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The Reiver (2011)

by Jackie Barbosa(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Circe Press

review 1: Short, sweet tale set in the 1500's Scotland. It is based on real events, the feud between Maxwells and Johnstones. The main characters are a product of imagination. The heroine, Jaime Johnstone is caught in stealing the cattle and mistaken for a boy brought to the Maxwell dungeon. When Duncan Maxwell discovers this mistake he is set on making her a hostage even though he doesn't know her identity. During her "imprisonment" they start to develop feelings for each other. Since the two families are enemies she is reluctant to tell him her name even after sharing his bed. Instead, she flees. Months later he catches her again but this time not in stealing rather in returning his prized horse. And he will never let go.The problem in this tale is that it's trying to compress a l... morearge amount of information and feelings in a few pages which is impossible if you want to have an interesting short story. It should have shown us only one period of their infatuation rather than their whole history and a few months of seduction. And for an erotic novella, there is nothing erotic about it. When they decide to sleep together it is only described in three sentences. This should have been a full length novella. Then it would really do it justice.
review 2: Not for my LDS or student followers. I've been reading some free Kindle books just to get a feel of what is hitting the top 100. Some books are well-written, and some are not. What I've noticed on several of the books in the romance category is that the authors think that they can throw in a little sex (sometimes a lot of sex) and tell us that the two characters are going to work out all of their differences, so they can just stop the story at that point Unfortunately that isn't true. There still must be character development; there still must be a story arc. Using dialect as a sense of place and tossing in a few explicit scenes isn't enough to carry the story. Several of these authors show a lot of promise as storytellers, but it's obvious they don't care about their craft. They are just hoping for a quick buck. Even those who give their books away free for a week every quarter hope to get enough people interested that they will buy more books from this same author, believing the dream they can make $1 million dollars a year from writing. If only becoming an author were that easy. less

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