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The Chieftain's Curse (2013)

by Frances Housden(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Escape Publishing - Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

series

Chieftain

review 1: It's all pretty good. Not great, but ok.Graded down because the evil brother is gay. Sound petty? Imagine there are three gay people. Only. Well, ok there's a guy with mild aspersions cast on his masculinity. But there are three. The brother who is gay and kills the older brother and plots with his lover-who is the only black person, too-to kill his father, sister, and nephew. Because reasons. The lover also tried to rape the nephew. The third gay guy is also a pederast who tries to attack another character. That's it. Is that really it? All the gays are evil?
review 2: Unusual but Absorbing Tale from the 11th century Scottish HighlandsIt took me a while to get used to the author’s writing style and the amount of introspection in between lines of dialog, but ... moreonce I did, I found this tale from the Highlands held my interest. Housden has captured the feel of a medieval keep and has given us some wonderful characters. Set in 1081 in Northeast Scotland, it tells of Euan, Laird of the McArthurs, and lord of Cragenlaw Castle, who desperately wants an heir but a witch’s curse has left him with three dead wives who lost their lives and his sons in childbirth. Morag Farquhar, only daughter of Baron Wolfsdale of Northumbria helped the young Scot 12 years earlier when she was 14 and he was severely wounded on the battlefield, and as he healed, gave him her innocence only to have him leave her. Now she is fleeing her brother who has succeeded her father as Baron Wolfsdale, and hoping to find a haven with her former lover. Morag arrives at Euan’s castle on a stormy night with an 11-year-old boy in tow who she says is her brother. Euan doesn’t recognize Morag, but sees her as just the woman he needs when she tells him she is barren for he can take her as his leman without worrying about getting her with child. Having few options, and still caring for the man who left her all those years ago, Morag does not object.It’s pretty clear from the beginning that Rob is Euan’s child though Morag doesn’t tell Euan. Morag, who is not a Scot, seems to blend in well with Euan’s clan, albeit the women keep their distance from her. Housden has developed the characters well and weaves an absorbing story of envy, treachery, lies and second chances. The lives of the main characters and families are all intertwined which leads to some fascinating twists and turns. less

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