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The MacLerie Clan #2
Surrender to the Highlander
Torn between honor and desire…
Innocent Margriet Gunnarsdottir carried a heavy secret. She faced a perilous journey to the wild and distant north of Scotland, and her safety lay in her adopted disguise—a nun's habit! But her only protector, a proud, rough-hewn Highlander, made her ache to share her crushing burden.
Rurik Erengislsson had sworn to see her home and unharmed. A woman promised to the service of God should be shielded and honored—not desired! Yet Rurik was tempted beyond reason to make this beautiful waif his own.
Innocent Margriet Gunnarsdottir carried a heavy secret. She faced a perilous journey to the wild and distant north of Scotland, and her safety lay in her adopted disguise—a nun's habit! But her only protector, a proud, rough-hewn Highlander, made her ache to share her crushing burden.
Rurik Erengislsson had sworn to see her home and unharmed. A woman promised to the service of God should be shielded and honored—not desired! Yet Rurik was tempted beyond reason to make this beautiful waif his own.
297 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2008
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Terri Brisbin
213 books548 followersTerri Brisbin is the USA TODAY Bestselling author of more than 50 historical, paranormal and fantasy romances and her books have been released in more than 20 languages and 25 countries around the world since 1998. She's been published by Berkley/Jove, Harlequin, Kensington Books, NAL/Signet, Dragonblade Publishing and Oliver Heber Books. Terri has also self-published her works and will have new books out through 2026!
When not living the glamorous life of a romance author in the southern NJ suburbs, Terri spends her time being a married mom, a grammy and a dental hygienist while plotting and planning future stories and trips to Scotland . For more info (more than you could possibly want or need to know) visit her website – www.terribrisbin.com .
When not living the glamorous life of a romance author in the southern NJ suburbs, Terri spends her time being a married mom, a grammy and a dental hygienist while plotting and planning future stories and trips to Scotland . For more info (more than you could possibly want or need to know) visit her website – www.terribrisbin.com .
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January 24, 2018
El personaje de Rurik en el primer libro me gusto mucho, pero creo que en esta, su historia, donde podia lucirse, la autora no ha estado a la altura 😕 de su propio personaje 😒.
Esperaba mucho mas para el 😍.
Esperaba mucho mas para el 😍.
February 11, 2024
3,5/5
Él, maravilloso. Ella no me terminó de convencer.
Él, maravilloso. Ella no me terminó de convencer.
August 3, 2018
Libro muy cortito y que daba para mas , por los personajes...tambien puede ser que le tuviera ganas a Rurik y me esperara mas...
Una historia correcta pero hubiera dado mucho mas de si...
Una historia correcta pero hubiera dado mucho mas de si...
October 5, 2018
review coming soon
January 26, 2014
Not near as good as the first book. A real let down, I was so excited for Rurick's story but he seemed like a totally different man in this book. And the heroine was kind of a dud.
August 28, 2019
Surrender to a highlander
A really great book , I am loving this series each book I read keeps me on my toes I have read 2 books non stop in 4 days if you haven’t read yet and you love highland love story’s with suspense and mystery then these are a must read !
A really great book , I am loving this series each book I read keeps me on my toes I have read 2 books non stop in 4 days if you haven’t read yet and you love highland love story’s with suspense and mystery then these are a must read !
January 5, 2013
This book was a bit of a surprise for me. I came into with high expectations because I really liked Rurik's character in the previous novel Taming the Highlander and really wanted to read his story. And while this book didn't meet my intial expectations exactly, I was really impressed with the direction it took.
There is a lot more to the plot than the description gives. Without giving it away, there is simply more to the characters and the situations they find themselves in. I found this part to be refreshing and I feel that Terri Brisbin does a good job of mixing lots of plots together in her stories.
The book isn't very steamy despite the fact that the hero is a notorious playboy. I appreciated that because I felt that the two built a relationship that wasn't purely physical. However, I didn't get why Margiet liked Rurik so much, I felt that it was more obvious why he loved her
I also didn't get why Rurik's dialogue changed from the first book. Maybe because they were talking in a different language? I'm not sure. Like a few things in this book, I felt that they were lost in translation (perhaps I just misread a key paragraph?).
Like with the first one, it wasn't the best story I've ever read but it wasn't the worst. I doubt I would ever reread this series but they were a nice way to pass the time.
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There is a lot more to the plot than the description gives. Without giving it away, there is simply more to the characters and the situations they find themselves in. I found this part to be refreshing and I feel that Terri Brisbin does a good job of mixing lots of plots together in her stories.
The book isn't very steamy despite the fact that the hero is a notorious playboy. I appreciated that because I felt that the two built a relationship that wasn't purely physical. However, I didn't get why Margiet liked Rurik so much, I felt that it was more obvious why he loved her
I also didn't get why Rurik's dialogue changed from the first book. Maybe because they were talking in a different language? I'm not sure. Like a few things in this book, I felt that they were lost in translation (perhaps I just misread a key paragraph?).
Like with the first one, it wasn't the best story I've ever read but it wasn't the worst. I doubt I would ever reread this series but they were a nice way to pass the time.
(Want to see if the series is worth reading? Check out my blog:http://seriesousbookreviews.wordpress...)
January 27, 2024
1.75/2 Stars
Why is it when you like a secondary character SO much in one book that once you get their book you're left with nothing but an overwhelming sense of disappointment?
I found this story trying. It wasn't well paced IMO either. I was especially not a fan of the tropes that quickly revealed themselves once the book opens and I really didn't enjoy that the author thought this would be the ideal path to happiness for Rurik.
Rurik was everything I knew he could be but alas it was wasted in this story and on the heroine Margriet.
He was a fierce warrior with a strong and loyal heart. But he had something missing that he had never been able to fill on his own due to what happened in his teens and choosing to leave his home. So, seeing him on the path to reunite with his father and find closure for all the insecurities he held that were a result of his father putting his mother aside and him leaving his home was actually nice. I think he probably needed that before ever feeling content with whatever path he chose in life without that hanging over his head.
As for Margriet, I think she had a lot of potential but it was never utilized properly. For being all of eighteen she had dealt with being sent to the convent at the age of eight rather well all things considered, but because of that it also left her vulnerable and susceptible to being fooled. Which, was obviously what took place prior to the book beginning.
I really wanted to like Margriet more. I liked her more in the beginning but as the story progresses I found myself more annoyed and impatient by her choices. Basically seventy percent of the story, right before they arrived at her father's was all her perpetuating a lie of her being a nun (or her intentions for taking vows) for protection, even though she knew very early on she could trust Rurik and could have admitted to her disguise. However, she did not and it took entirely too long to come out and when it did it wasn't even from Margriet that Rurik found out but her companion Elspeth who had had enough of the disguise and ran off with one of Rurik's men and got married.
That was SUPER frustrating that we waste the entire story with her omitting the truth and dancing around lying outright all while Rurik fought his attraction to her and the shame he felt for desiring a nun, even though for a long while he didn't entirely believe her truthful about wanting to take holy vows.
It was too slow to be of interest. It dragged and dragged and honestly was made all the more boring because hardly anything happened between Margriet and Rurik. Eventually they kiss and there's a few obscure talks once or twice where they both admit they have feelings for one another and that they could have no future and Margriet decides that they've obviously overcome their temptation.
While poor Rurik continued to feel guilty for wanting her and trying to move past his feelings for her. And yes, Rurik admits to the reader he loves her around fifty percent. Which honestly was ridiculous and hard to believe as they'd not been traveling all that long really and both had done their level best not to be alone or give too much away by asking questions or answering important ones. So, tell me how he fell in love because bro I am still confused.
One thing I did appreciate was that despite being young and naive that Margriet was rather more logical and sensible than most heroines are written to be in her situation. Seduced by a passing merchant with the promise of love and marriage, now pregnant and her baby's father still not returned. Margriet wasn't blind to the mistake she made or just how vulnerable she had been living in the convent with no love of her father there to offer warm acceptance and so secluded that she felt deprived of the world. She knew she had been a fool and was very quick to see her situation and her past association with her baby's father through different eyes. I really liked that she didn't stubbornly hold onto the notion of loving her seducer or determination to find him as other books have chosen to do. Yes, she hoped to have a chance to find her baby's father and perhaps learn he hadn't lied to her about asking for her hand in marriage but she also knew it was more than possible as all the signs suggested that she had been a naive needy girl who gave up her virtue to the first young man who offered her love.
As for said baby's father...🙄🙄🙄 I personally did not enjoy being in Finn's POV. He was a disgusting piece of shit and not worthy of being inside his awful brain tbh. Although he was a worthy villain who was intelligent enough to be very wily and hard to defeat...but alas he was defeated rather easily it turns out.
The fact Finn was Rurik's half brother was all the more cliched imo but I could see how it worked for the overall plot, even if I didn't enjoy it.
And tbh I really didn't like that Margriet kept her pregnancy from Rurik for nearly the entire book. I especially didn't like that the author thought Rurik "falling in love" with a woman who had already disgraced herself and was pregnant by another man particularly romantic. Perhaps if Rurik had been anyone else but I wanted more for him and this book and Margriet just wasn't it. The fact the author chose this path for him was very disappointing because it felt as if it was guided by the fact he himself was a bastard son so I guess he would be more accepting of a woman already with child? Who's to say.
The additional knowledge that his mother was the Convent Mother who raised Margriet all these years was a bit ridiculous and wasn't worth mentioning because it didn't add to the story whatsoever.
Overall this book was a disappointment for me. It dragged, it wasn't particularly interesting, there was absolutely no romance at all and nothing to build the characters towards falling love. And the only reason I finished it was because I skimmed quite a bit after the halfway mark.
Why is it when you like a secondary character SO much in one book that once you get their book you're left with nothing but an overwhelming sense of disappointment?
I found this story trying. It wasn't well paced IMO either. I was especially not a fan of the tropes that quickly revealed themselves once the book opens and I really didn't enjoy that the author thought this would be the ideal path to happiness for Rurik.
Rurik was everything I knew he could be but alas it was wasted in this story and on the heroine Margriet.
He was a fierce warrior with a strong and loyal heart. But he had something missing that he had never been able to fill on his own due to what happened in his teens and choosing to leave his home. So, seeing him on the path to reunite with his father and find closure for all the insecurities he held that were a result of his father putting his mother aside and him leaving his home was actually nice. I think he probably needed that before ever feeling content with whatever path he chose in life without that hanging over his head.
As for Margriet, I think she had a lot of potential but it was never utilized properly. For being all of eighteen she had dealt with being sent to the convent at the age of eight rather well all things considered, but because of that it also left her vulnerable and susceptible to being fooled. Which, was obviously what took place prior to the book beginning.
I really wanted to like Margriet more. I liked her more in the beginning but as the story progresses I found myself more annoyed and impatient by her choices. Basically seventy percent of the story, right before they arrived at her father's was all her perpetuating a lie of her being a nun (or her intentions for taking vows) for protection, even though she knew very early on she could trust Rurik and could have admitted to her disguise. However, she did not and it took entirely too long to come out and when it did it wasn't even from Margriet that Rurik found out but her companion Elspeth who had had enough of the disguise and ran off with one of Rurik's men and got married.
That was SUPER frustrating that we waste the entire story with her omitting the truth and dancing around lying outright all while Rurik fought his attraction to her and the shame he felt for desiring a nun, even though for a long while he didn't entirely believe her truthful about wanting to take holy vows.
It was too slow to be of interest. It dragged and dragged and honestly was made all the more boring because hardly anything happened between Margriet and Rurik. Eventually they kiss and there's a few obscure talks once or twice where they both admit they have feelings for one another and that they could have no future and Margriet decides that they've obviously overcome their temptation.
While poor Rurik continued to feel guilty for wanting her and trying to move past his feelings for her. And yes, Rurik admits to the reader he loves her around fifty percent. Which honestly was ridiculous and hard to believe as they'd not been traveling all that long really and both had done their level best not to be alone or give too much away by asking questions or answering important ones. So, tell me how he fell in love because bro I am still confused.
One thing I did appreciate was that despite being young and naive that Margriet was rather more logical and sensible than most heroines are written to be in her situation. Seduced by a passing merchant with the promise of love and marriage, now pregnant and her baby's father still not returned. Margriet wasn't blind to the mistake she made or just how vulnerable she had been living in the convent with no love of her father there to offer warm acceptance and so secluded that she felt deprived of the world. She knew she had been a fool and was very quick to see her situation and her past association with her baby's father through different eyes. I really liked that she didn't stubbornly hold onto the notion of loving her seducer or determination to find him as other books have chosen to do. Yes, she hoped to have a chance to find her baby's father and perhaps learn he hadn't lied to her about asking for her hand in marriage but she also knew it was more than possible as all the signs suggested that she had been a naive needy girl who gave up her virtue to the first young man who offered her love.
As for said baby's father...🙄🙄🙄 I personally did not enjoy being in Finn's POV. He was a disgusting piece of shit and not worthy of being inside his awful brain tbh. Although he was a worthy villain who was intelligent enough to be very wily and hard to defeat...but alas he was defeated rather easily it turns out.
The fact Finn was Rurik's half brother was all the more cliched imo but I could see how it worked for the overall plot, even if I didn't enjoy it.
And tbh I really didn't like that Margriet kept her pregnancy from Rurik for nearly the entire book. I especially didn't like that the author thought Rurik "falling in love" with a woman who had already disgraced herself and was pregnant by another man particularly romantic. Perhaps if Rurik had been anyone else but I wanted more for him and this book and Margriet just wasn't it. The fact the author chose this path for him was very disappointing because it felt as if it was guided by the fact he himself was a bastard son so I guess he would be more accepting of a woman already with child? Who's to say.
The additional knowledge that his mother was the Convent Mother who raised Margriet all these years was a bit ridiculous and wasn't worth mentioning because it didn't add to the story whatsoever.
Overall this book was a disappointment for me. It dragged, it wasn't particularly interesting, there was absolutely no romance at all and nothing to build the characters towards falling love. And the only reason I finished it was because I skimmed quite a bit after the halfway mark.
January 25, 2016
3.5*
não tão ligeiro quanto previa.
com uma sinopse interessante, induz a leitura pagina a pagina.
o facto de haver personagens um pouco sinistros pode dar um incremento maior à história.
Terri Brisbin, com esta saga, leva o leitor a uma parte menos "doce" da realidade destes tempos.
Para quem gosta do tema Medieval, penso que esta seja uma aposta de bom entretenimento.
não tão ligeiro quanto previa.
com uma sinopse interessante, induz a leitura pagina a pagina.
o facto de haver personagens um pouco sinistros pode dar um incremento maior à história.
Terri Brisbin, com esta saga, leva o leitor a uma parte menos "doce" da realidade destes tempos.
Para quem gosta do tema Medieval, penso que esta seja uma aposta de bom entretenimento.
dnf
August 17, 2020This book just didn’t bring me joy. Hero is manwhore and heroine is pretending to be a nun while pregnant to hero’s half brothers baby. Finn seduced her to get back at her dad that she hasn’t seen in ten years.
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July 8, 2015If I read this book, I'll be going into it disappointed because I really really really REALLY wanted Rurik to end up with Nara, the widow from the village.
February 27, 2024
This one was awful. I didn’t like either main character, even though I I loved Rurik in book 1.
October 27, 2021
In the second book of the Clan MacLerie series, Rurik Erengislsson has been living with the MacLerie clan for several years while in exile, but his father, a powerful and wealthy Viking earl, finally summons him home, ready to accept his bastard son as heir. But before he can begin his journey to the Orkney Islands, Rurik must retrieve the daughter of his father’s counselor and escort her home as well.
Margriet Gunnarsdottir has lived in a convent for the past ten years and doesn’t wish to return home. Though she’s not a nun, she doesn’t trust Rurik or the men in his party, so she and her companion pretend to be nuns in order to protect themselves from unwanted advances. As the women journey north with the motley crew of Scottish and Viking warriors, Margriet realizes Rurik is an honorable man, but she continues to wear her nun garb to hide her swelling stomach���and the baby within.
Rurik and Margriet are likable, flawed characters. Love and romance bloomed slowly between them since lies and social status, and then the knowledge of her pregnancy, kept pushing them apart. The only sex scene is in the last chapter of the book, which was surprising.
I like Ms. Brisbin’s use of Scottish words. The description of the Orkneys and the Scottish countryside were beautiful, and the long, sometimes arduous journey north through Scotland seemed realistic. Ms. Brisbin really must’ve done her homework, so kudos for that!
Though I liked the story, I sometimes had a hard time following along due to the head hopping and the use of he/she, instead of names. I also found some of the details a little confusing (for instance, Rurik’s age doesn’t seem to match up to the years he’s been in exile). There are some unanswered questions as well, but none affected the main plot.
Overall, I enjoyed the world building and characters, and I’m sure fans of Viking romances would appreciate this book.
3 Stars
Margriet Gunnarsdottir has lived in a convent for the past ten years and doesn’t wish to return home. Though she’s not a nun, she doesn’t trust Rurik or the men in his party, so she and her companion pretend to be nuns in order to protect themselves from unwanted advances. As the women journey north with the motley crew of Scottish and Viking warriors, Margriet realizes Rurik is an honorable man, but she continues to wear her nun garb to hide her swelling stomach���and the baby within.
Rurik and Margriet are likable, flawed characters. Love and romance bloomed slowly between them since lies and social status, and then the knowledge of her pregnancy, kept pushing them apart. The only sex scene is in the last chapter of the book, which was surprising.
I like Ms. Brisbin’s use of Scottish words. The description of the Orkneys and the Scottish countryside were beautiful, and the long, sometimes arduous journey north through Scotland seemed realistic. Ms. Brisbin really must’ve done her homework, so kudos for that!
Though I liked the story, I sometimes had a hard time following along due to the head hopping and the use of he/she, instead of names. I also found some of the details a little confusing (for instance, Rurik’s age doesn’t seem to match up to the years he’s been in exile). There are some unanswered questions as well, but none affected the main plot.
Overall, I enjoyed the world building and characters, and I’m sure fans of Viking romances would appreciate this book.
3 Stars
January 7, 2024
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 5, 2017
2.5 Stars
I really really really wanted to to love this book. I enjoyed the first book and read the 3rd (originally thought it was the 2nd book when I picked it up, but kept reading after I realized my mistake.), which was good. I was excited about the hero - loved him from the first book - and the description sounded very interesting.
The book was longer than necessary...or it seemed that way since there wasn't a whole to going on. Their travel took forever and hero/heroine inner dialogue was repeated too many times. The relationship between them was super slow to develop and then all of sudden was there...almost from nonexistent to bamm!
The villain was spot on. The author made you hate the man. The hero and heroine were likeable and they had chemistry, but the situation they were in was...odd and when I got to the last 10 pages I found myself thinking, really...that's it? I wanted more from the book and for the hero. I was happy that the hero stuck by his lady and accepted her in all ways, that was extremely sweet - I cheered him on.
All in all, it was a good book. The elements for historical romance were there and if I hasn't read the first book I probably would've liked the second more since I wouldn't have come in with certain expectations and wouldn't have felt disappointed.
I really really really wanted to to love this book. I enjoyed the first book and read the 3rd (originally thought it was the 2nd book when I picked it up, but kept reading after I realized my mistake.), which was good. I was excited about the hero - loved him from the first book - and the description sounded very interesting.
The book was longer than necessary...or it seemed that way since there wasn't a whole to going on. Their travel took forever and hero/heroine inner dialogue was repeated too many times. The relationship between them was super slow to develop and then all of sudden was there...almost from nonexistent to bamm!
The villain was spot on. The author made you hate the man. The hero and heroine were likeable and they had chemistry, but the situation they were in was...odd and when I got to the last 10 pages I found myself thinking, really...that's it? I wanted more from the book and for the hero. I was happy that the hero stuck by his lady and accepted her in all ways, that was extremely sweet - I cheered him on.
All in all, it was a good book. The elements for historical romance were there and if I hasn't read the first book I probably would've liked the second more since I wouldn't have come in with certain expectations and wouldn't have felt disappointed.
March 6, 2024
Seeing that the premise was about a woman disguising as a nun (which happened to be one of my favourite tropes in HR), I immediately had high expectations. I’m also a sucker for a good ‘ol hunk of a Scot Highlander hero so I saw this book as an absolute win.
Just about halfway though, sadly I couldn’t bring myself to continue as the hero was such a manwhore, which was a huge letdown for me. His POV brought up a lot of women from his past which kinda killed the vibe a bit. How can you suddenly fall in love with love with a nun on the first sight when you had slept with many others in the past? Plus I wanted him to stay loyal to Nara because she sounded lovely! The fact he didn’t wait around for her and dallied with others during their separation ruined every romantic notion I had for the hero at first.
Just about halfway though, sadly I couldn’t bring myself to continue as the hero was such a manwhore, which was a huge letdown for me. His POV brought up a lot of women from his past which kinda killed the vibe a bit. How can you suddenly fall in love with love with a nun on the first sight when you had slept with many others in the past? Plus I wanted him to stay loyal to Nara because she sounded lovely! The fact he didn’t wait around for her and dallied with others during their separation ruined every romantic notion I had for the hero at first.
May 16, 2024
DNF @ 53%
I feel bad as I normally like this author... but I was so *booored* reading this one. Nothing is happening, it's just this interminable journey to Orkney. She looks at him, he looks at her... could it be? But no. They look again... is this a feeling? But no... she jumps in a river, naughty that... they kiss... but it cannot be... everybody gets the shits, so more delays... she loves another man, she's pregnant by another man, she's not actually said four words to the hero... some vague feeling of maybe... but no, it cannot be. YAWN.
I just feel like nothing is building here, certainly nothing is hapening it's just lots of looking and internal thoughts churning over again and again. And she has too much on with another bloke who exists almost completely off the page.
Sorry book - I'm quitting before I start getting pissed off.
I feel bad as I normally like this author... but I was so *booored* reading this one. Nothing is happening, it's just this interminable journey to Orkney. She looks at him, he looks at her... could it be? But no. They look again... is this a feeling? But no... she jumps in a river, naughty that... they kiss... but it cannot be... everybody gets the shits, so more delays... she loves another man, she's pregnant by another man, she's not actually said four words to the hero... some vague feeling of maybe... but no, it cannot be. YAWN.
I just feel like nothing is building here, certainly nothing is hapening it's just lots of looking and internal thoughts churning over again and again. And she has too much on with another bloke who exists almost completely off the page.
Sorry book - I'm quitting before I start getting pissed off.
May 19, 2018
Rurik ya me cayó muy bien en el libro anterior, pero en este me ha terminado de encantar.
Entiendo que Margriet se quiera disfrazar de monja por varias razones, por protección ante tanto hombre y para proteger un secreto.
Elspeth y Sven se nota desde un principio que tienen algo especial.
La verdad es que tienen momentos muy graciosos, como la "caida" en el río de Margriet.
Rurik intenta ante todo no dejarse llevar por sus instintos y sus sentimientos por Margriet. Cuando termina cediendo en un principio de manera erronea al final lo arregla.
Thorfinn es un hijo de la grandísima..., Dios, no me ha podido caer peor.
Entiendo que Margriet se quiera disfrazar de monja por varias razones, por protección ante tanto hombre y para proteger un secreto.
Elspeth y Sven se nota desde un principio que tienen algo especial.
La verdad es que tienen momentos muy graciosos, como la "caida" en el río de Margriet.
Rurik intenta ante todo no dejarse llevar por sus instintos y sus sentimientos por Margriet. Cuando termina cediendo en un principio de manera erronea al final lo arregla.
Thorfinn es un hijo de la grandísima..., Dios, no me ha podido caer peor.
August 8, 2021
Il mio giudizio globale è decisamente più che positivo: scorrevole, commovente, romantico e passionale.
Il lettore è immediatamente a conoscenza dei pensieri e i segreti di Margriet, al contrario di Rurik che scoprirà tutto quasi alla fine (ma siamo a conoscenza anche dei suoi pensieri soprattutto quando si sente in colpa per i pensieri impuri che prova per la protagonista femminile).
Anche il "cattivo" è palese dopo alcune pagine ma la fine che si merita non sarà per mano del protagonista.
Non vi nascondo che mi sono perfino commossa. Davvero una bella lettura che vi consiglio.
Il lettore è immediatamente a conoscenza dei pensieri e i segreti di Margriet, al contrario di Rurik che scoprirà tutto quasi alla fine (ma siamo a conoscenza anche dei suoi pensieri soprattutto quando si sente in colpa per i pensieri impuri che prova per la protagonista femminile).
Anche il "cattivo" è palese dopo alcune pagine ma la fine che si merita non sarà per mano del protagonista.
Non vi nascondo che mi sono perfino commossa. Davvero una bella lettura che vi consiglio.
February 10, 2021
I was disappointed..love finn and become pregnant ...
On the road fall in love with rurik..well i dont buy it..
Suppose finn was nt villain..
And how can it be sure she wont fall in love again with another man..
By god this always happen when authors tried to make long series..
Hero desire or love cousin or brother wife..
I never like Margriet..
Even though rurik was woman lover ..i wish his story was different..
Have read and hate it..
On the road fall in love with rurik..well i dont buy it..
Suppose finn was nt villain..
And how can it be sure she wont fall in love again with another man..
By god this always happen when authors tried to make long series..
Hero desire or love cousin or brother wife..
I never like Margriet..
Even though rurik was woman lover ..i wish his story was different..
Have read and hate it..
April 4, 2022
I absolutely loved this story!!!!! This was a slow burn of a romance with all the excitement in probably the last 20 percent of the book and all of Thorfinn's intentions coming to light. And there was definitely a twist or two I never saw coming. But Margriet was a great heroine with a lot of sasss and gumption and Rurik was...well Rurik. I fell in love with him in Connor and Jocelyn's book and his honor and love for Margriet is absolutely amazing toward the end.
September 17, 2017
Rurik es único
March 17, 2018
Great....loved it!
April 27, 2019
Noioso...uno dei pochi della brisbin che non mi è piaciuto
June 15, 2022
Couldn't get into it. Skip because not a fan of the heroine being a tool of revenge for ANOTHER character. Nah.
March 24, 2015
The second book in Terri Brisbin’s The MacLerie Clan has turned out to be just as captivating and heartwarming as the first book. I fell in love with the heroine of this story because she was smart, brave and bold in a time where women had few rights and fewer choices in life.
Rurik Erengislsson has lived the last 13 years in the Highlands of Scotland serving the MacLerie clan but his father has summoned him home to the Orkney Islands to his rightful place as one of his heirs. On his way there, he must pick up the daughter of his father’s counselor from a convent where she has lived since her exile ten years ago when she was just eight years old. From her father’s letter, he thinks he is picking up a young girl but when he gets there, he realizes she is a full grown woman.
Margriet Gunnarsdottir has been ordered back to live with her father. He sends a group of warriors led by to travel with her on the long journey home. Because she fears for her safety, she grabs the laundry girl and they both don nun habits and pretend to be nuns for the journey with the men.
Margriet also has a secret she is hiding from everyone. She thought she was in love with a rich merchant who claimed to love her and said he wanted to marry her so she gave him her virtue and now she is pregnant. He told her his name was Finn and that he was from her home town. She hopes when she gets there, to find him so they can be married but in her heart she knows something is wrong with his story.
I laughed at one scene where Margriet has second thoughts about wearing the habit once she has to travel in the hot sun and is sweating under all the layers and the wimple. She and the other girl go down to the river and act like they accidently fall in to get cool. They laughed as they struggled to get out and kept falling back in. It was pretty obvious to Rurik that she planned it when he saw her pick up her shoes after getting out so he knew that she had taken her shoes off prior to the accidental slip into the water.
Rurik’s father is the Earl of Orkney’s but he hasn’t told Margriet his surname. He is bastard born. He has a younger half-brother named Thorfinn who is actually Margriet’s Finn but she has no idea. Thorfinn is evil and cruel. He is out to ruin Margriet’s father because he is the one who suggested to his father that Rurik come back into his father’s household so he met and seduced Margriet on purpose. He has something planned but we don’t know exactly what it is.
On the journey, Margriet and Rurik start falling for each other. Rurik is mad at himself for liking a nun but and Margriet has her secrets so they both can’t act on their feelings. It’s sad because Margriet thinks even if she wasn’t pregnant that her father would never allow a marriage between them because she thinks Rurik is not of noble blood but in actuality, it is Margriet who wouldn’t be qualified to be Rurik’s wife because he is an earl’s son.
I was so into the book that I read through the night. I finally had to put it down when the words became too blurry to decipher because I was so tired. I finished it when I woke up. Now, I’m getting reading to dive into the next book.
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October 25, 2020
Simplemente nunca me atrapó la historia de amor de los protagonistas, Rurik no me sedujo como lo hace con cada mujer que se cruza por su camino y Margriet nada más no me cautivaba. Todas estas tienen un secreto que nuestros protagonistas van a descubrir y este para mí es el peor construido y el más cliché
January 14, 2015
La verdad es que después del primero le tenía muchas ansias a este libro por el protagonista masculino, me había llamado la atención y la expectativa de la historia que tenía en mente me emocionaba hasta que me tope con la realidad.
No voy a negar que la portada me encanta igual que la anterior, simplemente la adoro pero eso no hace que la historia sea de lo mejor. En un principio todo iba.... normal, o casi, no me engancho ni nada parecido, de hecho, en algún momento Margriet me pareció molesta, en cerio, al parecer le importaba más ella misma que los sentimientos de los demás, es decir, me pareció egoísta. Ok, entiendo la vida que llevo y hasta lo que quiere ocultar pero ella se pasaba hasta ser molesta e ingenua (a pesar de ser egoísta de ciertas formas).
Por otro lado Rurik, casi ame a este personaje en el primer libro y en este me decepciono, no me gusto la forma de actuar, no fue el Rurik que se mostró antes, se que aquí se debe conoce mejor y se descubren cosas pero igual me pareció ... que falto más a este personaje y a la historia entre él y Margriet, fue un romance que me dejo mucho que desear en todos los sentidos.
Ahora iré con los personaje secundarios y los misterios, las cosas buenas que encontré en el libro (demasiado lejos de los protagonistas), me gusto el segundo romance que se da durnte la novela, de hecho me fascino como toman rumbo entre estos personajes a pesar de que el egoísmo de Margriet que estuvo presente hasta ahí, y así diga que lo que hacía era por el bien de los demás... ni yo me lo creí. El misterio de la historia que ronda a ambos protagonistas fue interesante, no me impresiono pero lo suficientemente bueno y me gusto como quedo Margriet ante todo eso, si me sentí algo mal por su ingenuidad pero ni modo, eso hizo todo más interesante en las últimas páginas.
No voy a negar que la portada me encanta igual que la anterior, simplemente la adoro pero eso no hace que la historia sea de lo mejor. En un principio todo iba.... normal, o casi, no me engancho ni nada parecido, de hecho, en algún momento Margriet me pareció molesta, en cerio, al parecer le importaba más ella misma que los sentimientos de los demás, es decir, me pareció egoísta. Ok, entiendo la vida que llevo y hasta lo que quiere ocultar pero ella se pasaba hasta ser molesta e ingenua (a pesar de ser egoísta de ciertas formas).
Por otro lado Rurik, casi ame a este personaje en el primer libro y en este me decepciono, no me gusto la forma de actuar, no fue el Rurik que se mostró antes, se que aquí se debe conoce mejor y se descubren cosas pero igual me pareció ... que falto más a este personaje y a la historia entre él y Margriet, fue un romance que me dejo mucho que desear en todos los sentidos.
Ahora iré con los personaje secundarios y los misterios, las cosas buenas que encontré en el libro (demasiado lejos de los protagonistas), me gusto el segundo romance que se da durnte la novela, de hecho me fascino como toman rumbo entre estos personajes a pesar de que el egoísmo de Margriet que estuvo presente hasta ahí, y así diga que lo que hacía era por el bien de los demás... ni yo me lo creí. El misterio de la historia que ronda a ambos protagonistas fue interesante, no me impresiono pero lo suficientemente bueno y me gusto como quedo Margriet ante todo eso, si me sentí algo mal por su ingenuidad pero ni modo, eso hizo todo más interesante en las últimas páginas.
August 18, 2015
I found Surrender to the Highlander a good read.
The hero of this story is Rurik, whom we met in Terri Brisbin's novel Taming the Highlander. Rurik is a huge man who loves and excels in two things in life, fighting and loving women. He is such a horn dog, but have to say as a reader, a loveable one. He is not a love them and leave them type of guy, no our guy plays with women who know the score, no virgins or wide eyed innocents, and believe me they line up to be next to play that mombo jumbo game. Now let's get one thing straight, there are no graphic sexual dialog in this story, this is just a background of our hero.
Our Heroine is the innocent Margriet Gunnarsdottir. Having lived several years in a convent, Margriet, carrying a heavy secret faces a perilous journey to the wild and distant north of Scotland to go home and join her father. Her secret and her safety lays in her adopted disguise. Donning a nun's habit. Her only protector is Rurik who has sworn to see her home and unharmed.
As Margriet would love to share her crushing burden and tell Rurik her secret, Rurik has deamons of his own, being finally excepted by his father and being tempted beyond reason knowing he should not be lusting after a woman promised to serve God, she should be shielded and honored not desired.Yet Rurik was tempted beyond reason to make this beautiful waif his own.
Sensual rating I would give a 4, having said that there are moments of passion that will satisfy most romance readers. I really enjoy Terri Brisbin's Surrender to the Highlander and would recommend it for a delightful read.
The hero of this story is Rurik, whom we met in Terri Brisbin's novel Taming the Highlander. Rurik is a huge man who loves and excels in two things in life, fighting and loving women. He is such a horn dog, but have to say as a reader, a loveable one. He is not a love them and leave them type of guy, no our guy plays with women who know the score, no virgins or wide eyed innocents, and believe me they line up to be next to play that mombo jumbo game. Now let's get one thing straight, there are no graphic sexual dialog in this story, this is just a background of our hero.
Our Heroine is the innocent Margriet Gunnarsdottir. Having lived several years in a convent, Margriet, carrying a heavy secret faces a perilous journey to the wild and distant north of Scotland to go home and join her father. Her secret and her safety lays in her adopted disguise. Donning a nun's habit. Her only protector is Rurik who has sworn to see her home and unharmed.
As Margriet would love to share her crushing burden and tell Rurik her secret, Rurik has deamons of his own, being finally excepted by his father and being tempted beyond reason knowing he should not be lusting after a woman promised to serve God, she should be shielded and honored not desired.Yet Rurik was tempted beyond reason to make this beautiful waif his own.
Sensual rating I would give a 4, having said that there are moments of passion that will satisfy most romance readers. I really enjoy Terri Brisbin's Surrender to the Highlander and would recommend it for a delightful read.
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