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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have never been more grateful that I have the right to vote and own a credit card.
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Once again, I have to give a Madeline Hunter novel a very low rating because I can’t stand aggressive, weak minded, emotionally immature men. There was character growth in this and the last couple of chapters were sweet but it wasn’t enough. Still, amazing storytelling and writing though. RIP to a very talented author who sadly passed away this month.
SPOILERS ALERT:
This has EVERYTHING to be a great historical book, if the guy was not a pervert, whose only goal was to get in Anna's pants. The author had some great ideas, but to make it a "best-seller" she had to make everything so obvious... Anna de Leon is a great heroine - independent, she manages both sword and bow, she does not want to get married, because she knows that it will end her Independence. Unfortunately that means that she will have to give up her estate as well. I find it quite accurate when Morvan is portrayed as an authority guy, who doesn't want Anna to get hurt - let's face it, women in Medieval Ages did not struggle in battle or had any type of own will. The point that I find lacking of in the book is the fact that sex heals everything. I feel that Anna de Leon betrays herself with the end. Personally the only end I would write for this novel was suicide or her being locked in a tower. Yet that would not make it a "best-seller", but at least I wouldn't be turning my main char into an hypocrite.
This has EVERYTHING to be a great historical book, if the guy was not a pervert, whose only goal was to get in Anna's pants. The author had some great ideas, but to make it a "best-seller" she had to make everything so obvious... Anna de Leon is a great heroine - independent, she manages both sword and bow, she does not want to get married, because she knows that it will end her Independence. Unfortunately that means that she will have to give up her estate as well. I find it quite accurate when Morvan is portrayed as an authority guy, who doesn't want Anna to get hurt - let's face it, women in Medieval Ages did not struggle in battle or had any type of own will. The point that I find lacking of in the book is the fact that sex heals everything. I feel that Anna de Leon betrays herself with the end. Personally the only end I would write for this novel was suicide or her being locked in a tower. Yet that would not make it a "best-seller", but at least I wouldn't be turning my main char into an hypocrite.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
a little out of date sensibilities wise but overall scratches an itch for a story I deeply craved. competent and powerful warrior woman gets a love story with a happy ending.
Hunter shifts the pattern of heroine in peril providing the major emotional kick here by also putting her hero in peril, and having the heroine save him (twice, no less!) The hero still gets to kill the man who terrorized the heroine as a child, though, so we're not talking major reenvisioning of the Hunter romance trope.
I've been thinking about how different authors' works embody different ideas about how people fall in love/come to love one another. A really great author can shift ideology from book to book, but I find that most authors have one belief about this, and repeat the pattern over and over from book to book. For Hunter, the pattern is "I'm attracted to you sexually as soon as I meet you. The attraction, though, means more than just lust -- it means we are destined for one another." Usually I find this trope rather annoying, but Hunter is such a good writer than she can sucker me into it despite my ideological problems...
I've been thinking about how different authors' works embody different ideas about how people fall in love/come to love one another. A really great author can shift ideology from book to book, but I find that most authors have one belief about this, and repeat the pattern over and over from book to book. For Hunter, the pattern is "I'm attracted to you sexually as soon as I meet you. The attraction, though, means more than just lust -- it means we are destined for one another." Usually I find this trope rather annoying, but Hunter is such a good writer than she can sucker me into it despite my ideological problems...
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content
slow-paced