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Lover's Knot (2009)

by Donald Hardy(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0762436859 (ISBN13: 9780762436859)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Running Press

review 1: 4.5 stars rounded down for making me cry.I love a doomed romance. Everything is so much more acute and fraught and tragically romantic. Don't let the poorly photoshopped cover fool you, it belies a deeply sad and beautiful book about young love gone awry and hurtful secrets and stupid decisions. I actually can't review this very coherently because I'm still quite emotional. I will say that it very atmospheric and well written; and that if you're fond of gothic-type romance, then definitely give this one a try.
review 2: I liked this book, but had a few problems with it that kept me from giving it more stars. first of all, I had to suspend my disbelief that 2 gay men living with each other for several years wouldn't realize that each was in love with the other. ... moreI also found it hard to believe that any of the inhabitants of the village in Cornwall where Jonathan inherited the farm were so accepting of his being a homosexual. Granted, no all of the villagers knew about this, but enough of them did and apparently approved, even at the turn of the century. I also thought the relationship between Jonathan and Alayne didn't seem to even come alive until the end of the book. Until then, they just acted like they were friends on a holiday. I found the parts written about Nat and Jonathan to be much more interesting. There were a few things that puzzled me about the storyline. Why would the ghost of Nat only appear to Alayne? Why not Jonathan, with whom he had made the blood vow? I really don't understand why Rose thought that Jonathan drove Nat to his death when she was the one who pushed him off the cliff. I also didn't get why Nat would rape Jonathan if he was so much in love with him. I thought the author did a pretty good job of putting the reader in the period of time in which the story took place. The language that the characters used also seemed authentic with no glaring anachronisms. I also got the feeling that Jonathan was portrayed as being a much younger man than he actually was and that Nat acted like a much older man than he was. I was actually kind of surprised that this book got so many five star ratings. I thought it had just too many problems with plotting and character development for me to love this book. less

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