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Defy The Eagle
Cadaric, a leader in the fight to overthrow the Roman rulers of Britain, finds himself falling in love with Jilana, the daughter of an enemy merchant
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First published July 1, 1986
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December 12, 2025
Who wants their soul be laid to waste?
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*:･ﾟ➺ The story starts around four months before that line. It lasts around a year in total.
*:･ﾟ➺ Epilogue, 15 years later.
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🕮⋆˚࿔✎𓂃 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
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⋆˙⟡ In fact, Paulinus would see him crucified in the same manner in which Pilate had dealt with that Jewish upstart sixty years earlier.
*:･ﾟ➺ The story starts around four months before that line. It lasts around a year in total.
*:･ﾟ➺ Epilogue, 15 years later.
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June 1, 2016
It’s not an erotic novel per se, but if you have a bit of a thing for capture/slave fantasies and enjoy historicals, I think it’s highly likely that you’ll like this book.
Defy the Eagle wasn’t the first romance I ever read but it’s most definitely the one that’s stuck in my head over the years and set the standard for all that have followed. Highly implausible plot? Check. Uber Alpha hero bordering on total wanker? Check. Cover art embarrassing enough in execution to make me hide behind a crate of avocados in order to read it (more on that later)? Check.
The official synopsis from the 2006 edition:
62AD
And Britannia is at war…
Queen Boadicea and her fearless Iceni troops face the disciplined Roman Empire and her sworn enemy Emperor Nero in their fight for freedom. The battle begins in the town of Venta Icenorum, where the beautiful and rebellious Jilana waits to be married and fulfil her duties as an honourable Roman wife and daughter.
Everything changes when Jilana meets Caddaric, an Iceni warrior, who takes her as his slave. Separated by their blood allegiances but brought together through their mutual desire, Jilana and Caddaric are unwittingly caught in a battle of their own.
As Boadicea’s army rages through Londinium and finally on towards Rome, politics and passion collide as Jilana and Caddaric race to stay together and survive the ever increasing threat of the Roman army.
My 14-year-old self stumbled across this doorstop of a novel whilst staying with my dad during the summer holidays. He was renting a furnished flat at the time and Defy the Eagle was languishing on a bookshelf, hidden amidst a seemingly endless row of The Reader’s Digest. Unable to stomach the latter (pun intended), I did what any self-respecting adolescent girl would do: I grabbed the book with the cover that featured a red-haired woman in a ‘toga’ – read: pink mini dress that wouldn’t have been out of place in an Ann Summers catalogue – languishing in the arms of a guy whose stomach appeared to be stuffed with paint rollers. (Interestingly, he also seemed to have had a run-in with a vat of St Tropez, although, I’ll hazard that as advanced as the Romans were, they hadn’t discovered the joys of fake tan.)
The plot centres around the heroine, Jilana, a high-bred Roman lady trashing it up in the wilds of Albion (England) and her subsequent enslavement to Caddaric, an Iceni warrior under the rule of Queen Boadicea. When Caddaric and Jilana first encounter one another, the latter has no idea that Caddaric is not Roman, but in the first few chapters of Defy the Eagle an Iceni uprising takes place in Jilana’s home town of Venta Icenorum and she soon discovers that not only is Caddaric other than who she thinks he is, a centurion of the auxiliary, but the person most likely responsible for killing her immediate her family.
In the aftermath of Venta Icenorum’s destruction, Jilana is devastated by the loss of her mother, father, sister and fiancé and begs Caddaric to kill her. But despite his hatred of Rome and her people, he refuses and instead takes her captive, forcing her to march with the Iceni war band as they move to confront Nero’s army, who are under the leadership of General Paulinus.
As a people, the Iceni are hell bent on rape, pillage and ousting the hated Romans from Albion once and for all, but Caddaric in particular has a very large axe to grind. His mother and sisters were slaughtered by Claudius, his father made a slave to General Aulus Plautus, and he himself taken and forced to serve as part of the legion. Consequently (and understandably), he hates Rome with a passion. But Jilana is somehow different to her countrymen and he cannot bring himself to end her life – in part because his feelings are clouded by the dreams he has had about her prior to their first meeting. Caddaric is unsure what his dreams mean but, despite being the equivalent of a modern day atheist, he is unable to completely discount them as superfluous – mainly because he is influenced more than he wants to be by his father, Clywd, a Druid priest.
‘For what seemed an eternity Caddaric gazed at the delicate face so close to his own. Fascinated, he watched the point in Jilana’s throat where her pulse beat, even while he steeled his arm to drive the dagger into her heart. Caddaric was no stranger to death, yet he found his hand refused to obey his commands when it came to this woman. She was his enemy; she had sworn vengeance against him—and she was his destiny. No matter what his soldier’s instinct told him, Caddaric could not kill Jilana. With a snort of disgust over his own weakness, Caddaric sheathed his dagger …’
Defy the Eagle unfolds over a whopping 600+ pages and the reader is taken on a hugely eventful journey filled with war, human sacrifice, Druidism, burned wheat cakes, and the tying up and shackling of the heroine. (At one point, she is even tethered to a cart as punishment for a transgression; the cornerstone of any capture fantasy, obviously.) The detail in this book makes it virtually impossible to summarise the plot in just a few paragraphs – there are so many threads in play – but suffice to say the pace is relentless. The level of detail is superb and Lynn Bartlett paints an amazingly vivid picture of Roman Britain. I’m in no way an expert on this period of history so can’t claim to know whether her depiction of the era is 100% accurate but, regardless, her descriptions of cooking utensils, Roman bathhouses, saddles, food – you name it – are incredibly captivating. And the textural detail doesn’t detract in any way from the storyline. The tension between Jilana and Caddaric is first-rate and doesn’t let up; it’s a love-hate relationship with a master and slave dynamic at its core and the pair don’t easily come to terms with one another.
‘Her arms were pulled behind her back and her wrists bound by the same length of rope which tied her ankles. In the space of a few minutes, Jilana was trussed in a manner that left her immobile. Even as Caddaric rose, Jilana could feel the strain in her muscles and joints as she was arched backwards over the rope.
Caddaric tested the knots at her wrists, ankles and the small of her back and then, satisfied, he unfolded a blanket and tossed it over Jilana. She had to strain in order to turn far enough over her shoulder to see him, and when she did he smiled mockingly. ‘Wait for me, Jilana.’
With those sarcastic words he was gone and Jilana was alone in the dark tent. Wait for me. Jilana laughed a trifle wildly. As if she could do anything else.’
You can definitely tell this book was written in the 1980s – it was first published in ‘86 – but the story is engaging enough to carry the book more than twenty-five years later. There are some weak points, such as the wildly excessive use of the word ‘’Twas’ (we get that it’s a historical, okay?), the morally dubious sex scenes in the first half of the book, and the meandering and somewhat unbelievable conclusion but, on the whole, it’s one of those stories you just can’t put down once you start. I had a summer job grading avocados and Defy the Eagle was compelling enough to make me hide behind a crate of them during tea breaks to read it (there was no way I could work up the courage to display the train-wreck of a cover in mixed company).
Some stand-out secondary characters come to mind: the psychotic Druid priest – not Caddaric’s father – who spends the majority of his time sacrificing Romans, and a primipilus named Hadrian who dreams of having a horse farm. (I remember his occupation causing me a great deal of consternation upon my first reading: wasn’t he supposed to be building a wall?)
So, to summarise: heroine wears a dodgy toga (on the original cover, at least), burns wheat cakes, and is subject to pseudo-BDSM bondage and shackling. Hero is a barbaric Iceni dragging aforementioned enslaved heroine on a war campaign across Roman Britain.
Two words: bloody awesome. And just in case you think I'm remotely exaggerating re. the original cover, here it is:
http://bit.ly/MOfDac
St Tropez, paint roller city. (And the cover model seems to bear a disturbing resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger, too ...)
Defy the Eagle wasn’t the first romance I ever read but it’s most definitely the one that’s stuck in my head over the years and set the standard for all that have followed. Highly implausible plot? Check. Uber Alpha hero bordering on total wanker? Check. Cover art embarrassing enough in execution to make me hide behind a crate of avocados in order to read it (more on that later)? Check.
The official synopsis from the 2006 edition:
62AD
And Britannia is at war…
Queen Boadicea and her fearless Iceni troops face the disciplined Roman Empire and her sworn enemy Emperor Nero in their fight for freedom. The battle begins in the town of Venta Icenorum, where the beautiful and rebellious Jilana waits to be married and fulfil her duties as an honourable Roman wife and daughter.
Everything changes when Jilana meets Caddaric, an Iceni warrior, who takes her as his slave. Separated by their blood allegiances but brought together through their mutual desire, Jilana and Caddaric are unwittingly caught in a battle of their own.
As Boadicea’s army rages through Londinium and finally on towards Rome, politics and passion collide as Jilana and Caddaric race to stay together and survive the ever increasing threat of the Roman army.
My 14-year-old self stumbled across this doorstop of a novel whilst staying with my dad during the summer holidays. He was renting a furnished flat at the time and Defy the Eagle was languishing on a bookshelf, hidden amidst a seemingly endless row of The Reader’s Digest. Unable to stomach the latter (pun intended), I did what any self-respecting adolescent girl would do: I grabbed the book with the cover that featured a red-haired woman in a ‘toga’ – read: pink mini dress that wouldn’t have been out of place in an Ann Summers catalogue – languishing in the arms of a guy whose stomach appeared to be stuffed with paint rollers. (Interestingly, he also seemed to have had a run-in with a vat of St Tropez, although, I’ll hazard that as advanced as the Romans were, they hadn’t discovered the joys of fake tan.)
The plot centres around the heroine, Jilana, a high-bred Roman lady trashing it up in the wilds of Albion (England) and her subsequent enslavement to Caddaric, an Iceni warrior under the rule of Queen Boadicea. When Caddaric and Jilana first encounter one another, the latter has no idea that Caddaric is not Roman, but in the first few chapters of Defy the Eagle an Iceni uprising takes place in Jilana’s home town of Venta Icenorum and she soon discovers that not only is Caddaric other than who she thinks he is, a centurion of the auxiliary, but the person most likely responsible for killing her immediate her family.
In the aftermath of Venta Icenorum’s destruction, Jilana is devastated by the loss of her mother, father, sister and fiancé and begs Caddaric to kill her. But despite his hatred of Rome and her people, he refuses and instead takes her captive, forcing her to march with the Iceni war band as they move to confront Nero’s army, who are under the leadership of General Paulinus.
As a people, the Iceni are hell bent on rape, pillage and ousting the hated Romans from Albion once and for all, but Caddaric in particular has a very large axe to grind. His mother and sisters were slaughtered by Claudius, his father made a slave to General Aulus Plautus, and he himself taken and forced to serve as part of the legion. Consequently (and understandably), he hates Rome with a passion. But Jilana is somehow different to her countrymen and he cannot bring himself to end her life – in part because his feelings are clouded by the dreams he has had about her prior to their first meeting. Caddaric is unsure what his dreams mean but, despite being the equivalent of a modern day atheist, he is unable to completely discount them as superfluous – mainly because he is influenced more than he wants to be by his father, Clywd, a Druid priest.
‘For what seemed an eternity Caddaric gazed at the delicate face so close to his own. Fascinated, he watched the point in Jilana’s throat where her pulse beat, even while he steeled his arm to drive the dagger into her heart. Caddaric was no stranger to death, yet he found his hand refused to obey his commands when it came to this woman. She was his enemy; she had sworn vengeance against him—and she was his destiny. No matter what his soldier’s instinct told him, Caddaric could not kill Jilana. With a snort of disgust over his own weakness, Caddaric sheathed his dagger …’
Defy the Eagle unfolds over a whopping 600+ pages and the reader is taken on a hugely eventful journey filled with war, human sacrifice, Druidism, burned wheat cakes, and the tying up and shackling of the heroine. (At one point, she is even tethered to a cart as punishment for a transgression; the cornerstone of any capture fantasy, obviously.) The detail in this book makes it virtually impossible to summarise the plot in just a few paragraphs – there are so many threads in play – but suffice to say the pace is relentless. The level of detail is superb and Lynn Bartlett paints an amazingly vivid picture of Roman Britain. I’m in no way an expert on this period of history so can’t claim to know whether her depiction of the era is 100% accurate but, regardless, her descriptions of cooking utensils, Roman bathhouses, saddles, food – you name it – are incredibly captivating. And the textural detail doesn’t detract in any way from the storyline. The tension between Jilana and Caddaric is first-rate and doesn’t let up; it’s a love-hate relationship with a master and slave dynamic at its core and the pair don’t easily come to terms with one another.
‘Her arms were pulled behind her back and her wrists bound by the same length of rope which tied her ankles. In the space of a few minutes, Jilana was trussed in a manner that left her immobile. Even as Caddaric rose, Jilana could feel the strain in her muscles and joints as she was arched backwards over the rope.
Caddaric tested the knots at her wrists, ankles and the small of her back and then, satisfied, he unfolded a blanket and tossed it over Jilana. She had to strain in order to turn far enough over her shoulder to see him, and when she did he smiled mockingly. ‘Wait for me, Jilana.’
With those sarcastic words he was gone and Jilana was alone in the dark tent. Wait for me. Jilana laughed a trifle wildly. As if she could do anything else.’
You can definitely tell this book was written in the 1980s – it was first published in ‘86 – but the story is engaging enough to carry the book more than twenty-five years later. There are some weak points, such as the wildly excessive use of the word ‘’Twas’ (we get that it’s a historical, okay?), the morally dubious sex scenes in the first half of the book, and the meandering and somewhat unbelievable conclusion but, on the whole, it’s one of those stories you just can’t put down once you start. I had a summer job grading avocados and Defy the Eagle was compelling enough to make me hide behind a crate of them during tea breaks to read it (there was no way I could work up the courage to display the train-wreck of a cover in mixed company).
Some stand-out secondary characters come to mind: the psychotic Druid priest – not Caddaric’s father – who spends the majority of his time sacrificing Romans, and a primipilus named Hadrian who dreams of having a horse farm. (I remember his occupation causing me a great deal of consternation upon my first reading: wasn’t he supposed to be building a wall?)
So, to summarise: heroine wears a dodgy toga (on the original cover, at least), burns wheat cakes, and is subject to pseudo-BDSM bondage and shackling. Hero is a barbaric Iceni dragging aforementioned enslaved heroine on a war campaign across Roman Britain.
Two words: bloody awesome. And just in case you think I'm remotely exaggerating re. the original cover, here it is:
http://bit.ly/MOfDac
St Tropez, paint roller city. (And the cover model seems to bear a disturbing resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger, too ...)
February 1, 2025
Meh. Hero Caddaric was a total asshole & dumber than a box of rocks; heroine Jilana was decent enough & deserved better. The setting was ripe for a good tale, but the plot felt secondary to endless to’ing + fro’ing filler. Mix that with the hero’s monumental idiocy & you get 🦨. Believe me when I say that literally every other character was more interesting and/or intelligent than Caddaric the Meathead.
…No, really. EVERY OTHER CHARACTER.
1.5 stars, rounded up for frenemy Artair (who was hot & awesome & should’ve been the hero 🫠) & Ede, the OW who also deserved better (& found it). I wanted to DNF midway, but persevered in hopes it would improve with time.
(Spoiler alert: it didn’t. 🙄)
NB: if you’re into the Celtic/Roman clash as a romantic backdrop, I recommend HEARTS ENSLAVED by Judith Hill—the cover is awful, but it’s vastly superior in all other respects.
…No, really. EVERY OTHER CHARACTER.
1.5 stars, rounded up for frenemy Artair (who was hot & awesome & should’ve been the hero 🫠) & Ede, the OW who also deserved better (& found it). I wanted to DNF midway, but persevered in hopes it would improve with time.
(Spoiler alert: it didn’t. 🙄)
NB: if you’re into the Celtic/Roman clash as a romantic backdrop, I recommend HEARTS ENSLAVED by Judith Hill—the cover is awful, but it’s vastly superior in all other respects.
July 1, 2012
I actually cried at the ending...I love a book that can move me so emotionally.
September 28, 2012
I was searching for a book with a similiar plot and one poster in the After reading "Courtly Love" which I enjoyed a lot I decided to read more by this author and started "Defy The Eagle". I love the Roman history and the time period has always intrigued me since it's not a tipical setting I've often chance upon in my reading.
The story is really captivating and the historical research well done. I forgot what happened to the Iceni Queen Boadicea and so I was hoping with the Iceni to win the war against the Romans.I've loved all about this book.
I spoiled myself before the read who Heall really was so that I knew what a major turn would have happened but this didn't ruin anything. At the end when Jilana and Caddaric met before her leave to Rome I cried and when Hadrian gave Jilana his gift I remembered what Clwyd once said to his son and knew what Jilana'd have done next.
I really recommend this book. A great romance and an accurate descriptions of the events and customs of people of the past.
The story is really captivating and the historical research well done. I forgot what happened to the Iceni Queen Boadicea and so I was hoping with the Iceni to win the war against the Romans.I've loved all about this book.
I spoiled myself before the read who Heall really was so that I knew what a major turn would have happened but this didn't ruin anything. At the end when Jilana and Caddaric met before her leave to Rome I cried and when Hadrian gave Jilana his gift I remembered what Clwyd once said to his son and knew what Jilana'd have done next.
I really recommend this book. A great romance and an accurate descriptions of the events and customs of people of the past.
August 21, 2021
Esse é um livro que eu estava há anos querendo ler, mas que nunca achava pra comprar. Até que uma amiga me deu o exemplar dela e eu pude finalmente mergulhar em um período histórico fascinante!
A história se passa durante a revolta da Boudica, a rainha celta que liderou uma rebelião e fez o Império Romano pisar em ovos por alguns meses. Esse é pano de fundo de Domínio dos Deuses, da Lynn Bartlett, muito recomendado por várias amigas, em especial à Thais Grazziano que me deu um super incentivo pra pegar logo e finalmente matar a vontade de ler essa história.
A trama é sobre o conturbado romance entre Lívia, uma romana nascida na Bretanha do século I d.C, que acaba conhecendo Cedric, um guerreiro bretão que já havia servido como legionário, portanto entendia muito bem como funcionavam as táticas e estratégias do Império dos Césares. Não havia como eles não se apaixonarem, mas a guerra colocou tantos obstáculos que também não tinha como não se odiarem, especialmente após a humilhação sofrida por Boudica, que foi o start para toda a revolta.
Livia sempre teve uma afeição grande pelos icenes, e ficou muito mexida com o açoitamento em praça pública da rainha celta, tanto que foi contra os desejos de sua família e de seu noivo e foi socorrer a rainha quando ela mais precisou. Mas o que ela não imaginava era que esse episódio mudaria sua vida por completo.
Pouco tempo após a crueldade feita com a Boudica sob as ordens de um magistrado romano, os icenes tomam Venta Icenorum e fazem um verdadeiro massacre com o povo romano que vivia ali. Lívia é uma das poucas sobreviventes, que foi poupada a mando da rainha como uma recompensa por ter tido compaixão e a ajudado, mas isso não impediu que ela se tornasse escrava de Cedric, e aí, meus amigos, funhanhou tudo.
Um bárbaro turrão com uma romana voluntariosa que se vê numa posição de muita desvantagem, regados ao ódio entre os povos e às perdas causada pela guerra. Não teria como não ter muito sofrimento pra ambos, não é mesmo?
Mas enfim, a história foi incrível e me fez sentir estar lá, ao lado de Lívia, vivenciando o momento de grandeza de uma das minhas rainhas favoritas da vida, e entendendo melhor como tudo aconteceu, já que a pesquisa histórica também foi incrível.
Recomendo muito pra quem curte um bom romance com um pano de fundo histórico super bem estruturado e fiel à sua época. O único problema é encontrar o livro pra comprar, já que ele só se acha em sebo mesmo e é bem raro de ser encontrado.
A história se passa durante a revolta da Boudica, a rainha celta que liderou uma rebelião e fez o Império Romano pisar em ovos por alguns meses. Esse é pano de fundo de Domínio dos Deuses, da Lynn Bartlett, muito recomendado por várias amigas, em especial à Thais Grazziano que me deu um super incentivo pra pegar logo e finalmente matar a vontade de ler essa história.
A trama é sobre o conturbado romance entre Lívia, uma romana nascida na Bretanha do século I d.C, que acaba conhecendo Cedric, um guerreiro bretão que já havia servido como legionário, portanto entendia muito bem como funcionavam as táticas e estratégias do Império dos Césares. Não havia como eles não se apaixonarem, mas a guerra colocou tantos obstáculos que também não tinha como não se odiarem, especialmente após a humilhação sofrida por Boudica, que foi o start para toda a revolta.
Livia sempre teve uma afeição grande pelos icenes, e ficou muito mexida com o açoitamento em praça pública da rainha celta, tanto que foi contra os desejos de sua família e de seu noivo e foi socorrer a rainha quando ela mais precisou. Mas o que ela não imaginava era que esse episódio mudaria sua vida por completo.
Pouco tempo após a crueldade feita com a Boudica sob as ordens de um magistrado romano, os icenes tomam Venta Icenorum e fazem um verdadeiro massacre com o povo romano que vivia ali. Lívia é uma das poucas sobreviventes, que foi poupada a mando da rainha como uma recompensa por ter tido compaixão e a ajudado, mas isso não impediu que ela se tornasse escrava de Cedric, e aí, meus amigos, funhanhou tudo.
Um bárbaro turrão com uma romana voluntariosa que se vê numa posição de muita desvantagem, regados ao ódio entre os povos e às perdas causada pela guerra. Não teria como não ter muito sofrimento pra ambos, não é mesmo?
Mas enfim, a história foi incrível e me fez sentir estar lá, ao lado de Lívia, vivenciando o momento de grandeza de uma das minhas rainhas favoritas da vida, e entendendo melhor como tudo aconteceu, já que a pesquisa histórica também foi incrível.
Recomendo muito pra quem curte um bom romance com um pano de fundo histórico super bem estruturado e fiel à sua época. O único problema é encontrar o livro pra comprar, já que ele só se acha em sebo mesmo e é bem raro de ser encontrado.
November 19, 2024
Um Romeu e Julieta ambientando na época do colonialismo romano, a história de Lívia, jovem de família romana, que se envolve com Cedric, um guerreiro icênio, conseguiu prender a minha atenção, o bastante disso, pela história ter sido ambientada na antiga Grâ Bretanha durante a famosa rebelião da rainha Boadicea, que sempre foi um assunto que me interessou.
O livro tem a estrutura de um enemies to lovers, já que a relação vai se desenvolver enquanto Lívia é dada como escrava a Cedric após a primeira vitória de Boadicea na revolta. E como os dois são turrões, teimosos e bastante temperamentais, a relação já desde o início vai soltar faíscas.
O livro também tem um elemento de misticismo bastante interessante, mas se destaca pela cobertura que faz das batalhas que foram travadas pelo exército rebelde. Os personagens secundários também são muito interessantes e fundamentais, principalmente do lado icênio, conseguindo intermediar a relação complicada do casal principal.
O final me surpreendeu bastante pela reviravolta já esperada e pelo efeito que ela teve na vida do casal principal, mas os últimos capítulos foram bastante comoventes, com direito a um epílogo de aquecer o coração.
O livro tem a estrutura de um enemies to lovers, já que a relação vai se desenvolver enquanto Lívia é dada como escrava a Cedric após a primeira vitória de Boadicea na revolta. E como os dois são turrões, teimosos e bastante temperamentais, a relação já desde o início vai soltar faíscas.
O livro também tem um elemento de misticismo bastante interessante, mas se destaca pela cobertura que faz das batalhas que foram travadas pelo exército rebelde. Os personagens secundários também são muito interessantes e fundamentais, principalmente do lado icênio, conseguindo intermediar a relação complicada do casal principal.
O final me surpreendeu bastante pela reviravolta já esperada e pelo efeito que ela teve na vida do casal principal, mas os últimos capítulos foram bastante comoventes, com direito a um epílogo de aquecer o coração.
November 23, 2024
This book is such an emotional roller-coaster. I have a hard time with the idea of slavery and prisoners of war in romance novels, but this was actually very well done in my opinion. I cried three times because Jilana goes through so many hardships and heartbreaks. Her pain felt so real and tangible (no matter how ridiculous or dramatic the story got). My love for Caddaric, on the other hand, ebbed and flowed throughout the book because he does some cruel things out of pride and fear.
I can't even begin to address the plot because SO MUCH happens. Some of the best moments of this book surround the side characters as they help Jilana and Caddaric battle their way through external and internal struggles. The politics of this book can feel very heavy at times, but it was worth it because the war between their nations is very much at the center of their relationship. What I will say is that this is an angsty and dramatic novel that will have you feeling emotional whiplash. Right when you think Caddaric will understand Jilana's plight...BOOM...he acts like a dick instead. Ultimately, it is all resolved in a very satisfying way, but boy does it take a while to get there.
I don't know if I'll read this book again, but I very much enjoyed going on this adventure!
I can't even begin to address the plot because SO MUCH happens. Some of the best moments of this book surround the side characters as they help Jilana and Caddaric battle their way through external and internal struggles. The politics of this book can feel very heavy at times, but it was worth it because the war between their nations is very much at the center of their relationship. What I will say is that this is an angsty and dramatic novel that will have you feeling emotional whiplash. Right when you think Caddaric will understand Jilana's plight...BOOM...he acts like a dick instead. Ultimately, it is all resolved in a very satisfying way, but boy does it take a while to get there.
I don't know if I'll read this book again, but I very much enjoyed going on this adventure!
June 18, 2022
This has been my All Time favorite book since I first read it in 1990. I found a used copy in a second hand bookstore all those years ago. I take the journey to Britannia every few years to fall in love again with Caddaric and Jilana. It's a rich story: the historical Iceni tribe, their queen, the Romans occupying their country and the revolt of the Iceni that changes forever the world of these 2 meant to be lovers. Will the passion for their heritage be the sword between them? I will Always comeback to this ultimate love story!
October 4, 2021
I enjoyed it certainly, but you couldn’t call it good
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March 20, 2023Love, love this book! Read it several times and looking forward to reading it again.
July 6, 2013
Domínio dos Deuses
Lynn Bartlett
C.L. Romântica
1987
Inimigos Pelo Nascimento, Amantes Pelo Destino
Tenho que deixar claro, meu temor por romances históricos, digamos que minhas experiências em relação a essa categoria de literatura, não muito agradáveis, e por esse motivo tenho normalmente um receio muito grande ler romances históricos.
Mas a minha surpresa não poderia ser sido maior. Além de ter um texto elaborado, com surpreendentes momentos, o enredo é completamente cativante.
É impossível não se apaixonar pela estória da nobre romana Lívia e do bretão Cedric.
Só para se ter uma pequena idéias das reviravoltas da estória, em dado momento Lívia é escrava de Cedric. Algum tempo depois, Cedric é escravo de Lívia. Apesar disto eles são completamente apaixonados um pelo o outro.
O que atrapalhou em alguns momento o amor dos dois, com certeza foi o orgulho de cada. Mas com o amor conseguiram superar tudo. Adorável!!!
Não posso das menos que 5 estrelinhas, estória maravilhosa.
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
ADORO!!!
Lynn Bartlett
C.L. Romântica
1987
Inimigos Pelo Nascimento, Amantes Pelo Destino
Tenho que deixar claro, meu temor por romances históricos, digamos que minhas experiências em relação a essa categoria de literatura, não muito agradáveis, e por esse motivo tenho normalmente um receio muito grande ler romances históricos.
Mas a minha surpresa não poderia ser sido maior. Além de ter um texto elaborado, com surpreendentes momentos, o enredo é completamente cativante.
É impossível não se apaixonar pela estória da nobre romana Lívia e do bretão Cedric.
Só para se ter uma pequena idéias das reviravoltas da estória, em dado momento Lívia é escrava de Cedric. Algum tempo depois, Cedric é escravo de Lívia. Apesar disto eles são completamente apaixonados um pelo o outro.
O que atrapalhou em alguns momento o amor dos dois, com certeza foi o orgulho de cada. Mas com o amor conseguiram superar tudo. Adorável!!!
Não posso das menos que 5 estrelinhas, estória maravilhosa.
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
ADORO!!!
July 17, 2012
I loved this book. I read this many years ago while I was in Uni. I was on a deadline to finish an assignment but rather than doing it, i stayed up All night reading this book!
I have ince read this book numerous times ... It never fails to bring tears !
This was a very well written epic novel, which was throughly enjoyable and transports you to another era. Also books with settings taking place in early Britannic days are rare.
I have ince read this book numerous times ... It never fails to bring tears !
This was a very well written epic novel, which was throughly enjoyable and transports you to another era. Also books with settings taking place in early Britannic days are rare.
May 30, 2022
I lOve this book....
I do not usually like historical romance, but this one has really deep charactures - even the peripheral ones...
Brittainia 62 AD - Boudica is rallying the Iceni..... Jilana is a Roman and Cadderic is an Iceni in the Legion...
It goes from there...
Read and enjoy.....
I do not usually like historical romance, but this one has really deep charactures - even the peripheral ones...
Brittainia 62 AD - Boudica is rallying the Iceni..... Jilana is a Roman and Cadderic is an Iceni in the Legion...
It goes from there...
Read and enjoy.....
August 23, 2010
This book i thouroughly enjoyed, it was great to read with plenty of detail and information on the time period it was set.
Not only is this a love story but it also goes in depth at the time error which is when bodicia is fighting the romans.I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a brilliant read .
Not only is this a love story but it also goes in depth at the time error which is when bodicia is fighting the romans.I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a brilliant read .
July 9, 2012
I was really surprised by this book. I thought it would be a simple scenario with enemy lovers but it never stopped to surprise me.
Caddaric is quite a big jerk and I have no idea why Jilana loves him so much...
Caddaric is quite a big jerk and I have no idea why Jilana loves him so much...
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August 1, 2015Trashy romance novels are fun - but not a neverending catalogue of the ways the so-called hero can treat the heroine like dog shit stuck to the sole of his boot. I threw in the towel just before the 200-page mark.
November 8, 2023
The first "romance" novel I bought as maybe a 13 year old (a few decades ago), because of the hot guy on the cover. Was surprised that the war, religion & political drama storyline was even more interesting than the mushy parts lol
May 7, 2018
Maravilhoso. Amo este livro. A primeira vez que li, nossa acabei em dois dias. Indiquei ele para varias pessoas. Ate homens leram e gostaram. Foi através deste obra que comecei a me interessar pela cultura celta. Por isso eu li novamente este livro. Sempre vou ler novamente.
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