Published: Avon
Date published: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-06-134477-0
Historical Medieval Romance
Paperback
Reviewed by Pam
Lady Evelinde d’Aumesbery would do almost anything to get away from her evil stepmother Edda, but when Edda announces she’s arranged a marriage to the Devil of Donnachaidh, Evelinde realizes how much the woman hates her. She takes her horse for a ride, hoping to get the idea of what it means from her head, but it is the stranger who kisses her who takes her worry away. When she discovers the stranger is the Devil, she begins to think, perhaps marriage to him wouldn’t be too bad.
Cullen is surprised to find the woman he met beside the stream is his future bride. His idea of marriage had been only for the sake of begetting an heir, but the chemistry between them was instant, pleasing him. He is worried about her not obeying his orders, but finds her intriguing and comely, plus feisty in bed.
He doesn’t talk much and she wants to know more about him, especially about the deaths in his family. When she begins asking too many questions, strange accidents start to happen around her, making Cullen and the guards assigned to her nervous.
Lynsay Sands has managed to make an un-communicative hero, into a romantic knight of old. The Devil is courageous, handsome, a romantic and knows how to please a woman. His heroine Evelinde, is beautiful, nosey, determined and delightfully naïve. Woven into this delightfully different romance is a murder mystery that creates a dark suspense, as the reader waits for the murderer to jump out of the shadows. The only flaw was a hero who hardly ever talked, as for this reviewer he was a little too quiet for the romance to be woven in as part of the tale.
With such a garrulous, intelligent heroine, his inability to talk with her spoilt the love scenes as we don’t learn how he feels from grunts. He needed a shake up early in the book, it made the book feel more like a suspense/murder than a delightful romance most of the time.
The characters were all well drawn, although I must confess to hoping Tavis with his womanizing ways would get his come-uppance. But perhaps he’s to be in another story, which I shall look forward to reading.
Date published: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-06-134477-0
Historical Medieval Romance
Paperback
Reviewed by Pam
Lady Evelinde d’Aumesbery would do almost anything to get away from her evil stepmother Edda, but when Edda announces she’s arranged a marriage to the Devil of Donnachaidh, Evelinde realizes how much the woman hates her. She takes her horse for a ride, hoping to get the idea of what it means from her head, but it is the stranger who kisses her who takes her worry away. When she discovers the stranger is the Devil, she begins to think, perhaps marriage to him wouldn’t be too bad.
Cullen is surprised to find the woman he met beside the stream is his future bride. His idea of marriage had been only for the sake of begetting an heir, but the chemistry between them was instant, pleasing him. He is worried about her not obeying his orders, but finds her intriguing and comely, plus feisty in bed.
He doesn’t talk much and she wants to know more about him, especially about the deaths in his family. When she begins asking too many questions, strange accidents start to happen around her, making Cullen and the guards assigned to her nervous.
Lynsay Sands has managed to make an un-communicative hero, into a romantic knight of old. The Devil is courageous, handsome, a romantic and knows how to please a woman. His heroine Evelinde, is beautiful, nosey, determined and delightfully naïve. Woven into this delightfully different romance is a murder mystery that creates a dark suspense, as the reader waits for the murderer to jump out of the shadows. The only flaw was a hero who hardly ever talked, as for this reviewer he was a little too quiet for the romance to be woven in as part of the tale.
With such a garrulous, intelligent heroine, his inability to talk with her spoilt the love scenes as we don’t learn how he feels from grunts. He needed a shake up early in the book, it made the book feel more like a suspense/murder than a delightful romance most of the time.
The characters were all well drawn, although I must confess to hoping Tavis with his womanizing ways would get his come-uppance. But perhaps he’s to be in another story, which I shall look forward to reading.
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