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Summary: Great quotes for LAIRD OF THE WIND
Review: "King spins a complex, mesmerizing story of betrayal, retribution, and healing...a lyrical, compelling love story...exquisitely vivid descriptions are beautiful bonuses." -LIBRARY JOURNAL "No one weaves the magic and mystery of Scotland into passionate romance better than Susan King!" -Mary Jo Putney "Lavishly crafted... brilliantly combines history and romance...unforgettable...spellbinding." -- ROMANTIC TIMES(4 1/2)
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Summary: A fabulous book!
Review: A friend recommended Susan King's books to me, and now I'm reading everything she has written so far! LAIRD OF THE WIND is one of the best romances that I have read in ages, and a great Scottish romance. Susan King writes beautiful prose that pulls you into the story, and her history is always accurate. The characters are wonderful in this one. Jamie Lindsay is a warm, wise hero, with dark secrets that haunt him. He is always good to the heroine, and even when the tension is high between them and he loses patience with her, or thinks she has betrayed him, he is never unkind or selfish, and always strong. The goshawk is great in this, very different! The way its training is woven into the story is fascinating. The goshawk helps to bring the hero and heroine together, and it is all very believable. I loved the movie "Braveheart", and this is a MUST READ for anyone who loved that movie. Susan King takes the story of Wallace just a little farther just when you thought it was over. This is an amazing and wonderful book and my favorite of this author's books so far!(I am going to read her newest soon.) If you want an in-depth and satisfying story with accurate history and deep emotions and wonderful characters, you will love this book.
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Summary: A fabulous book!
Review: A friend recommended Susan King's books to me, and now I'm reading everything she has written so far! LAIRD OF THE WIND is one of the best romances that I have read in ages, and a great Scottish romance. Susan King writes beautiful prose that pulls you into the story, and her history is always accurate. The characters are wonderful in this one. Jamie Lindsay is a warm, wise hero, with dark secrets that haunt him. He is always good to the heroine, and even when the tension is high between them and he loses patience with her, or thinks she has betrayed him, he is never unkind or selfish, and always strong. The goshawk is great in this, very different! The way its training is woven into the story is fascinating. The goshawk helps to bring the hero and heroine together, and it is all very believable. I loved the movie "Braveheart", and this is a MUST READ for anyone who loved that movie. Susan King takes the story of Wallace just a little farther just when you thought it was over. This is an amazing and wonderful book and my favorite of this author's books so far!(I am going to read her newest soon.) If you want an in-depth and satisfying story with accurate history and deep emotions and wonderful characters, you will love this book.
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Summary: Wonderful storytelling, touching characters
Review: As a huge fan of Scottish history, I was so happy to discover Susan King late last year. This is the second of her novels I have read and I think it's a wonderful combination of Scottish history, a complicated relationship, and a bit of the paranormal with Isabel's visions. Both Isabel and Jamie are complex characters and there is an interesting development in their relationship -- from captor and captive to friends to lovers. Even though at one point he takes the role of her captor, Jamie never treats Isabel badly or loses respect for her. And in an odd way he sets her free. I always learn something new with King's novels and the descriptions of falconry here are fascinating. Love scenes don't come until very late in the book and they are sensual and lovely. This is a thinking person's romance...I recommend it and all of her other books.
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Summary: a very sensual mystical romance.
Review: Born with the gift of second sight, Isobel of Aberlady has a vision of a compelling enemy. She envisages a dark rider known as the Border Hawk, who will rescue her from her besieged castle battlements,and tenderly dress the wounds she acquires from the advancing English garrison. However it quickly becomes apparent that James Lindsay has an alterior motive in rescuing Lady Isobel. Blaming her visions as being instrumental in his downfall, he decides to take Isobel hostage and use her as a bargaining tool to free his cousin, Margaret from the clutches of Sir Ralph Leslie, Isobel's intended husband. James Lindsey was once a noble Scottish Knight. Now he is an outlaw, unjustly accused of betraying his leader, William Wallace, to the English. He wants his good name back and sees Black Isobel, the seeress, as his only means of achieving this. James Lindsay is a man of integrity, passion and purpose, who constantly fights against his growing attraction towards Isobel. Isobel, in turn, proves to be a woman who grows in courage and loyalty as the story unfolds. In Laird of the Wind, Susan King proves excellent in her ability to bring together the beauty and wildness of the Scottish highlands. The enigmatic mysticism that permeates throughout this book, adds to the building sexual tension which develops between Isobel and Jamie. This is a magical story which will enthrall.
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Summary: A Scottish Romance With Depth
Review: Having read all of Ms King's books, I found this one to be one of her most intriquing reads. Although not my absolute favorite, she provides the reader with a flawed hero struggling with an internal conflict: a flaw not of his making but from the conflicts around him. Add to this a storyline that is unique in its inception and creative in its delivery. The conflict between the hero and heroine and the influences from without make this an exceptional read. Ms Kings working knowledge of Scottish history along with a unique talent to create plots that are unique is what sets her apart from other historical authors such as Amanda Quick, whose stories are formula writing needing only to insert a new heroine/hero in the same old plot so that each is a reflection of the last. Julie Garwood(whose Scottish stories are among my favorites) are sweet comfort reads which never create the intense internal conflicts that a Susan King books does; to compare them is like comparing CNN to CBS, each has it's own niche. Garwood books lack any real historical content, having read them all can't say I came away learning anything new about Scotland but I don't think that is her intent. The reader gets a great story with Ms. King so historically centered that the reader feels they are there. Ms. King's books are not comfort reads but are wonderful full bodied stories rich with internal conflict and a history well researched. Any book by Ms.King is a keeper to be re-read when the mood strikes.
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Summary: pulls at your heartstrings
Review: I bought this book while browsing and reading the customers reveiws. I love Scottish tales and discovering Susan King was a treasure! I have since read 3 more of her novels- just finishing The Angel Knight- and I loved it as much as Laird of the Wind. You pay a little more attention to Susan Kings work, if you like accurate history it is wonderful. This story is so vivid, in your mind's eye you can picture the settings. I can't say enough good about this book. About all of her books! Like one reviewer said, you can't wait to get to the ending, but wish it never would!
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Summary: A truly wonderful Scottish tale.
Review: I have recently discovered this author, and I love all the ones I've read so far, and I'm searching for the others. Her books are always sensitive, intelligent and emotional. No shallow stuff, silly stuff, etc. that you find a lot in romances. Her characters and her stories always seem so real, and I like that. LAIRD OF THE WIND is so powerful, and it made me cry. It's one of my favorites. Ms. King is really talented!!
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Summary: Another outstanding tale from King
Review: I loved Angel Knight, Raven's Moon and Heather Moon, so I was delighted when King continued her fine, deft hand with another Scottish Tale. Isobel of Aberlady was born with the "sight" and she has seen visions of a dark knight who comes to besiege her castle, both a rescuer and kidnapper! James Lindsay was a Scottish Noble, but has been outlawed, accused of betraying his leader. James is determined to win his good name back, and he sees Isobel as a weapon to get his justice. James intends on using Isobel to gain the freedom of his cousin. Only plans go awry and they must take to the forrest to escape their enemies. Ah, I wonder if a wee bit of James Douglas is not the basis for this James, for all the dashing and legend of the Black Douglas rests easily on the mantle of King's character. King is unsurpassed in her skill to weave a true Scottish tale.
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Summary: Another outstanding tale from King
Review: I loved Angel Knight, Raven's Moon and Heather Moon, so I was delighted when King continued her fine, deft hand with another Scottish Tale. Isobel of Aberlady was born with the "sight" and she has seen visions of a dark knight who comes to besiege her castle, both a rescuer and kidnapper! James Lindsay was a Scottish Noble, but has been outlawed, accused of betraying his leader. James is determined to win his good name back, and he sees Isobel as a weapon to get his justice. James intends on using Isobel to gain the freedom of his cousin. Only plans go awry and they must take to the forrest to escape their enemies. Ah, I wonder if a wee bit of James Douglas is not the basis for this James, for all the dashing and legend of the Black Douglas rests easily on the mantle of King's character. King is unsurpassed in her skill to weave a true Scottish tale.
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