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Mar 17, 2010
seton
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I don't even like medievals. The medieval I read before and after this one were both DNFs. However, The Protector grabbed me right from the beginning with the hero facing the spread of the Black Death. It was everything I could want in a medieval if I had to read one: meditative and gritty, political, and lots of action (there are at least 3 different battles shown in detail).
The hero was introduced in this very loose series in the 1st book - By Arrangement. I had been avoiding his s More...
The hero was introduced in this very loose series in the 1st book - By Arrangement. I had been avoiding his s More...
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Feb 08, 2012
Sandra
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Aug 29, 2011
Adeselna
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This has EVERYTHING to be a great historical book, if the guy was not a pervert, whose only goal was to get in Anna's pants. The author had some great ideas, but to make it a "best-seller" she had to make everything so obvious... Anna de Leon is a great heroine - independent, she manages both sword and bow, she does not want to get married, because she knows that it will end her Independence. Unfortunately that means that she will have to give up her estate as well More...
This has EVERYTHING to be a great historical book, if the guy was not a pervert, whose only goal was to get in Anna's pants. The author had some great ideas, but to make it a "best-seller" she had to make everything so obvious... Anna de Leon is a great heroine - independent, she manages both sword and bow, she does not want to get married, because she knows that it will end her Independence. Unfortunately that means that she will have to give up her estate as well More...
Mar 01, 2011
Jackie
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Hunter shifts the pattern of heroine in peril providing the major emotional kick here by also putting her hero in peril, and having the heroine save him (twice, no less!) The hero still gets to kill the man who terrorized the heroine as a child, though, so we're not talking major reenvisioning of the Hunter romance trope.
I've been thinking about how different authors' works embody different ideas about how people fall in love/come to love one another. A really great author can shift id More...
I've been thinking about how different authors' works embody different ideas about how people fall in love/come to love one another. A really great author can shift id More...
May 18, 2009
Ashleighloveland
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Not Hunter's best. Didn't like the characters much, her hero just too dominating and manly, and the jealousy and protecting, got old and annoying, granted, it's historical and it's call the protector, all that, and he comes around, but he was really kinda a jerk. And she, she was supposed to be in denial, but come on, there's denial and stupidity. And she being rebellious, and there's rebellious and then there's stupidity. So much of these problems could have been worked out with one honest c
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Dec 09, 2011
Ne
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Madeline Hunter enquadra-se naquele género de escritoras que nos habitua a um tipo de escrita sem erros, sem nada a apontar e que só nos surpreende com as histórias que vai criando. Neste aspecto está no mesmo patamar da minha tão querida Nora Roberts.
O problema é mesmo essas histórias.
Pessoalmente sou bastante apologistas dos romances com finais felizes, em que o casal se conhece e apaixona e que os segredos entre eles ou os seus passados é que vão apimentar a situação. Isto tudo acon More...
O problema é mesmo essas histórias.
Pessoalmente sou bastante apologistas dos romances com finais felizes, em que o casal se conhece e apaixona e que os segredos entre eles ou os seus passados é que vão apimentar a situação. Isto tudo acon More...
Aug 19, 2009
Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress"
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Read this book if you like strong, warrior type romance novel heroines. I thought that Ms. Hunter did a great job of showing Anna as a strong woman but not making the hero seem wimpy in comparison. Anna didn't have to back down and pretend she was 'less' somehow to be a worthy mate. Morvan is a man of his times, so it took him an adjustment period to get used to this strong, fighting woman who didn't want to sit in the solar and do needlework. She was basically running her keep and protecting h
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Dec 28, 2007
LJ
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The Protector - VG
Hunter, Madeline
Anna de Leon is like no other woman Morvan Fitzwaryn has ever met. She dresses like a man and fights alongside her troops to defend her people. Morvan is a landless knight, struggling to retain his honor as he leads a mercenary company through the political and social quagmire created in Brittany in the middle of the 14th century by a cruel combination of plague and war. From the first, the handsome English knight finds Anna a double temptatio More...
Hunter, Madeline
Anna de Leon is like no other woman Morvan Fitzwaryn has ever met. She dresses like a man and fights alongside her troops to defend her people. Morvan is a landless knight, struggling to retain his honor as he leads a mercenary company through the political and social quagmire created in Brittany in the middle of the 14th century by a cruel combination of plague and war. From the first, the handsome English knight finds Anna a double temptatio More...
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Nov 12, 2011
Amanda
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Anna de Leon & Morvan Fitzwaren. Brittany England/France. Anna is warrior-saint set for convent but currently protecting her home/castle. Everyone's dead in the plague. She finds Movan who then gets the plague but survives it. Kind Edward makes her marry. She semi-chooses Morvan. They have to figure out how to allow her to keep her wild spirit while still letting him rule the land. Good. Same theme as seen before. Standard Hunter. Nice Characters. nothing too annoying. B+/A-
Mar 18, 2010
Carolyn F.
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I wasn't sure whether I would like this book when I first started it, but I ended up liking it a lot. Anna had changed from an ugly duckling to a swan and wouldn't believe anyone who told her so. This ends up causing her to think anyone who tells her she's beautiful is a liar including Morvan. The ending was good. I would recommend this book.
Jan 27, 2012
Célia
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In this book you have two strong characters, Morvan and Anna de Léon. They're both strong and independent and when the plague threatens to take them both during war, they get connected by that almost-death experience. Now what I didn't like about the book is the fact that Morvan keeps trying to fasten Anna's freedom, for "her protection", that argument enfuriates any woman with brains. And she, at times, allows it!
Maybe I read it focusing on my 21st century, but if the charac More...
Maybe I read it focusing on my 21st century, but if the charac More...
Mar 25, 2011
Babete
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Li-o num ápice, um romance saboroso com personagens muito fortes.
Uma delícia, como todos os outros livros desta autora. Mal posso esperar para ler o próximo!
Uma delícia, como todos os outros livros desta autora. Mal posso esperar para ler o próximo!
Dec 26, 2011
Mary Elizabeth
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my 2nd favourite medieval romance, take a tom boy and make her head of the family trying to hold together what is left of a once prosperous kingdom; have her meet a powerful & seductive knight who lost his inheritance long ago and you will have a fantastic encounter full of passion and noble sentiments ... do not pass it up it's a memorable romance.
Feb 16, 2008
Diana
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Anna saves Sir Morvan from the black death, and her fate becomes intertwined with his.
Willful heroine is a little too annoying.
Willful heroine is a little too annoying.
Aug 24, 2008
Stef
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Okay. Not one of my favorites of Madeline's novels. I much preferred "Lord of a Thousand Nights" to this one.
Jun 21, 2010
Bekah
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((big sigh)) I need a break from medievals... I love them, but I need a break.
Aug 23, 2008
Deb
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Read before, but still good. Some historical details but not too many. Enjoyable.
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