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Taken By The Laird (2009)

by Margo Maguire(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061667889 (ISBN13: 9780061667886)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Regency Flings

review 1: This novel starts off with an heiress hell bent on escaping ANY marriage, but currently the one arranged for her, to a corset-wearing lecher, who runs into a smuggling satyr hiding from conniving ladies, but with no issues debauching virgins of a lesser class. Cue aggravation and wanting to choke the crap out of the male lead, because at this point, you can't REALLY call him the hero, he's more the hemorrhoid on the asshole of who should be the hero. Cue background. The story morphs into a frustrated/ing story of romance between two who have faced rejection, and found acceptance in life paths alternate to those of their birth. An enjoyable read, and one I will keep in my collection. I hope you others enjoy it as well!
review 2: I was very much torn while r... moreeading this book.I found it to be incredibly entertaining and easy reading-wise which is always a plus. I couldn't help but be compelled to continue past each chapter's end, just to see if the Brianna would finally figure out the Glenloch ghost or that Hugh would let her leave the castle.On the other hand, however, there were some definite flaws with Maguire's writing. Firstly, she was quite redundant; I feel the book could have shed 50 pages or so based on the amount of inner dialogue Bree and Hugh had the repeated. Over and over. Also, I found the ending to be rather terrible even for romance standards. It rose to climax smoothly and had a decent resolution but the dialogue between Hugh and Bree afterward, that declaration of love every reader is waiting for, fell flat for me entirely.Brianna Munro is on the run, you see. She is running from a terribly arranged marriage by her obsequious guardian. On the way through Scotland she is delayed by weather and is forced to break into a vacant-looking castle. Soon enough she finds herself not so alone.Hugh Christie, Laird of Glenloch, is tired of the high-reaching, manipulative misses of London. After a failure of a first marriage, he is content to run his whiskey free trading from Castle Glenloch, until he finds something amiss there. With the discovery of "Bridget" sneaking into his residence, his world turns upside down. The two spend close to a week holed up in the castle, barred from others due to winter snow. It doesn't take long before the flaring attraction between them cannot be ignored any longer. Hugh as a character is a decent enough fellow to follow, although he lacks genuine depth that is craved in the anecdotal devil-may-care hero. Bree is typically tolerable, if not a bit unrealistically stubborn.I would possibly consider another by Maguire. less

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