Brockway, Connie - My Seduction
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oyceterSigh. Sadly, not as good as anticipated. I can't tell if I wasn't in the mood for a romance or what, but the characterization felt rushed, as did the love story. Plus, the snippets I read that tantalized me had a different sort of power dynamic than the typical romance, which was intriguing. Unfortunately, those two snippets were probably the only two points in which it was so. In other words, big burly male protects relatively helpless female, etc.
Kate Blackburn is going to Scotland to try to snag someone in marriage to help out her impoverished family. Kit MacNeill is one of a trio of Scotsman who owe a debt to her family, and he ends up protecting her. I liked certain bits of Kate, her rather pragmatic view on life, particularly when it came to snagging the guy in marriage. I liked how she wasn't being all self-sacrificial and was doing it because she was sick of being poor and worrying, not just because her sisters needed a Season or whatever. Unfortunately, the pragmatism in her head didn't so much carry through in real life. And it just felt like Connie Brockway was taking lots of shortcuts in characterization -- the first meeting between Kit and Kate three years prior is seen through the eyes of Kate's sister, which makes no sense to me. Later on, Kit and Kate discuss their impressions of each other after said meeting, and I don't see where any of it came from.
I also had no hint of sexual tension whatsoever, and then, suddenly, we find that Kit's been lusting after Kate ever since he met her three years ago. What? When? How?
Kit himself is a strange mix of burly Scot (you know it's bad when in the first chapter, he and his friends get described as wild and etc) and supposed obedience, thanks to his sworn oath to protect Kate, except the burliness comes out a lot more. He's also supposed to be all dangerous and feral, except he isn't really, outside of the standard romance beats up a few people who threaten Kate type of way.
And then there's this whole plot that is apparently the one for the trilogy, in which Kit and his friends were betrayed somehow. All of them were orphans raised in a monastery (there were four), one is killed in France. Since obviously the other two are going to be the heroes of the next two books, they are not going to be the betrayers. So I am placing a bet that the fourth one faked his own death to avoid suspicion, makes miraculous comeback, etc. etc. I feel like if there is a plot in which only five people can be the betrayer, one should not make three of them the heroes of the trilogy and one of them dead and thus "obviously" out of the picture. Takes away any sort of suspense.
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Kate Blackburn is going to Scotland to try to snag someone in marriage to help out her impoverished family. Kit MacNeill is one of a trio of Scotsman who owe a debt to her family, and he ends up protecting her. I liked certain bits of Kate, her rather pragmatic view on life, particularly when it came to snagging the guy in marriage. I liked how she wasn't being all self-sacrificial and was doing it because she was sick of being poor and worrying, not just because her sisters needed a Season or whatever. Unfortunately, the pragmatism in her head didn't so much carry through in real life. And it just felt like Connie Brockway was taking lots of shortcuts in characterization -- the first meeting between Kit and Kate three years prior is seen through the eyes of Kate's sister, which makes no sense to me. Later on, Kit and Kate discuss their impressions of each other after said meeting, and I don't see where any of it came from.
I also had no hint of sexual tension whatsoever, and then, suddenly, we find that Kit's been lusting after Kate ever since he met her three years ago. What? When? How?
Kit himself is a strange mix of burly Scot (you know it's bad when in the first chapter, he and his friends get described as wild and etc) and supposed obedience, thanks to his sworn oath to protect Kate, except the burliness comes out a lot more. He's also supposed to be all dangerous and feral, except he isn't really, outside of the standard romance beats up a few people who threaten Kate type of way.
And then there's this whole plot that is apparently the one for the trilogy, in which Kit and his friends were betrayed somehow. All of them were orphans raised in a monastery (there were four), one is killed in France. Since obviously the other two are going to be the heroes of the next two books, they are not going to be the betrayers. So I am placing a bet that the fourth one faked his own death to avoid suspicion, makes miraculous comeback, etc. etc. I feel like if there is a plot in which only five people can be the betrayer, one should not make three of them the heroes of the trilogy and one of them dead and thus "obviously" out of the picture. Takes away any sort of suspense.
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