Pearl Beyond Price (Harlequin Historical) [Paperback]

Claire Delacroix (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harlequin (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373288646
• ISBN-13: 978-0373288649
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,788,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

NYT bestselling author Claire Delacroix always loved stories, both telling them and hearing them. She sold her first romance novel - THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE - in 1992 and has been happily writing romances ever since. She makes her home with her family, a number of incomplete knitting projects and a lot of overgrown houseplants. Claire loves to travel, to cook, to ride her bike and to read.

In 2011, Claire has been re-releasing many of her historical romances in digital format. For more information about these releases, please visit her website at http://www.delacroix.net. You can also search for Kindle editions of her books right here on Amazon.

Visit Claire's website, Chateau Delacroix, at
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Claire also writes as Deborah Cooke:
http://www.deborahcooke.com

She blogs most weekdays at her blog, Alive & Knitting, at
http://www.delacroix.net/blog

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to her usual standards, May 29, 2006

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Gemma "bookworm" (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pearl Beyond Price (Harlequin Historical) (Paperback)

From the back cover:

Black Wind, the Mongols hailed him. Swift, fierce and proud. Yet Kira looked upon Thierry de Pereille and saw, not a man marked by legend, but a warrior who had taken her from the life she knew...to a place of passion beyong her wildest dreams.

The woman was a witch. Truly, who else could make pearls drop from her mouth? Or ensnare a man with nothing more than a touch? Yet, even as he fought the power that bound them together, Thierry knew he could not deny that the gentle Kira was his destiny.

And my review:

This book is part of a series about the lost kings of France. UNICORN BRIDE was the first. PEARL BEYOND PRICE is the second.

As the other reviewer on this page stated, this book doesn't really work very well as a stand-alone. Since I hadn't read the preceding book, I was left feeling lost for much of the time.

One thing that really bugged me about this book was the writing style. Since this book is set in 1265, I kind of felt like Delacroix was trying to emulate the style of writers of that period. The prose ended up coming across like it was written by Yoda from Star Wars. The sentences were all backwards and confusing. For example: "Hundreds of gems, there were." Why not just say "There were hundreds of gems"? Or "Good sense did it make" instead of "It made good sense". Just a couple examples of numerous garbled sentences. It's not a good thing when you find yourself rolling your eyes every two minutes. (Or should I say every two minutes to be found to be rolling your eyes is a good thing not. Ha ha.)

I bought PEARL BEYOND PRICE because I'd really enjoyed one of this author's other books ENCHANTED, but PEARL BEYOND PRICE just didn't measure up to what I'd expected of this author. Not recommended, unless you're reading the series and are dead set on completing it.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I'd really perfer to give it a 3 1/2 star rating, December 17, 1998

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Sarah "sssspro" (North East, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pearl Beyond Price (Harlequin Historical) (Paperback)

Ok, I committed a major faux paux by reading this book first. I realize that it is the 2nd in a trilogy, and if I can find them, I am going to read the other two also. I am not sure if I can rightfully condemn or condone this story without reading the others first. The story itself was interesting and covered a time period and location not often written about. Ms. Delacroix's story went into some details about the life on the Asian plains, yet I felt it was a little vague. I would have liked to have seen more detail. After recently returning from Istambul, I would have love to have seen a description of the beautiful city and its mosques (or Medeival Paris, or any of the other cities we visited in the story). Besides the major plotline, there was not much deviation into details. The cities were vague enough to have been anywhere. At any time period.

Also, I felt it a bit disconcerting that the plot was not more developed. The reader understood exactly what was going on, but nothing was resolved. (I suppose that is waiting in the last book, but this book just seemed to be passing time, and another generation, to the next plot). I felt the book was well written and worth reading, I would just like to see it better developed.