SHEET BOOK:
Mary Wine
Editorial: Nefer, C. Nefer /
November 2009 ISBN: 978-84-92415-14-4
Historical
erotic
Price: 16,95 euros
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SYNOPSIS:
A couple imperfect ...
McJames Brodick is Earl, but in name only. To ensure the future of his clan need an English wife. Mary Stanford, daughter of the Earl of Warwickshire, is perfect. Not seen in your life, but what does it matter? Al final warm bed, and once you take your child in the womb will not need to see her again.
Anne Copper has great physical resemblance to her aristocratic sister, but is illegitimate, and that is something that can not forget. The best we can hope for is to stay as a maid at her own father. But when Lady Mary is engaged to a Scottish plots that Anne does serve for something else ...
The woman who comes to Alcaon Brodick is not what was expected, and the passion that burns between them promised much more than a simple marriage of convenience. You may need more than the plot an aristocrat to separate what fate has united ...
BOOK REVIEW:
When I read the synopsis of this book attracted me so much. Already, I love stories set in Scotland, where the rough and wild Scottish protagonist falls in love with the hidden sweetness and intense love and loyalty, so do not take me long to buy it and read it with enthusiasm.
as the story disappointed me a bit. Maybe it's because I'm used the highlanders of Julie Garwood (for me the undisputed queen of this genre) and it is difficult to find a book that is at the height of his novels.
breaks But I found several scenes, which although in italics indicate that he had changed the location in which the story develops it shows also the leap, as if it needed something.
At first, the pace of the story is fast, showing a Ivory (mother of Anne Cooper who is the protagonist) who is the mistress of the Earl of Warwickshire, and all because the legal wife does not accept the marriage bed again by fear of pregnancy (after going through two days of birth in which the midwife said I could die to have narrow hips, and having the only legitimate daughter of the Earl, Mary)
When I read that the Lord whispered to his wife that if he returned to bed, would shed its lover of the newborn (Anne), I felt very strong, a real *****. It is true that romance (thankfully) does not reflect the reality of that era, in which husbands treated their wives as mere objects of transaction or broodmares. Everybody knows that there are the famous (and repulsive) chastity belts in which women were at risk of dying from infections, or rust iron belt. It is also true that husbands could have as many lovers as they wanted without the wife could say anything, so I was surprised that here he plays with the reaction of his wife, and the fate of his mistress and their illegitimate daughter.
Once we have the strange family living in the castle where Anne daughter despite being recognized (although illegitimate Count) lives like a simple servant girl (and the height of high, his father states want to know how the deal) cleaning, cooking, and all without protest, holding each of the humiliation and insults to which they are already accustomed.
When the Count decides to marry her daughter Mary, a Scot, is Philippa's mother is horrified, not wanting her daughter to suffer like she suffered giving birth, so he hatches a crazy plan. Pass by her daughter Anne, and it becomes the breeding of wild mare Scot.
From the outset the desire that arises between Brodick McJames and Anne Cooper (for the book will be Mary or wife) is too fast (for my taste). Historical rather than erotic I think it is because the sex scenes (passionate) between the two protagonists are numerous, peppering the book with spicy hints that are joining to Brodick and Anne / Mary so far they find they have fallen in love.
If you expect a book Julie Garwood style, in which she demonstrates to the clan that is worthy of the laird, or that it even though his toughness is melted by the protagonist, this is not your book. He wants her to distraction from the beginning, enduring the taunts of his brother and his cousin, who are surprised that a woman is so upset, and Anne endures the scorn of the servants of the laird who reject not only for being English if not for having heard a joke between Anne and Brodick in which she told him if he thought he had poisoned the food because he was surprised when she cooked dinner in the kitchen with with the rest of the maids. Anne does not behave like the English ladies to which we are accustomed to see paired with the Highlanders, but it is silent, so far as to appear subservient, when in fact the only thing he learned in his short life is to stoically endure insults and looks unpleasant for those around her. No fight for the hearts of the servants, or even have contact with the soldiers of Laird. Not for anything you are used to and I found a bit disappointing to see that she struggled to find its place, but he preferred that know little by little and wished to heart as it was. What the author did not take into account is that Scottish is usually described in the novel (and you could see in real historical events) were stubborn, willing to fight for what they believed right, used to sleep outside, and were very proud of the colors of the tartan. I did not think Brodick Scotland, if not an Englishman who came to the castle as he dressed in his plaid. But it shows the pride characteristic of them, or the power of his word, despite feeling it was not worthy successor to his father, this weakness could be deadly at that time.
laird's family, in this book are secondary, very minor, almost no participation by focusing each chapter on the internal struggle Anne by confessing to her husband actually did not marry her if not to her older sister who is the legitimate one, and progress seduction / sex by Brodick can not stop thinking about lifting the skirt of his wife.
In itself the story is simple, not much more. You can see some skirmishes between clans, or as is the Scottish court, and a little English court, but otherwise, I thought that was far from a good love story set in the past.
did not know the author, and the argument seemed to me good, innovative, and indeed have been a great book if you had not stopped both scenes sex and place of such passion, there is more action, more dialogues or even not so many breaks scene or so shows of the courts, for men (and it was true, in the past women stayed at home waiting for the arrival of husband, but spent years) are not nearly with their wives, nor Brodick, nor the father of Anne, but what the heck, buy a book from romance to sigh for the love story of the protagonists, as they were not to know the customs of the time.
I found it interesting that Anne's sister had the power to predict the future, I could have taken a lot of juice to this, and I hope that book has the girl, I will investigate in the author's website.
But if it is erotic, I do not encourage me to buy it.
I give it a 5.75 out of 10
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