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After the Wind
Across an Era of Hot Jazz, Cool Gin, and Quick Millions -- They Were Borne by the Sweet Surge of Love....
Polly Dare -- She was a saucy, flame-haired waif. Lifted from the gutter by her own bold desires - to the gilded mansions of old Nob Hill.
Luke Harmon -- He was San Francisco's Bootlegger King, a handsome adventurer restlessly driven by a thirst for danger - and a talent for power.
From the moment they met, he knew he must have her; as she knew she must one day surrender....
And in the dim-lit speakeasies along the Barbary Coast, heady witth champagne and lust...through Chinatown's underground dens of white slaves and opium dreams...amid the easy and bogus morals of the glittering haut monde ...their hidden passion flared....
While again and again, in torment, in pride, they were forced to flee from the promise of sweet, burning desire and the feverish, fated love that would never set them free....
Polly Dare -- She was a saucy, flame-haired waif. Lifted from the gutter by her own bold desires - to the gilded mansions of old Nob Hill.
Luke Harmon -- He was San Francisco's Bootlegger King, a handsome adventurer restlessly driven by a thirst for danger - and a talent for power.
From the moment they met, he knew he must have her; as she knew she must one day surrender....
And in the dim-lit speakeasies along the Barbary Coast, heady witth champagne and lust...through Chinatown's underground dens of white slaves and opium dreams...amid the easy and bogus morals of the glittering haut monde ...their hidden passion flared....
While again and again, in torment, in pride, they were forced to flee from the promise of sweet, burning desire and the feverish, fated love that would never set them free....
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First published March 1, 1979
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Eileen Lottman
28 books6 followersaka Harry Barney, Mike Cogan, Jessica Evans, Molly Flute, Samantha Mellors, Maud Willis.
Eileen Lottman spent her adolescence during World War II in Sioux City, Iowa cheering up Army Air Force personnel who were stationed at a base in town. She has written and published 23 novels and has been working on the 24th for the past 18 years.
Eileen Lottman spent her adolescence during World War II in Sioux City, Iowa cheering up Army Air Force personnel who were stationed at a base in town. She has written and published 23 novels and has been working on the 24th for the past 18 years.
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August 20, 2022
DNF, pg 180.
It probably doesn’t deserve 1 star, but I’m in a mean mood. When vintage paperbacks promise “torrid sagas of desire,” I expect to find flamboyant plots & soapy melodrama & crazy bodice-ripping shenanigans. This had none of those things. 180 pages & Polly was still 16, still looking for a job, still a virgin, & still not doing anything of interest. No highs or lows; no character development; no significant WTFlolz. Who cares?! (Also, the characters address each other by name all the time in their dialogue, which really annoys my inner grammar/editorial whore.)
So, yes. I’m in a mean mood & highly disappointed in this “epic romance”…which is not an epic romance so much as the plodding chick-lit version of a Horatio Alger novel. Zzzz.
What a waste of that luscious Old Skool cover. :/
It probably doesn’t deserve 1 star, but I’m in a mean mood. When vintage paperbacks promise “torrid sagas of desire,” I expect to find flamboyant plots & soapy melodrama & crazy bodice-ripping shenanigans. This had none of those things. 180 pages & Polly was still 16, still looking for a job, still a virgin, & still not doing anything of interest. No highs or lows; no character development; no significant WTFlolz. Who cares?! (Also, the characters address each other by name all the time in their dialogue, which really annoys my inner grammar/editorial whore.)
So, yes. I’m in a mean mood & highly disappointed in this “epic romance”…which is not an epic romance so much as the plodding chick-lit version of a Horatio Alger novel. Zzzz.
What a waste of that luscious Old Skool cover. :/
March 24, 2015
This book started out really well. The characters and situations drew me in completely. The little red-haired orphan girl was released from her "school for wandering girls" upon her sixteenth birthday to find her way in the world on her own. Her funny and not-so-funny mishaps were a great read. She eventually met more interesting people and found a job as a singer at a speakeasy....THATS where the book took a turn for the worse. Without ruining the book for everyone, I'll just say that the storyline is fantastic, but it gets slow and drawn out at various points. I did read it til the end and was generally pleased that I finished it. If you like the 1920s theme and fun, adventurous romances then give it a try.
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