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Breaking the Rules
Content with her peaceful life and her books in the country, Ursula Elcester is disturbed to discover that her father has arranged a marriage for her to an equally reluctant aristocrat, but as the mismatched pair investigate a series of sinister events in the nearby forests, they begin to discover the true power of love. Original.
227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2001
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Sandra Heath
87 books24 followersSandra Heath is the ever-popular author of numerous Regencies, historical romances, novellas, and short stories. Among other honors, she has won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards for Best Regency Author and for Best Regency Romance. She lives in Gloucester, England, and can be contacted at sandraheath@bluey onder.co.uk.
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July 19, 2013
I have no idea what the hell I just read. I really don't. (Surprise paranormal is never good. Just tell me if you're going to do it, okay?)
It started out normally enough, a traditional Regency, perhaps a bit gothic in tone, but certainly not too strange. Something mysterious going on in the woods and a suspicious new innkeeper, okay. And even the hero/heroine seeing visions of each other is not too odd, even in otherwise non-paranormal books. The summary gives no hint of magic, either, except for the heading "mystical matchmaking." And then the shape changing began. And then curses and magic spells and reincarnation and excessively intelligent dogs and squirrels and past lives repeating themselves and I don't even know. It was definitely strange.
In the end, it was really rather lacking in romance, too. Everyone fell in love at first sight with their fated/past-life love, with no real process to it. (Except in the third (ternary?) romance with the villain, where there was some actual character development, which I really would have liked to see more of.)
So as a romance novel, this book fails for me. But as more of a fantasy type, it was quite a bit of fun. It just wasn't what I was expecting in a traditional Regency, and I spent large portions of the book going WTF. I quite like books based in Celtic mythology, and I probably would have appreciated this a lot more if I'd had any hint of what to expect.
It started out normally enough, a traditional Regency, perhaps a bit gothic in tone, but certainly not too strange. Something mysterious going on in the woods and a suspicious new innkeeper, okay. And even the hero/heroine seeing visions of each other is not too odd, even in otherwise non-paranormal books. The summary gives no hint of magic, either, except for the heading "mystical matchmaking." And then the shape changing began. And then curses and magic spells and reincarnation and excessively intelligent dogs and squirrels and past lives repeating themselves and I don't even know. It was definitely strange.
In the end, it was really rather lacking in romance, too. Everyone fell in love at first sight with their fated/past-life love, with no real process to it. (Except in the third (ternary?) romance with the villain, where there was some actual character development, which I really would have liked to see more of.)
So as a romance novel, this book fails for me. But as more of a fantasy type, it was quite a bit of fun. It just wasn't what I was expecting in a traditional Regency, and I spent large portions of the book going WTF. I quite like books based in Celtic mythology, and I probably would have appreciated this a lot more if I'd had any hint of what to expect.
June 15, 2020
Pagan badguy stuff; tense but not fully evil
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