Both the hero and the heroine sleep around gratuitously, and sometimes it feels like they spent more time with other people than they did with each other. One minute they might be having sex in a lightning storm or he's buying her sexy lingerie the next, he's slathering makeup on her face and ordering his men to gang-rape her, or letting one of his mistresses starve her to the point that her baby dies in the womb and gives her sepsis(!). Even when he starts to fall for her, he's still impossibly cruel.
At one point, the hero makes her nose bleed by hitting her in the face. Catherine is brutalized and treated as a servant and a whore. He does this by kidnapping Catherine on her way to school and raping her, before sending her blood- and semen-stained underwear to her father by courier.Īfter that, the story becomes a chaotic maelstrom of ups and downs. The hero, Sean Culhane, is out to get English viscount, John Enderly, for leading the genecide that wiped out most of his town and resulted in the violent death of his mother, as well as other people he knows. STORMFIRE is set during the Napoleonic Wars/Georgian England, but set in Ireland, during the British's violent colonization of the people. Not only does it have a beautiful cover, it's also got a unique story and setting. It's easy to see why it's become such a cult classic. Obviously, I started reading that shit immediately, because wouldn't you?
I despaired of ever getting a copy of either, and then my mom found a cheap copy of STORMFIRE at a thrift shop. In terms of price, it's right up there with THE SILVER DEVIL. STORMFIRE is a very difficult book to get in physical form.
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