Enchantress Mine

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Summary: A Different kind of Fairytale
Review: I have always enjoyed Bertrice Small's book. They are written with such flare and feeling. She pulls the reader right along with her heroines in the story. We not only read, but feel the story along with the characters. This story is no different. The lives of Small's characters never follow the normal path, but go along different paths, that one would normally not think of. This story is not any different. You begin to think that it is a fairy tale about a child with a wicked stepmother. Who is sold to a slaver. That would be the end of a life, but no. Her life gets better, not worse and things happen that you would never imagine. There is love scenes, but they are part of the story, not put in because the writer needs to fill space. If you like a different romanic story that you can not put down, you will not be disappointed with this or any other of Bertrice Small's books.

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Summary: Good book for the most part butalso irritating
Review: I like the way Bertrice Small injects her romance with a lot of historical background, unlike many romance authors. I REALLY REALLY REALLY could have used without the word enchantress being used every other page or more often ... I KNOW the title, use the phrase once or twice but it was so overused it was irritating and detracted from an otherwise good book

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Summary: A fairy tale for adults...
Review: Mairin lost her mother when she was born, but soon her father came and took her from Ireland to England where she lived as the apple of his eye until the wicked stepmother came along. Nothing limited Blanche's hatred of her stepchild, and when Mairin's father died, Blanche immediately sold her to a slaver, thinking the little girl will soon be lost in far away Turkey; and she would have been, if a kindly Englishman had not seen her and bought her as a replacement for his own dead child.

Mairin and her servant, Dagda, truly are at home with her new family. Her adoptive parents and brother love her immediately, and when she is of marriageable age, a wedding to a Byzantine prince is planned. Before she can truly become Basil's wife, he is killed by a past lover. Sent home, Mairin manages the estate left to her when her father and brother die in the wars until Josselin, a knight of the Conquerer's, comes and to claim both her home and heart. However, Mairin's beauty of body and soul has won another man's heart, a dangerous Viking who will stop at nothing to have her.

*** Once more, Ms Small has penned a fairy tale for adults. Though both hailed and critisized for her use of sensuality, I would not term her books erotic. Passion is kept within appropriate bounds, as a symbol of love, not pure lust. Mairin, like all of her heroines, has a gallantry that would shame one of the knights, yet is feminine in every way. ***
Amanda Killgore

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Summary: Very good historical romance...
Review: This is the first Bertrice Small's book I read and I really have to say it is one of her best.
Fascinating plot, lovely characters (Mairin is a wonderful heroine and the other characters are pleasant and -very important thing- believable), historic accuracy, love scenes wonderfully described and never coarse.... who could ask for more?