Taming the Highland Bride (Audible Audio Edition) Lynsay Sands Marianna Palka HarperAudio Books
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She was ready to let her heart run wild....
Merry Stewart has had enough! Enough of her brothers, whose behavior would make even the most improper lady blush. Enough of their Highland home, which would surely have fallen to ruin were it not for her. She dreams of escaping into the arms of her betrothed, Alexander d'Aumesbery-even though they haven't yet met. But when they do, Merry is devastated. It seems he's no better than the men in her family.
So beautiful, so brazen . . . From the moment he meets Merry, Alexander is determined to make her his. Desperate to convince her he's nothing like the members of her roguish clan, he will prove he is every bit the well-mannered gentleman. Yet, beneath it all beats a heart as intense and uncontrollable as hers. And finally, when his life is threatened, Merry realizes he's the husband she's been waiting for . . . and their passion becomes the one thing that cannot be tamed.
Taming the Highland Bride (Audible Audio Edition) Lynsay Sands Marianna Palka HarperAudio Books
STORY BRIEF:Merry's father and brothers are drunk most of the time. Merry manages the laird and the household and oversees the men's fight training. She is known as the Stewart Shrew because she's so tough on her father and brothers when they are drunk. A marriage was arranged years ago to Alex. He was fighting in the Crusades and just now returned. Merry's father and brothers take her to Alex's home for the wedding. When they arrive, they see Alex drunk. No one tells Merry that he was given whiskey for the purpose of pulling a bad tooth. Then each day someone drugs Alex causing him to appear drunk. Later there are repeated attempts to kill Alex.
REVIEWER'S OPINION:
This book did nothing for me. I stayed with it out of curiosity, but it wasn't engaging. It felt like the author was just getting out another book for the year. Story was predictable. There is a lot of conversation, but it was ordinary. Then we have stupidity. After everyone knows someone is trying to kill Alex. Alex's friend wants to post guards around Alex's tent at night. Alex says no. Then the bad guy sets the tent on fire while Alex and Merry are sleeping inside. Author doesn't explain why Alex said no. There are several sex scenes, but nothing special.
Instead of an interesting discovery process about the mystery, we have the convenient long explanation by the bad guy at the end, just before the bad guy will be striking the final killing blow.
Slight annoyance with the cover picture. Alex has long blond hair. Cover guy had short dark brown hair.
The title was misleading. There was no taming of Merry. After he saw her in action, Alex quickly fell in love with her.
I do not understand why this book won the RT Reviewers award for Scotland-Set Historical Romance.
DATA:
Story length: 371 pages. Swearing language: mild. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 8. Estimated number of sex scene pages: 18. Setting: unknown time during the Crusades probably 1100 to 1600, in Northern England and Scotland. Copyright: 2010. Genre: historical romance.
OTHER BOOKS:
To date I've read the following Lynsay Sands books. Dates are copyright dates.
3 stars. The Switch 1999
2 stars. Sweet Revenge 2000
2 stars. Always 2000
1 star. Love Bites 2004
2 stars. The Perfect Wife 2005
5 stars. Love is Blind 2006
2 ½ stars. Taming the Highland Bride 2010
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Taming the Highland Bride (Audible Audio Edition) Lynsay Sands Marianna Palka HarperAudio Books Reviews
Light, easy read. Just a bit of danger in the mystery set forth. I had read the prior book, so was aware of the evil stepmother and found her change in personality peculiar, off. The H is a good, hardworking man, and the h is a compelling lady, though much of the story requires a stretch of the imagination.
This is the second book in the series. Once again the mean stepmother from Devil of the Highlands plays a role in this book. Merry is a little too trusting of women, and yet does not trust men at all because of her father and two of her three brothers. Alex on the other hand originally was dragging his feet because he heard Merry was a shrew. After a messed up wedding night, things eventually get turned around, and you are off to the mystery of what is going on. This is a good continuation from the first book. There's a little more interaction between these two, then between Alex's sister Evelinde and Cullen in the Devil of the Highlands. Evelinde and Cullen are briefly in this book as well. I like the book and am now reading the third book in the series The Hellion and the Highlander. It is about Merry's oldest brother Kade, the one who is not a drunk. You do not have to read the Devil of the Highlands to read this book.
The story was good, but not as good as the first book "To marry a Scottish Laird". I don't regret buying it, but after Cullen and Evelinde's story, it was one I could put down at anytime. I didn't get so into the reading that I couldn't put the book down. Neither of the main characters in this book held my attention. I still plan to read the next in the series though. Sometimes, one book is written to "bridge" the stories before and after it. Lynsay Sands is still a great writer. Borrow this one, or wait for it to go on sale.
Merewen(Merry) Stewart, known as the Stewart Shrew has been betrothed to Alexander d'Aumesbury for awhile, but now he has returned from the Crusades. Her father and two brothers are eager to be rid of her, she believes, and truth be told, she is eager to be rid of them. Since her mother's death, she has had to be their "keeper", especially when they were drunk, which seemed to be often; and furthurmore, she has had to be responsible for running the household. Merry has long dreamed of her rescue by her white knight. Alexander d'Aumesbury is less eager to wed Merry, he has heard her nickname. When Merrys' father and brothers take her to Alexander's home for the wedding, she lays eyes on her betrothed and finds him rolling about on the floor in a fight with another man; worse, she discovers that he is drunk and promptly after their introduction,he passes out at her feet. Resouceful Merry takes over running matters, just as she has always done. Upon sobering, Alexander discovers what he has said and done while drunk and sets out to convince Merry that he is not the kind of man that she met for the first time. I loved Merry's character; her "suck it up and do it" attitude, ingenuity; and Alexander's desperate attempts to prove himself to Merry.
Here we get to meet Alex d’Aumesbery, the brother of Evelinde from the first book, who has returned from Tunis. He receives a suprise visitor from his betrothed when her family brings her to speed up the wedding. He is put off by her nickname the Stewart Shrew. But Merry Stewart has been ruling in her drunk fathers stead and was given the name by her drunk brothers. Trouble starts to happen and Alex keeps being attacked. No one knows who to trust. The attacker needs to be found so Alex and Merry can have that happy ending they so want. I love the Lynsay Sands books!
STORY BRIEF
Merry's father and brothers are drunk most of the time. Merry manages the laird and the household and oversees the men's fight training. She is known as the Stewart Shrew because she's so tough on her father and brothers when they are drunk. A marriage was arranged years ago to Alex. He was fighting in the Crusades and just now returned. Merry's father and brothers take her to Alex's home for the wedding. When they arrive, they see Alex drunk. No one tells Merry that he was given whiskey for the purpose of pulling a bad tooth. Then each day someone drugs Alex causing him to appear drunk. Later there are repeated attempts to kill Alex.
REVIEWER'S OPINION
This book did nothing for me. I stayed with it out of curiosity, but it wasn't engaging. It felt like the author was just getting out another book for the year. Story was predictable. There is a lot of conversation, but it was ordinary. Then we have stupidity. After everyone knows someone is trying to kill Alex. Alex's friend wants to post guards around Alex's tent at night. Alex says no. Then the bad guy sets the tent on fire while Alex and Merry are sleeping inside. Author doesn't explain why Alex said no. There are several sex scenes, but nothing special.
Instead of an interesting discovery process about the mystery, we have the convenient long explanation by the bad guy at the end, just before the bad guy will be striking the final killing blow.
Slight annoyance with the cover picture. Alex has long blond hair. Cover guy had short dark brown hair.
The title was misleading. There was no taming of Merry. After he saw her in action, Alex quickly fell in love with her.
I do not understand why this book won the RT Reviewers award for Scotland-Set Historical Romance.
DATA
Story length 371 pages. Swearing language mild. Sexual language mild. Number of sex scenes 8. Estimated number of sex scene pages 18. Setting unknown time during the Crusades probably 1100 to 1600, in Northern England and Scotland. Copyright 2010. Genre historical romance.
OTHER BOOKS
To date I've read the following Lynsay Sands books. Dates are copyright dates.
3 stars. The Switch 1999
2 stars. Sweet Revenge 2000
2 stars. Always 2000
1 star. Love Bites 2004
2 stars. The Perfect Wife 2005
5 stars. Love is Blind 2006
2 ½ stars. Taming the Highland Bride 2010
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