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Conquest Bride

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I too had high hopes for this book and I have always had a soft spot for Norman/Anglo-saxon romance. Alas, this was a stinker.
Varin is sent by the Conqueror to handle the situation at an important castle. Naturally the daughter of the house, Lady Eaditha is a spit-fire determined to hate the Norman swine.
And she hates and hates and hates etc. Very repetitive and Eaditha is a childish, spiteful nit-wit.
Varin is little better, being a sulky bear.
There is a decent story lurking beneath this tale, but unfortunately the writing style used submerges it almost completely. Occasionally it grabs the reader's attention, but then the dreadful, over written, turgid style strangles it.
Too bad.

My friend tells me all about her love novels, shes majorly into vampire/midevil novels, so i normally just listen, but she begged me to read this novel and thus I loved it.

Varin is a fierce knight who refuses to fall in love for fear that all women are like his whorish mother, but boy dont things change when he meets the beautiful, mysterious, chestnut colored purple-blue eyed Saxon Lady, Eadita.

trying hard to fight the passion rising between them, they both say and do hurtful things to each other, but when alone in the kings palace, their hate for each other turns in to bitter sweet love making which takes the innocence of the Lady.

i really did love this novel and I recommened it to anyone willing to sit and read a beautiful love making novel.

I found Varin to be just about perfect in looks and as a warrior, and Eaditha was a great girl; just too much arguing and bitter fighting between them. Doesn't make for a great story when all the characters do is fight - not very nicely, either.

I had high hopes for this book, and really, it is slightly better written than my two-star grade would indicate. The real problem is the unoriginal story and characters.

The hero, Varin, has issues because his mother was an adulteress who abandoned his father when Varin was a child; the father never recovered from his heartbreak, and now Varin distrusts all women and is DETERMINED never to fall in love (or, as he thinks, fall into "the trap" of love). But gee, that Eadita sure is one curvy, bodacious Saxon beauty with violet-blue eyes and chestnut hair he'd like to touch (along with some of her other body parts). There's that instant attraction-thing going ASAP from the moment he sees her.

The heroine, Eadita, is STRONG with a capital S. She's a healer; she's hiding her outlaw brother; she can deliver babies; she runs the castle because her mother is in mourning and her uncle is nothing but a treacherous slug, and the castle people love her for it...in short, she's so bloody sweet and perfect as to make my teeth hurt. Her one flaw is an abiding hatred of Normans thanks to William the Conqueror's invasion, but gee, that Varin sure is one tall, muscular, golden-haired, handsome son-of-a-dirty-Norman. There's that instant attraction-thing going ASAP from the moment she sees him.

You can see where this is going. The Norman knight, who WON'T fall in love, because his mother was nothing but a heart-breaking slut, is going to fall in love or lust (OK, lust) with the Saxon woman, who WON'T fall in love a dirty Norman pig, but they will eventually (at about 2/3 through the book) admit they do feel tenderly toward each other...it was very, very predictable. And the predictability isn't even made up by its being a sensual romance -- the love scenes are frankly rather blah.

If you haven't read too many of these plots, this book I guess could be worth your while, but if you're as tired of these stereotypical Norman-Saxon romances as I am, save your pennies.