Review: Very good story - 3.5 stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
This story was gripping and impossible to put down. It follows the story of the H whose young daughter is abducted. He suspects his Welsh neighbour and abducts his enemy's daughter in turn. The H and the daughter of his enemy, who is our h, begin their relationship. Our H is very tortured by his bad first marriage and his missing daughter. As time goes by so the relationship deepens between them and as usual the author does a great job of describing the depth of their relationship. Sadly the H is forced to go off to join a political fight and leaves the h at his home. Loads of things happen before they get their hea.***Spoiler alert***What I didn't like and cost this book a star was the fact that the h had her first child with the H out of wedlock, whilst he was away fighting. He was away for her whole pregnancy and didn't even know she was pregnant in the first place. This spoilt a perfect book for me as we know in those times bastardy wasn't easy for children. It would have been better if the H had returned in time for the birth. In re-reading this book in order to read the sequel, I found that I truly didn't like this part of the story because truly the h was really just the H's mistress for quite awhile. I hate this type of storyline because it always suggests that the H didn't love the h enough or didn't value her enough despite taking her innocence.Having said this I really was keen to go on and read about the H's daughter Rose and the h's stepbrother Bryn.