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Summary: I just couldn't get through it....
Review: For the first time....I was not able to get through one of Ms. Small's books...I love almost anything she does...but I guess I'm getting tire of the format...In all honesty, I was hoping she would begin to explore her "American" roots now that Fortune and her family were in the New World. Maybe that would make her books more intersting. I just keep getting the feeling that Ms. Small's publishers are providing her with the book and all she has to do is change the name of the characters. This format is not doing justice to the talent that Ms. Small has for the genre.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE AUTHOR !
Review: I am a long-time fan of Bertice Small & the O'Malley Saga and lucky enough to have received a reply every time I wrote to her. I was thrilled to realize that Flanna is a Gordon and that, once again, the O'Malley, Hay, Leslie and Gordon families are united by marriage. I am hoping Bertrice will continue writing, maybe about the Gordon family again? Thank you!!
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Summary: Very Disappointing.....Where is the passion??????
Review: I am an avid reader of Beatrice Small, the book store calls me to tell me when one of her new books arrive. I sincerely wish they hadn't called me last week.
In this book she tells the story of Patrick Leslie, son of Jasmine and heir to the Leslie estates. Jasmine tell her son to fine a bride and do his duty to his line. He doesn't show the passion you would exspect from Jasime's son. He is more a mama's boy. (TO Winey and To good to Stand)
Flanna is wild so you start to have some hope that there will be fire but that falls to the wayside soon enough. I exspected more touble and maybe a bit of romance between her and the king. that was a disappointment to. When is any of her stories has he king been refused and taken it so well????
Maybe if Ms Small had thought of a handsome hywayman or even a Scottish Laide that see's Flanna and capures her only to be saved by the then strong and brave Patrick. <NO SUCH LUCK>
This as very disappointing and will be files away as a mistake. i hope that the old Beatrice Small will find her way back and write with more of the old passion. Until then I shall reread her old novels and hope for the best.
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Summary: is this even the same author who wrote skye o'malley?
Review: i did not know how to review this book. why? well i guess if you look at this book as a historical romance you may find it to be a good read-hence the 3 stars. on the other hand if you have read smalls previous works such as the kadin , and of course skye o'malley( the first book in the series) i feel you will be dissapointed - i would have given 1 or 2 stars. I read this book and then decided to go back and read skye o'malley. what a shock! if i didnt see the authors name on the cover i would honestly believe someone had taken over the these characters and wrote their own story. as i sat and was once again engrosed in the tale of skye and her wonderful adventures in a book filled with feeling,romance, passion and lots of details and exotic places that set the atmosphere of a older bertrice small book i began to wish that someone had taken over and written just beyond tomorrow. bottom line- if your a small fan i dont think this story will thrill you that much. if you have never read ms.small before you may enjoy it but i would suggest starting with skye O'malley as i feel this book and her other older ones are far superior.
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Summary: A silly story`
Review: I have been devoted to Skye O'Malley and her legacy series. It is hard to believe that a blood relative of Skye's -- her great-grandson Patrick Leslie -- could be so boring. I understand that the focus is on the women, but Patrick comes across as a country bumpking with no intelligence. James Leslie and others loved the country but at least appeared to have more of a spark about them. Flanna's plot to help the king was silly. The book just didn't seem to have much of a story. But with main characters such as these, it is not difficult to see why.
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Summary: This was just bad
Review: I have only read this book once, because i just can not bring myself to pick it up again and suffer. i got so tired of the female lead going on about how she didn't want to be known as the " do naught duchess". It got really irritating. And Patrick was nothing like any of Ms. Small's former male leads. i kept hoping for a brick to hit him and knock him silly. This will be the only book of Ms. Small's i'll never purchase new. there was no adventure, no spark, nothing but my own determination to finish this book.
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Summary: This was just bad
Review: I have only read this book once, because i just can not bring myself to pick it up again and suffer. i got so tired of the female lead going on about how she didn't want to be known as the " do naught duchess". It got really irritating. And Patrick was nothing like any of Ms. Small's former male leads. i kept hoping for a brick to hit him and knock him silly. This will be the only book of Ms. Small's i'll never purchase new. there was no adventure, no spark, nothing but my own determination to finish this book.
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Summary: I have GOT to stop buying this woman's books
Review: I keep buying Bertrice Small's books because I am trying to find the same magic that was in Skye O'Malley and The Kadin. Apparently...so is she. Either bring Skye back from the dead or let her go. Each book starts off with "I'm your third cousin twice removed from the half brother that was the fourth son of the fifth wife of So and so...." There wasn't anything new in this story IN FACT the plot was ABOUT trying to be like Skye O'Malley. START A NEW STORY
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Summary: JUST BEYOND TOMORROW BY BERTRICE SMALL
Review: I REALLY ENJOYED THIS EXCITING STORY. I COULD NOT STOP READING IT. I HOPE THERE WILL BE MORE STORIES ABOUT JASAMINE'S OTHER CHILDREN. THEY WOULD MAKE GREAT STORY TELLING.BEATRICE HAS A GIFT FOR WRITING GREAT EROTIC HISTORICAL NOVELS. I HAVE READ AND ENJOYED HER OTHER BOOKS THAT FOR ME BEGAN WITH THE SKYE O'MALLEY SERIES. I HAVE ALSO READ THE KADIN (JIMMIE LESLIE'S ANCESTOE). IT WAS REALLY GREAT. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES. I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT JASMINE'S YOUNGEST AUTUMN AND HOW SHE MET HER NEW HUSBAND.
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Summary: Liked it, but I won't be reading the entire series.
Review: I was surprised by all the negative reviews this book has received. This is the first book by Beatrice Small that I read, and while I enjoyed it very much, I won't be reading the rest of the series. By what I have read in the reviews the other books are more about erotica than lifelong love and happy endings. Maybe my taste is a little shallow, but is what I prefer nonetheless. I enjoy sensuality in my romance novels as much as the next person, but I also like happy endings, and I don't like it when characters I have come to care about die untimely. I also don't like it much when the heroines have several husbands and lovers. I want' to read about two individuals that meet, fall in love, work through their differences and find their happy ending. I get attached to my heroes, and I can not imagine reading a romance novel where the hero dies and the heroine goes on to have other lovers or even worse, while married to the hero has other lovers. It seems to me that in this series only the women are important, the men can be replaced, and many of them die prematurely. Also, I don't like to travel through various generations, because I don't like to see the characters of previous books get old and die. I know this is the reality of life (people do get old and die), but I don't like that much reality in my books. For example, in this book, if I had read Jasmine and James story before, only to see him die at the beginning of this book, it would have broken my heart. Still, this book is very well written. I have read dozens of romance novels and I can appreciate quality when I see it. The story was fast paced and entertainning, the historical facts accurate and well mixed into the story, the love scenes are very sensual and the characters very likeable, specially Patrick, because Flanna is really foolish, naive and exasperating at times, with all her talk of patriotism and loyalty to the king. I guess it's fortunate that I stumbled upon one of the few Beatrice Small books that I would be able to enjoy. I'm sure the others are very good too, as many readers say, but they are just not my cup of tea.
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