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Legacy #2
The Nightingale Legacy
On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Caroline Derwent-Jones escapes the obsessive attentions of her guardian, Mr. Ffalkes, only to be drawn to the mysterious and reclusive Frederic North Nightingale, Lord Chilton, in a romance set in Regency Cornwall.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1994
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June 28, 2025
Such a fun, “carry me away to another place” kind of read. In addition to romance, there was intrigue, villains, and a murder mystery— as well as a few other story threads thrown in for good measure.
Under different circumstances I may have complained about the need to edit this book and certainly cut out some excess plot lines that were almost ridiculous and certainly easy to see from a mile away.
But I really wanted a good old-fashioned romantic adventure, and this Coulter novel from 1995 delivered all that and more— did I mention buried treasure? Yeah, that too.
Thanks Ms Calgon, oops Ms Coulter, for carrying me away so I could forget about the news, the low humming anxiety and this crazy world we’re all living in these days!
(Reviewed 4/10/20)
Under different circumstances I may have complained about the need to edit this book and certainly cut out some excess plot lines that were almost ridiculous and certainly easy to see from a mile away.
But I really wanted a good old-fashioned romantic adventure, and this Coulter novel from 1995 delivered all that and more— did I mention buried treasure? Yeah, that too.
Thanks Ms Calgon, oops Ms Coulter, for carrying me away so I could forget about the news, the low humming anxiety and this crazy world we’re all living in these days!
(Reviewed 4/10/20)
February 7, 2017
Trigger warning: Rape
The heroine saved this book. Also though the hero did too eventually. A legacy of husbands only bedding their wives for an heir, and for them to wander along the moors being all sad and aloof was just flat out stupid. I maybe said that a few times. A family tradition of being cuckholded is some alt-right (you are Nazis!) crap. We have an appearance by Marcus and the Duchess (also we get to read about Marcus talking about how much his wife loves sex) and I just hate this couple more and more. I refused to re-read The Valentine Legacy (Legacy #3) because I don't hate myself that much. There are too many plots happening in this book though. We have Caroline looking for King Mark's treasure, North's household of only men who hate women, someone is trying to murder Caroline, kidnapping, and young women who have gotten themselves into the family way, rape, and oh women who are not married and pregnant are thereby damaged goods so rape is actually okay, etc. I was over it by the time I got to the final page. Still not as bad as Legacy #1 though.
Caroline Derwent-Jones runs away from her guardian who is making a lot of noises that he doesn't consider rape a bad thing. As she flees, she finds herself saved by Frederick North Nightingale, Lord Chilton. I definitely get that Coulter was going with a Heathcliff vibe with North, but thank goodness though he completely does not live up to that brooding mess. We find out more and more that North has missed his mother (after his father exiled her) and falls in love with Caroline because she is so alive and loving to him. If the book had just dealt with Caroline and North and his weird household that would have been enough. But somehow Caroline has inherited a house full of young women who are in the family way. I can't even with this whole sub-plot. She is also looking for King Mark's treasure when she has free time.
The writing at times doesn't work, and the whole Lord of Chilton's supposed to be aloof and cold thing was beyond stupid. The all male household could have worked and been funny, but honestly, it goes on too long for me to really care anymore. The flow was all over the place though. I think because of the multiple sub-plots I just found it hard to follow what was going on. If we had stuck to one thing it would have been fine.
The setting is typical Regency England only the whole Caroline being so feminist at the time was not working at all. I had the same issue with this while I was reading "Stalking Jack the Ripper" too. It makes for a good modern female character being so in your face about equal rights, but if it's not taking place during England's Women's Movement it really doesn't work for the time period. Women do not have equal rights period. And Caroline not having to worry about her and her husband's reputation for dealing with a home full of unwed teen mothers was stretching things way too much.
The ending was eh. I am still confused about it. Probably because we have the treasure found, Caroline's would be murderer identified, and blah blah blah other stuff happens. I threw in the towel here and just gave up on reading "The Valentine Legacy".
The heroine saved this book. Also though the hero did too eventually. A legacy of husbands only bedding their wives for an heir, and for them to wander along the moors being all sad and aloof was just flat out stupid. I maybe said that a few times. A family tradition of being cuckholded is some alt-right (you are Nazis!) crap. We have an appearance by Marcus and the Duchess (also we get to read about Marcus talking about how much his wife loves sex) and I just hate this couple more and more. I refused to re-read The Valentine Legacy (Legacy #3) because I don't hate myself that much. There are too many plots happening in this book though. We have Caroline looking for King Mark's treasure, North's household of only men who hate women, someone is trying to murder Caroline, kidnapping, and young women who have gotten themselves into the family way, rape, and oh women who are not married and pregnant are thereby damaged goods so rape is actually okay, etc. I was over it by the time I got to the final page. Still not as bad as Legacy #1 though.
Caroline Derwent-Jones runs away from her guardian who is making a lot of noises that he doesn't consider rape a bad thing. As she flees, she finds herself saved by Frederick North Nightingale, Lord Chilton. I definitely get that Coulter was going with a Heathcliff vibe with North, but thank goodness though he completely does not live up to that brooding mess. We find out more and more that North has missed his mother (after his father exiled her) and falls in love with Caroline because she is so alive and loving to him. If the book had just dealt with Caroline and North and his weird household that would have been enough. But somehow Caroline has inherited a house full of young women who are in the family way. I can't even with this whole sub-plot. She is also looking for King Mark's treasure when she has free time.
The writing at times doesn't work, and the whole Lord of Chilton's supposed to be aloof and cold thing was beyond stupid. The all male household could have worked and been funny, but honestly, it goes on too long for me to really care anymore. The flow was all over the place though. I think because of the multiple sub-plots I just found it hard to follow what was going on. If we had stuck to one thing it would have been fine.
The setting is typical Regency England only the whole Caroline being so feminist at the time was not working at all. I had the same issue with this while I was reading "Stalking Jack the Ripper" too. It makes for a good modern female character being so in your face about equal rights, but if it's not taking place during England's Women's Movement it really doesn't work for the time period. Women do not have equal rights period. And Caroline not having to worry about her and her husband's reputation for dealing with a home full of unwed teen mothers was stretching things way too much.
The ending was eh. I am still confused about it. Probably because we have the treasure found, Caroline's would be murderer identified, and blah blah blah other stuff happens. I threw in the towel here and just gave up on reading "The Valentine Legacy".
March 18, 2021
3.5⭐
This second book was muuuuch better than the first. Now that I have read 3 books from this writer I can say that she really has a problem with women! But at least the hero and heroine were super nice.
The hero's ancestors and male servants were women haters 🙄 yes, to the point of insanity. In this book there are women being murdered and as the hero is the magistrate, he's trying to solve the puzzle. It was a good read with some fun times, others very sad things, others bordering on the fantastical.
This second book was muuuuch better than the first. Now that I have read 3 books from this writer I can say that she really has a problem with women! But at least the hero and heroine were super nice.
The hero's ancestors and male servants were women haters 🙄 yes, to the point of insanity. In this book there are women being murdered and as the hero is the magistrate, he's trying to solve the puzzle. It was a good read with some fun times, others very sad things, others bordering on the fantastical.
September 28, 2025
Ehm help?
De eerste 150 pagina’s is de ene verkrachtingspoging na de volgende waarna we ons weer even herinneren dat dit een detective hoort te zijn. Tenminste voor ongeveer 10 pagina’s want dan is het weer tijd voor het minst romantische liefdesverhaal in lange tijd. Maar goed op de laatste 20 pagina’s krijgen we toch nog een (vrij voorspelbare) moordenaar te pakken. Niet alleen dat, alle mysteries (en dat zijn er veel) krijgen een magisch antwoord.
Kies een verhaallijn…..
*aan mijn vriendin die me dit aanraadde: 😭😭😭
De eerste 150 pagina’s is de ene verkrachtingspoging na de volgende waarna we ons weer even herinneren dat dit een detective hoort te zijn. Tenminste voor ongeveer 10 pagina’s want dan is het weer tijd voor het minst romantische liefdesverhaal in lange tijd. Maar goed op de laatste 20 pagina’s krijgen we toch nog een (vrij voorspelbare) moordenaar te pakken. Niet alleen dat, alle mysteries (en dat zijn er veel) krijgen een magisch antwoord.
Kies een verhaallijn…..
*aan mijn vriendin die me dit aanraadde: 😭😭😭
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 3, 2016
I fell in love with this book. I thought that Lord Chilton, Frederic North Nightingale was an awesome man. I love that he brooded as he walked the moors. I love how Caroline Derwent-Jones was able to see past all the negative feelings that were possessed by the members of the household members and staff. I found great humor in Lord Chilton and his walking the dogs on the Moors. I love how it was reiterated throughout. I found him to be not overly brooding.
The story was dark in many ways and had me searching for clues. I kept changing who I thought had committed the murders. It was great fun watching Caroline with over the staff. This has become one of my favorite books and my favorite out of the series.
The story was dark in many ways and had me searching for clues. I kept changing who I thought had committed the murders. It was great fun watching Caroline with over the staff. This has become one of my favorite books and my favorite out of the series.
November 19, 2019
Catherine Coulter has the wonder ability to create amazing characters. Her hero and heroine are wonderful but the supporting characters easily steal the scene in my opinion. I enjoyed the first book of the trilogy more but I was still entertained. I guessed the identity of the murderer pretty early on as I suspect many will but there was plenty of mystery to go around.
March 15, 2011
2 1/2 stars.
The only real problem I had with this book was the dialog. Nothing seemed to flow naturally at all, and it really ruined the book for me. I liked the main characters a lot, and most of the secondary characters - although North's staff got a little overboard a lot, and no employer would have allowed their behavior.
The book also had too many things going on. There was someone killing women; Mr. Ffalks was after Caroline; Bennet was a sleaze; the King Mark stuff (which I thought was supposed to be the focus but was not at all); the Nightingale legacy of cuckolded men and faithless women; the pregnant girls; the woman-hating all male staff. There was way too much going on, and what was supposed to be the main storyline - King Mark's grave and treasure - was a serious afterthought. Even the climax of that storyline was an afterthought.
The book had a lot of potential. I think that if the dialog was smoother, all the other problems I had with the book would have been less noticeable. Once I started having problems with the dialog, I started seeing other things that bothered me too.
The only real problem I had with this book was the dialog. Nothing seemed to flow naturally at all, and it really ruined the book for me. I liked the main characters a lot, and most of the secondary characters - although North's staff got a little overboard a lot, and no employer would have allowed their behavior.
The book also had too many things going on. There was someone killing women; Mr. Ffalks was after Caroline; Bennet was a sleaze; the King Mark stuff (which I thought was supposed to be the focus but was not at all); the Nightingale legacy of cuckolded men and faithless women; the pregnant girls; the woman-hating all male staff. There was way too much going on, and what was supposed to be the main storyline - King Mark's grave and treasure - was a serious afterthought. Even the climax of that storyline was an afterthought.
The book had a lot of potential. I think that if the dialog was smoother, all the other problems I had with the book would have been less noticeable. Once I started having problems with the dialog, I started seeing other things that bothered me too.
July 17, 2020
Copyright 1994. This is a reread for me.
So, I have a love/hate relationship with CC. She's a good writer & this book has great wit & intelligence. I loved the H/h. The story is interesting & there's lots going on.
The thing is, you always have to be careful with a CC. She loves to have her heroine raped (usually by the "hero"). He'll always tell anyone who will listen that it wasn't rape because he "used cream".
Fortunately, you CAN find some of her books where this doesn't happen. This story is one of them.
I recommend this one for anyone who loves romance. It's a great story!
So, I have a love/hate relationship with CC. She's a good writer & this book has great wit & intelligence. I loved the H/h. The story is interesting & there's lots going on.
The thing is, you always have to be careful with a CC. She loves to have her heroine raped (usually by the "hero"). He'll always tell anyone who will listen that it wasn't rape because he "used cream".
Fortunately, you CAN find some of her books where this doesn't happen. This story is one of them.
I recommend this one for anyone who loves romance. It's a great story!
February 17, 2021
A lot going on in this historical, romance, mystery, with a dash of magic. Misogyny, King Mark of Cornwall, a family legacy, entwined with a lusty romance.
August 4, 2022
I believe this is the eleventh Coulter I've read and it suffers from some of her usual tropes. Forget about people acting like they belong to the Regency era. The main characters are all too modern and will happily discuss sex in mixed-gender groups at the drop of a hat. I’ve lost track of the number of Coulter heroines who look up at their kidnapper’s face and notice he missed some whiskers while shaving but it's more than two. She also overuses the term en pointe, sometimes as if it were a balletic term, and sometimes a hunting one.
This one had some interesting changes from the Coulter standards. The hero never rapes the heroine and she enjoys her first sexual experience with him. The all-male household where they still call servants by female titles (the upstairs maid Timmy, the dairymaid Barney) was different, and also vaguely annoying, but still managed to feel like classic Coulter humor. She and I are rarely on the same page comes to that. All these men (family members and loyal servants) laying claim to and/or taking pride in a tradition of being cuckolded and thereby becoming womanhaters was just strange.
Coulter is correct about upper class men raping servant girls and blaming them for it in that era but she doesn't really grapple with the fact that unmarried ladies running a home for pregnant unmarried ladies would have dealt with all manner of social censure and I suspect even a married lady would have gotten some grief for it. I'm not really that up on Regency history but that was an issue in the American West of the 1860s and I can't imagine it wouldn't have been in the much more straitlaced English Regency.
Coulter fans are gonna put up with all that because she's doing other things they like, of course, and personally I quite enjoyed this book. I thought some aspects of Owen's growth in this book unrealistic and yet it was nice to see. I liked the hero and heroine. Something was always happening and the plot moves along its various plot lines right smartly. I pegged the bad guy early on and think someone else should have noticed before the big reveal, but at the same time anyone who has read some Real Crime books on serial killers knows that when the murderer is likeable people will find it hard to make those sorts of connections. So that part was more believable than some other aspects of the book.
Coulter isn't likely to become of of my most favorite romance authors but I knew what I was getting into and enjoyed this one.
This one had some interesting changes from the Coulter standards. The hero never rapes the heroine and she enjoys her first sexual experience with him. The all-male household where they still call servants by female titles (the upstairs maid Timmy, the dairymaid Barney) was different, and also vaguely annoying, but still managed to feel like classic Coulter humor. She and I are rarely on the same page comes to that. All these men (family members and loyal servants) laying claim to and/or taking pride in a tradition of being cuckolded and thereby becoming womanhaters was just strange.
Coulter is correct about upper class men raping servant girls and blaming them for it in that era but she doesn't really grapple with the fact that unmarried ladies running a home for pregnant unmarried ladies would have dealt with all manner of social censure and I suspect even a married lady would have gotten some grief for it. I'm not really that up on Regency history but that was an issue in the American West of the 1860s and I can't imagine it wouldn't have been in the much more straitlaced English Regency.
Coulter fans are gonna put up with all that because she's doing other things they like, of course, and personally I quite enjoyed this book. I thought some aspects of Owen's growth in this book unrealistic and yet it was nice to see. I liked the hero and heroine. Something was always happening and the plot moves along its various plot lines right smartly. I pegged the bad guy early on and think someone else should have noticed before the big reveal, but at the same time anyone who has read some Real Crime books on serial killers knows that when the murderer is likeable people will find it hard to make those sorts of connections. So that part was more believable than some other aspects of the book.
Coulter isn't likely to become of of my most favorite romance authors but I knew what I was getting into and enjoyed this one.
March 30, 2023
Caroline Derwent-Jones is turning 19 and she will then get her inheritance and out from under Mr. Ffalkes. Mr. Ffalkes wants her to marry his son Owen so he can get her money. Owen doesn't want to marry her either.
Mr. Fflakes decides he will marry her and get control of her money. Caroline is able to escape and takes Owen with her, she is going to her aunt house. Along the way Owen gets sick and they have to stay at the inn. She comes across Lord Chilton claims he's a lonely beggar.
Mr Fflakes shows up at the inn and she tells him his son is sick. She able to leave the inn and takes Lord Chilton horse since it will be faster to her aunt house. When Lord Chilton realized who she said her aunt is he goes after her.
She finds out her aunt was murdered, and she is to share the estate with Bennett Pemrose. The house will hold pregnant girls who have nowhere else to go.
Caroline finds out there were other murders and she along with Lord Chilton try to find out who did it. Along the way Caroline and North come to care for each other.
Mr. Fflakes decides he will marry her and get control of her money. Caroline is able to escape and takes Owen with her, she is going to her aunt house. Along the way Owen gets sick and they have to stay at the inn. She comes across Lord Chilton claims he's a lonely beggar.
Mr Fflakes shows up at the inn and she tells him his son is sick. She able to leave the inn and takes Lord Chilton horse since it will be faster to her aunt house. When Lord Chilton realized who she said her aunt is he goes after her.
She finds out her aunt was murdered, and she is to share the estate with Bennett Pemrose. The house will hold pregnant girls who have nowhere else to go.
Caroline finds out there were other murders and she along with Lord Chilton try to find out who did it. Along the way Caroline and North come to care for each other.
July 12, 2017
on the eve of her 19th birthday Caroline Derwent-Jones must find a way to get away from the control of her smarmy frighteningly obsessive guardian, Roland Ffalkes. But Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline for he needs her money.She manages to escape him and take his son hostage and heads to the property of her aunt only to have him come down with pneumonia. when she go to ask for a doctor she finds herself in the fascinating company of Frederick North Nightingale, Lord Chilton. when Lord Chilton finds the body of a lady at the bottom of a cliff and as the Magistrate he is determined to find out what happen to her. After Caroline made it to her aunts she is informed of her aunts death she heads to Mount Hawke, the home of Lord Chilton.
Lord Chilton claims he's a lonely beggar, his soul suited for solitude and for walking his hounds on the moors but when Caroline's old guardian, Roland Ffalkes kidnapped her Lord Chilton comes to rescue her and decided the only way to keep her safe is to married her and take her home to Mount Hawke where no women has live there since his grandmother for it was drill to the men living there that every women will do nothing but cheat on and hurt her husband. Lord Chilton has to show to his servants that Caroline isn't like that.
Lord Chilton claims he's a lonely beggar, his soul suited for solitude and for walking his hounds on the moors but when Caroline's old guardian, Roland Ffalkes kidnapped her Lord Chilton comes to rescue her and decided the only way to keep her safe is to married her and take her home to Mount Hawke where no women has live there since his grandmother for it was drill to the men living there that every women will do nothing but cheat on and hurt her husband. Lord Chilton has to show to his servants that Caroline isn't like that.
June 13, 2022
How utterly refreshing to read a romance where the H/h are practically obsessed with each other for the entire book. Like pure love and adoration. Trust. Communication.
For a MMC who's entire lineage's motto is "women are the devil", he still is utterly enamoured with the FMC enough to trust her. And because she knows he does, she can communicate. They talk. They use two brains instead of one.
My only fault with this book is maybe there was too much plot haha. It was action...go go go! Not a moment to waste, till the last fucking second. And the social conventions weren't observed and while that can be a pet peeve of mine, we'll let it pass a little. The crazy plot just couldn't work with it.
Anyways. I was willing to overlook the faults because the romance component was very, very sweet. I'm a sucker for romance. It's why I'm reading the genre. And when the love is to the nines like this, how could I not love it.
For a MMC who's entire lineage's motto is "women are the devil", he still is utterly enamoured with the FMC enough to trust her. And because she knows he does, she can communicate. They talk. They use two brains instead of one.
My only fault with this book is maybe there was too much plot haha. It was action...go go go! Not a moment to waste, till the last fucking second. And the social conventions weren't observed and while that can be a pet peeve of mine, we'll let it pass a little. The crazy plot just couldn't work with it.
Anyways. I was willing to overlook the faults because the romance component was very, very sweet. I'm a sucker for romance. It's why I'm reading the genre. And when the love is to the nines like this, how could I not love it.
October 11, 2022
Bel romanzo, ma a mio parere non all'altezza del primo della serie Legacy.
Mi sono piaciute le ambientazioni, il castello sulla scogliera, i ripidi pendii scoscesi, l'ambientazione.
Meno i personaggi: North non è molto incisivo e diventa, strada facendo, una macchietta anonima mentre nel primo volume aveva del potenziale che qui non è stato sfruttato.
Caroline si appiattisce al livello delle altre, solite, anacronistiche, eroine da romance: fuori luogo e fuori tempo.
Nel complesso il libro trae più giovamento da una narrazione abbastanza avvincente e con una buona dose di mistero e supence, ma è decisamente in netto calo rispetto alle possibilità della Coulter che aveva prodotto quella perla dell'"Eredità dei Wyndham" che era sopra le righe in tutto e per tutto, specialmente la caratterizzazione dei personaggi che qui, purtroppo, non è stata ricreata.
Mi sono piaciute le ambientazioni, il castello sulla scogliera, i ripidi pendii scoscesi, l'ambientazione.
Meno i personaggi: North non è molto incisivo e diventa, strada facendo, una macchietta anonima mentre nel primo volume aveva del potenziale che qui non è stato sfruttato.
Caroline si appiattisce al livello delle altre, solite, anacronistiche, eroine da romance: fuori luogo e fuori tempo.
Nel complesso il libro trae più giovamento da una narrazione abbastanza avvincente e con una buona dose di mistero e supence, ma è decisamente in netto calo rispetto alle possibilità della Coulter che aveva prodotto quella perla dell'"Eredità dei Wyndham" che era sopra le righe in tutto e per tutto, specialmente la caratterizzazione dei personaggi che qui, purtroppo, non è stata ricreata.
December 29, 2018
Caroline Derwent-Jones has just turned 19, the age she is supposed to come to her majority. But her guardian has other plans for her. He wants her to marry his son; when that doesn't work, he plans on forcing her himself. Caroline runs away instead. She'll run to her aunt's and, to ensure it, she kidnaps the son, Owen. When he gets sick, they're stuck.
That's where North, Lord Chilton, finds them. He is amused by Caroline but knows that she is in for disappointment. They end up.spending time together much to the dismay of North's retainers who believe that his house should be Male only.
Craziness ensues... 90s historocals at their finest.
That's where North, Lord Chilton, finds them. He is amused by Caroline but knows that she is in for disappointment. They end up.spending time together much to the dismay of North's retainers who believe that his house should be Male only.
Craziness ensues... 90s historocals at their finest.
November 9, 2016
This book wasn't really too bad. Despite the blatant rip off of the King Arthur legend. I really enjoyed the characters and thought the plot was very well done. I spent a lot of time waffling between the various individuals who could've committed the crime but no one seemed quite right. The solution in the end made a lot of sense and was one of my original suspect but I had dismissed the person. I guess that just goes to show you doesn't it….
July 9, 2023
I love how unproblematic the heroine is here. She is savage and kick-ass without losing the lady and innocent quality she inherently has. The hero compliments her silliness as well. I love how they didn't let misunderstandings get the better of them.
But, as everyone is saying, the last chapters have indeed gone bonkers. For some reason, it became a fantasy and the twists and turns were done very soap-opera-like. So, I'll give it 3.5 stars. Nevertheless, it was a fun ride.
But, as everyone is saying, the last chapters have indeed gone bonkers. For some reason, it became a fantasy and the twists and turns were done very soap-opera-like. So, I'll give it 3.5 stars. Nevertheless, it was a fun ride.
January 17, 2024
The Nightingale Legacy
The Legacy series, Book 2
Catherine Coulter, author
Another stellar novel by Ms. Coulter. I enjoyed the dynamic elements of the story and the budding romance between North and Caroline.
Once again Ms. Coulter has put her stamp on this story with a bit of magical nuance.
I recommend this book to all who enjoy a good historical novel with not only romance but adventure and mystery as well.
The Legacy series, Book 2
Catherine Coulter, author
Another stellar novel by Ms. Coulter. I enjoyed the dynamic elements of the story and the budding romance between North and Caroline.
Once again Ms. Coulter has put her stamp on this story with a bit of magical nuance.
I recommend this book to all who enjoy a good historical novel with not only romance but adventure and mystery as well.
May 22, 2018
Great Read!! all your classic tropes (misogynistic males, abuse of women, who of course have no rights, class issues, rape of vulnerable women which results in pregnancy and shunning, etc.) With all that Ms. Coulter still manages to give us a HEA. I will be reading the other books in this trilogy.
June 6, 2020
This is the middle book in a trilogy. I’ve had all three of them on my bookshelf for years as favorites. Just finished the first one and it was okay, but no longer love it. Started this one, but I just couldn’t get into it. Skipping on to the last book and going to put the whole set in a box for donations when done. It’s time to let them go.
February 3, 2021
I loved this book. I’m not a fan of books set in medieval times, but Catherine Coulter’s writing is so enthralling that I couldn’t put the book down. The characters were interesting and I found myself saying, just one more chapter , one more chapter as I read way past midnight.
I have yet to read a book she wrote that I did not like.
I have yet to read a book she wrote that I did not like.
January 29, 2023
2 star DNF @36%. CW: Attempted rape and repeated verbal threats of rape.
I enjoyed it initially but it was extremely anachronistic in terms of the dialogue (especially that between the two MCs) and it kept throwing me out of the book, so I gave up.
I enjoyed it initially but it was extremely anachronistic in terms of the dialogue (especially that between the two MCs) and it kept throwing me out of the book, so I gave up.
March 3, 2024
LOL I got this book for free years ago and I finally get why I don't understand much of it. It's a part two of a series. Though I can understand why most of the reviews says that the author hates women, it's true!
August 7, 2017
This book is a typical romance novel. There were a couple of fun mysteries to go along with the romance. A quick fun read.
March 30, 2018
I loved it, again! Such an fun, dangerous, happy, sad story. Really what life is all about, loving living and finding someone to do it with you! Just a wonderful read and/or listen!
August 9, 2019
Love the way she write about Duchess' and Earls she has away of keeping you reading.
September 28, 2019
Decent enough for entertainment. their speech patterns are too much though. No one spoke like that even in those days.
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August 6, 2022Excellent
May 3, 2024
Well-written but it isn't my genre. I didn't finish this story.
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