Review: My least favourite of the trilogy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
I was truly excited to have found this author and I totally loved the first book, The Patrician. The second was also pretty good but this one was disappointing.The H is the brother of the h in the first book. We know he is Celtic (hence a Barbarian) and we know that he was a gladiator. He is mentioned in both of the previous books. He has charge of 3 children and is trying to saving money so that he can return to Eiere, which is his true home. He'd been betrayed and sold into slavery by a former clan member. The h is a thief, who has lived on the streets since she was orphaned years ago. She lives by stealing from rich vendors and helps support a foster family, who she is living with. She steals some jewellery that the H made and sold to a jeweller and the H goes after her. He takes her into his home so that she can work off what she owes him by being a nurse to the 3 children of his former lover.+++Spoilers+++I'm never a fan of the mistress angle and it didn't work for me here either. I think it always detracts from a good love story. The fact that the h wasn't a virgin also seems to somehow have devalued her and that I didn't like at all. The H is a hardened guy but sometimes I felt he had way more loyalty to his former lover who had 3 children by 3 different fathers. He doesn't respect the h very much until much later in the book.It's basically not a bad story and it is well written but just not my idea of romance.