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5.0 out of 5 stars
A fun Medieval romance sure to be enjoyed by the author's older fans., January 5, 2009
In England in the year 1291, Finulla Crass, the adventurous daughter of the village miller, is determined to help her older sister, Mellana, who is pregnant out of wedlock and needs a substantial dowry, as her child's father will otherwise be too poor to marry her. The sisters come up with a rather unconventional plan - Finnula will find a wealthy man, kidnap him, and hold him for ransom in order to obtain the money Mellana needs. Finnula decides her captive will be a young earl, Hugo Fitzstephan, who has returned from the Crusades with quite a large fortune.
Hugo Fitzstephan is nothing like Finnula expected, however. The young knight is disturbingly handsome, and Finnula, who prefers hunting and riding to household tasks and is determined to never marry again after her first husband died before their wedding night, finds herself fighting her attraction for Hugo. Meanwhile, Hugo could escape at any time, but plays along as Finnula's "hostage" because he is curious about - and rather fascinated by - this unconventional young woman.
Ransom My Heart is an enjoyable and lighthearted Medieval romance with an entertaining relationship between the main characters. It's not super heavy on historical detail, but I loved that it was different from most romances set in this time period, in that it had a unique storyline and featured a heroine who was a commoner rather than the typical sheltered young noblewoman. This book does have a bit more mature content than Meg Cabot's young adult books, however, so I wouldn't really recommend it to her younger fans. Historical romance readers as well as older teen and adult fans of the author are sure to enjoy this book, and I highly recommend it to them.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ransom my Heart, May 2, 2009
I am neither a historical fiction reader, nor a romance reader. The sole reason I wanted to read this book was because of the fact that it was written by the great Meg Cabot. Cabot has written young adult historical romances (Nicola and the Viscount, Victoria and the Rogue) and I was not a fan of those. For the most part, I was completely enchanted by Finnula's story. It's great to see a romance novel that breaks romance novel stereotypes of weak, helpless women waiting for strong burly men to do everything for them. Things like this (and minor anachronisms) remind the reader that this is theoretically being written by a girl in her senior year of high school. It's a fun read, though not entirely suitable for young adults (but you just know Princess Diaries fans are going to ignore this fact and read it anyways). Everything's great until the end approaches. The wedding is skipped over, and then a weird storyline begins. I honestly believe the wedding should have been an ending with an elaborate wedding scene, and then anything after that could have served as either an epilogue or as a sequel. It felt as though it were two entirely different books, and read pretty awkwardly. There's no main idea throughout the entire book, it's two different ones (the first being 'falling in love', the second 'death threats, oh no!').
Rating: 4/5
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't underrate for your own naiveness, November 28, 2011
The reviews on here make me mad for stating stupid points that have little or nothing to do with the book itself.
1. "Parents might pick it up for a kid and not know about the adult content." Be a better parent, and stop being an idiot. It's in the adult section, and if you bother for a minute to skim it, it's clearly not see Jane run quality.
2. Why would Mia right this?! Well, she's a teen girl who talked about sex in numerous of her books, and at the time she supposedly penned this, was 18. In the US, most girls lose their virginity at 16. Stop being squeamish. The Princess Diaries series shouldn't be read by very young readers for the language and content anyway. If you started with the series, you should be old/mature enough to read this by the time you got there.
3. Crappy writing for Cabot, disgusting, etc. I've read 90% of Cabot's book, including her original books penned under the name Patricia Cabot. This book leans a lot back to the style of those original books, which were historical romances. Cabot has never been afraid of sexual content in her books, and is frankly quite creative to create a book in the style that it'd be written in as the character from a different book (Mia.) Ransom My Heart was a fun read, and you could see Mia reflected in the writing, something not many authors would be able to do. No, it's not a complex novel with twisting plot lines. There's thousands of books out there, find something else if that's what you want. Please stop trashing a good book simply because you were too lazy to learn what it was about before you read it. Stupidity on the buyer's/reader's part is not the fault of the book.
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