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Maggie

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Backcover:

Maggie Macleod was weary of life with a soul sickness that ate into every fiber of her being. In a mad way, it did not seem strange to her that she should be on the way to High Court to stand trial for the murder of her husband. Her marriage seemed to have been one long dreary desert lit by flares of cruelty...

In setting out to clear her name Jennie Tremaine brings to life one of the most delightfully original stories to come out in years.

I usually love Jennie Tremaine aka Marion Chesney's stories. I bought this book blindly, because if I had read the blurb I would never have bought this book. This one I had to skim, because I wanted to toss the book several times. It was so depressing. There was the abusive father who sells Maggie to her husband. There was the sexually and physically abusive husband (personally do not like reading about abuse by spouse), the abused, depressed heroine, the unlikable Earl who marries Maggy in a handfast while she is being held for the murder of her husband because of a bet and later treats her, I thought, badly. He wants to marry someone else, Mrs Murray, a widow, after the trial and Maggie is set free, so Maggie and he decide to disregard this marriage. Throughout the rest of the book he idolizes Mrs Murray, who treats Maggie horribly, almost to the end of the book and continues to "unintentionally" hurt the heroine, even though wanting to marry another woman he flirts and kisses Maggie. Heroine doesn't seem to have a backbone because she knew he wants to marry another woman, yet lets him make love to her (not fully). I guess classic abused woman syndrome, use to any abuse that comes her way, low self-esteem.

I admit the mystery of the murder of Maggie's husband was interesting and the villian was not that obvious. I would have wanted to read more of the mystery of the murder than reading about poor Maggie's life and the dense Earl.