A review by changeusernamel8r
Knight and Day by Margaux Thorne

lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

Standalone, HEA
Tropes:
- Insta-lust
- Mmc pining.
- He's confident she's going to marry him/she kepts rejecting him.
- Fmc scared of accepting her feelings.
- Lots of mention of Mmc facial hair.
- Story continues some chapters after getting together.
- Medieval romance.


Alice:
Virgin, insecure about feelings, prideful as a painter, always talks back, beautiful, long curly blonde hair, pale skin, blue eyes, small tits, tall, slim, a little odd.

Leofric:
Beard, tall, muscular, brown eyes, shoulder-lenght dark brown hair, pale skin, warrior, serious at the beginning then turns into a marshmellow.


"I am a man stuck in the past who spends all his days dreaming of a future with you."

"You are odd," he said softly. His words penetrated her skin and went straight to her erratic heart. "But that's the best thing about you."

Leofric ignored the vulgar laughter, trying not to let his growing despair drag him down. "I can't let
our marriage
stop her from painting. It was her dream."

My opinion:
I was about to dnf, but I'm really glad I finished the book.

ALICE:
At the beginning she was prideful and I found her exasperating. I had been expecting a quiet FMC and Alice was not that.
Especifically this quote was what almost made me dnf.

"How dare he treat her with such casual ambivalence. She was Lady Alice of Walefield! True, he didn't know that, but she didn't care."

Like then do you expect him to read your mind and guess you're a lady or what?!

The only reason why I kept reading after that was because I had already begun to fall for Leofric and wanted to know more about him.

But as the story went along Alice began to lose that actitud of superiority and when she developed feelings for Leofric we saw a more insecure side of her.

She was so scared that if she married Leofric she would have to stop painting. And that was a total valid fear because at the beginning Leofric didn't understand that not only men could want to leave a mark in the world, that woman could be passionate about a trade too.

But she showed him about what painting meant to her and slowly she began to complement Leofric's flaws and help him where he struggled.

She became the person who Leofric could be vulnerable with.

LEOFRIC:
By the 2nd part of the book he became a bearded Teddy bear who only wanted to marry Alice.
He was such a sweetheart who kept pinning for her and who was constantly worried about what she really felt for him.

But his thoughts and his way of expressing them not always were d'accord. Like here where he was worried about her:

Leofric wanted to be gentle with Alice. He wanted to cradle her in his arms and kiss her eyelids, indulge in the way her lashes skated across his skin. He wanted to tell her that she never had to worry about anything. She could rely on him. More than anything, Leofric wanted her to trust him.
"What's wrong with you?" He barked.

Great way to show you're worried huh. But he was so bad at making friends and interacting with people. Alice had to constantly help him with that.

I liked this quote too.

"I married a painter, and I haven't seen her since the day I said my vows."

Alice was worried a husband wouldn't let her paint, but Leofric not only fell in love with Alice as a person but as a painter too:(
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