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The Thistle and the Rose

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This is a fabulous romance! It's definitely on my top ten list of best romances. McGoldrick's writing style is smart and her characters are very endearing. You never want the story to end, while at the same time, you just can't put the book down. If you are a fan of Scottish romances, you you should love this book.

DESPERATE DECEPTION
Celia Muir must escape from a burning castle into Scottish Highlands before English soilders capture her. With her loyal friends and servants, all united to protect the infant Kit from unknown enemies. For her clandestine mission to succeed she has to make Colin Campbell, the warrioir lord whose help she seeks, believe she is the seductive Lady Caithness.
IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE
Colin Campbell's head tells him this Caithness woman is trouble. yet his heart is telling him she is magnificent. Whatever Celi is hiding he needs to know, but he also wants to hold her and kiss her. And as a war with England scorches the heathered hills, Colin and Celia find reasons to bare their secrets, surrender to their desires, and head toward a destiny where Scotland's future-and their own-build on the strength of their passion and love...
This book was very well written and sucked you in from start to finish. Despite the deception that goes on in the book Colin and Celia are able to resolve their differences quickly. You can feel the love that they have for one another no matter what. The rest of the series is just as good! I defenitley give this book 5 stars

This is one of my favorite romance novels. May McGoldrick creates a wonderful setting and even better characters in this light, witty, novel about passion, love and deciption. Read it you will love it forever and ever!!!!!

THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE STORY I HAD EVER READ!!!!
The love...the trust...and the passion that emerge from this two people it is increadible... I give May McGoldrick five start for this unforgetable love story, I just wish I had a love that pure and true...like Colin and Celia's have. I just love it!!!

This book started out with such great promise of a wonderful, unusual plot- young woman, skilled in defending herself in a man's world, charged with hiding a 7 month old Crown Prince of Scotland. Lots of intrigue, surprises, and hidden identities as the story unfolds, replete with the evil Lord Danvers who sweeps his wrath of destruction across Scotland, inevitably seeking to find Celia and the baby. The budding romance between Colin and Celia is very sweet, and even the baby is adorable.

SPOILER ALERT****

Ok, so the 2 of them get together - as we know they will - and then.....nothing happens. I expected Danvers to come out of the woodwork and wreak destuction on Kildalton, ruining all that Colin had built in the town, and threatening Celia and the baby. I expected some swordfight between Celia and Danvers- gosh, it seems like half the book was a set up for this. And then - previously unstoppable Danvers is miraculously surrounded and swiftly defeated by two clans, in about 3 pages, and the story ends. I was left scratching my head. By the time my kindle read 85%, and nothing dangerous had happened, I was quite perplexed. What happened to the plot?

Gosh, this story had such a chance of being a real winner, but it seems like the authors ran out of ideas and/or steam at the end. They have a wonderful command of the english language- the prose was well done, and the descriptions were beautiful - but the story just died. And much of it seemed a bit proposterous- the Queen simply ships off her infant to someone else? She thinks Danvers is supposedly going to eventually transport the baby to her brother the King, and instead, he is killing off half of Scotland. Like she didn't hear about this and freak out? And Danvers - he seemed like the devil incarnate, but was stopped in a 2 second swordfight after his soldiers all of a sudden announce that their camp is completely surrounded - out of the blue. Wow - someone was certainly sleeping on the job there.

I loved the book.....until I hit the 85% mark. A bit disappointing.

I love romance novels and I've read tons but the writing of this book was horrible, I didn't even make it a quarter of the way through. The story may have been good but the it sounds like someone out of high school wrote it. Instead of talking through the characters it talks a lot from the writer's point of view and the flow is unbearable. Sorry I wasted my $7.

Based on the reviews of this book, I was very excited to be swept away by a great romance novel. While parts of the story were intriguing, I felt the romance itself to be soooo corny. Case in point: when the words "throbbing" and "loins" occur in the same sentence, you know you've got a cheesy book on your hands.

Sorry, just my opinion.