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Summary: How did this get past the publisher?
Review: I bought this book because it came recommended by the store. It had promise in the first few pages. The author does provide a detailed backround for her plot. However the characters are flimsy & cliche. The writing gets very choppy & leaps all over the place. By page 309 (Where I stopped)
they had kissed twice, fought about her *maybe* being a witch & then argued about their anulment 100 times. Enough with the tension & agnst already! This is supposed to be a romance after all! This book had no flow, no imagination & was just about the single most irritating thing I have ever read. I'm taking it back for a refund tommorow.
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Summary: How did this get past the publisher?
Review: I bought this book because it came recommended by the store. It had promise in the first few pages. The author does provide a detailed backround for her plot. However the characters are flimsy & cliche. The writing gets very choppy & leaps all over the place. By page 309 (Where I stopped)
they had kissed twice, fought about her *maybe* being a witch & then argued about their anulment 100 times. Enough with the tension & agnst already! This is supposed to be a romance after all! This book had no flow, no imagination & was just about the single most irritating thing I have ever read. I'm taking it back for a refund tommorow.
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Summary: Same book - different title..
Review: I won't bore you by telling you how fantastic I thought this book was...just wanted to let you know that in some countries (Australia for example) this book has been sold under a different title - The Silver Bride. Just thought you should know.Other than that - buy it - it's a great novel by a very talented writer!
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Summary: strong romance with deep historical personage and events
Review: In 1483, merchant Sir Dudley Ballaster forces his oldest daughter Heloise and Sir Miles Rushden to marry at sword point. Not longer after exchanging, vows, Miles flees for Wales with plans to annul the marriage. Dudley informs his daughter that she must find refuge with her new spouse as he no longer will take care of her. Heloise follows Miles to his residence amidst the Duke of Buckingham's estate. Under disguise, Heloise gets inside and soon charms everyone whom comes into contact with her including her runaway husband. Miles wonders what happened to him as he loves his wife and wants her by his side forever. On the surface, MOONLIGHT AND SHADOW is a typical fifteenth century romance. However, adding depth to the strong romance is historical personage and events from the real world in which a fragile peace ending the War of the Roses needs very little to break back into civil war. It is the effortless ability to interweave real people and occurrences into her story lines as she has done with this wonderful novel that makes Isolde Martyn highly regarded and her books so appreciated by more than just sub-genre fans. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Not as great as it could have been
Review: Martyn starts out with this wonderful, interesting heroine. Despite her desperate situation and seeming lack of choices, she is still a strong, intelligent woman who finds the only way out of a treacherous situation. I like Heloise a lot more in the beginning than the end. Once the king is crowned, Martyn shifts hats from romance author to historian and the main characters become merely a vessel to retell the events. Heloise is mysteriously tamed, losing all the bite that made her character interesting. Not to mention she has psychic talents that appear when convenient to the plot in the first 300 or so pages, but don't ever appear to be as big a deal to anyone other than Heloise and her love interest. I couldn't make myself finish the last fifty pages. The last fifty in a 457-page book! Even after investing 400 pages of reading, I no longer cared about the characters. Maybe it picks up in the end. I don't know. I've read one of her other books, The Knight and the Rose, and didn't find it nearly as much of a chore to finish it.
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