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Summary: Very good but, would I have liked a little more adventure.
Review: I think she did a great great job. I think the story could have been a little longer. I would like to have found out what the King thought of them getting married and the deception he played on them. All in all Bertrice always delivers a good, juicy, and spicy story.
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Summary: "Betrayed Surprises!"
Review: I've read enough in this genre to know by the first two pages if I'm going to be interested enough to continue. Vocabulary is very important and yes, I was intrigued. I enjoyed this story for its engaging plot; the author got right to the point, and I loved the historical accuracy. I felt very much connected to Fiona and Black Angus. However,just when I'd fallen for Black Angus,he's swept out and another is swept in. Surprise, surprise, I fell for this fellow too! My Fiona would have been a little more expansive in her grieving process. Still, the story touched me and was rare in its unpredictability.
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Summary: "Betrayed Surprises!"
Review: I've read enough in this genre to know by the first two pages if I'm going to be interested enough to continue. Vocabulary is very important and yes, I was intrigued. I enjoyed this story for its engaging plot; the author got right to the point, and I loved the historical accuracy. I felt very much connected to Fiona and Black Angus. However,just when I'd fallen for Black Angus,he's swept out and another is swept in. Surprise, surprise, I fell for this fellow too! My Fiona would have been a little more expansive in her grieving process. Still, the story touched me and was rare in its unpredictability.
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Summary: erotic entertainment in the Small tradition
Review: In 1422, the Laird of Loch Brae, Angus Gordon, catches Fiona Hay stealing his cattle to pay dowries for her sisters' weddings. He accuses her of the crime and she offers her maidenhead in payment. Angus says the cattle is worth more than just one night in the sack. Instead he makes her his mistress. When King James returns to the Scottish throne after twenty years held as a royal prisoner in England, he does everything to unite Scotland under his rule. He worries about the Highlanders, who have failed to swear fealty to him. Even though he knows that Fiona and Angus love each other, the King sets in motion a plot to turn Fiona into the lover-spy of Colin MacDonald, a wild Highlander. The plan works with Colin being duped into abducting Fiona. With no trace of her, it appears that Angus and Fiona will never share the lifetime of happiness that both richly deserve. New York Times best selling author Bertrice Small writes her best novel since the early "Skye O'Malley" books with BETRAYED. The novel is extremely erotic (even for Ms. Small), but is very enjoyable due to the brilliant and charming lead and secondary characters, who bring alive the reign of King James I. Historical romance fans will enjoy this fabulous story. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Who Cares About These People?
Review: It started out all right, but soon plunged into long stretches of dry historical facts that read like "Robert, Duke of Albany, brother of late king Robert III, held hostage by his nephew, Murdoch Earl of Fife, who murdered the last English king, who chose a bride--" Soon I stopped caring who anyone was, or attempting to keep track of them. The plotting was choppy with no vitality or momentum, the narrative pedestrian and unimaginative -- and, come to think of it, isn't "imaginative narrative" one of the top goals for a writer? All the characters are cardboard-thin, and the narrative point of view skipped all over the place; sometimes you're reading three different character's thoughts on the same page! And the main plot point, the kind sending Fiona to be a spy...Why didn't he just get someone who was WILLING to do it??? Well, that's where I stopped reading, so unfortunately didn't get to the "gratuitous sex" parts I heard mention of.
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Summary: Romance with exciting adverture leaving you wanting more.
Review: Ms. Busbee has written another wonderful novel filled with history and romance. Fiona is a hidden character in all of us romantics! The book was so intense, I finished it in three days. The ending was somewhat predictable but well worth the reading effort.
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Summary: You've done it again!!!
Review: Ms. Small has succeeded in creating another in the person of Skye O'Malley. Keep up the good work! I read your books as fast as you write them. I am a HUGE fan!
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Ms. Small's books are always very sexual. Anyone reading them knows that after the first one or two they read. The plot was great, although Angus Gordon not trying to find her didn't have much credit. Any man, that in love with a woman, would do whatever it took in order to find her-- not go off to England to "greive" as if she was dead. Ms. Small, Keep up the good work! I'll buy 'em as fast as you can write them!
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Summary: Another Great Book for Ms.Small!
Review: The story is fast-paced, never a dull moment anywhere in the book.It is very descriptive, which helps to transport you to that time period. I finished it in 3 days. A truly enjoyable read!
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL AND HEARTWRENCHING
Review: This book got my attention when I read its "free" excerpt. It so intrigued me that I ordered the novel immediately. I just knew it was going to be romantic, sensual and adventurous. I was not disappointed. This is historical power and romance at its truest and best; a beautiful, spitited, yet honorable lass, two men who love her, and a king with much power and little mercy. Ms. Smalls is a genius in the arena.
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