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Prince Of Magic

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I am a huge fan of Stuart's "Lord of Danger" and I must say that "Prince of Magic" was not nearly as good. However, I did enjoy the book. My favorite part was the setting - the rural English countryside in Autumn. The descriptions of the landscape was lovely and it really gave a somewhat haunting feel to the story. The history was well done, and I also liked the sideline romance which always seems to take place in an Ann Stuart. However, I wasn't overly crazy about the hero. He wasn't nearly as good as Simon from "Lord of Danger". He didn't seem like he had all that much kindness to him, even deep down. You kept expecting him to do something to win you over, and it never came. He really was a little mean! Anyway, I say read the book and enjoy. But it certainly isn't her best.

Anne Stuart is my favorite author and the hero's she writes about are the best. She did not disappoint me with her latest PRINCE OF MAGIC. This is a wonderful book and truly enjoyable, with plenty of dark undertones. A beautiful romance, a great secondary romance, and two deliciously evil people. It also come equiped with two ghost, former monks Brother Paul and Brother Septimus. A wondufully tortured hero and a free spirited you woman. Write more stories like this one Ms. Stuart!!

This Georgian historical is everything Anne Stuart readers have come to count on--delicious sexual tension, excellent writing, wicked humor in the most unexpected places, a heroine we can all relate to, and best of all, a man worth of the title. Lean and brooding, tormented and irresistibly to the rescue. I loved this book!

When Elizabeth Penshurst disgraces her minister father by dancing in the wood in her shift, she is sent away to live with distant cousins she's never met. Before she leaves, she is warned to "Beware the Dark Man."

The first person Lizzie meets when she reaches Yorkshire is Gabriel Durham, expelled from the priesthood and shunned by his own family, he appears very dangerous to her. But Lizzie is drawn to Gabriel in ways she cannot explain, even though she is warned by him to be wary of even him.

Dark magic, druid cults, ghosts, dancing in the moonlight and yet another of Anne Stuart's famous mysterious men, that is the formula this novel. While a nice, fast read, I wouldn't say it's the very best. I do recommend it though for Anne Stuart's wonderful storytelling.

Stuart is back again with another historical gem!!

This time, reclusive Gabriel Durham lives in an abandoned abbey in pursuit of magic of the Auld Ways. Shunned by his family, Elizabeth Penhurst is warned to stay away from him, that he had even been expelled from the priesthood. But as she unravels the mystery of the man, she becomes drawn into the clutches of a sinister evil lurking in the Woods of Yorkshire. Magical! Charming! Never are two Stuart books alike, and they always have vividly drawn characters with fast past plots

Stuart proves once again, contemporary or historical, no one does it better. Stuart creates characters they leap off the page and take a hold of you heart

This is a book with warms your heart with examples of love of family, friends, and justice. A bit thrilling with flavors from the occult world. This page turner will have you cheering for the good characters and hoping the evil characters get their just reward...which they do.

I normally wouldn't judge a good novel this harshly, but I say this for other Anne Stuart fans who are thinking of reading this novel. It was good and had lots of potential, but it wasn't as dark, disturbing, or charasmatic as her novels normally are (in my experience). I was disappointed because there was no mystery either (you knew everything about everyone from a very early point in the novel).

It was, though, a nice read. If you're looking for mysterious, soul-searching, and charasmatic, I would recommend Ritual Sins and Nightfall as my favorites.

This book has been in my wish list for quite some time, and I had such high hopes for it. It was a major disappointment. Gabriel was sexy, but self centered and a jerk. Lizzie was an 'ordinary' girl. That's what the author referred to her as. 'Ordinarily pretty', 'somewhat pretty', 'plain'. And, every character in this book hated Lizzie's 'horrible' red hair. The romance between the two was mediocre. All in all, not the best by Anne Stuart!!!!

This is the first novel that I have read by Anne Stuart and it wll be the last. I borrowed it from the library and I'm very glad that I didn't actually buy it. First Ms. Stuarts writing style is in my opinion just okay. You never really get to know much about her main characters. Everything about them is superficial. For example Lizzie was sent away in discrace for dancing in the woods. Well other than her love of the forest what else do we learn about her? Nothing of her hopes and dreams or anything else. I thought that Gabriel was just about to worst male chacter that I have ever read about. Shallow, selfish and comsumed with sex. No wonder he couldn't make it as a priest!! He thinks he is just about the best most skilled lover there is becasue well after leaving the church he spent 5 years sleeping with 100's of women in London and well he learned a lot. The "love scene" between Lizzie and Gabriel was no love scene as far as I'm concerned. Lizzie was a vigin and he showed her as much care and tenderness a john would show a porfessional. He seemed determined to show her that he knew everything about sex in just one night. She woke feeling sore, scratched, sticky...not my idea of a romantic night of love. The Druid cult twist and the ghosts of two dead monks plus the lack of connection betwen Lizzie and Gabriel made in my opinion very dull reading. I had to force myself the finish it with the hope that it would some how get better. It didn't. Why Lizzie fell in love with Gabriel I will never understand. He never did one thing to deserve being loved by her and his declaration of love at the end of the book seemed added just because it is expected by the readers of romance novels. I think that this book would have been better classed a fiction and not romance.

I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with this one, though it wasn't, by far, the worst novel I've ever read. Based on the other Anne Stuart novels I've read (which, actually, aren't many) I was expecting something much darker and mysterious. I was turned off by the Druidic rituals and whatnot, but that's just me. I liked some of her other novels enough that I'll continue reading more, but this was definitely not a favorite.