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One Christmas Night
Highland Christmas / Ruth Langan
Wife for Christmas / Jacqueline Navin
Ian's gift / Lyn Stone
Wife for Christmas / Jacqueline Navin
Ian's gift / Lyn Stone
292 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1999
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About the author
Ruth Ryan Langan
173 books111 followersRuth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
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December 5, 2016
Ruth Langan: Vánoce na horách *
Na s. 12 hrdinka s velkou slávou přivezla zraněného hrdinu a hromadu věcí, které „vzala mrtvým bojovníkům“.
Chudá rodina (děda, dcera, dva vnuci) má radost z nalezeného koně. Zjevně je starost o něho nezatížila.
Na s. 56 to vypadá, že si hrdina zašel posedět do šenku s jinými vojáky, i když podle s. 43 to hrdince pěšky do vesnice trvalo „celé dny“ a na koni „cesta zabere polovinu času“.
Na s. 80,81 hrdina zdlouhavě svou vyvolenou připravuje na velké odhalení, „po kterém se na něho bude dívat jinak“. A co mu na to řekne ona: „Nic a nikdo nezmění pocity, které k tobě chovám. Budeš se mnou dnes večer zase ležet, Morgane?“
Na s. 85 ji to už říct nestihne. Navíc ohořelý špatně pochopený vzkaz je hodně laciná zápletka.
Když se hrdinka na s. 87 rozhodla, že je možná těhotná, co by z její rodiny udělalo vyděděnce, rozhodne se provdat. Za chlapa, který jí jasně řekl, že po svatbě děti „musí jít do učení k statkáři do vedlejší vesnice“. Na s. 89 jí to už nepřišlo tak hrozné, a bo to dělala pro otce a děti...
Jacqueline Navin: Vánoční vdavky ****
Lyn Stone: Dáreček *
Od LS jsem čekala nejvíc :-/
s. 218 „Brzy jí bude pětadvacet...“
s. 225 „Je mi už pětadvacet...“
s. 265 bude jí pomalu pětadvacet
Stárne fakt rychle.
Špatná korektura.
Na s. 12 hrdinka s velkou slávou přivezla zraněného hrdinu a hromadu věcí, které „vzala mrtvým bojovníkům“.
Chudá rodina (děda, dcera, dva vnuci) má radost z nalezeného koně. Zjevně je starost o něho nezatížila.
Na s. 56 to vypadá, že si hrdina zašel posedět do šenku s jinými vojáky, i když podle s. 43 to hrdince pěšky do vesnice trvalo „celé dny“ a na koni „cesta zabere polovinu času“.
Na s. 80,81 hrdina zdlouhavě svou vyvolenou připravuje na velké odhalení, „po kterém se na něho bude dívat jinak“. A co mu na to řekne ona: „Nic a nikdo nezmění pocity, které k tobě chovám. Budeš se mnou dnes večer zase ležet, Morgane?“
Na s. 85 ji to už říct nestihne. Navíc ohořelý špatně pochopený vzkaz je hodně laciná zápletka.
Když se hrdinka na s. 87 rozhodla, že je možná těhotná, co by z její rodiny udělalo vyděděnce, rozhodne se provdat. Za chlapa, který jí jasně řekl, že po svatbě děti „musí jít do učení k statkáři do vedlejší vesnice“. Na s. 89 jí to už nepřišlo tak hrozné, a bo to dělala pro otce a děti...
Jacqueline Navin: Vánoční vdavky ****
Lyn Stone: Dáreček *
Od LS jsem čekala nejvíc :-/
s. 218 „Brzy jí bude pětadvacet...“
s. 225 „Je mi už pětadvacet...“
s. 265 bude jí pomalu pětadvacet
Stárne fakt rychle.
Špatná korektura.
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March 24, 2012
Ruth Langen, Jacqueline Navin, and Lyn Stone join forces to produce a trio of novellas that nicely captures the flavors of the medieval and Renaissance holiday seasons in all their richness and warmth.
A young Highland lass rescues a wounded warrior and brings him love as well as healing in Langen's charming story, which has a Cinderella ending; a fugitive noblewoman, an orphaned baby, and a gallant knight vanquish a villain and form a family just in time for the New Year in Navin's spirited "A Wife for Christmas"; and an independent-minded English noblewoman determined to discourage a Scottish suitor finds that her efforts are having the opposite effect in Stone's delightful "Ian's Gift," a tale with a "Gifts of the Magi" twist. Laughter-laced and sprinkled with children, these heartwarming, diverse, yet equally satisfying historical romances will brighten readers' holidays and are perfect for an afternoon by the fire with a mug of spiced cider.
"A Wife for Christmas" is the best of the stories in this anthology.
A young Highland lass rescues a wounded warrior and brings him love as well as healing in Langen's charming story, which has a Cinderella ending; a fugitive noblewoman, an orphaned baby, and a gallant knight vanquish a villain and form a family just in time for the New Year in Navin's spirited "A Wife for Christmas"; and an independent-minded English noblewoman determined to discourage a Scottish suitor finds that her efforts are having the opposite effect in Stone's delightful "Ian's Gift," a tale with a "Gifts of the Magi" twist. Laughter-laced and sprinkled with children, these heartwarming, diverse, yet equally satisfying historical romances will brighten readers' holidays and are perfect for an afternoon by the fire with a mug of spiced cider.
"A Wife for Christmas" is the best of the stories in this anthology.
October 17, 2015
3 medieval novellas in which the romantic difficulties are based on willful misunderstanding. Ruth Langan's Highland Christmas isn't bad because of the family feeling. Jaqueline Navin's A Wife For Christmas is impossible to believe because of the lady turning fugitive. Lyn Stone's Ian's Gift is stubbornly wrongheaded.
December 24, 2013
This is a set of three Christmas stories. None of them stand out in particular, although if I had to pick a favorite it would be Ruth Langan's Highland Christmas.
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