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Title: Lady Dragon by Jewell Mason ISBN: 0-9743639-5-2 Publisher: Medallion Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious debut from Ms. Mason!
Comment: As the other reviewers have done such a fabulous job of synopsizing (is that a word? *g*), let me just add that I LOVED everything about Ms. Mason's writing. Characterization was flawless, IMHO; storyline was fresh and original, and there are enough twists and turns to keep the pacing fast and intense.
LADY DRAGON is a delightful historical romance, and Jewell Mason is now an auto buy for me!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Well Written Historical!
Comment: I found "Lady Dragon" to be a well-written historical novel that had not only unusual characters (Lady Celeste is a bit of a tom-boy to use a modern day term) but these characters were likable and the storyline was unique. Ms. Mason managed to write a romance that was not overly-graphic (the description of kisses was as racy as it gets) but lost none of the magic of falling in love. I think this was one of the reason's why I enjoyed the book so much. This is a book that I recommend that you add to your summer reading list. It's a fast read that blends not only a fine romantic storyline but likeable and real characters.
Rating: 4
Summary: It'll make you read medievals again
Comment: Jewell Mason's first novel, Lady Dragon, has made me want to read medievals again. Rich in historical ambience, it is a vibrant story about the healing power of love.
When Devon de Grenfeld arrives to inspect his feif of Ambellshire after too lengthy an absence, he finds it fortified beyond all necessity for such a small, distant holding. Yet its expensive stone garrison is far less formidable a barrier than the emotional walls which its lady has built around herself.
Celeste Brystowe seeks self-reliance at all costs. After her parents are killed by ravaging Scots (in response to the review above, this story is not a Scottish historical), she puts away her dolls and begins to train in the military arts alongside her twin brother, Edmund. It is she who insists that they put every shilling into their fortifications, she who teaches every man, woman, and child in her protection the art of self-defense, she who finally becomes "lord" of the manor when Edmund is killed. But the personal price she pays for her security is dear.
Devon encounters a hostile yet beautiful woman dressed in severe gray, with a collection of bruises that makes him suspect she has been abused. Anxious to save her from the man he suspects is forcing her to live in straitened circumstances, this well-intentioned knight never imagines that the one he must save her from is herself.
Debut novels don't get much better than this. Jewell Mason makes us care about her characters. Devon is an easy hero to love as he supports, strengthens, and ultimately heals the wounded Celeste. Celeste herself charms both Devon and the reader as she struggles to reclaim the precious femininity that she has sacrificed in her pursuit of safety. Best of all, though, is the complexity of plot and conflict which Ms. Mason crafts into the seams of her story. She knows how to write the sort of deeply structured, engaging medieval romance that we all loved back in the seventies when writers like Woodiwiss were unhampered by restrictive word counts. Lady Dragon is longer than many recent medievals, and even so it ends too soon. Kudos to Jewell Mason. And kudos to Medallion Press, for encouraging talented writers like Ms. Mason to give us the sort of long, engrossing reads that have been missing from the romance mass market for too long.
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Title: The Knight's Conquest (Harlequin Historical, 673) by Juliet Landon ISBN: 0373292732 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.25 |
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Title: The Norman's Bride (Harlequin Historical, No. 696) by Terri Brisbin ISBN: 0373292961 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.25 |
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Title: Forbidden (Harlequin Single Title) by Helen Kirkman ISBN: 0373836295 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Knave and the Maiden (HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL SERIES) by Blythe Gifford ISBN: 0373292880 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.25 |
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Title: A Dark Champion (Avon Romantic Treasure) by Kinley MacGregor ISBN: 0060565411 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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