Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music
Gordon Mumma, Michelle Fillion and Christian Wolff
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Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark...
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
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This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster' and...
The Story of Hampton Court Palace
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Hampton Court Palace, to the south-west of London, is one of the most famous and magnificent...
The Queen's Man: John Shakespeare - the Beginning
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Includes BONUS short story For fans of C J Sansom and S J Parris, THE QUEEN'S MAN introduces the...
Dark Fire
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Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling historical crime...
The English Wife
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Anna belle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family,...
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769 (Royal Diaries #4)
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"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing...
Downton Tabby
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Anyone for tea and crumpets . . . and murder? Caro Lamont, amateur sleuth and well-respected...
Deborah (162 KP) rated Highland Surrender in Books
Dec 21, 2018
Sadly, Fiona, the heroine, appears as a right Little Madam for most of the first part of the book. Even after feeling betrayed by her brothers, she is unable to reasonably question anything beyond the clan indoctrination and acts simply like a spoilt child. It's quite hard to see why Myles falls for her at all.
That said, overall this isn't a bad book. I think a bit more on the history side would have made this a more solid and exciting novel, as the ending was really rather good, but it seemed that it couldn't decide if it wanted to be an historical novel, with a romance element (think Elizabeth Chadwick) or something more akin to a bodice ripper (and nothing wrong with that!). You started off feeling there was a bigger plot at play, but this seemed to get a bit lost in the middle, before a quite exciting ending after all.
Not sure it's worth a second read, but I'd consider this author again in the future.
The Selected Letters of John Cage
John Cage and Laura Kuhn
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This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the...