Redge reviewed She Owns the Knight by Diane Darcy
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2 stars
Not quite a "dnf", because I really did finish. But I did skim a lot over the second half of the book.
The book was not bad, but not as good as I had hoped from the title, the blurb, and a 4 star rating average.
In the beginning, it was refreshing that Gillian was not one of the usual simpering heroines (I really liked her initial attempts at rationalising her medieval experience!), but over the course of the story it seemed to me like she turned into one of those rather easily. sigh
Personally, I felt that Kellen remained a bit bland as the hero, and I'd have liked McGregor better in that role (and I'm sure he has a book of his own somewhere).
Overall, I enjoyed the story in the beginning, it had some really funny moments. Though somewhere around the middle I lost my patience when …
Not quite a "dnf", because I really did finish. But I did skim a lot over the second half of the book.
The book was not bad, but not as good as I had hoped from the title, the blurb, and a 4 star rating average.
In the beginning, it was refreshing that Gillian was not one of the usual simpering heroines (I really liked her initial attempts at rationalising her medieval experience!), but over the course of the story it seemed to me like she turned into one of those rather easily. sigh
Personally, I felt that Kellen remained a bit bland as the hero, and I'd have liked McGregor better in that role (and I'm sure he has a book of his own somewhere).
Overall, I enjoyed the story in the beginning, it had some really funny moments. Though somewhere around the middle I lost my patience when some situations that could have spelled disaster for the heroine were glossed over rather quickly.
What a waste of potential DRAMA! ;-)
On the technical side: As is the case with many books I have read lately, there were a number of typos that were distracting (and sometimes annoying - there were one or two occasions when it almost seemed as if a speech recognition software was used).
I'm not sure if I want to read more books in this series, though a big part of that may be my current disenchantment with the whole time-travel to oh-so-romantic medieval England/Scotland/Whateverland genre.