Fancy names do seem like a throw back to the 80s books.

Jayne – nope, no return on this one.

Janine – your turn is next.

By: Janine

Janine — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:51:04 +0000

Oh, this book sounds terrible. Thanks for taking one for the team.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:47:26 +0000

I hate to think of how much you suffered while reading this. You did buy the print form, right? (Does it come in ebook form?) You could take it back? That’s still one of the few things about print vs ebooks that I like! ;)

By: seton

seton — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:47:16 +0000

Jane, you are so funny!!

With names like “Morgan and Jessamyn”, I couldnt tell who was the man and who da woman at first. I am not one of those who need some fancy-schmancy name. Sometimes John and Mary will do the same job, thank you very much.

I think IRISH DEVIL is on my TBR list. I will check it out!

By: Cece

Cece — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:32:02 +0000

Because your heroine creamed so many times she should have been a cow.

Pet Peeve :(

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:27:24 +0000

Jaye, lucky you. I liked IRISH DEVIL and went ahead and purchased RIVER DEVIL and then SOUTHERN DEVIL. IRISH DEVIL was far and away the best of the three. I wanted to like SOUTHERN DEVIL so bad and ended up SO disappointed.

By: jaye

jaye — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:06:11 +0000

c) for actually having eyes that might accidently land on a man other than himself.

C – me laughing my ass off after reading this comment. :-P

I read her “The Irish Devil” . It wasn’t a perfect read, but I liked enough of it to keep it and look forward next ‘Devil” book, but the excerpt, when it was made available, didn’t work for me, and then a string of ‘less than favourable’ buzz pretty much put the kebosh on that purchase plan. Haven’t really looked into her since then….

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:19:01 +0000

It’s funny, but the sex was the last thing that bothered me about this book. I was more confused over the fact that the heroine had “Unionist” sympathies when she grew up in Tennessee (a slave state) and Daddy fought for the Confederacy. I’m sorry, but merely telling me the girl was allowed to have opinions and discuss politics just isn’t good enough. I need a reason dagnabit. And I could understand her being upset with the hero for placing her father in danger, but she seemed WAY more upset that he was a REBEL spy. Huh?

Also, the slavery issue was really glossed over. Daddy owns a horse farm (again, in TENNESSEE!) but apparently doesn’t believe in slavery. Yet, there are people of color living with the family. Are they servants? Are they paid wages? What?

I still contend this book might have worked better if it had been written as a throwback to the sagas from 20 years ago. Sort of like a sexed-up version of The Thornbirds or something. As it was, I was kinder – but not by much. Would rank it around a C-.