Lord of Desire

by Paula Quinn

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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. Lady Brynnafar Dumont is prepared to do anything to protect her people—even seduce the savage who defeated her father. Instead, she confronts Handsome Norman knight Lord Brand Risande, who's hiding a secret and wants nothing to do with her. Original.

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"Lord of Desire is a romance rarity, an erotic bubblegum Medieval. Quinn has crafted two likeable enough leads but they are out of place in the setting . . .The role of the match-making Fairy Godmother is played by William the Conqueror. For serious? The dialogue and idioms are so completely modern that it is laughable."

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½
It's not that this book wasn't well written....
Quinn's writing does has quite a poetic tinge and an engagin style.

I just felt that, for me, the plot dragged a bit. I found myself skimming as the lead characters kept analyzing the same stuff over and over again and abandoned the whole endeavor altogether the day after their wedding night.

I do, however, want to give the 2nd book in the series whirl because the plot premise interests me.
This historical romance just didn't seem realistic. I couldn't believe that a medieval warrior would be so obsessed by an unfaithful love and the heroine quivering from then a minute later threatening William the Conqueror. I didn't finish. Lord Brand defeated Brynna's father and she was given as his bride along with the castle.

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Canonical title
Lord of Desire
People/Characters
Lady Brynnafar Dumont; Lord Brand Risande
First words
The carriage came to a unit on the side of the dirt road. Lady Brynna Dumont peeked her head out of the small, curtained window to see why her troupe had stopped. Her hand, holding back the velvet curtain, was delicate. Her s... (show all)kin was smooth and white against the bright red of the lush fabric.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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Rating
½ (3.55)
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English, Spanish
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