- Paperback: 326 pages
- Publisher: Onyx Books (4 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451411552
- ISBN-13: 978-0451411556
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 664,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A good book!
6 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
In this historical romance, a man that was so badly beaten he couldn't be identified is found and brought to Castle Calon. The year is 1289.
Morwenna, Lady of the castle, is afraid the man is Carrick of Wybren because he wears the signet ring of the Wybren family. Carrick broke her heart and stole her virtue three years ago. He also has been accused of starting the fire that killed all seven members of his family a year ago.
Unfortunately, Wybren has no memory of who he is or what happened to him. There is also someone lurking in the halls of the castle who calls himself the Redeemer. He is looking for justice and wants Morwenna as his own.
Jackson brings to vivid life a time and place far in the past. She is a master at creating her reality and taking the reader there. I didn't know who the Redeemer was until he was revealed but several clues had me guessing right up until the end. I would recommend giving them all a try.
Armchair Interviews says: This is the third in her medieval romance series.
Morwenna, Lady of the castle, is afraid the man is Carrick of Wybren because he wears the signet ring of the Wybren family. Carrick broke her heart and stole her virtue three years ago. He also has been accused of starting the fire that killed all seven members of his family a year ago.
Unfortunately, Wybren has no memory of who he is or what happened to him. There is also someone lurking in the halls of the castle who calls himself the Redeemer. He is looking for justice and wants Morwenna as his own.
Jackson brings to vivid life a time and place far in the past. She is a master at creating her reality and taking the reader there. I didn't know who the Redeemer was until he was revealed but several clues had me guessing right up until the end. I would recommend giving them all a try.
Armchair Interviews says: This is the third in her medieval romance series.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Mystery, not romance, is tempting
27 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
The title of this romantic suspense medieval novel puzzles me, because the heroine is not the temptress type at all, nor is she particularly tempting to read. The romance is missing in this novel, as other readers noted. I was frustrated to see the hero (whose identity is left mysterious until near the end) and the heroine (who mysteriously falls for a man she doesn't even know) not speak to one another until more than halfway through the story. Their story then gets deflected continually as different plot twists and characters take over the main story. Not even the epilogue is satisfying, since the author is more preoccupied about setting up the sequel about her sister., which smells like a marketing ploy than a proper ending to an already lacking romantic novel.
To be fair, the story, after the overwritten and ploddingly slow first half, is suspenseful on the question of who both the hero and murderer is. That mystery is what kept me reading more than the romance per se. Still, the lack of a proper relationship or even consummation between hero and heroine was deflating, disappointing. I am left wondering how and why two people who barely know one another can "love" so conclusively. The prequel Impostress was better, and I certainly hope Enchantress is too.
To be fair, the story, after the overwritten and ploddingly slow first half, is suspenseful on the question of who both the hero and murderer is. That mystery is what kept me reading more than the romance per se. Still, the lack of a proper relationship or even consummation between hero and heroine was deflating, disappointing. I am left wondering how and why two people who barely know one another can "love" so conclusively. The prequel Impostress was better, and I certainly hope Enchantress is too.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Was this supposed to be a romance?
21 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
Lady Morwenna of Caleron Castle is presented with a wounded man found outside her keep. He has been so badly beaten that no one recognizes him but he wears a ring bearing the family crest of her old lover. A man named Carrick, shown sketchily through a variety of flashbacks, who abandoned their affair and was later thought guilty of the murders of seven of his own family members. Morwenna is conflicted. If this beaten man is not Carrick then she could be sending an innocent man to face his executioner by notifying Carricks remaining kin. If it is Carrick, she is still conflicted because she believes herself to still be in love with him even though he treated her abominably. The author portrays this woman as a strong lead character and yet she allows Morwenna to be conflicted over a man who was, by all accounts according to flashbacks, a dirtbag? Where is the romance? The unconscious man stays pretty much unconscious or uncommunicative through most of the novel only to wake up have sex with Morwenna and then race off to find himself. Meanwhile, Morwenna spends the rest of her time dithering about what to do and chasing around after the mystery killer,called The Redeemer,who lurks around thinking lascivious thoughts and occasionally murdering expendable characters. In addition to these guys, Ms. Jackson then throws in several new characters at various inexplicable times to keep the reader from guessing the killer's identity. The entire book has an identity crisis. The relationship between the hero and heroine is never developed. They have so few actual interactions that you wonder how they can even know each other much less be in love. In fact, most of the characters are underdevelped due to the fact that there are so many of them haphazardly thrown in whenever the author wrote herself into a corner. It has so many plot twists that nothing ever comes together. In the end I was just saying pick a murderer already, any one will do! The real crime here is that in the end, Ms. Jackson leaves the story open for a sequel focused on Morwenna's sister,Bryanna, conveniently turned into a psychic and future heroine of another convoluted mystery/ romance/paranormal or maybe it will be a cookbook.....
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