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The Mammoth Book Of Irish Romance (2010)

by Trisha Telep(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0762438312 (ISBN13: 9780762438310)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Running Press

review 1: 20 passionate tales of Myth, Magic & History. I got this book in order to read Jenna Maclain’s Cin Craven story “The Eternal Warrior” (It’s called just ‘The Warrior’ in this anthology.) But being as I’m a voracious reader, I read the whole book. (BTW: it says 21 stories, but there are only 20.) 1)‘The Blue Pebble’ by Shirley Kennedy. 2 stars. Jane Eyre with a Merlin sidekick. 2)‘The Ballad of Rosamund’ by Claire Delacroix. 3 stars. Jewels of Kinfairlie trilogy 3.5. I reviewed this as a separate book. Please refer to that. 3)‘Oracle’ by Margo Maguire. 3 stars. A Druzai oracle princess sees a vision of a dark magic attack on the Kings of southern Ireland and goes to help. She finds she has to make a choice between making her final orac... morele vows or to claim the King of her heart. 4)‘The Trials of Bryan Murphy’ by Cat Adams. 4 stars. Bryan is a human who has to rescue his half fae wife Bridget from her fae captors by facing three trials. He’s already won two by just reaching her. Can he win the third? 5)‘Nia and the Beast of Killarney Wood’ by Cindy Miles. 4 stars. Due to Mia’s face being scarred by a fire, her father sends her unwillingly off to a lonely life as a nun. But Nia escapes into the nearby haunted wood only to fall into a dark cave, trapped inside with the ‘Beast’ of the forest. 6)‘Beyond the Veil’ by Patricia Rice. 3 stars. Finn, a mortally wounded warrior returns home to find his wife dead leaving behind his newborn son. A hundred years later, a princess attends the stillborn birth of the last male O’Brion heir. But the sidhe have other plans and replace the dead child with Finn’s son, leaving Finn there as his protector. 7)‘Shifter Made’ by Jennifer Ashley. 4 stars. Shifters Unbound series 0.5. I reviewed this as a separate book. Please refer to that. 8)‘Daughter of the Sea’ by Kathleen Givens. 4 stars. Snow White type story where a human princess has to preform three tasks under the sea to save her beloved from her step-mother’s spell. The magic bathing cap is interesting. 9)‘The Warrior’ by Jenna Maclaine. 5 stars. Cin Craven series 0.5 (AKA: The Eternal Warrior). I reviewed this as a separate book. Please refer to that. 10)‘Eternal Strife’ by Dara England. 4 stars. In order to get the three ingredients for the medicine for her mother, Sinead promises each group of the creatures of the Lake, Meadow and Forest to return to them next day. Who will she choose? 11)‘Quicksilver’ by Cindy Holby. 4 stars. Tired of fighting, a lone warrior seeks for a way off the island hoping to find peace and instead finds a half-drowned fae woman. She was attempting to escape from a monstrous one-eyed king who holds the key to her returning home. 12)‘The Feast of Beauty’ by Helen Scott Taylor. 5 stars. I reviewed this as a separate book. Please refer to that. 13)‘Compeer’ by Roberta Gellis. 2 stars. A bit odd and confusing. A young girl agrees to marry one of her Lord father’s peers in repayment of a debt only to find the man a brutish womanizer. She stays with intending to breed him a son, then leave the marriage. Meanwhile a young soldier, upon seeing her decides to win her for his own. He leaves to collect a matching fortune so they can be equals. 14)‘On Inishmore’ by Ciar Cullen. 3 stars. A struggling writer moves to the family home in Ireland to find an enigma in the form of a hag of a housekeeper and her young, beautiful granddaughter. They are never both in residence at the same time and neither one can cook. 15)‘The Morrigan’s Daughter’ by Susan Krinard. 2 stars. Two sides at war: The winners hunt down the remnants of the other. One warrior, who is half and half, feels himself a traitor to both sides begs a warrior daughter of Morrigan to kill him, but she refuses. Hard to remember who’s on whose side. 16)‘Tara’s Find’ by Nadia Williams. 4 stars. On an archeological dig, Tara digs up the well-preserved body of a man, but he’s not dead, he’s fae. So she takes him home. Now what should she do with him? 17)‘The Skrying Glass’ by Penelope Neri. 3 stars. While looking in a skrying glass, a young lady sees her future husband die on wedding day and vows never to marry. After she grows up she meets and falls in love with Kings’ nephew, but is afraid to marry him. 18)“The Houndmaster’ by Sandra Newgent. 2 stars. Strangely different. Not sure how it fits Ireland. A young girl witnesses the death of her parents by dogs, then years later go on a search for a valuable cup that was stolen at same time. She’s captured by a young man who’s destined to become the new master of the Hounds. 19)‘The Seventh Sister’ by Sue-Ellen Welfonder. 4 stars. I reviewed this as a separate book. Please refer to that. 20)‘By the Light of My Heart’ by Pat McDermott. 3 stars. Sweet story about a young man who has a dream about rescuing a young woman from the King of the fairies. Then he meets her on the road coming back from a trip, they fall in love then migrate to America.
review 2: I have to say that this took me quite a while to finish. I understand that the purpose of these Mammoth books is to showcase the different talents and entice the reader to seek out more of their work. Unfortunately in my case, it wasn't successful. There wasn't any story particularly memorable or well-written enough to make me do that. In fact, some of them were pretty ordinary. Overall, it was quite disappointing. less

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