Review: OK for the money but major problems for me!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
This set was a value for the money.  I got interested in the characters, that said, I must admit after the first--the rest were repeats with name changes.This series was set in the Middle Ages with heroes that had very modern attitudes towards women for this age when THE CHURCH said women deserved all the pain of childbirth and whatever their husbands (or fathers) wished to give them as they were sinful from birth to death all in the name of Adam & Eve, That is what the men of that era believed and what they practiced.The idea of three heroes in a row that "would never FORCE a woman" was balderdash!The ideas and idioms were 100% modern day put into the mouth of a man of the Middle Ages!  The details were great and very good of everyday life and dress very accurate. It almost made up for the modern language.  I wouldn't be comfortable reading really true language as spoken then (couldn't make sense of it) BUT that doesn't give license to speak as if they were in a modernsetting.So I'd give A for historic detail, D for language, B for stories and D for one other irritant---the hero in one story in particular was loving and "wouldn't force her to make love" then when she was softened and decided she'd allow him to make their marriage "real" they "made it real all night" but next morning as they broke their fast---he gave her to his sheriff (who she was terrified of  for good reason ) and allowed to be put into the dungeon. Then "bam" next morning he was "sorry" for allowing her to be stripped of her dress and put into a cold dungeon in filth all night! But the pattern was set.  This was typical of the heroes--cold, hot, cold. Disgusting. There was one hero that wasn't hot/cold but only one.SO I'm not sure if I'd recommend this set.  IF you don't mind these problems you can enjoy just the surface and take it for what it was---books of several authors to match each other with variations on a theme.  (won't tell what the "theme" is) but you'll see it second story.