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Title: To Burn by Claudia Dain ISBN: 0-8439-4985-6 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Abysmal
Comment: This book is really abysmal. We get no clear sense of either culture, Roman or Saxon. It is not Medieval, but the Dark ages, and very dark they are too in this book. The two of them snarl like a couple of wolves in heat. There is no sense of genuine commitment or love and the sex is pretty uninteresting. The book is littered with semi-colons I found myself counting them per page, 4 on average at the start of the book.
Her heroic struggle: to commit suicide by starving herself or working herself to death? She just ends up seeming like a selfish, short-sighted twit.
His heroic struggle? None so far as I can see. Abusing one Roman woman to get even for being made a galley slave is just too trite for words. Not to mention vindictive and foolish.
This author really needs to have her very bad habits squashed out of her. The worst offence being that she is still writing bodice ripper style books which could have been done in the 70s or 80s, certainly I can't think why they are getting published in the 2000s. There is little of interest here for the modern, clued-in sensual young woman reader. Non-consensual sex scenes offend me.
Rating: 3
Summary: Warm, but deffinately not burning
Comment: In my opinion this was a decent novel, as far as romance novels go. However, there were a number of holes in the plot that were never addressed. One being the death of Melania's father. Just because it was not Wulfred himself that killed him makes it acceptable?? Was he not the commander? Were people not killed on his orders? He had Melania laying next to her father's mutulated body for some type of perverse visual effect, but she still falls in love with him? Second, Melania constantly tries to kill herself to avoid torture and abuse, but Wulfred never really did anything to her! He stopped her from working, made sure she had good food & rest, no one touched her and then he married her, for crying out loud! For all his talk of making her suffer and such, how does that make sense? And finally where is the dialogue in this book? Most of conversation took place in their heads. I would probably pick up another book by this author, but "To Burn" was just warm at best.
Rating: 4
Summary: Original setting, compelling story
Comment: Set at the end of the Roman Empire in Britain, the story of Wulfred and Melania are classic romance in setting rarely used. Melania is a Roman whose villa is conquered by Saxon invaders, with Wulfred leading the conquering party. With the death of her father and the loss of her land, Melania defies Wulfred in every way she can imagine. Wulfred, who seeks revenge against any Roman, wants her alive and well to live under his power.
Overall, I liked this story. The Roman vs. Saxon history isn't a typical romance setting, therefore it was interesting and engrossing. I liked the creative way Melania thought to thwart her captors-- a strong heroine who didn't "submit" after a token resistance. The only problem I had with this story is that Melania did "get over" the fact that the Saxons killed her father. If it had been a different Saxon group that killed him, it would have been a bit more believable.
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Title: Tell Me Lies by Claudia Dain ISBN: 084394692X Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Willing Wife by Claudia Dain ISBN: 0843951117 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Kiss to Die for by Claudia Dain ISBN: 0843950595 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Master of Desire by Kinley MacGregor ISBN: 0061087130 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Prince of Pleasure by Nicole Jordan ISBN: 0804119805 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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