Helpful Score: 3
I give this a 4 1/2 only because of some of the violent matter, however the story was strong and emotional. I personally cannot imagine loving someone who treated me as Catherine was treated by Sean but the story was still to me very good. I found I couldn't put it down despite the violent scenes that I sometimes scimmed through quickly.
Helpful Score: 2
First - reader beware - this book is not for everyone. It is very controversial, it is a very emotional roller coaster ride, and it will make you feel uncomfortable.
The hero Sean is a young Irish man who saw his mother raped and butchered by the English. He was the only one to survive in his village. He is consumed by revenge and wants nothing in life but to ruin the man who ordered his village slaughtered. In the first step of his plans he kidnaps his young daughter, takes her to his ancestral home in Ireland and makes her live the life of a slave. He brutally rapes her, beats her, starves her, makes her work at the most demeaning jobs but even after all of this he starts to fall in love with her.
Kit hates Sean at first and wants nothing but to escape. She tries and fails, yet still she defies him at every opportunity. However, she to feels herself drawn to the stormy Irish man and she can't help falling in love with her capture, her tormentor.
The hero Sean is a young Irish man who saw his mother raped and butchered by the English. He was the only one to survive in his village. He is consumed by revenge and wants nothing in life but to ruin the man who ordered his village slaughtered. In the first step of his plans he kidnaps his young daughter, takes her to his ancestral home in Ireland and makes her live the life of a slave. He brutally rapes her, beats her, starves her, makes her work at the most demeaning jobs but even after all of this he starts to fall in love with her.
Kit hates Sean at first and wants nothing but to escape. She tries and fails, yet still she defies him at every opportunity. However, she to feels herself drawn to the stormy Irish man and she can't help falling in love with her capture, her tormentor.
