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A review by llamallamacallurmama
A Knight To Call Her Home by Margaux Thorne
Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.
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Ebook
DNF
Summary: Forced political marriage between a young woman and knight who get off to a bad start. | Stats: HR - Medieval, M/F, part of a series (seems to stand largely alone), open door. | Notes: This seems like the author googled a “medieval word for ___” a few times and read the intro to a wikipedia page on the Norman invasion and said, “Good enough!” The characters are one dimensional, things happen to them without meaningful response or reflection, and they read far too modern. There is some classic romance book-ness to the story which is really why I continued for so long, but it really wasn’t working for me. I also felt like the SA was not handled particularly meaningfully or respectfully and just used as a way to slow the consummation of the MCs' marriage down slightly. Rather a dark note in an overall disney-ish story.
Incomplete, but still spoilery, Content Notesforced/arranged marriage, war, death of parent (heart attack), age gap (30M, 20?F), alcohol, violence (sword fighting, knife violence, bow and arrows), blood and mild gore, snake bite, injuries and primitive medical care, general manhandling, SA of FMC (on page, groping, touching and fingering), slapping (of the FMC by villain), illness, poisoning, death of infant sibilng (brief description)
Ebook
DNF
Summary: Forced political marriage between a young woman and knight who get off to a bad start. | Stats: HR - Medieval, M/F, part of a series (seems to stand largely alone), open door. | Notes: This seems like the author googled a “medieval word for ___” a few times and read the intro to a wikipedia page on the Norman invasion and said, “Good enough!” The characters are one dimensional, things happen to them without meaningful response or reflection, and they read far too modern. There is some classic romance book-ness to the story which is really why I continued for so long, but it really wasn’t working for me. I also felt like the SA was not handled particularly meaningfully or respectfully and just used as a way to slow the consummation of the MCs' marriage down slightly. Rather a dark note in an overall disney-ish story.
Incomplete, but still spoilery, Content Notes