Delve Into By Fire And By Sword (Graham-Lennox #3) Articulated By Elaine Coffman Compiled As Bound Copy
Good Some spine creases Some pages may show signs of wear Rated abecause I thought it would be a historical romance while there was romance involved, it was more about the journey of the main character.
Still a good read, just disappointed, This book was truly amazing book I loved it and my sister loved it and I do give it astart Elaine Coffman is a beautiful writer.
I really did enjoy this book it made me keep guessing on what was going to happen next and I love that it made me laugh and blush and cry and that'd amazing that a book can make you do that.
This book is a type of book I would love to make to be able to make some one really enjoy something so much that you want to reread it and share it with everyone
I love this book I love that the writer had let us travil with lady kenna and what she goes through and enjoy the fight she goes though but I think it is very heard to open your heart when you fear so I can understand that and sometimes its better to know you have someone there who will help and protect you.
But it was get that she had a great sister josette and it a really amazing adventure and I do think everybody will enjoy it and.
I think everybody undershould becarful with chapterand up
But all in all it is a beautiful book :
With love Violet Boring.
Nothing much happened. DNF. So much exposition, so little action in the firstpages, hard to invest in, I know I have read this, but don't remember when this year, It is about Lady Kenna, and her quest to become a great swordswoman to beat the man who is after her and her family.
She meets a captain of a ship and falls in love, This is the third in the series, I think,
With her sword for protection, Lady Kenna Lennox of Scotland defies social convention and reopens her family's ancient distillery.
This feat of wit and daring captures the attention of the sadistic Lord Walter the Englishman who nearly destroyed her beloved older sister, a man who is determined to bring Lady Lennox to heel.
When Colin Montgomery, an American privateer, appears on the scene Kenna is instantly wary, yet highly attracted to this man among men.
Filled with fear that she will be betrayed by her longing heart, Kenna struggles between the love she feels, the independence she craves and the danger she must face alone.
As vengeful, vicious plots unfold around her, Kenna must take up her sword to face her enemy, and fight for her life and her newfound love.
This had less of a focus on the romance and more of a focus on Kenna's, the heroine, personal goal.
Writing was fine, just not exactly my kind of HR, Can it be The loveydovey parts were the least interesting! It's the story of a strongwilled young woman who, in order to avenge her family, who've all been murdered by the same madman count or whatever, flees to France so that she can take up fencing with Europe's greatest master.
All she wants to do is fence! And she becomes best friends with a gypsy, But she can't forget the captain of the ship she didn't take across the Channel and vice versa, . . Very fun.
No one spoke English, save Captain Fischer, and his was difficult to understand, She was still embarrassed that when he tried to tell her he was of Dutch Hugenot descent and did not allow drinking, dancing, or card playing on his ship, she had to ask him to repeat himself twice.
And later, . .
"Why did you never tell me that"
"You never asked me, "
"What else are you keeping secret"
Alejandro laughed, "I shall not reveal all of my secrets, for their power lies in the keeping of them, I prefer to divulge them one at a time, when the occasion calls for it, Otherwise, they would only serve to bore you, "
it bears mentioning that Alejandro is not the leading man, but his feisty Spanish sidekick, Because do they make Spaniards any other way A little to slow at times, Was hard to invest in, Ok, at first I must admit that I was prepared to give this book a one time read and then donate it to the local bookstore.
The book I thought was long winded, There was no pick up, there was no rush of excitement for what was coming on the next page, I wanted passion, excitement, suspense, adventure! I was desperate,
Well after a couple of chapters, I got my wish, This book really did surprise me with how it flowed, I love Jossette, Alejandro and Colin, Kenna, how I like her name, That girl was getting on my last nerves,
I was at the point where I was saying, girl if you dont get off that mighty horse youre on and give yourself to that man.
Just maybe another beauty will come along and take him away, THEN you definitely will be ALONE, Jossette will have Alejandro and you will just have your castle, Anyway good book. Read if you want to, Wish it had gotten around to a grand confrontation sooner, Reading just felt like a constant build up then the peak was a bit disappointing "By Fire and By Sword" by Elaine Coffman has an unusual Highlander: female.
Beautiful redhead Scottish noble flees alone to improve her bladewielding skill in Paris, Afterbooks, how has practice not strengthened talent Valuable humor cannot carry so many faults, If this were a debut work, I would have looked for a later effort, I may read another only if a better editorpublisher not Mira,
Heroine Kenna resists the hero's advice to wear her knife, leaves it sheathed when the villain appears, does not plunge the point when against his throat, nor again when her sword tip is in fatal position.
She speechifies instead. She blathers a rehearsed epitaph, letting her weapon be broken in half later impossibly whole,
To escape a foe's reach rather than his curse would
be my motivation, Oracles, superstition clock strikeswhen enemy comes and premonitions are not my favored plot devices the narrative inspires curiosity without them.
Repetitious repetition turns me away from prequels, Events, such as shopping for dresses would be better acted than described, A whole page on gargoyles, on silence, contented and angry,
When 'ornate boiseries, ornate carved' duplicates, hair silvered streaks a man's 'beauty' past renders, two pages each he and she daydream, and a full paragraph to say 'surprised' waste.
As if weakly translated, phrasing is stilted 'nascent' awkwardly used, childlike not vocab: h amp d attraction, modern few exceptions: 'tyro', 'aria' lace.
Still, I admire the characters and care what they do next, My reading rate rabbits.
Where is the editor A dozen dresses are incolors p,not green p Parisian fencing masters is fatherly tos daughtersubstitutes, On p., his hair is black, streaked p,, redtinted, brown, starting gray at temples p,grey, lit to silver by candle, on 'dark', Josette is voluptuous p., slim p Oops.
Clearly, an opening flirtation and passionate kiss ensure the return of handsome Americanborn captain Colin and Latin hot blooded Spanish navigator Alejandro.
His lines: 'Is it not better to be looked over than to be overlooked', 'You need your backside dusted with gunpowder', and her unlikely presence mistaken for a practical joke in beginning reiterated at end, are samples of original humor that kept me reading.
Again, a chance encounter with French nobles on the Calais road is an obvious setup for a future meeting sequel.
Passionate Gypsy Josette matches naturally with Alejandro, Predictable plot sequences, trite word combinations, Yet one death is realistic: waxy white body, anger and regret with grief, I cannot help but regret potential wasted, especially the humor, Writing is such a hard task, abuse tragic, Entertaining light romance. Barbara Elaine Gunter was born in San Diego, California, to William Samuel Gunter, Jr, a naval officer and Edna Marie née Davidson Gunter, a homemaker, From the age of three she lived in Midland, Texas and graduated from Midland High School, After she received a degree in elementary education from North Texas State University, she taught elementary school in Midland, Texas, while working on her Masters Degree and certification for Language and Learning Disabilities at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives, She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N, C. and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California, Elaine Coffman is a New York Times bestselling author with a large i Barbara Elaine Gunter was born in San Diego, California, to William Samuel Gunter, Jr.
, a naval officer and Edna Marie née Davidson Gunter, a homemaker, From the age of three she lived in Midland, Texas and graduated from Midland High School, After she received a degree in elementary education from North Texas State University, she taught elementary school in Midland, Texas, while working on her Masters Degree and certification for Language and Learning Disabilities at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives, She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N, C. and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California, Elaine Coffman is a New York Times bestselling author with a large international following, She has penned novels in both the historical romance genre and suspense, A lover of history, she has penned several novels set in Scotland, Regency England, Italy and the American West, To date, she is the author of nineteen novels and five novellas, While writing her first novel, My Enemy, My Love, she found herself inspired by a letter her great great grandmother, Susannah Jane Dowell Shacklett wrote in, telling about her journey from Brandeburg, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas, and then going with an army escort to El Paso, Texas, where her brother, Ben Dowell, a veteran of the Mexican War, was El Paso's first mayor.
Elaine continued to write best selling, award winning books until the publication of her eleventh novel, If You Loved Me, which was the last book of her beloved Mackinnon series and her first book to hit the New York Times bestseller list.
Her first suspense novel, Alone in the Dark, was published by Pocket books in, sitelink.