Review: Review of Betrayed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2010
I want to take a moment and talk about the label "historical romance".  Why? Because that label is what drew me in to this book.  Now, there's historical romance Diana Gabaldon style - which is sweeping, beautiful romance and a story that's lasted beyond the pages of a single book, and there's historical romance Eloisa James and Karen Marie Moning style - which is hot, heavy, and full of corset-ripping.So I picked up this book hoping it would be the former - but what I got was the latter.  However, don't take that for disappointment, because overall.. for being what it was, I wasn't disappointed. Seriously, this book pulled back and forth and back and forth so many times I thought I'd get whiplash of the brain and never be free of emotional turmoil.  Amber is feisty, spirited and beautiful, everything you can wish for in a novel about romance.  And the Scottish men... ooooh boy - let me just say that this book only can do the Scotland tourist business nothing but good favors.  I found myself wistfully thinking of kilts, the beautiful Scottish accents and muscled Highland men with a whisper of a sigh when I finished reading the story.I don't read a whole lot of romance anymore.  I used to love these kind of books, but even after reading only one or two a year (at my current rate), it's easy to see the pattern in the story.  So not a whole lot of a surprise, but a lot of heat, fun characters and a storyline that had a bit more substance then is the norm.