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Summary: A good read
Review: I have never heard of the Glencoe Massacre until I stumbled across "Lady of the Glen" by pure chance. What a gripping read from start to finish! The story between Cat and Alasdair is truly beautiful and involving, and made the facts of an historical event a couple of hundred years ago come alive. I agreed with one viewer saying that this is a heavy historcal book...but the love story seems to fit into the book very well..when you read the book, you feel like you were there too... you feel their sorrow, joy, and anger...this is a book that will have you laughing out loud and crying your eyes out at the same time... all in all, this is a nice book for both romance novel readers and historical book readers...
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Summary: THE Comfort Book
Review: Of Jennifer Roberson's three historical fantasy novels, Lady of the Glen is the most irreplaceable, in my opinion. This is a shorter work - just the one book, instead of two like with the Robin Hood series. Much of Lady of the Glen is waiting and wondering and hoping, just like in real life. And in the end... In the end, it swallowed my life from beginning to end and took my heart apart piece by piece. Then it put me back together. For all that you will never hear me drop one bad word about Jennifer's Robin Hood stories, it is *this* one that I recommend above almost any other book I have read. The story is build on a real, historical event - the Glencoe massacre. Roberson calls it a footnote of Scott history - a bloody, tragic, significant footnote. One most people are not aware of, as I was not until this book. The massacre is where it all ends, but the story is not about that. Roberson paints an extraordinary picture of the highlands of Scotland - the people, the life, the struggles, the stupidities and the pride. The characters, especially Cat - the main character, have so much spirit and dignity, which somehow manages to coexist with an equal measure of helplessness against fate and the ways of the world. Underlying all is a story of love. Overriding, is a story that is not of death, but of survival and hope. Knowing the book title and concept, I was very reluctant to finish the book. I spent as much time as I possibly could with every page. I re-read some chapters before going on. I loved those people and did not want to lose them or see them in pain. Pain and loss there is, in the end, but at the rink of spoiling it, you will walk away smiling, not depressed. Except, of course, you won't be walking away. Ever since I finished The Lady of the Glen, I have been rereading it in pieces over and over.
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Summary: After reading this, I am ashamed to be a Campbell!
Review: What a fantastic book!
I married into the "Campbell clan" 6 years ago and approx the same time went to a Campbell family reunion. There was much talk of history/pride of clan etc, until one of the old aunties told me the Campbells were actually famous in scotland as murderers of Macdonalds!
I had never heard of the "Glencoe Massacre" until then, and stumbled across "Lady of the Glen" by pure chance.
What a gripping read from start to finish! Jennifer Roberson's writing style is wonderfully involving and had me hooked, i literally couldnt put it down. the story between Cat and Alasdair is truly beautiful (who cares if that is the only part of the storyline that is fictional?) and involving, and really made the dry facts of an historical event 300+ years ago come alive.
2 thumbs up for this unforgettable book and i cant wait to read the rest of her books!
I notice some of the other reviewers found the book a bit slow/boring/too historical - if it is a bawdy "romance" novel you are looking for, this is not the book for you, but if you are looking for a beautifully told, historically accurate account of realistic characters - you wont be disappointed.
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