Anne Herries
stormtossed accident, rescued heroine, lost memory, longtime revenge seeking, kidnapping, plots against countries, love, this book has it all!
This story follows the life of Anne Melfordan English woman from an influencial familywho is lost at sea.
Only to be saved by Stefan, a mercenary, who gets an almost instant desire to make her his, It's a historical romance set under the reign of Henry Tudor, Which should be around's, if I'm right,
Well, what can I say I appreciate the writer's ability to weave facts of those times into her narrative, especially with the Spanish/English feud, and the prejudice against Muslims/People from the East.
Reading about such things didn't just make the story alive, but also provided me with information about that particular period.
As they say, the quickest and easiest way to deliver information is through storytelling, Anne Herries depicts this with her story,
The issues I have with the story, however, is their way of speaking and characterization, I don't know if that's the way people of those days spoke, but in their dialogue, I noticed information dumping.
For example, someone asks Stefan a direct question, and he begins to tell his life story, From the very beginning. This happened a lot in the story, and at some point, reading their interactions became exhausting, It felt like the writer was trying to pass information through their dialogue, and she ended up conveying way TMI, even the unnecessary pieces.
In addition, the characterization of certain people in this story is unsettling, In the sense that, sometimes, I'm not even sure who they are anymore, In fact, I think the character Anne Herries crafts perfectly is Comte de Vere, He's a psycho, mind you, but even with all his paradoxes, he stays true to himself,
These main characters, howeverStefan, Anne, and Robhave instances where they act so oddly, I begin to wonder.
Anne worried me the most, Some might call me feminist, but I'm not a fan of any woman whose world revolves around a man or marriage.
I understand that's the way most women were brought up to think in those days, but seriously, must Anne confess her love for Stefan every time At first, it was cute.
Even touching, when Stefan was near the jaws of death, But when almost all her sentences began to end with "I love you so!", it became disturbing,
For Stefan, our ever proud and hardened Stefan, the scene where he
runs towards Anne was extremely awkward.
I mean, up until then, he's a tough guy, then all of a sudden, he's running, Some might call that character development, but I would have preferred it if that development came much slowly,
Rob, Anne's father, seems to go between hating Stefan, then liking him, then respecting him, then mistrusting him.
It's all confusing, especially the liking then mistrusting him part, Stefan says something, then Rob likes him, Then he says another thing, and Rob takes a step back, Maybe his character is meant to be confused, but seriously, he has to make up his mind, I'm not even sure what his final stand was with Stefan at the end,
All these aside, I think Her Dark and Dangerous Lord is a good read see what I did there.
If you want insight into how the times were then, I recommend this,
Recibí este libro como regalo ya que la persona que me lo obsequió conoce mis gustos por la novela época y el género fantástico.
. . Aunque igualmente se equivocó porque de fantástico no tiene nada y es un romance con algo de acción.
Sin embargo no aborresco la confusión ya que, a pesar de no ser mi género favorito, sí que me ha encantado bastante el libro.
La historia bastante simplona pero atractiva a la vez y el recurso que más me llamó la atención del libro que tal vez no sea intencional es la manera en la que todos los hechos parecen conspirar para que ocurra un conflicto muy pero MUY importante en la trama muerte de alguien, conflictos entre personajes debido a una confusión Pero al final simplemente no ocurre nada!
Y uno se queda aliviado por el hecho de que no pasó eso que uno suponía pero a la vez preocupado porque la historia no va por el camino que el lector espera.
A good plot, really good start very action packed, Made me want to read more, It got a bit repetitive as the book went on repeating the same stuff over and over again, Good comelete finish. Es un libro que se deja leer, es cortito y rápido, No le pedía mucho pero me ha dado mas de lo que esperaba tras muchos meses sin leer.
sitelink LINDA SOLE also writes under the names of sitelink Anne Herries, sitelink Emma Quincey, sitelink Lynn Granville and one as sitelink Juliana Linden.
Linda was born in Swindon, Her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire when she was nine, and Linda attended the local school but left at fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her fathers business.
She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years before moving to Cambridge, although Linda has now moved to somewhere a bit quieter in Cambridgeshire.
She started writing in, combining this with helping her husband to run his antique shop, Writing as sitelink Anne Herries, Linda won theRNA Romance Award and the Betty Neels Trophy, She lives in Cambridgeshire. After many happy years of taking their holidays sitelink LINDA SOLE also writes under the names of sitelink Anne Herries, sitelink Emma Quincey, sitelink Lynn Granville and one as sitelink Juliana Linden.
Linda was born in Swindon, Her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire when she was nine, and Linda attended the local school but left at fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her father's business.
She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years before moving to Cambridge, although Linda has now moved to somewhere a bit quieter in Cambridgeshire.
She started writing in, combining this with helping her husband to run his antique shop, Writing as sitelink Anne Herries, Linda won theRNA Romance Award and the Betty Neels Trophy, She lives in Cambridgeshire. After many happy years of taking their holidays in Spain she and her husband, now have a second home in Norfolk.
Being only a short drive, they can visit for a few days at a time, which suits their busy lifestyle these days.
They are only just across the road from the sea, and can see it from their windows, At home and at the sea they enjoy watching the wildlife and have many visitors to their gardens, particularly squirrels.
Anne loves watching their antics and spoils both them and her birds shamelessly, She also loves to see the flocks of geese and other birds flying in over the sea during the autumn, to winter in the milder climes of this country.
Anne loves to write about the beauty of nature and sometimes puts a little into her books, though they are mostly about love and romance.
She writes for her own enjoyment and to give pleasure to her readers, sitelink.
Lord Stefan de Montfort is a true rebelwith the scars to prove it.
Deemed a mercenary and exiled from England, he now lives by his own rules,
When he plucks Englishwoman Anne Melford from the sea and takes her to his chateau in Normandy, the innocent yet spirited beauty awakens in Stefan a disturbing, forbidden desire.
A lady such as Anne could never marry a scoundrel like himbut this dark and dangerous lord is determined to break one last rule and claim her as his bride!
This story follows the life of Anne Melfordan English woman from an influencial familywho is lost at sea.
Only to be saved by Stefan, a mercenary, who gets an almost instant desire to make her his, It's a historical romance set under the reign of Henry Tudor, Which should be around's, if I'm right,
Well, what can I say I appreciate the writer's ability to weave facts of those times into her narrative, especially with the Spanish/English feud, and the prejudice against Muslims/People from the East.
Reading about such things didn't just make the story alive, but also provided me with information about that particular period.
As they say, the quickest and easiest way to deliver information is through storytelling, Anne Herries depicts this with her story,
The issues I have with the story, however, is their way of speaking and characterization, I don't know if that's the way people of those days spoke, but in their dialogue, I noticed information dumping.
For example, someone asks Stefan a direct question, and he begins to tell his life story, From the very beginning. This happened a lot in the story, and at some point, reading their interactions became exhausting, It felt like the writer was trying to pass information through their dialogue, and she ended up conveying way TMI, even the unnecessary pieces.
In addition, the characterization of certain people in this story is unsettling, In the sense that, sometimes, I'm not even sure who they are anymore, In fact, I think the character Anne Herries crafts perfectly is Comte de Vere, He's a psycho, mind you, but even with all his paradoxes, he stays true to himself,
These main characters, howeverStefan, Anne, and Robhave instances where they act so oddly, I begin to wonder.
Anne worried me the most, Some might call me feminist, but I'm not a fan of any woman whose world revolves around a man or marriage.
I understand that's the way most women were brought up to think in those days, but seriously, must Anne confess her love for Stefan every time At first, it was cute.
Even touching, when Stefan was near the jaws of death, But when almost all her sentences began to end with "I love you so!", it became disturbing,
For Stefan, our ever proud and hardened Stefan, the scene where he
runs towards Anne was extremely awkward.
I mean, up until then, he's a tough guy, then all of a sudden, he's running, Some might call that character development, but I would have preferred it if that development came much slowly,
Rob, Anne's father, seems to go between hating Stefan, then liking him, then respecting him, then mistrusting him.
It's all confusing, especially the liking then mistrusting him part, Stefan says something, then Rob likes him, Then he says another thing, and Rob takes a step back, Maybe his character is meant to be confused, but seriously, he has to make up his mind, I'm not even sure what his final stand was with Stefan at the end,
All these aside, I think Her Dark and Dangerous Lord is a good read see what I did there.
If you want insight into how the times were then, I recommend this,
Recibí este libro como regalo ya que la persona que me lo obsequió conoce mis gustos por la novela época y el género fantástico.
. . Aunque igualmente se equivocó porque de fantástico no tiene nada y es un romance con algo de acción.
Sin embargo no aborresco la confusión ya que, a pesar de no ser mi género favorito, sí que me ha encantado bastante el libro.
La historia bastante simplona pero atractiva a la vez y el recurso que más me llamó la atención del libro que tal vez no sea intencional es la manera en la que todos los hechos parecen conspirar para que ocurra un conflicto muy pero MUY importante en la trama muerte de alguien, conflictos entre personajes debido a una confusión Pero al final simplemente no ocurre nada!
Y uno se queda aliviado por el hecho de que no pasó eso que uno suponía pero a la vez preocupado porque la historia no va por el camino que el lector espera.
A good plot, really good start very action packed, Made me want to read more, It got a bit repetitive as the book went on repeating the same stuff over and over again, Good comelete finish. Es un libro que se deja leer, es cortito y rápido, No le pedía mucho pero me ha dado mas de lo que esperaba tras muchos meses sin leer.
sitelink LINDA SOLE also writes under the names of sitelink Anne Herries, sitelink Emma Quincey, sitelink Lynn Granville and one as sitelink Juliana Linden.
Linda was born in Swindon, Her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire when she was nine, and Linda attended the local school but left at fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her fathers business.
She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years before moving to Cambridge, although Linda has now moved to somewhere a bit quieter in Cambridgeshire.
She started writing in, combining this with helping her husband to run his antique shop, Writing as sitelink Anne Herries, Linda won theRNA Romance Award and the Betty Neels Trophy, She lives in Cambridgeshire. After many happy years of taking their holidays sitelink LINDA SOLE also writes under the names of sitelink Anne Herries, sitelink Emma Quincey, sitelink Lynn Granville and one as sitelink Juliana Linden.
Linda was born in Swindon, Her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire when she was nine, and Linda attended the local school but left at fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her father's business.
She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years before moving to Cambridge, although Linda has now moved to somewhere a bit quieter in Cambridgeshire.
She started writing in, combining this with helping her husband to run his antique shop, Writing as sitelink Anne Herries, Linda won theRNA Romance Award and the Betty Neels Trophy, She lives in Cambridgeshire. After many happy years of taking their holidays in Spain she and her husband, now have a second home in Norfolk.
Being only a short drive, they can visit for a few days at a time, which suits their busy lifestyle these days.
They are only just across the road from the sea, and can see it from their windows, At home and at the sea they enjoy watching the wildlife and have many visitors to their gardens, particularly squirrels.
Anne loves watching their antics and spoils both them and her birds shamelessly, She also loves to see the flocks of geese and other birds flying in over the sea during the autumn, to winter in the milder climes of this country.
Anne loves to write about the beauty of nature and sometimes puts a little into her books, though they are mostly about love and romance.
She writes for her own enjoyment and to give pleasure to her readers, sitelink.