gonturans's review against another edition
1.0
Ever mildly enjoy a book because it’s so intensely old school (“As two mighty elk might lock horns” is a real sentence I got to read with my eyes) but then record scratch freeze frame when the hero shows up in blackface after an Elizabethan masque to seduce the heroine? Yeah? Like 150 pages in and there’s still 250 to go?
loverofromance's review against another edition
4.0
Katherine, after being in the convent for years and not having heard from her family, decides to leave knowing all she wants is a husband and children. So when she leaved and gets on a ship on her way to Ireland, back home, the ship is captured by pirates and she is a prisoner of Liam O'Neill, the pirate captain, who refuses to let her go. Katherine refuses to give in to the feelings and the desire she starts to feel for Liam, knowing she deserves more than to be a mistress to a pirate, that she deserves love, marriage and a family of her own. Liam is the king of Games, and ever since he first saw Katherine, he knew he would keep her, and even though he has a secret cause he will do everything he can to Win!The Game is the 4th in the de Warrenne series, and I have always enjoyed Brenda Joyce and all of her books for the most part, and even though this was a bit longer, it was still a enjoyable read but far from my favorite of her books. The one thing that I really loved about this story, was how there was always a surprise at the next turn of the plot, something I would have never expected to happen, and left me excited to see what would happen next. The title for the book "The Game" is perfect, and fits it with exactness. The characters were fascinating to get to know. Liam would just make me laugh at times, and other make me want to hug him, and other I wanted to throttle him. Katherine however, it took me a while to really warm up to her, she seemed a bit selfish and naive especially in the beginning, but she grew on me as the story started to really develop. Overall it was a really enjoyable read with lots of intrigue and mystery, romance and passion and series of events that might just make your head spin!!
esquiredtoread's review against another edition
2.0
What a journey this book was! The Queen, the back and forth with this “relationship”, and the messy conversation around sexual assault. Romance was wild at this time, ya’ll.
melluuvsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Rogue pirate kidnaps a young naive noble woman on the high seas and demands she be his mistress. “I think not, you disgusting Knave!”
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