Every once in a while, I hunger for a historical romance. I love reading the history and how the people dressed and lived. Laurel McKee does a wonderful job of painting the turmoil of the times as well as staying true to her characters. Did I fall in love with them? No, but I respected their choices and I really wanted them to find their happy ending. I am one of those people who not only love strong Alpha males, but I want my heroine to be strong too - not some simpy girl. Anna is a strong character, but she's very likeable - personable. I really enjoyed this novel, and although it is the second in the series, it reads as a stand alone. Not to say you won't want to rush out and get the first in the series after you read this one!!

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Just could not get into this one. I had a hard time liking any of the characters and found the writing awkward.

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Second book in a trilogy. Anna and Conlan cannot stay away from each other, but he is in the fight for Ireland and there is danger everywhere. It ends rather abruptly, but at least the danger did not drag out interminably. Another good love story. The secondary characters are well explored. I will definitely read the third in the series.

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This should be categorized as an Historical Suspense Mystery Romance. Because even though it was easy to figure out who the bad guy was there was a twist when the bad guy was revealed that just shocked me. The first chapter of this book was really cheesy but got better as the chapters progressed, the differense between chapter one and two were crazy, had chapter two not been as awesome as it was I may have not stuck with this. And though this is a romance I was sitting on the edge of my seat anxious to get to the end to see how it all played out because a tiny seed of doubt is planted into the readers mind during this whole book that makes you wonder if there is truly a Happily Ever After type of ending or one of those sucky endings where the girl does the proper thing and marries for family security and society. And you sit there reading arguing with yourself over wether or not you're just being paranoid.

But I will gladly spoil it for you, not something I usually do, and say there is a Happily Ever After.... two actually. Laurell McKee is now on my favorite authors list with this one. :)

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