Fatti e misfatti

Lions #5

by Suzanne Barclay

Scozia,1381 - 1394. Mentre guida gli uomini del suo clan in una razzia di bestiame, la bellissima e coraggiosa Allisun Murray viene catturata da Hunter Carmichael, nipote di Jock McKie, nemico giurato dei Murray. Il suo destino sembra segnato, ma ben presto la fanciulla scopre che, a differenza dello zio, Hunter è un uomo d'onore, fidato collaboratore del re. Il loro sembra essere un amore impossibile, poiché una faida sanguinosa divide da molti anni i due clan. Poi, però, lei perde la memoria a causa di una caduta, e tutto improvvisamente cambia.

Genres: Romance, Historical, Historical Romance, Medieval, Fiction

233 pages, ebook

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Carol Suzanne was born on 20 December 1945 in USA, daughter of Phyllis and Whit Hoose. She married Kenneth E. Backus, and obtained four stepchildren.

Published since 1992 as Suzanne Barclay, was an author for Harlequin Historical, specializing in romance set in the Medieval era. She founded the Lake Country Romance Writers in 1993, and served as the chapter's first president. She passed away on 15 September 1999 after a long battle with cancer.

Reviews

[Madison Giorgi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was actually very romantic and had a pretty exciting plot I’m pleasantly surprised

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a boy, Hunter Carmichael saw his Aunt Brenna run away with Alex Murray, but misunderstood the situation, believing she was kidnapped. Since then, Brenna's husband and Hunter's uncle, Jock McKie has waged war against the Murrays and destroyed their numbers. Allisun Murray, her father Alex's heir, is leading the clan against the McKies and gets trapped with Hunter during a raid. He's injured and she's a fugitive, so they hide together in plain sight. Hunter is intrigued by Allisun and wants more from Allisun than the one night she gives him. But Allisun knows they have no future together because of their feuding families. When Allisun is hurt and loses her memory, Hunter sees his opportunity to make himself indispensable to Allisun and to bring her happiness that she hasn't known since before the feud began. But can she forgive his deception?

This starts out as a pretty standard feud romance. There are irreconcilable differences here. Allisun is the reiver who has been making Hunter's uncle's life difficult (and he's getting a very skewed version of events anyway) and the daughter of the man who "kidnapped" his aunt. Hunter is the nephew of her hated enemy and the man who blew the whistle that started all this fighting and destruction. It's a lot to get over. They team up and their truce allows them to build something of a relationship, but it all morphed into love kinda suddenly...especially given how Allisun is still pretty angry. Then there's the whole amnesia thing and Hunter's bit of deception which justifiably pisses off Allisun even more. Now this could have been a much better story if we'd seen Allisun work through her feelings and Hunter grovel and them have a nice reunion. Unfortunately, Allisun runs away from her lying husband and ends up in trouble. She finds out she's pregnant and struggles being away from Hunter, but immediately realizes she'll have to go back to him because of the baby. Then Hunter rescues her and we skip to the epilogue where Hunter is holding his son. We never get to see him grovel or her forgive him. I feel like that was a pretty damn important thing to be skipping over. Instead, we go right past that to see their HEA. I don't know if the author got tired of writing or what, but I really needed to see her forgive him.

[DarkAthena59 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une belle romance qui se lit avec plaisir malgré une fin précipitée et un manque d'approfondissement.

[Linda C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Allisun Murray, head of her clan, seeks vengeance against the McKies, who have killed her family. Hunter Carmichael, nephew by marriage to the chief of the McKies wants to put a stop to the feud. During a confrontation between the clans the 2 get separated from the main activity when a band of thieves attacks both clans. As they are struggling to stay alive they also try to sort out the source of the feud. Another good volume in this medieval series.

[Ricci · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know if it's because I haven't read the other books in this series or what but I thought the story was a little bland and tired. Typical Romeo and Juliet family blood feud. The characters were so so and of course there was a happy ending. Which is what I was expecting out of this book. I normally don't give romance novels a chance but I have been looking for lighter reads to help me relax.

[Lauren Sims · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can't go wrong with Barclay

Very interesting plot. The love story seemed a tad rushed and the subplot didn't entirely make sense, but I enjoyed this!