Angels Sinners and Madmen edition by Cate Masters Literature Fiction eBooks
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Historical adventure romance set in 1850s Key West, Florida
Sam Langhorne loves the carefree life of a wrecker in Key West. The island is perfect – for forgetting the woman who broke his heart. When he rescues Livvie Collins from a watery grave, he’s swept away by her beauty. He’s sworn off love, but is soon captivated by Livvie’s wit and her independent spirit.
Olivia Collins never planned to visit Key West, or to fall in love with Sam. Handsome and attentive, he’s constantly surprising her with his intelligence and interest in current literature, but she knows better than to believe she’s anything more than a dalliance. As a novelist, she intends to make her own future.
Deception and treachery await them both in New Orleans. Can Livvie and Sam weather the most dangerous storm of all – love?
Angels Sinners and Madmen edition by Cate Masters Literature Fiction eBooks
In the year 1850, Livvie Collins father had encouraged her to be independent. After he died, she set sail aboard the Elizabeth Rose bound to her brother's house in New Orleans. She dreads society and its mores and fears her being a young single woman that her brother will foist her on a loveless marriage to arrange a good match.Tragedy strikes on the voyage when the ship wrecks on the reefs near Key West and Livvie's life is saved by the wrecker Samuel Langhorne.
Ms. Master's continues with a heartwarming story of love and a freer style of trust and life on the island in that time period.
I particularly enjoyed learning of the wreckers in that era, their way of life, the perils they faced and the island itself. The descriptions of the people, the scenery, the way the wreckers worked, the danger is all described with, I'm certain, intense research. I felt as if I were alongside all the characters in their good times and heart wrenching times. I laughed, I choked back tears.
When Livvie finally reaches her brother's house, I found the ending a little too drawn out. But, after all, it is a love story.
Once immersed in the story, you'll have a hard time putting the book down. I do recommend reading Angels, Sinners and Madmen for a very satisfying read.
Lorrie Struiff
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Angels Sinners and Madmen edition by Cate Masters Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
What can I say, Masters is one of my favourite writers across the genres. Great characters and storylines that really immerse you. Romance, but in a way that feels real, fraught with challenges and side-trackings. A great read from beginning to end.
In Angels, Sinners and Madmen, dive into the sea with wrecker Sam Langhorn as he plucks a golden haired goddess from the deep depths. The feelings she invokes have him questioning his attitude toward women and the road he's chosen.
Cast adrift in life at her father's death, Livvie Collins is stranded in Key West awaiting news from her brother. Attracted to Sam and in a tropical environment with a freedom she's never known, she questions her values.
Angels, Sinners and Madmen is a wonderful tale of two people struggling to choose the path their lives should take.
The intriguing title and the well-known author drew me to this book. With a mix of romance, tragedy and heroes, you have a recipe for a fine romance.
Angels, Sinners and Madmen is fraught with death-defying scenes. We're hardly into the first chapter and Olivia Collins's ship she's sailing on from New York to New Orleans sinks in a storm. And it is here that Livvie's character is shown in its best light. She has been unselfishly caring for her boring, whiny old cabin companion who is often sea-sick and refuses to go on deck. When the ship sinks, Livvie is determined to dive into the drink, regardless of her own life, to try to rescue her.
At that point we meet Sam Langhorn, one of the wreckers. Once again, we're given an initial impression he's a love-`em-and-leave-`em type of guy. Sure, he's brave - his job is to save the passengers and cargo of grounded ships. But he always saves the younger, more beautiful passengers first because it gives him a chance to grope them as he brings them to the surface and there's always the hope they'll show their gratitude later in a way he'll enjoy. So he's a smooth talker, but there's a first glimpse of a touching trait when, at Olivia's insistence, he dives back into the rough sea to rescue her whiny companion.
Of the characters, Sam is the most rounded, the most likeable and, we think, the most honest (because at least he says what he believes). Yet things aren't exactly as they seem - he has a library, he's well-read, but these facts are quickly overlooked until later. Olivia, despite her excellent beginnings, becomes a more clichéd heroine, feisty and independent yet she seems incapable of making up her mind or admitting her true feelings.
One puzzling but endearing character is a sailor called Peter. Livvie is attracted to his lean, but sinewy frame, his sparkling brown eyes and his carefree humor. He's a brave soul who helps Livvie save herself during the shipwreck. And then that's it - Peter gets swept over the side in chapter one and that's the end of him. I actually mourned this fine young man I'd already become attached to and wondered, throughout the book, whether he might have by chance survived and would reappear.
The plot takes on a repetitive sequence of meetings between Sam and Livvie which develop into flirting, having misunderstandings or arguing and then one or other flouncing off, only to regret their actions later. It is what kept me reading, wondering how many more times would this go on for until one or other gave in. I was also somewhat disappointed at the frequency with which Livvie puts herself in danger so that Sam has to save her. However, the rare sex scenes are sensitively handled with the result they border on the sultry. They also portray Sam's caring nature which endeared him further to me.
The wrecking business was very well researched but the details that Ms. Masters provided often slowed the pace of the story down. There was some interesting information such as the fact that colored people were often put in the first line of divers because they were more dispensable, but these diversions added nothing to the story. The setting was finely described Florida in the 1850's was a very different place to how it is now and it suited the plot.
This story has all the ingredients for an exciting read, yet it felt a little like a ping-pong game of success and failure with some long interludes between matches. However, the ending holds some huge surprises - some of which are, admittedly, hinted at during the story - which will leave the reader saying, "goodness me".
I recommend this book for the sheer originality of the tale, and for those who like HEA, they're going to be kept guessing right to the last page.
Originally posted at the Long and Short of It Romance Reviews
This book was enjoyable, and I liked the main characters a lot. However the story was overly drawn out. I felt the author added unnecessary information that slowed the pace of the book and was sometimes repetitive. I almost felt like it was done to take up space. I'm also not sure about the society of Key West in that time period so I might be wrong by saying this, but I felt the rules the author portraid in the book where the heroines freedom and lack of rules and expectactions were accepted so easily are hard to believe. Over all it was still an enjoyable read.
In the year 1850, Livvie Collins father had encouraged her to be independent. After he died, she set sail aboard the Elizabeth Rose bound to her brother's house in New Orleans. She dreads society and its mores and fears her being a young single woman that her brother will foist her on a loveless marriage to arrange a good match.
Tragedy strikes on the voyage when the ship wrecks on the reefs near Key West and Livvie's life is saved by the wrecker Samuel Langhorne.
Ms. Master's continues with a heartwarming story of love and a freer style of trust and life on the island in that time period.
I particularly enjoyed learning of the wreckers in that era, their way of life, the perils they faced and the island itself. The descriptions of the people, the scenery, the way the wreckers worked, the danger is all described with, I'm certain, intense research. I felt as if I were alongside all the characters in their good times and heart wrenching times. I laughed, I choked back tears.
When Livvie finally reaches her brother's house, I found the ending a little too drawn out. But, after all, it is a love story.
Once immersed in the story, you'll have a hard time putting the book down. I do recommend reading Angels, Sinners and Madmen for a very satisfying read.
Lorrie Struiff
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