nicola1066's review
5.0
Brilliant. So good I read it in a day and have just purchased the other 2 in the series.
wildflowerz76's review
1.0
Oh my. First, this was gym reading, aka I got it free or super cheap for the Kindle.
There were SO MANY things wrong with this book. Where do I start? First, the romance between to two main characters was awful. It felt like it was written by a 12yo. It was incredibly simplistic and unbelievable. Likewise the relationship between the girl and her parents. Actually, the entire thing was like that. The girl was TSTL. The culprits were INCREDIBLY easy to identify to the reader, but the characters were complete imbeciles about it.
-I don't care what the circumstances were, you're father BEATS YOU! You moron. Run far away and never talk to him again!
-Her brother was definitely younger than she was, but wasn't he only 16 or so? Men didn't get married that early!
-Methinks. Holy shit, enough with that already. It was annoying and completely over-used. Followed closely by "tis."
-Why did she lose her voice when she fell and hurt herself while pregnant?
-Why couldn't the mother, Maire, write down what she needed to say. She acted like she couldn't communicate AT ALL because she couldn't speak.
-So, main female injures herself while she's pregnant, bleeding copiously. Somehow she loses her voice in the process. Then she stays in bed for a week and she's all fine and dandy after that? So much so that she then has sex? Um, what?
-Evil merchant guy had long blonde hair cut in a pageboy style. Seriously? /snicker
There were SO MANY things wrong with this book. Where do I start? First, the romance between to two main characters was awful. It felt like it was written by a 12yo. It was incredibly simplistic and unbelievable. Likewise the relationship between the girl and her parents. Actually, the entire thing was like that. The girl was TSTL. The culprits were INCREDIBLY easy to identify to the reader, but the characters were complete imbeciles about it.
-I don't care what the circumstances were, you're father BEATS YOU! You moron. Run far away and never talk to him again!
-Her brother was definitely younger than she was, but wasn't he only 16 or so? Men didn't get married that early!
-Methinks. Holy shit, enough with that already. It was annoying and completely over-used. Followed closely by "tis."
-Why did she lose her voice when she fell and hurt herself while pregnant?
-Why couldn't the mother, Maire, write down what she needed to say. She acted like she couldn't communicate AT ALL because she couldn't speak.
-So, main female injures herself while she's pregnant, bleeding copiously. Somehow she loses her voice in the process. Then she stays in bed for a week and she's all fine and dandy after that? So much so that she then has sex? Um, what?
-Evil merchant guy had long blonde hair cut in a pageboy style. Seriously? /snicker
chymerra's review
5.0
If you like Gothic romance, this is the book for you.
The beginning was great, and I do have to say, Beth was very progressive for that time. She met with a man, who wasn’t a family member, several times. She spoke her mind, got beaten by her father and still spoke her mind after that. LOVE HER. She wasn’t afraid to go with Henry after everything she heard about his family. If anything, that made her want to be with him more. There should be more female heroines like her.
Henry had an awful past that left scars. I mean, if my father killed my younger siblings, best friend and then himself, I would be traumatized too. Didn’t help that his mother went somewhat mental and locked herself in a tower for years. That is something hard to overcome and deal with.
The antagonists of the story didn’t come as a surprise to me. I had figured out the man after the first time he was mentioned. I didn’t figure out the woman until almost the same time that Beth and Henry did.
I will read this story again. I loved it!!
**I voluntarily reviewed this book**
Blog Link: https://readwithme2018.com/2015/01/13/curse-of-the-kingsmans-by-emma-daniels-and-ethan-sommerville/
The beginning was great, and I do have to say, Beth was very progressive for that time. She met with a man, who wasn’t a family member, several times. She spoke her mind, got beaten by her father and still spoke her mind after that. LOVE HER. She wasn’t afraid to go with Henry after everything she heard about his family. If anything, that made her want to be with him more. There should be more female heroines like her.
Henry had an awful past that left scars. I mean, if my father killed my younger siblings, best friend and then himself, I would be traumatized too. Didn’t help that his mother went somewhat mental and locked herself in a tower for years. That is something hard to overcome and deal with.
The antagonists of the story didn’t come as a surprise to me. I had figured out the man after the first time he was mentioned. I didn’t figure out the woman until almost the same time that Beth and Henry did.
I will read this story again. I loved it!!
**I voluntarily reviewed this book**
Blog Link: https://readwithme2018.com/2015/01/13/curse-of-the-kingsmans-by-emma-daniels-and-ethan-sommerville/
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