Betrayed

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Summary: This one even beats the Skye O'Malley saga !
Review: Bertrice Small is one of my all time favorite writers. Somepeople complain about the similarity about the story lines. (Boy meetsgirl, boy loves girl, boy loses girl to handsome stranger, boy gets girl again.) I like Mrs. Small's writing because it is different from the typical romances. She is also very detailed and historically accurate. Her characters are very deep and her descriptions are so vibrant. I lose myself in Bertrice Small books every time without exception. This book was your typical Bertice Small book....

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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: I absolutely love a story with a great sense of history! Bertrice Small has never disappointed me on that score, but with this one I believe she has outdone herself! It puts me greatly in mind of Robin Hood, William Wallace, and other historic legends. If you love those types of stories with such a great sense of history, then this is the book for you!

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Summary: You know a book is good when you cry from reading it
Review: I believe this book to be the best Ms. Small has written. There is just enough history to help you understand whats happening in the story, but not so much as to make you not want to read on. I liked the chemistry between the characters. Fiona, kicked heinie in my opinon. She did not hide behind her thoughts and feelings like many think women of her time did. Angus is great once he get over his non commitment stage. I liked Narin best of all. I hated him for stealing Fiona from Angus, but as the book goes on you find out he is really a nice guy with a big heart. I really give this book 10 stars.....its my favorite romance novel

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Summary: This one even beats the Skye O'Malley saga !
Review: I have read *all* of Ms. Small's books, and they've been a wonderful treat for me. Of course, I have a special place in my heart for the Skye O'Malley series, so I tend to read non-Skye related books a bit apprehensively. This book quickly became my all time favorite !

Do yourself a treat---make a hot cup of tea, curl into a comfy chair and read this book in one LONG stretch ! Enjoy !

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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: Not worth the time and effort!
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: 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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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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Summary: Not Impressed
Review: Though the plot has the potential to be intersting, this book is horribly mired in historical detail. It is true that the author seems to have done the appropriate historical research for her story, and that is normally a good thing, but this author feels the need to drone on for pages and pages in proof of her efforts. Instead of using historical facts and societal practices in the easy, off-handed manner of the best romance writers, Ms. Small treats us to endless explanations of things that even those with only glancing historical knowledge should have no problem understanding. The characterization is thready, clinging to one or two endlessly re-iterated traits to distinguish one person from another. Finally, and most gratingly, the use of "ye" and "yer" to distinguish brogue (which is acceptable if one has only one or two characters with an accent) in a book which is composed entirely of characters of Scottish origin, quickly becomes irritating--in my opinion it would be better done to simply use "you", "your", and "you're" with the brogue assumed, or occasionally implied.

All in all, not a read I would recommend to any romance fan.

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Summary: Not worth the time and effort!
Review: Written under the genre of historical romance, this tale could better have been listed as adult. The basic plot of a highland lass, only fifteen years old, finding true love simultaneously with two men is a sheer cover for the unending, gratuitous, raunchy bedroom scenes.
Although descriptions of lush landscapes are well-written, the characters aren't dressed long enough to enjoy them and the only emotions portrayed are lust and jeaslousy.
For a good Scottish romance, look elsewhere - try Jude Devereaux or Julie Garwood!