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Summary: Monseigneur du Minuit...my new favorite hero
Review: God, I LOVED this. Leigh, a desperate English girl, has traveled alone across most of England and France in search of him... Monseigneur du Minuit: The Prince of Midnight. Leigh has lost her loved ones and is desperate and determined to track down and kill the man responsible for the murder of her family. She feels sure that this man known as the Prince of Midnight is the only one that can help her. However, when she does finally come upon him, he is nothing that she was lead to believe. She believed him to be dashing and dangerous, just as the legend of him claimed. What she truly finds is a troubled, lonely, dreamy exile.
Left with no other choice, she accepts his offer of help and together they make their way back to where Leigh once lived, but what is now a town under the control of a madman. The same man that killed her family.
Leigh and S.T.(her prince)face many obstacles and some of them were quite shocking, but when the book finally does come to an end, it is unbearably sweet.
I absolutely fell in love with S.T. He was just so sweet and romantic, and ridiculous, and strong, and brave and just really, really, wonderful. Leigh was harder for me to warm up to. It took me a while to understand her, but eventually I did and her behavior began to make a lot of sense.
The characters in The Prince of Midnight were very well developed and so real. I just loved this story. This is a keeper for me for sure.
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Summary: Rates more than 5 stars!
Review: I am retired and have the time to read about 3 books a week. I found this book on our local library's free exchange rack. I had never read any of Ms. Kinsale's books and didn't realize till now what I have been missing. I have read a few 5 star rated books lately which can't hold a candle to her writing. So if I could I would rate this closer to a 10. The story covers so much of interest that I couldn't put this down and finished it in 2 days. S.T. is the sweetest hero ever. The story brings in training of horses like the famous Lippizan stallions, Marquis de Sade and the Hellfire Club, religious fanatics, inner ear damage leaving deafness and loss of equilibrium. A man hopelessly in love and a woman bent on revenge, quite the switch. As you can tell I loved this book and her spellbinding storytelling. I can't wait to find more of her books and this is going on my keeper shelf.{:o} But I will return another book to the library to keep me honest.
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Summary: Magnificent Book - Horrible Printing Job
Review: I have read all of Laura Kinsale's novels. I saw "The Prince of Midnight" in a grocery store back in 91. I practically ran to it. The cover was absolutely gorgeous. Fabio was on the cover sitting on a horse. This cover was the first romance novel to show a man without a woman. The storyline was interesting, different than others I have read. I have read and re-read this novel so many times that I had to end up buying a hardcover edition. I also recommend Brenda Joyce's Scandouls Love. Its too bad most romance novels today don't have the dashing prince with the damsel in distress on the covers. Pictures are what attracts me first, then I read the back for the storyline. Buy this book, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: This book was great!
Review: I have read all of Laura Kinsale's novels. I saw "The Prince of Midnight" in a grocery store back in 91. I practically ran to it. The cover was absolutely gorgeous. Fabio was on the cover sitting on a horse. This cover was the first romance novel to show a man without a woman. The storyline was interesting, different than others I have read. I have read and re-read this novel so many times that I had to end up buying a hardcover edition. I also recommend Brenda Joyce's Scandouls Love. Its too bad most romance novels today don't have the dashing prince with the damsel in distress on the covers. Pictures are what attracts me first, then I read the back for the storyline. Buy this book, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: the most unusual romance I've read
Review: I read quite a few romance novels and his by far is one of the best I've ever read.
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Summary: A must-read, five star keeper
Review: Is it possible to read a Laura Kinsale book without feeling captured, body and soul, and held prisoner for 400 pages? In this story, S.T. Maitland, a legendary English highwayman--dangerous and larger than life--has been brought to his knees by an explosion which renders him deaf in one ear and racked by sudden, debilitating bouts of vertigo that leave him staggering, nauseous and wretched. S.T. exiles himself to a decrepit French castle to lick his wounds and mark his days in monotonous anonymity with his only companion, a strange half-wild, half-tame wolf named Nemo. Into this suspended life comes Leigh Strachan, a damaged but beautiful young woman bent on avenging the deaths of her parents and sisters. She seeks the Prince of Midnight to aid her in her plans for revenge. What she finds is not her Seigneur de Minuit, but a shattered hero of the night, seemingly incapable of helping either her or himself. Their journey of discovery is told in some of the richest prose I have encountered since Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides. This is storytelling at its best and will leave you breathless to the end.
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Summary: The Best Laura Kinsale
Review: Laura Kinsale is a gem and a wonderful writer. Her characters are always unique, the plot always original, never to be fit into the usual and often time tiresome mold of this genre. I truly fell in love with the flawed, overly romantic, swashbuckling S.T. This book left me satisfied in the end. It was never dull, always an entertaining adventure. I would give it ten stars if I could.
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Summary: The best romance writer EVER
Review: Laura Kinsale is without a doubt the best romance writer of all time. No one else can do a romantic story about two people who are so wounded. This book has that magic formula that only Kinsale does so well -- at the beginning you're convinced the hero & heroine could never possibly be happy together; by the ending, you can't imagine them happy with anyone else. To say more would be to give away the plot. Any of her books is a sure-fire winner.
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Summary: Kinsale is like no other!
Review: Prince of Midnight... I bought this a long time ago and finally have settle down to actually read it. I enjoyed the novel. It had twists and turns that you don't expect until you read them. Kinsale creates original, believable and intriguing characters for her stories. No book and story are alike with her. She get a fresh new scenerio every time. In this story, the myth of the notorious highwayman "The Prince of Midnight" is a huge legend in London... the vindicator, the protector, the theif, the charmer. When her town is highjacked by a priest who brainwashes the town and destroys her family, Leigh goes in search of the fabled hero to teach her how to fight so she can kill her family's murderer. She travels all the way to France only to find a stumbling, drunk shadow of the fabled hero living in solitude in the Alps. The travel across land and sea back to England... and find themselves in precarious positions along the way. The only thing that racked my brain was that Leigh was so frustrating even I wanted to yell at her as much as the hero did. But Laura Kinsale is so wonderful in her storytelling I gave it 4 stars!
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Summary: Kinsale is like no other!
Review: Prince of Midnight... I bought this a long time ago and finally have settle down to actually read it. I enjoyed the novel. It had twists and turns that you don't expect until you read them. Kinsale creates original, believable and intriguing characters for her stories. No book and story are alike with her. She get a fresh new scenerio every time. In this story, the myth of the notorious highwayman "The Prince of Midnight" is a huge legend in London... the vindicator, the protector, the theif, the charmer. When her town is highjacked by a priest who brainwashes the town and destroys her family, Leigh goes in search of the fabled hero to teach her how to fight so she can kill her family's murderer. She travels all the way to France only to find a stumbling, drunk shadow of the fabled hero living in solitude in the Alps. The travel across land and sea back to England... and find themselves in precarious positions along the way. The only thing that racked my brain was that Leigh was so frustrating even I wanted to yell at her as much as the hero did. But Laura Kinsale is so wonderful in her storytelling I gave it 4 stars!
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