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Summary: AS ALWAYS, EXCELLENT!
Review: AS ALWAYS, MS. SMALL HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB. THE WOMEN IN HER BOOKS ARE ALWAYS PORTRAYED AS STRONG, CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT, AND ADVENTEROUS. ESPECIALLY THE O'MALLEY WOMEN. ALSO WE CAN NOT FORGET THE INCREDIBLE HOT LOVE SCENES SHE WRITES.BERTRICE SMALL'S BOOKS ARE A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES ROMANCE NOVELS.
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Summary: CAPTIVATING
Review: I HAVE ENJOYED ALL OF MS. SMALLS BOOKS. ESPECIALLY THE SERIES INVOLVING SKYE O'MALLEY. UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE LOST THE ONE BOOK "LOVE REMEMBER ME". IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO GET IT, PLEASE E-MAIL ME.
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Summary: Hot Read!
Review: I have read all of this author's works. She writes w/exceptional detail, and really Hot dialect...
The heroine in this book is priceless, with the attitudes of women today. Ms Small keeps the action going throughout the book, and gives this and all of her heroines a wonderful love. I am hoping to see more of the O'Malley series, because of the excitement, the abandon the women have, and the way that most of them are true to their homes, and their families.
Read this book, you will not regret it..
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Summary: If you haven't read the first 4, don't even try it.
Review: I like this author and I have read the first of the series, Skye O'Malley. But, I couldn't follow this at all. If you haven't read all the first 4 (recently enough to remember them also), you will never be able to get through it.
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Summary: Fantastic! Rich and lush!
Review: I love this book which I believe is Book #5 in the O'Malley series. Valentina is a great heroine: very courageous and intelligent. Her quest to discover herself takes her to exciting and dangerous places. I love how Beatrice Small tied in part of this story with Cat Leslie's of "Love Wild and Fair." One of my all-time favorites in the O'Malley Series.
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Summary: One of my favorites in the Skye O'Malley saga
Review: I truly enjoyed Valentina and thought her character better than Velvet and Jasmine. I loved how this book touched on so many other stories. The Mediteranean island where Janet Leslie was taken (see "The Kadin") and the return of Cica Pasha. (see "Love Wild and Fair"). Of course, I loved seeing Esther Kira again. Valentina is stronger than Aidan, but very much her mother's daughter. I can't say enough good things about this book. There is romance, adventure, and on-the-edge-of-your-seat-suspense.
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Summary: One of my favorites in the Skye O'Malley saga
Review: I truly enjoyed Valentina and thought her character better than Velvet and Jasmine. I loved how this book touched on so many other stories. The Mediteranean island where Janet Leslie was taken (see "The Kadin") and the return of Cica Pasha. (see "Love Wild and Fair"). Of course, I loved seeing Esther Kira again. Valentina is stronger than Aidan, but very much her mother's daughter. I can't say enough good things about this book. There is romance, adventure, and on-the-edge-of-your-seat-suspense.
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Summary: One of my favorites in the Skye O'Malley saga
Review: I truly enjoyed Valentina and thought her character better than Velvet and Jasmine. I loved how this book touched on so many other stories. The Mediteranean island where Janet Leslie was taken (see "The Kadin") and the return of Cica Pasha. (see "Love Wild and Fair"). Of course, I loved seeing Esther Kira again. Valentina is stronger than Aidan, but very much her mother's daughter. I can't say enough good things about this book. There is romance, adventure, and on-the-edge-of-your-seat-suspense.
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Summary: This one isn't too bad at all....
Review: If you are a Bertrice Small fan, you won't be disappointed by this book. I have always found the O'Malley family to be an interesting one, and Small takes another "minor" character and drops him into his own adventures - and creates a sequel to THAT adventure. The story of Padriac and Valentina ties up some loose ends in the O'Malley saga, and it does wonderfully well. The premise is not an unbelievable one, unlike some others of this genre. Not bad. Give it a read.
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Summary: Great Heroine, Strained Plot
Review: Of all the O' Malley heroines (including Skye herself), Valentina St. Michaels Barrows is by far my favorite. Small portrays her as GENUINELY clever, kind-hearted, brave and witty; we're told she's beautiful, but that somehow doesn't seem important in light of her warm personality. Why this wonderful heroine had to be dropped into a muddle of a book is a mystery. Suddenly Valentina is made to doubt her paternity and faster than you can swear "God's foot!" she's off to "the East" to discover the truth (even though candidates two and three are presumed dead). Worse, she's burdened with two clods for suitors--Tom Ashburne and Padraic Burke who is Valentina's own cousin (smacks of incest, no?). Once in "the East" Valentina falls into all kinds of melodramatic, sadistic sexual traps which I did not find erotic so much as disturbing and a little disgusting. Methnks Small needs to lay off the harem intrigue--it really does get dull. Finally, this book includes threads from Love Wild and Fair and the Kadin, in addition to previous O'Malley novels. This makes for more of a curtain call than a book. In closing, I did find Valentina's special relationship with Elizabeth I to be tender and touching. The two characters seem to bring out the excellence in each other. Why not dump the questionable romance and craft a novel between England's great ruler and her favorite servant?
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