Taming the Heiress

Rating:
Summary: Only Meg Makes This Book Worthy of ANY stars
Review: Meg was one of the best heroines ever; she was sweet, smart, compassionate, and troubled.
With the exception of the prologue, there didn't appear to be any real attraction between Meg and Dougal although they often "looked into each other's eyes," but there was no spark. After more than 100 pages the best we got was Dougal touching Meg's elbow every now and then and this was supposed to make her melt. I couldn't see how, really.
Then the author gives us a scene in the end wherein Dougal is in serious trouble and his friends are attempting to help him. Now we know a hero almost always survives, especially in a romance novel, and unless there is some challenge from a villian or a storm, why give the reader these wasteful pages of "wondering" whether or not Dougal's going to make it?
And while I praise Susan King's knowledge of history and occupations of the era, we are subjected to WAY too much information.

Rating:
Summary: Only Meg Makes This Book Worthy of ANY stars
Review: Meg was one of the best heroines ever; she was sweet, smart, compassionate, and troubled.
With the exception of the prologue, there didn't appear to be any real attraction between Meg and Dougal although they often "looked into each other's eyes," but there was no spark. After more than 100 pages the best we got was Dougal touching Meg's elbow every now and then and this was supposed to make her melt. I couldn't see how, really.
Then the author gives us a scene in the end wherein Dougal is in serious trouble and his friends are attempting to help him. Now we know a hero almost always survives, especially in a romance novel, and unless there is some challenge from a villian or a storm, why give the reader these wasteful pages of "wondering" whether or not Dougal's going to make it?
And while I praise Susan King's knowledge of history and occupations of the era, we are subjected to WAY too much information.

Rating:
Summary: Started out Great but crumbled fast...
Review: This was another hit or miss, I guess. In the beginning, this book was interesting, but like a few other books by this author, it nearly put me to sleep. This author gives detailed descriptions of occupations and such and at times it goes too far and becomes uninteresting, but she did not do that here.