Dream Lover
by Virginia Henley
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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:Bent on revenge after five years on a prison ship, Sean O'Toole, Earl of Kildare, kidnapped his enemy's daughter. Her name was Emerald, an innocent beauty he had known long ago, who had stirred his senses like no other woman. But now he planned to seduce her, abandon her...and bring disgrace to the Montagues. First he would restore the fire to her eyes, make her hunger for his steely embrace — then use her in an act of vengeance. But show more Sean didn't expect to find himself caught in the sudden heat of his own desires, bewitched by the magnificent beauty he'd planned to betray... show lessTags
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Wow, I totally know why I stopped reading older historical romances. First of all, the first page is just sophomoric -- like that bad dentist joke that middle school kids liked to tell thinking they were titillating and worldly. Second, the story is just...simple. Admittedly, most romance is simplified; but this is just plug A into B now C needs to do D. Third, even though there seems to be a lot of emotion on the page...it's a lot of telling not showing.
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Author Information
43+ Works 5,389 Members
Romance novelist Virginia Henley was born in England in 1935. Her novels, many of them set in medieval England, Scotland or Ireland, are often published in hardcover as well as paperback, a rarity in the romance genre. Henley won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Fiction in 1996. Her titles "Seduced" & "Desired" were New show more York Times Bestsellers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Dream Lover
- Original publication date
- 1997-01
- People/Characters
- Sean FitzGerald O'Toole, Earl of Kildare; Lady Emerald FitzGerald Montague "Emma"; Jack Raymond [O'Toole] Montague
- Important places
- England, UK; Ireland
- Dedication
- For my granddaughter,
Tara Jasmine Henley - First words
- As the perfectly formed, timeless shape of the rounded head emerged, still glistening with wetness, Emerald couldn't take her eyes from it.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I've waited forever; ready when you are, milord!"
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.47)
- Languages
- 5 — Czech, English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 3
