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The Protector (Medieval Series (Chronological order) #5)
by
Madeline Hunter (Goodreads Author)
A captivating new writer at an irresistible price
Critically acclaimed as "one of the brightest new writers in the genre," (Publishers Weekly) Madeline Hunter has taken the world of historical romance by storm with her sensually powerful novels that feature strong heroines, provocative heroes, and timeless passion. Now this hugely talented author offers us a new tale filled...more
Critically acclaimed as "one of the brightest new writers in the genre," (Publishers Weekly) Madeline Hunter has taken the world of historical romance by storm with her sensually powerful novels that feature strong heroines, provocative heroes, and timeless passion. Now this hugely talented author offers us a new tale filled...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
June 26th 2001
by Bantam
(first published 2001)
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Mar 17, 2010
seton
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
readers of gritty medievals
Shelves:
medieval,
chicks-in-pants
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 story because...more
The hero was introduced in this very loose series in the 1st book - By Arrangement. I had been avoiding his story because...more
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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. I find it quit...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. I find it quit...more
I have now read 2 of Hunter's Medieval series, By Arrangement and The Protector. As with the first, I really liked this novel. Hunter does a very good job of recreating the medieval time period and not just as window dressing as happens in so many historical romances. No, Hunter's characters are products of their times right down to their inner struggles. That is one of the reasons I have enjoyed this series, but also the reason, I suspect that many other readers don't.
Morvan Fitzwaryn, the hand...more
Morvan Fitzwaryn, the hand...more
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 ideology fro...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 ideology fro...more
**POSSIBLE SPOILERS**** OMG! I didn't think I would ever get thru this book! It just seemed to drag and drag and DRAG some more! I hate having to say that, but it was true. Of all the books I have read thus far in the series THIS is the WORST one yet!!!!! Both our hero and heroine began to tick me off to the point I was in no rush to read the book, but just to be done with it! Morvan, for all his sex appeal and masculinity was an overbearing pain in my ass!!!!! I mean DAMMIT man! Ease up just a...more
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 conv...more
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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 acontece nos d...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 acontece nos d...more
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 he...more
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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 temptation. He longs to win...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 temptation. He longs to win...more
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-
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.
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 characters where as open-m...more
Maybe I read it focusing on my 21st century, but if the characters where as open-m...more
A Good medieval story. I liked the hero a lot up until he started acting all high-handed and an all-around jerk. The heroine proved herself to be courageous and strong and NOT an idiot, so I didn't understand why all if a sudden since they're in a relationship he decides she'll be a meek quiet lady. I thought he had more respect for her then that but yeah out the window that went! It's not too bad since the heroine does get a little revenge and she does kick a$$ so all in all not a bad read. Sin...more
Morvan (Christiana's brother) and Anna's story
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!
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.
Okay. Not one of my favorites of Madeline's novels. I much preferred "Lord of a Thousand Nights" to this one.
Engaging bttl of wlls btwn Morvan & Anna, whom I rlly lk for hr bold, indpndnt, warrior ways
((big sigh)) I need a break from medievals... I love them, but I need a break.
Read before, but still good. Some historical details but not too many. Enjoyable.
So far, I liked this the best of her medieval series.
Love this series!
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Madeline Hunter is a nationally bestselling author of historical romances who lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons. In a parallel existence to the one she enjoys as a novelist, she has a Ph.D. in art history and teaches at an East Coast university.
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