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Border Moonlight
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Overview
Angry over being rejected as a suitor for beautiful Lady Sibylla Cavers, Lord Simon Murray gets another chance with the lady when he helps her rescue a drowning child, but their growing love for each other is threatened by political intrigue and threats against Simon's estate of Elishaw. Original.
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Lady Sibylla Cavers is ripe for marriage, yet she's rejected the first three suitors her father brought. When one of these suitors, the dashing Lord Simon Murray, rescues both Lady Sibylla and the small child she was trying to pull from the churning River Tweed, Sibylla begins to see Lord Simon in a new light. As he cares for her and the child until both are recovered from their near-deaths, she finds admirable - even lovable - qualities in Lord Simon. But political intrigue surrounding the powerful governor of Scotland will throw obstacles in the path if Simon's and Sibylla's budding love. Simon will fight for his inherited estate, while Sibylla will use all of her wits to protect their future together. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 415
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 4.25" Height: 6.75"
Weight: 0.45 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jan 1, 2009
ISBN 0446541354
EAN 9780446541350
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 | Interesting Story, Enjoyable Characters Jul 12, 2009 |
I enjoy Amanda Scott's historicals. Not that I'm an expert on Medieval Scottish history or culture, but she appears to have done a great deal of research. At times, I get bogged down in the politics and convoluted intrigues. Otherwise, I really like reading how Scottish/English (hence the "Border" in so many of her titles) nobles lived their day to day lives. And I really, really like that I was born in modern times. :-)
Her books are Romance but very sedate as far as sex scenes go. Scott really seems to writes her characters as people of their time. So her heroes do not fall into the Enlightened Man category and while they may mellow a bit by the end of the book, they still see women as subservient to men and under their control. Scott's heroines are intelligent, often very bold, even pushy women who chafe under society's restrictions but they understand that there are limits to how much they can do as they would like. So they work within those limits to achieve their goals.
In Border Moonlight, gutsy Sybilla (from ages 14 - 16 she refused three marriages her father arranged) ends up getting to know one of her rejected bethrotheds a few years after leaving him at the alter. As she comes to see a different, kinder side to Simon's cold, domineering ways, he begins to appreciate her intelligence and ingenuity. There is give and take as the relationship develops and as they face a variety of threats to their happiness, holdings and even lives.
It was nice to see the two characters grow and change both as individuals and in their interactions with each other. I found Border Moonlight an enjoyable read about two very likable people who build a relationship and strategy for survival in a challenging environment.
| | | | Enchanting Review: Border Moonlight Jun 11, 2009 |
BORDER MOONLIGHT
AMANDA SCOTT
Historical Romance
Hachette
Sensuality rating: Spicy
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Lady Sibylla Cavers is a woman who knows what she wants, or rather what she does not want. She has rejected three men at the altar and she had no problem doing it. She will not be married to a man that she does not like.
Laird Simon Murray was one of the men that Lady Sibylla has rejected. At first he took it personally but eventually he learned that she is just a stubborn woman who will do whatever she wants with no regards to other people.
Lady Sibylla knows that she only has a limited time left with her family. Her father has given up on her getting married and has told her simply that after she helps her sister marry she is to find elsewhere to live. She has accepted this with no problem because that is better than living with a man she can't stand. When she was out for a ride she heard a child calling for help. What she finds is a child about to drown in the river. She does not even hesitate when she rides into the rapid current to save her. What she was not expecting was to fall in and almost drown herself. The child's frantic cries are then heard by more random bystanders who must come in and rescue her and the child. She has no idea that her hero will be none other than one of her past ex suitors for her hand in marriage. She rejected him once, how can she reject him again without seeming rude? Or will she find that her original judgment was quite haste and he is a rather good man?
BORDER MOONLIGHT started off great. I loved the beginning! A woman who was not afraid to stand up for herself and not be bullied into a marriage with a person she cannot honestly stand. I thought that Sibylla was a strong minded woman which was rare for this time period. But what I found was she was quite whinny and did whatever she wanted no matter who got in the middle of it. She had no regard for other people and their feelings. It got annoying fast. Simon was a hero without a back bone. He drove me nuts. He could not stand up for himself and he was constantly letting others affect his opinions and viewpoints. I felt the characters did not click and did not have that spark that I like my books to have. There could have been more of an attraction whether it was physical or spiritual. But the hardest part of reading this story was the language. I understand it was specific to the time period but I had a heck of a time trying to understand what the author was trying to say. I would quite often have to read things out loud to try to figure out what it was saying. This was a good historical romance and definitely worth reading but not one that I would keep on my shelf.
Amanda Scott has many historical books out including her popular Border series. [...]
Jennifer
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
MAY 2009 | | |  | Border Moonlight May 9, 2009 |
| I know Amanda Scott, and have nearly all her books. I felt this one is one of her best. The conflict between the two characters is marvelous! And the Scottish history within, which I do know a lot about, puts me right back into bonnie Scotland. Three cheers for Amanda! | | |  | Historically-rich, border romance novel BCM Apr 1, 2009 |
Border Moonlight is a historical romance novel that gives you a fairly realistic sense of border life. The Author's attention to detail and the authenticity of the time period is a nice treat. I have to admit that the use of Scottish some language and their way of speaking is a significant interruption to the flow of the story and I found it necessary to stop frequently and re-read sentences so that I could figure out a particular word's meaning. The pacing is fairly good, other then the `language' issue. The characters are very likable and well developed. I really enjoyed the interactions between Sibylla and Simon, they are a feisty couple.
I would have liked this book to have had a more romantic feel and I really think that the author could have marketed this book, with a little more development, as historical fiction, not as a historical romance novel.
(6 out of 10 Diamonds) - I enjoyed it
© 2008-2009 Bobbie Crawford-McCoy (Book Reviews By Bobbie).
All rights reserved.
| | |  | Finally Gave Up Mar 25, 2009 |
| I finally gave up on this book. I have a fairly disciplined rule of never not finishing a book, but I just could not find the enjoyment in this one. The hero seemed like a mommie's boy with no back bone and I kept waiting for the spark or tension to occur between the characters. I enjoy history lessons and learning new things and I even don't mind language that is different, but it just never got me interested. Kudo's to all who have finished the book | | | Write your own review about Border Moonlight
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