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A review by rjordan19
My Lady by Diane David
adventurous
medium-paced
4.0
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋 (The scenes are quite light, more poetic than explicit – I tend to prefer more explicitness and emotional pull in my ideal scenes but these were very sweet)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑 (scenes are short – a few paragraphs and not many details)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥 (There’s quite a few scenes but they are so light I settled at a one flame)
Humor: A touch
Perspective: mostly third person from heroine and hero (and a bit from the villain and her adoptive father)
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? medium to fast
When mains are first on page together: Not too far in, chapter 2 of 41 (pg 24 of 268)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: voluntarily read a paperback copy sent to me by the author (thank youuuu!!!!)
Why I chose this book: I want more medieval in my life and @imromanticallyinvolved sent me her info
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine
Should I read in order?
I believe this stands alone.
Basic plot:
Meghan enlists Auricks help getting back to her home town.
Give this a try if you want:
- Medieval romance – 1193
- England setting
- beautiful heroine
- size difference – he’s taller
- touch of road trip
- she nurses him back to health and a touch of he nurses her back to health
- instalust
- light other woman drama
- secret identity
- class difference – hero is a Lord and heroine is a peasant
- light steam – there’s a few on page scenes but the language is quite light and the scenes are short
Ages:
- I believe the heroine is 18, not sure about hero. Would guess late 20s, maybe early 30s?
First line:
Moira’s dirty frock helped her blend into the darkness of the forest.
My thoughts:
Yay for more medieval! I have really missed this setting and think I need to search out more from this time period. I still love Regency but it really dominates my reads lately and this just felt so refreshing.
I will be honest – there was a point about 1/3 to ½ of the way through the book that I was SO mad at the hero. I didn’t think he was going to be able to come back from it – but he did! I was so happy with the outcome…
Overall this is a pretty easy read. There was a bit of an angsty middle I appreciated but most things were solved pretty easily. There was a lot of sweetness in this story, and so much love between the mains. The steam was a bit light for what I usually prefer, but overall this was really cute!
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- death by illness in war
- kidnapping of an infant
- murder both mentioned and on page
- parental death
- mention of kidnapping of heroine from her home by a merchant, but we start the story with her having escaped and trying to get back home
- mention of infertility (the heroine’s adoptive parents)
- men discussing sexual assaulting the heroine
- poisoning that results in miscarriage of the heroine
- possible feelings of infidelity - the hero does fuck the heroine while still engaged to another
- there are some minor religious overtones – speaking of god, thanking god, minor talk of the Crusades, and a scene where the heroine sees people dead in her life and she’s told to return to the land of the living basically before she becomes conscious again after being poisoned.
Author content warnings? None listed
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex: No
How’s the consent? It’s good
Pregnancy/children in story? The heroine does get pregnant and then miscarries due to a poisoning event
Pg 56 (chapter 7) – kisses in the woods
Pg 72 (chapter 9) – missionary sex in the woods
Pg 168 (chapter 23) – sex
Pg 173 (chapter 24) – implied sex
Pg 177 (chapter 25) – implied sex
Total Pages: 268
Total chapters: 41
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋 (The scenes are quite light, more poetic than explicit – I tend to prefer more explicitness and emotional pull in my ideal scenes but these were very sweet)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑 (scenes are short – a few paragraphs and not many details)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥 (There’s quite a few scenes but they are so light I settled at a one flame)
Humor: A touch
Perspective: mostly third person from heroine and hero (and a bit from the villain and her adoptive father)
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? medium to fast
When mains are first on page together: Not too far in, chapter 2 of 41 (pg 24 of 268)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: voluntarily read a paperback copy sent to me by the author (thank youuuu!!!!)
Why I chose this book: I want more medieval in my life and @imromanticallyinvolved sent me her info
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine
Should I read in order?
I believe this stands alone.
Basic plot:
Meghan enlists Auricks help getting back to her home town.
Give this a try if you want:
- Medieval romance – 1193
- England setting
- beautiful heroine
- size difference – he’s taller
- touch of road trip
- she nurses him back to health and a touch of he nurses her back to health
- instalust
- light other woman drama
- secret identity
- class difference – hero is a Lord and heroine is a peasant
- light steam – there’s a few on page scenes but the language is quite light and the scenes are short
Ages:
- I believe the heroine is 18, not sure about hero. Would guess late 20s, maybe early 30s?
First line:
Moira’s dirty frock helped her blend into the darkness of the forest.
My thoughts:
Yay for more medieval! I have really missed this setting and think I need to search out more from this time period. I still love Regency but it really dominates my reads lately and this just felt so refreshing.
I will be honest – there was a point about 1/3 to ½ of the way through the book that I was SO mad at the hero. I didn’t think he was going to be able to come back from it – but he did! I was so happy with the outcome…
Overall this is a pretty easy read. There was a bit of an angsty middle I appreciated but most things were solved pretty easily. There was a lot of sweetness in this story, and so much love between the mains. The steam was a bit light for what I usually prefer, but overall this was really cute!
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- death by illness in war
- kidnapping of an infant
- murder both mentioned and on page
- parental death
- mention of kidnapping of heroine from her home by a merchant, but we start the story with her having escaped and trying to get back home
- mention of infertility (the heroine’s adoptive parents)
- men discussing sexual assaulting the heroine
- poisoning that results in miscarriage of the heroine
- possible feelings of infidelity - the hero does fuck the heroine while still engaged to another
- there are some minor religious overtones – speaking of god, thanking god, minor talk of the Crusades, and a scene where the heroine sees people dead in her life and she’s told to return to the land of the living basically before she becomes conscious again after being poisoned.
Author content warnings? None listed
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex:
How’s the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
Pg 56 (chapter 7) – kisses in the woods
Pg 72 (chapter 9) – missionary sex in the woods
Pg 168 (chapter 23) – sex
Pg 173 (chapter 24) – implied sex
Pg 177 (chapter 25) – implied sex
Total Pages: 268
Total chapters: 41