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The Hawk and the Dove
A steamy historical romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Enslaved and Desired
The Dove...
She'd been bought for a strip of land, then a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge. As innocent Sara Bishop she’d paid dearly for freedom from her cruel, mocking family. As flame-haired, jade-eyed Sabre Wilde, she would scandalize Queen Elizabeth’s court as she set out to seduce her unknown husband, become his mistress—and make him her slave.
The Hawk...
The Queen’s favorite, called The Sea God, his white teeth flashed in his bronze face as his deep, virile voice boomed orders to his men. He branded Sabre with his searing kiss and his masterful touch, not even aware she was already his wife. Captain Shane Hawkhurst knew how to command, how to subdue and ravage an enemy, but was he prepared to be caught in passion’s merciless snare by a fiery beauty who ruled his heart and inflamed his senses?
The Dove...
She'd been bought for a strip of land, then a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge. As innocent Sara Bishop she’d paid dearly for freedom from her cruel, mocking family. As flame-haired, jade-eyed Sabre Wilde, she would scandalize Queen Elizabeth’s court as she set out to seduce her unknown husband, become his mistress—and make him her slave.
The Hawk...
The Queen’s favorite, called The Sea God, his white teeth flashed in his bronze face as his deep, virile voice boomed orders to his men. He branded Sabre with his searing kiss and his masterful touch, not even aware she was already his wife. Captain Shane Hawkhurst knew how to command, how to subdue and ravage an enemy, but was he prepared to be caught in passion’s merciless snare by a fiery beauty who ruled his heart and inflamed his senses?
365 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Virginia Henley
67 books638 followersVirginia Syddall was born on December 5, 1935 in England, where her father, Thomas Syddall, taught her to love history. She obtained a degree in History in the University. In 1956, Virginia married Arthur Henley. They moved to America, and now they live most of the year in St. Petersburg, Florida, and they spend the hot summers in Ontario, Canada, where they have their two adult children and three grandsons.
Virginia Henley is a New York Times bestselling writer of historical novels. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of more than a dozen writing awards, including a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, a Waldenbooks' Bestselling Award, and a Maggie Award for Excellence from the Georgia Romance Writers.
Virginia Henley is a New York Times bestselling writer of historical novels. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of more than a dozen writing awards, including a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, a Waldenbooks' Bestselling Award, and a Maggie Award for Excellence from the Georgia Romance Writers.
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May 30, 2023
3.5 stars BR
Reread: 5/28/23
I love it when rakes fall hard! Saber reminds me of Tina from Tempted. That same mix of brazon and innocence.
Saber had a horrible childhood with a cruel stepfather. All three of her sisters' husbands originally asked for her hand in marriage, but her stepfather pushed her sisters and their dowry on them. Poor Saber has only a small property in Ireland that no one wants. Still, no matter how many beatings she receives, her family can't break her spirit.
One day, a solicitor arrives, wanting to buy her property. Saber turns him down. The next time he comes, his client offers marriage. This is her opportunity to leave, not to mention making her sisters green with envy. On the day of her wedding, the man who shows up is her fiancee's brother. He is there to stand in his brother's place for a proxy marriage and then take her to an estate way in the country. How humiliating! Saber won't let her husband get away with this! She talks Matthew into taking her to court. She has an aunt who works in the Queens chamber. She had secretly written her pretending to be her mother. Her plan is to go to court and lure her husband into falling in love with her, then destroy and humiliate him! 😡
Hawk owns a shipping company and is a privateer for the crown. It doesn't hurt that he's charming, good-looking, and rich. He is also one of Elizabeth's favorites and sometimes lover. Yuck! Elizabeth, at this point, had lost all of her teeth and had white paint, with borax, on her face. 🤢. Hawk is adventurous and powerful, but he has dangerous secrets of his own. He gives little thought to the wife he sent to a barren estate.
Hawk never has trouble finding a woman to bed, that is, until he meets Saber. Saber looks like most men's fantasy woman. He puts in an effort to woo her, but she's always out of his reach. He soon falls in love with her and is ecstatic when she finally agrees to be his mistress. Oh, why did he have to have a wife?
Saber has him where she wants him, but she's having trouble inacting her revenge. She loves him yet hates him.
I love this couple! At first, I wanted her to end up with her brother-in-law, Matthew. They had such a good friendship with plenty of humor between them and, of course, he's in love with her too. Once the MC got together they were a couple to root for. They had great chemistry together and their sex scenes were 🥵. VH knows how to write great sex scenes!
The secondary characters were also well written. The villians were very complex. I do wish there was a second book in the series that had Matthew's story. 😔
Though, this was not my favorite book of VH, it still an entertaining read! This couple is worth the try. I highly recommend!
Sidenote: I'm on medicine right now, so I'm hoping my review makes sense. 🤞
******** original review ********
Read: 3/4/21
The h was a little too brazen, but the rest was good. I also thought the end was rushed. That said, it was still a good VH book.
Reread: 5/28/23
I love it when rakes fall hard! Saber reminds me of Tina from Tempted. That same mix of brazon and innocence.
Saber had a horrible childhood with a cruel stepfather. All three of her sisters' husbands originally asked for her hand in marriage, but her stepfather pushed her sisters and their dowry on them. Poor Saber has only a small property in Ireland that no one wants. Still, no matter how many beatings she receives, her family can't break her spirit.
One day, a solicitor arrives, wanting to buy her property. Saber turns him down. The next time he comes, his client offers marriage. This is her opportunity to leave, not to mention making her sisters green with envy. On the day of her wedding, the man who shows up is her fiancee's brother. He is there to stand in his brother's place for a proxy marriage and then take her to an estate way in the country. How humiliating! Saber won't let her husband get away with this! She talks Matthew into taking her to court. She has an aunt who works in the Queens chamber. She had secretly written her pretending to be her mother. Her plan is to go to court and lure her husband into falling in love with her, then destroy and humiliate him! 😡
Hawk owns a shipping company and is a privateer for the crown. It doesn't hurt that he's charming, good-looking, and rich. He is also one of Elizabeth's favorites and sometimes lover. Yuck! Elizabeth, at this point, had lost all of her teeth and had white paint, with borax, on her face. 🤢. Hawk is adventurous and powerful, but he has dangerous secrets of his own. He gives little thought to the wife he sent to a barren estate.
Hawk never has trouble finding a woman to bed, that is, until he meets Saber. Saber looks like most men's fantasy woman. He puts in an effort to woo her, but she's always out of his reach. He soon falls in love with her and is ecstatic when she finally agrees to be his mistress. Oh, why did he have to have a wife?
Saber has him where she wants him, but she's having trouble inacting her revenge. She loves him yet hates him.
I love this couple! At first, I wanted her to end up with her brother-in-law, Matthew. They had such a good friendship with plenty of humor between them and, of course, he's in love with her too. Once the MC got together they were a couple to root for. They had great chemistry together and their sex scenes were 🥵. VH knows how to write great sex scenes!
The secondary characters were also well written. The villians were very complex. I do wish there was a second book in the series that had Matthew's story. 😔
Though, this was not my favorite book of VH, it still an entertaining read! This couple is worth the try. I highly recommend!
Sidenote: I'm on medicine right now, so I'm hoping my review makes sense. 🤞
******** original review ********
Read: 3/4/21
The h was a little too brazen, but the rest was good. I also thought the end was rushed. That said, it was still a good VH book.
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July 30, 2014I'm not going to rate this because, honestly, I did so much skimming it's almost unfair to mark it as read.
If the elements of the old school bodice ripper do not offend or trigger you, this can be entertaining in an over-the-top train wreck sort of way. It's very porny in an often hilarious way. You could make a drinking game out of the references to the size of Hawk's "throbbing shaft" or the number of times Sabre's ripe melons popped out of whatever she was wearing and get very, very intoxicated. Apparently Hawk even whipped out a ruler and measured his awesome manliness at some point, since he was able to say confidently that he was 10" fully erect. Hey, don't get me wrong, being well-endowed is a nice thing... but I don't need to be reminded of it quite so often.
My problem was that I could find no emotional connection to the characters. At first I was thinking I might. Sabre/Sara was sympathetic at first when she was with her awful family and then humiliated when Hawk married her by proxy and abandoned her sight unseen. She was a foot stomping termagant, but it was clear it was all done out of a sense of hurt and rejection. Her stepfather and sisters hated her and I don't think even her own mother cared much.
I could totally understand her need for revenge against Hawk and empathize with the childish bravado and pride that led her to plan on seducing him and then abandon him once he fell in love. I was in high school once, I remember hoping some boy who rejected me would come crawling and I could get some payback. It's a completely understandable human emotion. Problem is, we never got past the childish surface level with either of the characters. They always seemed like a couple of high school kids playing games and trying to reenact everything they'd ever seen on scrambled late night Cinemax.
Trigger Warning:
For me, becoming emotionally involved is all about context (unless there's an animal involved, then I have zero sense of humor). I watched a highly entertaining Nazi-zombie movie recently and some poor idiot got bit, took a chainsaw to the bitten appendage and then cauterized it with a flame thrower. Ouch, right? Then not 2 seconds later he's bitten again. I laughed so hard. The whole thing was so silly and over the top. However, if the same thing happened to one of my beloved Walking Dead characters, I'd be in tears, a nervous wreck or most likely both. I recently bought S4 and I'm still stuck on ep7 because I don't have the courage to see what I know is going to be a huge mess or lose any more of the main characters. Point is, this was a Nazi-zombie bodice ripper vs a Walking Dead. Yes, I have weird analogies, I am aware. Perhaps I should create new tags??
If the elements of the old school bodice ripper do not offend or trigger you, this can be entertaining in an over-the-top train wreck sort of way. It's very porny in an often hilarious way. You could make a drinking game out of the references to the size of Hawk's "throbbing shaft" or the number of times Sabre's ripe melons popped out of whatever she was wearing and get very, very intoxicated. Apparently Hawk even whipped out a ruler and measured his awesome manliness at some point, since he was able to say confidently that he was 10" fully erect. Hey, don't get me wrong, being well-endowed is a nice thing... but I don't need to be reminded of it quite so often.
My problem was that I could find no emotional connection to the characters. At first I was thinking I might. Sabre/Sara was sympathetic at first when she was with her awful family and then humiliated when Hawk married her by proxy and abandoned her sight unseen. She was a foot stomping termagant, but it was clear it was all done out of a sense of hurt and rejection. Her stepfather and sisters hated her and I don't think even her own mother cared much.
I could totally understand her need for revenge against Hawk and empathize with the childish bravado and pride that led her to plan on seducing him and then abandon him once he fell in love. I was in high school once, I remember hoping some boy who rejected me would come crawling and I could get some payback. It's a completely understandable human emotion. Problem is, we never got past the childish surface level with either of the characters. They always seemed like a couple of high school kids playing games and trying to reenact everything they'd ever seen on scrambled late night Cinemax.
Trigger Warning:
For me, becoming emotionally involved is all about context (unless there's an animal involved, then I have zero sense of humor). I watched a highly entertaining Nazi-zombie movie recently and some poor idiot got bit, took a chainsaw to the bitten appendage and then cauterized it with a flame thrower. Ouch, right? Then not 2 seconds later he's bitten again. I laughed so hard. The whole thing was so silly and over the top. However, if the same thing happened to one of my beloved Walking Dead characters, I'd be in tears, a nervous wreck or most likely both. I recently bought S4 and I'm still stuck on ep7 because I don't have the courage to see what I know is going to be a huge mess or lose any more of the main characters. Point is, this was a Nazi-zombie bodice ripper vs a Walking Dead. Yes, I have weird analogies, I am aware. Perhaps I should create new tags??
June 25, 2013
Review is a tad spoilerish
"Sabre, promise me you won't do anything foolish while I'm gone."
The girl:Sara Bishop is the eldest and least favorite daughter (mum's on the third marriage, this time to a minister of some sort). With no dowry, her marriage prospects are pretty grim (although her brothers in law are pretty hot to get in her drawers). The only thing she's got to her name is a worthless strip of land in Ireland her father left to her.
The guy: Captain Shane Hawkhurst (nicknamed The Sea God) is a favorite of an aging Queen Elizabeth - hell, he's the favorite of all the court ladies and then some. Shane is in thick with some Irish plotting and treachery, and he desperately needs access to this worthless strip of land in Ireland, and the only way he can get it is to marry the wench who owns it. But, since he doesn't want a wife, he marries Sarah via proxy (his brother stands in) and ships her off to his country estate never to be seen again.
Well, our independent minded miss is having none of that, she changes her name to Sabre Wilde with the plan to become her husband's mistress, make him fall madly in love with her and then break his heart -bwahahahahaha- revenge on the bastard! She finagles her brother-in-law Mathew to take her to London where she'll assist her aunt who is mistress of the robes (or something like that) for Queen Liz and she's ready to meet up with Shane and get her hooks in him.
Of course, Shane is madly in lust at first sight, he sets her up openly in his London house as his mistress (no gossiping servants here), and she comes and goes at will and for days on end and nary an eyebrow is raised. He gifts her with jewels, an expensive horse and even a barge as grand as the queen's, and nary an eyebrow is raised. There's lots of treachery and derring-do as they fight the baddies and Sarah/Sabre isn't one of those heroines to stay put like she's supposed to, so there's heroine in peril stuff. They have lots of laugh out loud cheesy sex, but IMHO there's just no chemistry there, nor is Sable particularly likeable.
This is definitely an old school bodice ripper and very light on the historical setting, but the story and characters didn't work well enough for me to find it one I'd recommend. Favorite quotes:
"[Essex speaking]"She's far too beautiful to escape Bess' s eagle eye. She'd standout in any crowd. Her toys alone are enough to earn Bess's venom."
"Sweetheart, your lips mouth was made for kisses, not blackberries and cream...Your body holds sweeter fruit I long to devour...Your breasts are like melons, ripe for the tasting, with hard little fruits at their tip."
"Her fingers dug into his shoulders, then entwined in his dark mane of hair, holding him to the center of her volcanic pleasure that felt as if it were going to erupt with molten fire."
"He rummaged in an oaken sea chest and took out a small, heavy whip. Without taking his eyes from her face he slapped the weapon into the palm of his other hand and repeated the threatening motion half a dozen times."
Oh, that reminds me. Spanking warning. I know that can be a deal-breaker with some readers.
"Sabre, promise me you won't do anything foolish while I'm gone."
The girl:Sara Bishop is the eldest and least favorite daughter (mum's on the third marriage, this time to a minister of some sort). With no dowry, her marriage prospects are pretty grim (although her brothers in law are pretty hot to get in her drawers). The only thing she's got to her name is a worthless strip of land in Ireland her father left to her.
The guy: Captain Shane Hawkhurst (nicknamed The Sea God) is a favorite of an aging Queen Elizabeth - hell, he's the favorite of all the court ladies and then some. Shane is in thick with some Irish plotting and treachery, and he desperately needs access to this worthless strip of land in Ireland, and the only way he can get it is to marry the wench who owns it. But, since he doesn't want a wife, he marries Sarah via proxy (his brother stands in) and ships her off to his country estate never to be seen again.
Well, our independent minded miss is having none of that, she changes her name to Sabre Wilde with the plan to become her husband's mistress, make him fall madly in love with her and then break his heart -bwahahahahaha- revenge on the bastard! She finagles her brother-in-law Mathew to take her to London where she'll assist her aunt who is mistress of the robes (or something like that) for Queen Liz and she's ready to meet up with Shane and get her hooks in him.
Of course, Shane is madly in lust at first sight, he sets her up openly in his London house as his mistress (no gossiping servants here), and she comes and goes at will and for days on end and nary an eyebrow is raised. He gifts her with jewels, an expensive horse and even a barge as grand as the queen's, and nary an eyebrow is raised. There's lots of treachery and derring-do as they fight the baddies and Sarah/Sabre isn't one of those heroines to stay put like she's supposed to, so there's heroine in peril stuff. They have lots of laugh out loud cheesy sex, but IMHO there's just no chemistry there, nor is Sable particularly likeable.
This is definitely an old school bodice ripper and very light on the historical setting, but the story and characters didn't work well enough for me to find it one I'd recommend. Favorite quotes:
"[Essex speaking]"She's far too beautiful to escape Bess' s eagle eye. She'd standout in any crowd. Her toys alone are enough to earn Bess's venom."
"Sweetheart, your lips mouth was made for kisses, not blackberries and cream...Your body holds sweeter fruit I long to devour...Your breasts are like melons, ripe for the tasting, with hard little fruits at their tip."
"Her fingers dug into his shoulders, then entwined in his dark mane of hair, holding him to the center of her volcanic pleasure that felt as if it were going to erupt with molten fire."
"He rummaged in an oaken sea chest and took out a small, heavy whip. Without taking his eyes from her face he slapped the weapon into the palm of his other hand and repeated the threatening motion half a dozen times."
Oh, that reminds me. Spanking warning. I know that can be a deal-breaker with some readers.
December 12, 2025
˚₊‧ Weirdly addicting ‧₊˚
I don't know what sort of dr*g Virginia Henley put in between the letters but I was devouring this book every second of free time in my day. I felt tingly and a bit foggy each time life had me putting this book down.
Yet, I didn't love it?
୨⋅୧─── ⋆⋅☘︎ ⌞ℋℯ𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓃ℴ 𝒻𝓊𝓇𝓎⌝ ☘︎⋅⋆───୨⋅୧
(yes, one of those mood struck)
The hero is a busy man. So busy, he doesn't even have time to go get married.
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🕮⋆˚࿔✎𓂃 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
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I don't know what sort of dr*g Virginia Henley put in between the letters but I was devouring this book every second of free time in my day. I felt tingly and a bit foggy each time life had me putting this book down.
Yet, I didn't love it?
୨⋅୧─── ⋆⋅☘︎ ⌞ℋℯ𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓃ℴ 𝒻𝓊𝓇𝓎⌝ ☘︎⋅⋆───୨⋅୧
(yes, one of those mood struck)
The hero is a busy man. So busy, he doesn't even have time to go get married.
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🕮⋆˚࿔✎𓂃 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
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December 5, 2014
A Privateer to Love, a Sea Hawk, and a fiercely independent Irish lass...oh yes!
I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. This one is no different. The story is set in 1586, when Queen Elizabeth ruled England and her sea hawks ruled the seas, robbing the Spanish fleet to fill her coffers. Captain Shane Hawkhurst was Queen Bess' favorite. She named him “the sea god.” He was, in fact, not the son of Lord Hawkhurst, but the son of an Irishman named O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone. But his English father claimed him as heir, and when Shane’s father died, Shane became Lord Hawkhurst.
Shane had promised his father he would marry, and to stave off Queen Bess' jealousy and because he did not really want a wife, he had his solicitor find a country lass who had some land in Ireland he wanted and married her by proxy. Little did he know his new wife was the red-haired Irish vixen, Sara Bishop, referred to by her jealous half siblings as "Sabre Wilde" after her dead father and his sword. Shane planned to have his brother Matthew take Sara to one of his estates and dump her there, never wishing to meet her. Ah, but Sara—as Sabre—has a different plan. She intends to go to Court and seduce her husband and become his mistress, making him her love slave and having her revenge.
You have to love this heroine. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. And Shane is a man worthy of taming. Both have Irish blood running through their veins--at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. So the sparks fly continuously. It’s one of the things Henley does so well—excellent characters and a plot with great twists and turns!
Henley’s love scenes are unique and fit the people and the story, so very well done, very sexy and not contrived. It is so worth it to dive into one of her complex, winsome tales.
In addition to wonderful characters, a great plot and interesting history, she has included some great one-liners. One of my favorites was: "...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty." So true.
Get this one; you won't regret it!
I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. This one is no different. The story is set in 1586, when Queen Elizabeth ruled England and her sea hawks ruled the seas, robbing the Spanish fleet to fill her coffers. Captain Shane Hawkhurst was Queen Bess' favorite. She named him “the sea god.” He was, in fact, not the son of Lord Hawkhurst, but the son of an Irishman named O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone. But his English father claimed him as heir, and when Shane’s father died, Shane became Lord Hawkhurst.
Shane had promised his father he would marry, and to stave off Queen Bess' jealousy and because he did not really want a wife, he had his solicitor find a country lass who had some land in Ireland he wanted and married her by proxy. Little did he know his new wife was the red-haired Irish vixen, Sara Bishop, referred to by her jealous half siblings as "Sabre Wilde" after her dead father and his sword. Shane planned to have his brother Matthew take Sara to one of his estates and dump her there, never wishing to meet her. Ah, but Sara—as Sabre—has a different plan. She intends to go to Court and seduce her husband and become his mistress, making him her love slave and having her revenge.
You have to love this heroine. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. And Shane is a man worthy of taming. Both have Irish blood running through their veins--at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. So the sparks fly continuously. It’s one of the things Henley does so well—excellent characters and a plot with great twists and turns!
Henley’s love scenes are unique and fit the people and the story, so very well done, very sexy and not contrived. It is so worth it to dive into one of her complex, winsome tales.
In addition to wonderful characters, a great plot and interesting history, she has included some great one-liners. One of my favorites was: "...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty." So true.
Get this one; you won't regret it!
January 25, 2019
I heard about this book in a podcast I follow, and the premise sounded interesting, so I picked it up.
It took me a while to get even the little bit invested in the characters, who are both quite flawed, with the heroine being rebellious but also very spiteful, and vain, and the hero arrogant and pretty shallow, , as well as god's gift to women apparently.
I can't even put into words my frustration with the heroine - so much stupid in that one. She set out to make the hero fall in love with her so that she then can leave him and get her revenge, but when he does fall in love with her and she develops feelings for him, she still insists on following through with her plan, essentially cutting her nose to spite her face.
There were a few interesting bits and pieces in the story, including the hard work required for the queen's wardrobe alone, but there were just so many parts I didn't care for that I ended up wanting to quit a number of times, and ended up skimming most of the last few pages, .
Just so many things that rubbed me the wrong way... It was not a good read for me and I'm not sure if I'll dare to read another book by the author.
January 13, 2022
I’ve now read 3 books by VH and this is the first one I’ve thought was pretty good. I own another of her books and hope it will be at least as good as this one. Liked the H and the h although sometimes the heroine’s ‘would dare anything’ attitude got a little much, but all in all I liked her. The story had a good plot and some action. I thought it interesting how Queen Elizabeth was portrayed, not the Hollywood Cate Blanchett version by any means here she’s attributed to be clever of course, but more of a vindictive termagant.
May 14, 2024
this one put the B in bodice ripper. A little rapey but heavy with historical context. complete with an old Queen Elizabeth and her boy toys. Sabre Wilde is mad and wants revenge after her new husband sent his brother for a proxy wedding. So she hides her wife identity and heads to Elizabethan court to find him. Hawkhurst is kinda a manho and boy toy to the queen. But Sabre’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard😀 Must have sense of humor and appreciate wacky 80s 90s romance. Great historical detail, especially fashions and gads of jewelry
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August 10, 2020Había leído buenos comentarios sobre este libro, pero lo cierto es que no he podido seguir leyendo porque no me ha gustado el carácter de la protagonista...
August 4, 2018
#119 for 2018
Genre: Historical Romance
Genre: Historical Romance
May 19, 2013
Elizabethan England. The heroine is Sara Bishop a/k/a Sabre Wilde—the latter is her real name, given by her wild Irish father, her mom's first hubby. After that husband died, mom decided to go respectable. She married a prissy bishop and had a few more prissy daughters, who make sure that Sara is always the
Enter "The Sea God," which is Elizabeth's court's code name for Shane Hawkhurst.
Shane's dad's dying wish is for Shane to marry.
The thing is, Shane has secrets. For example he's not only privateering on behalf of Elizabeth I, but he's also working now and then for "The O'Neill," the Irish Earl of Tyrone, who wants to be Ireland's king. For that and other reasons, Shane wants to avoid close attachments.
He also wants a particular strip of useless land, and that useless land was bequeathed to Sara. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone Shane offers to marry Sara. Given her happy home life, Sara jumps at the chance to get away. Plus she's keen to make a match that will make her bitchy sisters grind their teeth—she's marrying UP, which is more than they did.
But then Shane's brother Matthew shows up to marry her by proxy, a snub that gives her bitchy sisters another good snicker at her expense. AND it turns out that, after the wedding, Shane plans to dump her on some decrepit old estate and forget that she exists.
Sara isn't ABOUT to be treated like that. She takes up the name her Irish Daddy gave her (Sabre Wilding) and calls on an aunt to help her find a position in the queen's court. When it's convenient, she slaves over the queen's clothing, boots and jewelry. And when it's NOT convenient, she's shacking up with her unsuspecting husband.
The rest is a bit complicated. On the good side there's a touch of treason and some adventure to keep the story interesting—and Henley weaves a number of historical facts and figures into the story. On the bad, exposition, adverbs and "saidisms" come close to strangling the storytelling.
Also, Bess was a bit one-dimensional. We see all of the queen's petty and vainglorious side, but little of the lady who put her country well ahead of her own needs and wants. By protecting her own sovereignty, Bess defended England against nations like Spain, which was up to its armpits in the Inquisition at the time.
Finally, I was never clear on the heroine's plan of vengeance. Some of the stuff she did was far more likely to hurt her than anyone who'd wronged her.
Even so, I love the Elizabethan era, so 3.5 stars.
Enter "The Sea God," which is Elizabeth's court's code name for Shane Hawkhurst.
Shane's dad's dying wish is for Shane to marry.
The thing is, Shane has secrets. For example he's not only privateering on behalf of Elizabeth I, but he's also working now and then for "The O'Neill," the Irish Earl of Tyrone, who wants to be Ireland's king. For that and other reasons, Shane wants to avoid close attachments.
He also wants a particular strip of useless land, and that useless land was bequeathed to Sara. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone Shane offers to marry Sara. Given her happy home life, Sara jumps at the chance to get away. Plus she's keen to make a match that will make her bitchy sisters grind their teeth—she's marrying UP, which is more than they did.
But then Shane's brother Matthew shows up to marry her by proxy, a snub that gives her bitchy sisters another good snicker at her expense. AND it turns out that, after the wedding, Shane plans to dump her on some decrepit old estate and forget that she exists.
Sara isn't ABOUT to be treated like that. She takes up the name her Irish Daddy gave her (Sabre Wilding) and calls on an aunt to help her find a position in the queen's court. When it's convenient, she slaves over the queen's clothing, boots and jewelry. And when it's NOT convenient, she's shacking up with her unsuspecting husband.
The rest is a bit complicated. On the good side there's a touch of treason and some adventure to keep the story interesting—and Henley weaves a number of historical facts and figures into the story. On the bad, exposition, adverbs and "saidisms" come close to strangling the storytelling.
Also, Bess was a bit one-dimensional. We see all of the queen's petty and vainglorious side, but little of the lady who put her country well ahead of her own needs and wants. By protecting her own sovereignty, Bess defended England against nations like Spain, which was up to its armpits in the Inquisition at the time.
Finally, I was never clear on the heroine's plan of vengeance. Some of the stuff she did was far more likely to hurt her than anyone who'd wronged her.
Even so, I love the Elizabethan era, so 3.5 stars.
August 21, 2014
The Heroine has a split personality disorder and I don't care what y'all say: She's immature and her ego is bigger than a white, male Republican's.
This book is BS. The h plays mistress to the H and basically (stupidly) believes that she is in love with him. UHM. WHATTT?! I have no respect for the protagonists at all! This book makes me so mad. How the hell are you trying to tell me it got over 4 stars?!
This book is BS. The h plays mistress to the H and basically (stupidly) believes that she is in love with him. UHM. WHATTT?! I have no respect for the protagonists at all! This book makes me so mad. How the hell are you trying to tell me it got over 4 stars?!
August 22, 2021
Ok so this was a good book, however because I pretty much hated the heroine for 98.9% of it I cannot give it 5 stars. She was a bratty witch and the antagonism was so strong it really wore me out. I definitely have a love hate relationship with Virginia Henley. She is such a talented author but you could drown in the antagonism in her stories.
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February 3, 2018Sara Bishop was really Sabre Wilde. She lived with her mother, stepfather and three of her stepsisters were married. Each of their husbands had asked for Sara and had been married to another sister. Each man thought that Sara still worshiped them. She was nearing 20 and her last boyfriend, Andrew, was to marry her 15 yr old sister, Beth. Sara hated the dresses they had chosen for the bridesmaids due to her auburn hair. The chose pink. Sara had gotten spanked for apologizing to her them that the were jealous witches. She climbed out of her room and went skinny dipping in the lake. One of the brother-in-laws showed up and proceeded to join her naked. She swam out and went back home. Her father was told she was swimming nude and she got in trouble for that too. The Reverend Bishop wasn't told about the son joining her.
Sara was told that no one would marry her because she had no dowry, only a small piece of land in Ireland left to her by her father. She had been told that she was ugly for so long that she believed it of herself when she was actually much fairer than any of her sisters.
Shane Hawkhurst was the eldest son of Lord Davenport although he wasn't his natural son. His father was Hugh O'Neill, an Irish prince. He and Shane's mother had met when she was riding soon after he wedding. They got into an argument and their passion fight led to him raping/ravishing her and she ended up pregnant by Hugh while on her honeymoon. Davenport claimed him as his son but Shane was sent away to school and spent his summers from 8 to 18 with his Irish father.
Shane was a ship captain/pirate and returned from being at sea for 6 months to learn that Davenport had a stroke and wasn't well. Davenport told Shane that he would inherit his estate if he would promise to get married which Shane did.
Shane sent his man Jacob to see Sabre about buying the land her father had left her. It was between the sea and Shane's Irish land and he wanted it. Reverend Bishop wanted to sell it but Jacob would only deal with Sabre and he was surprised by her beauty. She refused to sell so he returned to tell Hawk. Hawk asked Jacob to find him a wife and he arranged for Hawk to marry Sabre. Shane agreed because he would get the wife he needed and the land he wanted. Sabre was excited to be finally getting married and started to plan only to have everything go wrong at the last minute.
Shane sent his brother, Matthew to proxy as the groom for him and to take Sabre to Blackmoor. Sabre used the money that Matt had brought to her to buy back her horse that Bishop had sold for punishment and they headed out. She went to Blackmoor but told Matt that she wasn't staying there alone. He was taking her to court and she was going to set about making herself mistress to her husband. Matt reluctantly agreed because he liked Sabre and didn't agree with Shane's treatment of Sabre. He thought she might be a good match for him.
Sabre had written her Aunt Kate, Lady Ashford, who was in charge of the queen's wardrobe and asked to be brought to court rather than remain at home but Kate hadn't agreed. Sabre found Kate in the palace after the Queen had left for the summer and began to work with her to clean and refurbish the queen's wardrobe. Kate talked non-stop and Sabre knew that they would get along well. She was not happy to find out that her husband had left for the summer with the Queen. But, Shane was referred to as the Sea God by the Queen and he hadn't left yet. He saw Sabre naked as she was getting ready for bed that first night and he was breaking into some rooms in the palace. They ran into each other again the next day. She didn't know that he was her husband and he had no clue that she was his wife. Shane was know to be a lady's man and he knew that he wanted her. She was drawn to him too.
They met again the next evening. Sabre was cleaning the queen's jewelry and took one of her necklaces to wear to a party. Hawk showed up and took the necklace. She went to his room to get it back. He had left and snuck back. He told Sabre that he knew it was the queens because he had given it to her. He kissed Sabre and told her his name. She now knew that he was her husband. They kissed and she told him she was innocent and started crying. He gave her the necklace which she put back and he left to summer with the queen. He stole back and left a brooch on her pillow in the middle of the summer when he also freed some Irishmen from the London tower.
The queen returned and the court was once again crowded and their were parties. Sabre told Matt to get Hawk to bet that she would become his mistress and Matt did that. She was still determined to become his mistress while he didn't know that she was his wife.
Sabre did end up as Shane's mistress and tried to stay out of the queen's way although she was jealous of the fact that Hawk continued to do her bidding whenever he was called. Sabre used Hawk's money and bought clothes, jewels and whatever she wanted. Hawk gave her an Arabian horse and had a barge ordered for her. Hawk was stabbed one night and in his delirium, he told Sabre about his life. She know knew that he was son to the proclaimed Irish king and helping him battle England. He was on the side of the English and pirating ships to get money to help fund the English navy who were fighting in Holland. The queen refused to spend her money and the men weren't being paid well and they lacked supplies for the battle they were fighting for England. The queen refused to believe in the Spaniards being a threat when they built an Armada too. Hawk and Drake used their own ships to attack the Spaniards against the orders of the queen. It put a stop to the Spanish attempt to fight the English.
Part of what Shane did was to free Irishmen who were imprisoned in the London Tower. He was known as the Black Shadow. The queen's secretary had a file on Shane and that was the only piece that was missing. The secretary died and left the file with his daughter. Francis and Sabre became friends and she gave it to Sabre to give to Shane for helping her when her husband was killed in the battle in Holland. Sabre didn't destroy it like she told Shane she had. Francis ended up marrying the queen's favorite, Lord Essex, without telling the queen.
Shane allowed Sabre to have a masquerade ball and she had it on the same night that the queen was going to another party and home close to where she was living with Shane. The queen saw the number of people going to the party and decided to pay a surprise visit. She was unprepared to see Sabre dressed up as the queen. She told Sabre that her party was over and she was banished from court. Shane tried to defend her but he queen was furious at her Sea God for taking a mistress and told him that she would see him in the morning.
The queen was having a fit in the morning and they called in Robert Dudley to calm her. He thought the queen was upset about Essex marrying Francis and he tried to calm her down while telling her at the same time. She was even more upset. Her two favorite men had women that were not herself.
Sabre had seen Francis and been told that she was married to Essex and that she was pregnant. Sabre figured out that she also was pregnant. She had followed Shane when he went to fight the Spanish and he had captured their ships and burned them. Matthew had taken her. She had been sick on the boat and had assumed it was seasickness.
After the masquerade ball, Sabre was upset and Shane left to free some Irish prisoners from the tower. She packed up and decided it was time to go to Blackmoor. She was tiring of being Shane's mistress. She had told Shane that he needed to divorce the wife he had never met and marry her. Matthew was told about the file Sabre had and he stole it from her and read it. Matthew as furious to find out that he was not his father's son and had stolen what he believed the title of Lord Davenport from him. He felt he hated Shane and his mother for lying to both himself and his father about Shane being his son. Matthew was determined to do something about it. He also decided that Sabre would be his in reality. He felt responsible for her since he had stood in for Shane as proxy for his wedding. He set up a trap to put some Irish prisoners in the tower for Shane to come free and then he would be caught. The last guards had mentioned seeing a monster on the body of the Black Shadow and Matthew knew that it was Shane's tattoo of a dragon.
Shane returned home that night to find Sabre gone and he went to his lawyer to have divorce papers drawn up to end his marriage with Sara Bishop and set out for Blackmoor to see his wife. He was surprised to find out that his wife was Sara Bishop Hawkhurst who was also Sabre Wilde, his mistress. They made up and she told him about the file. She was going to give it to him but they couldn't find it. They figured out that Matthew had taken it and they headed back to London to see him.
They found Matthew and discovered that someone had been taken to the tower and accused to be the Black Shadow. Matthew had at first thought that Shane had been caught and felt guilty. Matthew told Shane that he was angry at him for stealing his title and Shane told Matthew that they were full brothers because he also was a son of the O'Neill. It was actually the condemned Fitzgerald, earl of Desmond. He had been under Shane's care for years. He was the last of his Irish family. The rest had been sentenced to death and killed by the queens soldiers. Shane helped the Irish along with his father while taking care of the baron. The baron also watched Shane's back and was his protector when needed. Shane helped equip the English army and used his pirating spoils to aid the queens navy to protect England.
Shane told them that he was going to see the queen and he was going to free the baron from the tower. They had both betrayed him so they would not be told of those plans. Then Shane came to Sabre and asked her to dress up as the queen one more time to take some drugs to the baron that would cause his heart to slow down and make his pulse undetectable. The baron would be taken out in a coffin as a dead man. Shane would bring him home.
The baron was brought to Shane's home where he was drugged so they could correct the dislocation done to his arms and legs. He was taken to Georgiana's home, their mother, who had been introduced to the baron and was very much interested in him.
Shane came home one afternoon to find Sabre had been taken. He didn't take him long to figure out that his father had been the one who took her. Shane and Matthew went to confront their father. Sabre had been well cared for once the O'Neill had been told that she was his daughter-in-law. The O'Neill told them all that the Spanish Armada had plans to attack England in August. He sent word to the queen. The Irish would then also begin their rebellion on land against England while the Spanish kept England busy at sea.
Shane took Sabre to his home at Davenport and married her there in a second ceremony while Matthew was on his way to deliver the messages about the Spanish Armada to the queen. Sabre told Shane first thing in the morning that she was pregnant with his child. He told her that he would not be attempting any more adventures without her. He was no longer doing any favors for his father that would put him in danger.
Sara was told that no one would marry her because she had no dowry, only a small piece of land in Ireland left to her by her father. She had been told that she was ugly for so long that she believed it of herself when she was actually much fairer than any of her sisters.
Shane Hawkhurst was the eldest son of Lord Davenport although he wasn't his natural son. His father was Hugh O'Neill, an Irish prince. He and Shane's mother had met when she was riding soon after he wedding. They got into an argument and their passion fight led to him raping/ravishing her and she ended up pregnant by Hugh while on her honeymoon. Davenport claimed him as his son but Shane was sent away to school and spent his summers from 8 to 18 with his Irish father.
Shane was a ship captain/pirate and returned from being at sea for 6 months to learn that Davenport had a stroke and wasn't well. Davenport told Shane that he would inherit his estate if he would promise to get married which Shane did.
Shane sent his man Jacob to see Sabre about buying the land her father had left her. It was between the sea and Shane's Irish land and he wanted it. Reverend Bishop wanted to sell it but Jacob would only deal with Sabre and he was surprised by her beauty. She refused to sell so he returned to tell Hawk. Hawk asked Jacob to find him a wife and he arranged for Hawk to marry Sabre. Shane agreed because he would get the wife he needed and the land he wanted. Sabre was excited to be finally getting married and started to plan only to have everything go wrong at the last minute.
Shane sent his brother, Matthew to proxy as the groom for him and to take Sabre to Blackmoor. Sabre used the money that Matt had brought to her to buy back her horse that Bishop had sold for punishment and they headed out. She went to Blackmoor but told Matt that she wasn't staying there alone. He was taking her to court and she was going to set about making herself mistress to her husband. Matt reluctantly agreed because he liked Sabre and didn't agree with Shane's treatment of Sabre. He thought she might be a good match for him.
Sabre had written her Aunt Kate, Lady Ashford, who was in charge of the queen's wardrobe and asked to be brought to court rather than remain at home but Kate hadn't agreed. Sabre found Kate in the palace after the Queen had left for the summer and began to work with her to clean and refurbish the queen's wardrobe. Kate talked non-stop and Sabre knew that they would get along well. She was not happy to find out that her husband had left for the summer with the Queen. But, Shane was referred to as the Sea God by the Queen and he hadn't left yet. He saw Sabre naked as she was getting ready for bed that first night and he was breaking into some rooms in the palace. They ran into each other again the next day. She didn't know that he was her husband and he had no clue that she was his wife. Shane was know to be a lady's man and he knew that he wanted her. She was drawn to him too.
They met again the next evening. Sabre was cleaning the queen's jewelry and took one of her necklaces to wear to a party. Hawk showed up and took the necklace. She went to his room to get it back. He had left and snuck back. He told Sabre that he knew it was the queens because he had given it to her. He kissed Sabre and told her his name. She now knew that he was her husband. They kissed and she told him she was innocent and started crying. He gave her the necklace which she put back and he left to summer with the queen. He stole back and left a brooch on her pillow in the middle of the summer when he also freed some Irishmen from the London tower.
The queen returned and the court was once again crowded and their were parties. Sabre told Matt to get Hawk to bet that she would become his mistress and Matt did that. She was still determined to become his mistress while he didn't know that she was his wife.
Sabre did end up as Shane's mistress and tried to stay out of the queen's way although she was jealous of the fact that Hawk continued to do her bidding whenever he was called. Sabre used Hawk's money and bought clothes, jewels and whatever she wanted. Hawk gave her an Arabian horse and had a barge ordered for her. Hawk was stabbed one night and in his delirium, he told Sabre about his life. She know knew that he was son to the proclaimed Irish king and helping him battle England. He was on the side of the English and pirating ships to get money to help fund the English navy who were fighting in Holland. The queen refused to spend her money and the men weren't being paid well and they lacked supplies for the battle they were fighting for England. The queen refused to believe in the Spaniards being a threat when they built an Armada too. Hawk and Drake used their own ships to attack the Spaniards against the orders of the queen. It put a stop to the Spanish attempt to fight the English.
Part of what Shane did was to free Irishmen who were imprisoned in the London Tower. He was known as the Black Shadow. The queen's secretary had a file on Shane and that was the only piece that was missing. The secretary died and left the file with his daughter. Francis and Sabre became friends and she gave it to Sabre to give to Shane for helping her when her husband was killed in the battle in Holland. Sabre didn't destroy it like she told Shane she had. Francis ended up marrying the queen's favorite, Lord Essex, without telling the queen.
Shane allowed Sabre to have a masquerade ball and she had it on the same night that the queen was going to another party and home close to where she was living with Shane. The queen saw the number of people going to the party and decided to pay a surprise visit. She was unprepared to see Sabre dressed up as the queen. She told Sabre that her party was over and she was banished from court. Shane tried to defend her but he queen was furious at her Sea God for taking a mistress and told him that she would see him in the morning.
The queen was having a fit in the morning and they called in Robert Dudley to calm her. He thought the queen was upset about Essex marrying Francis and he tried to calm her down while telling her at the same time. She was even more upset. Her two favorite men had women that were not herself.
Sabre had seen Francis and been told that she was married to Essex and that she was pregnant. Sabre figured out that she also was pregnant. She had followed Shane when he went to fight the Spanish and he had captured their ships and burned them. Matthew had taken her. She had been sick on the boat and had assumed it was seasickness.
After the masquerade ball, Sabre was upset and Shane left to free some Irish prisoners from the tower. She packed up and decided it was time to go to Blackmoor. She was tiring of being Shane's mistress. She had told Shane that he needed to divorce the wife he had never met and marry her. Matthew was told about the file Sabre had and he stole it from her and read it. Matthew as furious to find out that he was not his father's son and had stolen what he believed the title of Lord Davenport from him. He felt he hated Shane and his mother for lying to both himself and his father about Shane being his son. Matthew was determined to do something about it. He also decided that Sabre would be his in reality. He felt responsible for her since he had stood in for Shane as proxy for his wedding. He set up a trap to put some Irish prisoners in the tower for Shane to come free and then he would be caught. The last guards had mentioned seeing a monster on the body of the Black Shadow and Matthew knew that it was Shane's tattoo of a dragon.
Shane returned home that night to find Sabre gone and he went to his lawyer to have divorce papers drawn up to end his marriage with Sara Bishop and set out for Blackmoor to see his wife. He was surprised to find out that his wife was Sara Bishop Hawkhurst who was also Sabre Wilde, his mistress. They made up and she told him about the file. She was going to give it to him but they couldn't find it. They figured out that Matthew had taken it and they headed back to London to see him.
They found Matthew and discovered that someone had been taken to the tower and accused to be the Black Shadow. Matthew had at first thought that Shane had been caught and felt guilty. Matthew told Shane that he was angry at him for stealing his title and Shane told Matthew that they were full brothers because he also was a son of the O'Neill. It was actually the condemned Fitzgerald, earl of Desmond. He had been under Shane's care for years. He was the last of his Irish family. The rest had been sentenced to death and killed by the queens soldiers. Shane helped the Irish along with his father while taking care of the baron. The baron also watched Shane's back and was his protector when needed. Shane helped equip the English army and used his pirating spoils to aid the queens navy to protect England.
Shane told them that he was going to see the queen and he was going to free the baron from the tower. They had both betrayed him so they would not be told of those plans. Then Shane came to Sabre and asked her to dress up as the queen one more time to take some drugs to the baron that would cause his heart to slow down and make his pulse undetectable. The baron would be taken out in a coffin as a dead man. Shane would bring him home.
The baron was brought to Shane's home where he was drugged so they could correct the dislocation done to his arms and legs. He was taken to Georgiana's home, their mother, who had been introduced to the baron and was very much interested in him.
Shane came home one afternoon to find Sabre had been taken. He didn't take him long to figure out that his father had been the one who took her. Shane and Matthew went to confront their father. Sabre had been well cared for once the O'Neill had been told that she was his daughter-in-law. The O'Neill told them all that the Spanish Armada had plans to attack England in August. He sent word to the queen. The Irish would then also begin their rebellion on land against England while the Spanish kept England busy at sea.
Shane took Sabre to his home at Davenport and married her there in a second ceremony while Matthew was on his way to deliver the messages about the Spanish Armada to the queen. Sabre told Shane first thing in the morning that she was pregnant with his child. He told her that he would not be attempting any more adventures without her. He was no longer doing any favors for his father that would put him in danger.
May 25, 2025
4.5⭐️. Drawn in by the gorgeous cover, I began my foray into '70s-'80s mass market paperback romance novels with this book, and it gave me everything I hoped for and more. The FMC is a charming, manipulative, reckless young woman whose marriage of convenience is made worse when her groom sends his brother to marry her by proxy rather than deem to show up himself. Incensed at such disrespect, she takes on a new name and enters Queen Elizabeth I debauched court to meet her ne're-seen-before husband and tempt him into ruin. If MMC was a less hardened, handsome, rakish man, her plan would have gone off without a hitch, but Queen Bess's "Sea God" is very capable of giving as good as he gets. Watching these two incredibly toxic yet lovable characters try to out-seduce each other without falling in love is a sexy riot not to be missed.
There were two small reasons this didn't end up being a five star read for me. Firstly, while the author does an incredible job throughout most of the novel at marrying facts with fiction, the history ends up getting in the way of a few major plot points being satisfactorily concluded. In a couple instances, the issues are swept completely under the rug, which bothers me more than the other instances of "that'll be solved another day." Secondly, there is a lot of head hopping. It was quite en vogue at the time of writing, especially in the romance genre, but it happened so often that I felt robbed of a character's emotional arc in several scenes. Those issues aside, this was a significantly better written book than expected.
Warning: This is a bodice ripper in the fullest sense of the term. The FMC's virginity is the prized bargaining chip between the main couple. Both members can be emotionally and physically abusive towards one another. There is a lot of graphic smut between them that, at times, is con-noncon coded with kinks that include spanking and rape.
Highly recommend to anyone who is not triggered by the above and wants to enjoy a wild Tudor-era enemies to lovers romance with a lot of well-written smut.
There were two small reasons this didn't end up being a five star read for me. Firstly, while the author does an incredible job throughout most of the novel at marrying facts with fiction, the history ends up getting in the way of a few major plot points being satisfactorily concluded. In a couple instances, the issues are swept completely under the rug, which bothers me more than the other instances of "that'll be solved another day." Secondly, there is a lot of head hopping. It was quite en vogue at the time of writing, especially in the romance genre, but it happened so often that I felt robbed of a character's emotional arc in several scenes. Those issues aside, this was a significantly better written book than expected.
Warning: This is a bodice ripper in the fullest sense of the term. The FMC's virginity is the prized bargaining chip between the main couple. Both members can be emotionally and physically abusive towards one another. There is a lot of graphic smut between them that, at times, is con-noncon coded with kinks that include spanking and rape.
Highly recommend to anyone who is not triggered by the above and wants to enjoy a wild Tudor-era enemies to lovers romance with a lot of well-written smut.
April 20, 2018
A SOLID 3.5 STARS!
THIS STORY HAS AN ASSHOLE HERO. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
OUR HERO is a fuckboi in his time and that's where you can expect some angst to happen in this story. He marries our heroine just for her land in Ireland, and he didn't even have the decency to attend his own wedding, using his brother as a proxy, while he gallivants in Court, being the Queen's favorite toy and god knows he may have fucked her and plenty of other court ladies all his life. You can expect cheating to happen, he still sleeps around after marriage except I don't hold it against him because it was just TECHNICAL. He doesn't know his bride, never met her and definitely has no romantic commitment to her. That's a stranger in my book, and it doesn't really matter to me until they meet. Its no surprise that he's instani attracted to his own wife whose planning her own revenge against him.
OUR HEROINE doesn't love her family but that doesn't mean she doesn't long for it. When FINALLY someone asks for her hand in marriage, she jumps at the chance but is hurt and angered when her husband doesn't even respect their marriage to show up. He marries her by proxy. She plans a revenge to become his mistress...not really sure what kind of ending she was aiming for...i'd pegged for her to make him fall in love with her. I'm glad I took a break halfway through the story so I was more accepting after the whole rollercoaster of angst, where the heroine wasnt so bent on revenge anymore but was falling for her own husband.
OVERALL this is a classic bodice ripper that is quite enjoyable in its usual dramatic, angsty and passionate way...although don't expect a grand love. Passion yes, sappy weepy or sweet? Not here.
THIS STORY HAS AN ASSHOLE HERO. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
OUR HERO is a fuckboi in his time and that's where you can expect some angst to happen in this story. He marries our heroine just for her land in Ireland, and he didn't even have the decency to attend his own wedding, using his brother as a proxy, while he gallivants in Court, being the Queen's favorite toy and god knows he may have fucked her and plenty of other court ladies all his life. You can expect cheating to happen, he still sleeps around after marriage except I don't hold it against him because it was just TECHNICAL. He doesn't know his bride, never met her and definitely has no romantic commitment to her. That's a stranger in my book, and it doesn't really matter to me until they meet. Its no surprise that he's instani attracted to his own wife whose planning her own revenge against him.
OUR HEROINE doesn't love her family but that doesn't mean she doesn't long for it. When FINALLY someone asks for her hand in marriage, she jumps at the chance but is hurt and angered when her husband doesn't even respect their marriage to show up. He marries her by proxy. She plans a revenge to become his mistress...not really sure what kind of ending she was aiming for...i'd pegged for her to make him fall in love with her. I'm glad I took a break halfway through the story so I was more accepting after the whole rollercoaster of angst, where the heroine wasnt so bent on revenge anymore but was falling for her own husband.
OVERALL this is a classic bodice ripper that is quite enjoyable in its usual dramatic, angsty and passionate way...although don't expect a grand love. Passion yes, sappy weepy or sweet? Not here.
January 13, 2023
I.
HATE.
THIS.
BOOK!
The plot is predictive, the characters are flat and dry, and it's just straight up
B O R I N G!
So yeah... don't read it. It's so bad.
HATE.
THIS.
BOOK!
The plot is predictive, the characters are flat and dry, and it's just straight up
B O R I N G!
So yeah... don't read it. It's so bad.
September 24, 2024
This one was basically ridiculous. It started out okay. Sara Bishop (aka Sabre Wilde for her use of a saber and for being generally wild) was unhappily living at home with her mother, disapproving stepfather and jealous sisters. All three of her sisters' husbands have the hots for her, but it somehow ends up being her fault. For her dowry, she has a paltry piece of land that no one wants, until Shane Hawkhurst. He wants that land in Ireland to access his lands and to conceal his espionage. Sabre is overjoyed at finally being picked to wed and she is proud that her husband is a future earl. However, Shane never intended to have a marriage. He sends his brother Matthew to wed her by proxy and take her to an out of the way estate for her to basically become the housekeeper.
Sabre is beyond furious and wants to enact revenge on her errant husband. She convinces his brother to take her to Queen Elizabeth's court where she plans to seduce her husband and then dump him. Okay. I felt that she was wildly upset about what happened as she had never met Shane before. It seems like she concocted a fantasy in her mind and was livid that it did not pan out. Very immature. It would have been okay to be upset about the life she may lead, but to destroy him? Over the top.
So she's at Elizabeth's court working in her wardrobe (based on the reference of her aunt working there too). The first day she decides that it is unfair that the QUEEN! has all this beautiful jewelry and she deserves some. She decides to "borrow" a necklace for the night, but Shane sees it and knows it's the queen's (on account that he gave it to her). So then she has to go to his room to get the necklace back..
I found the portrayal of Queen Elizabeth as an aging shrew to very interesting. You felt bad for her because these young men fawning over her were only doing so for favors and not her beauty, or even personality. I get that she was difficult to deal with, but Sabre took it too far by masquerading as the queen. The nerve of her.
Anyway, more of the same. Shane falls for her sensual delights pretty hard and Sabre realizes that she is in love with him. But of course, she still has to have her revenge. She's jealous of herself! Or of Sara Bishop. Whatever.
So not sure why this was called "The Hawk and the Dove". I get that Hawk is from Shane's last name, but I would not think of Sabre as an innocent or peaceful dove. More like a vulture.
Sabre is beyond furious and wants to enact revenge on her errant husband. She convinces his brother to take her to Queen Elizabeth's court where she plans to seduce her husband and then dump him. Okay. I felt that she was wildly upset about what happened as she had never met Shane before. It seems like she concocted a fantasy in her mind and was livid that it did not pan out. Very immature. It would have been okay to be upset about the life she may lead, but to destroy him? Over the top.
So she's at Elizabeth's court working in her wardrobe (based on the reference of her aunt working there too). The first day she decides that it is unfair that the QUEEN! has all this beautiful jewelry and she deserves some. She decides to "borrow" a necklace for the night, but Shane sees it and knows it's the queen's (on account that he gave it to her). So then she has to go to his room to get the necklace back..
I found the portrayal of Queen Elizabeth as an aging shrew to very interesting. You felt bad for her because these young men fawning over her were only doing so for favors and not her beauty, or even personality. I get that she was difficult to deal with, but Sabre took it too far by masquerading as the queen. The nerve of her.
Anyway, more of the same. Shane falls for her sensual delights pretty hard and Sabre realizes that she is in love with him. But of course, she still has to have her revenge. She's jealous of herself! Or of Sara Bishop. Whatever.
So not sure why this was called "The Hawk and the Dove". I get that Hawk is from Shane's last name, but I would not think of Sabre as an innocent or peaceful dove. More like a vulture.
January 26, 2025
So, our hero, a man of impeccable morals (not), decides to marry for land. Yes, you read that right. He marries this beautiful, headstrong woman solely for her dowry – a piece of land that conveniently borders his own. But twist! He's too much of a coward to actually meet her, so he sends his younger brother to do the dirty work.
Enter our heroine, a 'reckless beauty'. She's surrounded by lusting suitors, but alas, no one wanted to offer for her with no dowry (except for that land, apparently). So, she does the logical thing: becomes a lady-in-waiting to the queen to plot her revenge against her absent, land-grabbing husband who, conveniently, is one of the queen's many lovers.
And then, the hero shows up. Mr. High and Mighty himself, completely oblivious to the fact that he's already married. He's instantly smitten, of course. This 'reckless beauty' has him wrapped around her finger. He pursues her, woos her, even makes her his mistress. Talk about a moral compass gone wild.
The heroine, meanwhile, is playing a dangerous game. She knows who he is, but she enjoys stringing him along. It's… unsettling, to say the least.
The whole thing felt a bit juvenile. The heroine's 'recklessness' came across as childish, and the hero's behavior was downright gross. And don't even get me started on the sheer carelessness of his affairs.
Of course, he's furious when he finally discovers he's been duped. But honestly? He had it coming. A fitting punishment for his land-grabbing schemes.
Enter our heroine, a 'reckless beauty'. She's surrounded by lusting suitors, but alas, no one wanted to offer for her with no dowry (except for that land, apparently). So, she does the logical thing: becomes a lady-in-waiting to the queen to plot her revenge against her absent, land-grabbing husband who, conveniently, is one of the queen's many lovers.
And then, the hero shows up. Mr. High and Mighty himself, completely oblivious to the fact that he's already married. He's instantly smitten, of course. This 'reckless beauty' has him wrapped around her finger. He pursues her, woos her, even makes her his mistress. Talk about a moral compass gone wild.
The heroine, meanwhile, is playing a dangerous game. She knows who he is, but she enjoys stringing him along. It's… unsettling, to say the least.
The whole thing felt a bit juvenile. The heroine's 'recklessness' came across as childish, and the hero's behavior was downright gross. And don't even get me started on the sheer carelessness of his affairs.
Of course, he's furious when he finally discovers he's been duped. But honestly? He had it coming. A fitting punishment for his land-grabbing schemes.
December 27, 2022
Sara Bishop vuole abbandonare la sua casa a tutti i costi, e quando arriva il momento opportuno farà di tutto per andarsene anche accettare di barattare la terra del suo defunto padre e di sposarsi su procura. Il suo animo ribelle però non si demorde e non resterà abbandonata dove il marito vuole, così con l'aiuto del fratello di lui andrà a corte sotto un'altro nome.
Lei vuole vendetta per quel marito che nemmeno si è presentato alle nozze, e mette a punto un piano diabolico: farlo innamorare di Sabre e far si che lei diventi la sua amante per poi confidargli nel momento opportuno che è la moglie e chiederne il divorzio.
Shane è uno dei favoriti della regina, soprannominato Dio dei mari da tutta la corte, è in combutta con gli irlandesi e di notte diventa Black shadows quando rischia la vita per liberarli.
Appena mette gli occhi su Sabre ne è ipnotizzato e metterà tutto in discussione anche il rapporto con il suo vero padre.
Ho amato questo libro dall'inizio alla fine, il punto di forza per me è Sara/Sabre che con la sua cocciutaggine e il suo carattere riesce sempre a non farsi abbattere, anzi quando sembra che tutto le sia contro riesce a rialzarsi e tranne forza. Una protagonista con un carattere determinato e spregiudicata, che sberleffa pure la Regina.
Quando leggo un romance ambientato storicamente ritorno al mio primo amore, m'immergo talmente tanto nel periodo e nella storia che quando lo finisco faccio fatica ad iniziare nuovi libri.
La descrizione dei luoghi, dei personaggi e del guardaroba della regina sono ben caraterizzati e in linea con il tempo.
Lo consiglio
Lei vuole vendetta per quel marito che nemmeno si è presentato alle nozze, e mette a punto un piano diabolico: farlo innamorare di Sabre e far si che lei diventi la sua amante per poi confidargli nel momento opportuno che è la moglie e chiederne il divorzio.
Shane è uno dei favoriti della regina, soprannominato Dio dei mari da tutta la corte, è in combutta con gli irlandesi e di notte diventa Black shadows quando rischia la vita per liberarli.
Appena mette gli occhi su Sabre ne è ipnotizzato e metterà tutto in discussione anche il rapporto con il suo vero padre.
Ho amato questo libro dall'inizio alla fine, il punto di forza per me è Sara/Sabre che con la sua cocciutaggine e il suo carattere riesce sempre a non farsi abbattere, anzi quando sembra che tutto le sia contro riesce a rialzarsi e tranne forza. Una protagonista con un carattere determinato e spregiudicata, che sberleffa pure la Regina.
Quando leggo un romance ambientato storicamente ritorno al mio primo amore, m'immergo talmente tanto nel periodo e nella storia che quando lo finisco faccio fatica ad iniziare nuovi libri.
La descrizione dei luoghi, dei personaggi e del guardaroba della regina sono ben caraterizzati e in linea con il tempo.
Lo consiglio
July 6, 2017
I was not a huge fan of this book. The heroine, to me, was unbearable. I gave her a pass at first because she had a rough go in the beginning. However, she became more and more entitled and annoying as the book went on. I could not connect with her on any level. It was pretty wordy, and I just lost interest at the half way mark. I skipped through until I found the part where she revealed her big (obnoxious) secret. Total let-down. Oh well! Can’t all be winners!
August 3, 2019
Not bad. I ultimately give it 3.5 stars. It pales in comparison to The Raven and the Rose, although it was still enjoyable. Not quite the brazen, seafaring adventure I was lead to believe it was going to be.
July 4, 2025
3.5 🌟 rounded up! super fun spicy vixen sets out to become her husbands mistress to get revenge (they were married via proxy) with the backdrop of Queen Elizabeth’s court.
August 16, 2018
Una clásica novela romántica histórica de matrimonio sin amor, por interés, en el que la cuestión es quién de los dos se enamorará antes del otro. Hawk es un tipo bastante arrogante y bruto, pero lo cierto es que Sabre es la horma de su zapato: rebelde y temeraria y siempre dispuesta a meterse en líos y dar que hablar.
La narración es fluida y ágil. Me ha costado un poco simpatizar con los personajes, ya que él se comporta de una forma bastante poco honorable para mi gusto y ella es una loca temeraria más de una vez. Aun así, sus idas y venidas son divertidas y me he bebido el libro en unos días. Es una buena opción para amenizar las tardes de piscina.
La narración es fluida y ágil. Me ha costado un poco simpatizar con los personajes, ya que él se comporta de una forma bastante poco honorable para mi gusto y ella es una loca temeraria más de una vez. Aun así, sus idas y venidas son divertidas y me he bebido el libro en unos días. Es una buena opción para amenizar las tardes de piscina.
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July 30, 2022Hard for me.
September 6, 2011
baca virginia henley harus berhati2.
seringan kita susah mengikuti alurnya di halaman2 awal tp begitu sudah bbrp halaman baru mulai bisa mengikuti dengan lancarnya.
novel ini mo dibilang jelek tp gitu mulai baca aq ga bisa nglepas tp dibilang bagus kok ya aq jengkel dengan tokoh2nya...bingung deh
bercerita ttg sara bishop, yg hidup bersama saudara2 tirinya & ibu serta ayah tirinya, reverend bishop.
tp kehidupan sara tidak bgt baik.
ayahnya adl orang irish & sara tidak punya saudara kandung. satu2nya peninggalan sang ayah adl tanah di irish yg menurut orang tidak punya nilai jual sama sekali.
sara adl gadis yg cantik & punya pendirian.
saat seorang pria datang sbg utusan untuk membeli tanah sara, sara menolaknya walaupun sudah diancam oleh ayah tirinya (yg menurutku walo reverend tp terlalu tamak harta sedang ibunya terlalu lemah).
sara tidak ingin menjual satu2nya tali yg menyatukannya dengan sang ayah.
ketidak inginan menjual tanah tersebut berbuntut pada lamaran dari s. hawkhurst.
Shane hawkhurst, yg oleh queen ellisabeth dijuluki sea god.
putra sulung sebastian, lord davenport (moga2 namanya benar) tp sebenarnya shane adl putra dari lord.....o'malley.
shane adl favorit dari queen ellisabeth. shane juga adl 1 dari 2 kekasih kesayangan sang ratu.
karna sebelum meninggal sang ayah memintanya untuk menikah agar title-nya dpt selamat jadi shane pun menikah dgn sara bishop yg tidak pernah ditemuinya sama sekali.
tp shane tidak mau menemui sara, matthew -sang adik - yg ditugaskan untuk menemui ke 2 or tu sara & menikahi sara atas nama shane.
shane menginstruksi sang adik untuk membawa sara ke rumah mereka di manaaa gitu (hehehehe lupa).
shane mengira dia menikahi gadis desa penurut.
yg tidak diketahui shane adl sara bukanlah gadis biasa.
sara memiliki nama lain. sabre wilde.
dengan nama itulah sara ke london ke court queen ellisabeth. dengan bantuan sang bibi, sara dpt bergabung.
kecantikan sara ternyata memikat ke 2 kekasih kesayangan ratu.
mereka berlomba2 memenangkan hati sara yg mereka kenal dengan nama sabre.
sara/sabre sendiri merahasiakan identitasnya.
sara sakit hati dengan ketidak acuhan shane & bertekad membalas dendam.
sabre ingin memikat shane membuat shane menjadikannya mistress-nya.
kecantikan, kemolekan juga kemurnian sabre menjadi hit.
semua ingin menjadikannya kekasih namun sabre menghindari mereka semua.
sabre bermain tarik ulur dengan semuanya, satu2nya yg diperhatikannya secara serius adl shane.
rencana sabre memang berhasil.
shane jatuh kedalam pelukannya. sabre berhasil membuat shane jatuh cinta pd-nya tp sabre juga jatuh cinta pd suaminya sendiri & sabre malah cemburu pd sara bishop - dirinya sendiri - yg memiliki nama resmi sbg istri shane.
queen ellisabeth mengetahui hubungan shane - sabre sangat marah & berniat menghancurkan sabre.
tp sabre bukan gadis yg mudah dihancurkan bgt saja.
sabre bahkan tidak sudi diinjak2 oleh shane seberapa besarpun cintanya pd shane.
sabre ingin shane menceraikan sara bishop jika ingin mendapatkan cinta sabre.
tapi....lhaaaaaa sabre ini. shane nyeraiin sara khan sama aja nyeraiin dia khan???
waaaahhh bagaimana sabre ini.
tp bukan sabre namanya kalo ga berani mengambil segala resiko.
sabre bahkan berani walau diculik oleh ayah kandung shane.
sabre bahkan berani menyelamatkan baron..... walo sabre sedang mengandung.
untung dia ga bilang ke shane. coba shane tau wah bisa diikat beneran si sabre.......
buku ini nih bagus2 nyebelin.
si shane nih nganggap istrinya kayak orang ga penting aja.
udah gitu aq ngelus dada beneran ya ampun shane & lord of...., 2 orang muda yg gagah & guanteng kok ya mau2nya jadi kekasih queen ellisabeth yg udah berumur 53 tahun sih?? ampun2 deeehhh..
si queen juga pliss deh ga ngerasa apa kalo kekasih2 dia tuh masih muda2 ya jelas lha gitu liat barang mulus dikit langsung semangat berkobar2.
seringan kita susah mengikuti alurnya di halaman2 awal tp begitu sudah bbrp halaman baru mulai bisa mengikuti dengan lancarnya.
novel ini mo dibilang jelek tp gitu mulai baca aq ga bisa nglepas tp dibilang bagus kok ya aq jengkel dengan tokoh2nya...bingung deh
bercerita ttg sara bishop, yg hidup bersama saudara2 tirinya & ibu serta ayah tirinya, reverend bishop.
tp kehidupan sara tidak bgt baik.
ayahnya adl orang irish & sara tidak punya saudara kandung. satu2nya peninggalan sang ayah adl tanah di irish yg menurut orang tidak punya nilai jual sama sekali.
sara adl gadis yg cantik & punya pendirian.
saat seorang pria datang sbg utusan untuk membeli tanah sara, sara menolaknya walaupun sudah diancam oleh ayah tirinya (yg menurutku walo reverend tp terlalu tamak harta sedang ibunya terlalu lemah).
sara tidak ingin menjual satu2nya tali yg menyatukannya dengan sang ayah.
ketidak inginan menjual tanah tersebut berbuntut pada lamaran dari s. hawkhurst.
Shane hawkhurst, yg oleh queen ellisabeth dijuluki sea god.
putra sulung sebastian, lord davenport (moga2 namanya benar) tp sebenarnya shane adl putra dari lord.....o'malley.
shane adl favorit dari queen ellisabeth. shane juga adl 1 dari 2 kekasih kesayangan sang ratu.
karna sebelum meninggal sang ayah memintanya untuk menikah agar title-nya dpt selamat jadi shane pun menikah dgn sara bishop yg tidak pernah ditemuinya sama sekali.
tp shane tidak mau menemui sara, matthew -sang adik - yg ditugaskan untuk menemui ke 2 or tu sara & menikahi sara atas nama shane.
shane menginstruksi sang adik untuk membawa sara ke rumah mereka di manaaa gitu (hehehehe lupa).
shane mengira dia menikahi gadis desa penurut.
yg tidak diketahui shane adl sara bukanlah gadis biasa.
sara memiliki nama lain. sabre wilde.
dengan nama itulah sara ke london ke court queen ellisabeth. dengan bantuan sang bibi, sara dpt bergabung.
kecantikan sara ternyata memikat ke 2 kekasih kesayangan ratu.
mereka berlomba2 memenangkan hati sara yg mereka kenal dengan nama sabre.
sara/sabre sendiri merahasiakan identitasnya.
sara sakit hati dengan ketidak acuhan shane & bertekad membalas dendam.
sabre ingin memikat shane membuat shane menjadikannya mistress-nya.
kecantikan, kemolekan juga kemurnian sabre menjadi hit.
semua ingin menjadikannya kekasih namun sabre menghindari mereka semua.
sabre bermain tarik ulur dengan semuanya, satu2nya yg diperhatikannya secara serius adl shane.
rencana sabre memang berhasil.
shane jatuh kedalam pelukannya. sabre berhasil membuat shane jatuh cinta pd-nya tp sabre juga jatuh cinta pd suaminya sendiri & sabre malah cemburu pd sara bishop - dirinya sendiri - yg memiliki nama resmi sbg istri shane.
queen ellisabeth mengetahui hubungan shane - sabre sangat marah & berniat menghancurkan sabre.
tp sabre bukan gadis yg mudah dihancurkan bgt saja.
sabre bahkan tidak sudi diinjak2 oleh shane seberapa besarpun cintanya pd shane.
sabre ingin shane menceraikan sara bishop jika ingin mendapatkan cinta sabre.
tapi....lhaaaaaa sabre ini. shane nyeraiin sara khan sama aja nyeraiin dia khan???
waaaahhh bagaimana sabre ini.
tp bukan sabre namanya kalo ga berani mengambil segala resiko.
sabre bahkan berani walau diculik oleh ayah kandung shane.
sabre bahkan berani menyelamatkan baron..... walo sabre sedang mengandung.
untung dia ga bilang ke shane. coba shane tau wah bisa diikat beneran si sabre.......
buku ini nih bagus2 nyebelin.
si shane nih nganggap istrinya kayak orang ga penting aja.
udah gitu aq ngelus dada beneran ya ampun shane & lord of...., 2 orang muda yg gagah & guanteng kok ya mau2nya jadi kekasih queen ellisabeth yg udah berumur 53 tahun sih?? ampun2 deeehhh..
si queen juga pliss deh ga ngerasa apa kalo kekasih2 dia tuh masih muda2 ya jelas lha gitu liat barang mulus dikit langsung semangat berkobar2.
August 28, 2019
Wow
One of the best books I've read. There is adventure, intrigue, romance....to name a few....qualities in this book. I have found an author who knows how to write a book. Sabre is married by proxy to her husband The Hawk. She never meets him. His brother comes to represent him. Then she is sent to a remote piece of land of his. She is so angry to be treated like that. So she asks for the Hawks brother's assistance. Matthew agrees. This is a beginning of a relationship between the two of them. I don't think there was a dull moment in this book. I wanted to read more about the Hawk and Sabre. They were two very colorful people. I did have questions at the end of the book. But maybe they are answered in other books. I certainly will be looking for other books by this author.
One of the best books I've read. There is adventure, intrigue, romance....to name a few....qualities in this book. I have found an author who knows how to write a book. Sabre is married by proxy to her husband The Hawk. She never meets him. His brother comes to represent him. Then she is sent to a remote piece of land of his. She is so angry to be treated like that. So she asks for the Hawks brother's assistance. Matthew agrees. This is a beginning of a relationship between the two of them. I don't think there was a dull moment in this book. I wanted to read more about the Hawk and Sabre. They were two very colorful people. I did have questions at the end of the book. But maybe they are answered in other books. I certainly will be looking for other books by this author.
May 21, 2019
I LOVE Virginia Henley and her old school bodice rippers, but this one just left me kind of meh 😐. The heroine, Sabre, was married by proxy for a piece of land and decides to take revenge by becoming her husband's mistress and making him fall in love with her. While I admire Sabre's fierce courage and strong spirit, she came off as immature and annoying at times. The hero, Shane, is a confident powerful sea captain who is also a jackass. The couple does find their happily ever after, but I just never felt a deep emotional connection with them. I still love Virginia Henley, but this definitely wasn't one of my favorites.
June 16, 2012
Usually I really enjoy reading books by Virginia Henley but I didn't love this one. It had a lot to do with the two main characters. Sabre was kind of a vicious beat and Shane was a violent jackass. There was way too much violence in their bedroom that it made for an uncomfortable read. Shane always seemed to be angry about something and Sabre just kept pushing and shoving and behaving like a child. I did like Matthew however, and I wish Sabre had ended up with him instead.
July 22, 2015
La historia fue bastante entretenida y sólo quería leer para ver conocer cómo sería la venganza de ella, cómo sería cuando él viera a su esposa, la reconciliación y fue bien aburrido, esperaba otra cosa.
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