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A review by staceylynn42
Lord of the Privateers by Stephanie Laurens
3.0
ugh. Hidden Baby trope. I really dislike Hidden Baby trope, even if it turns out to be entirely negligible in the plot, you still Hid a Baby and mixed it with Second Chance Romance.
Leaving aside the hidden child and ridiculous reason for same, this was the best book of the set. Royd, the oldest of the brothers had been hand fasted 8 years ago to Isobel but 'reasons' intervened and no one thought to keep one informed about the other (really? no said "hey, saw your old girlfriend recently with a baby" because I don't care what the reasons were, that news would be spread far & wide)
They set off together to rescue the prisoners from book 3. The romance with these 2 worked for me much better than the others. The mining plot was resolved, there was a sword fight, it was all looking set to end well.
But we were still 40% away from the ending. *sigh* Naturally the whole of the ton (or every Laurens' character ever, same difference) has to show up and help solve it.
I love seeing some old characters popping up occasionally in a series as much as the next person. But this is not 'some' 'popping up occasionally'. This is nearly all of them, having significant speaking parts, popping up in all the serieses. Do the Cynsters have some contractual obligation to appear in every series? Devil must have negotiated a hell of a deal on that because 20+ novels on he is still a regularly recurring character.
Leaving aside the hidden child and ridiculous reason for same, this was the best book of the set. Royd, the oldest of the brothers had been hand fasted 8 years ago to Isobel but 'reasons' intervened and no one thought to keep one informed about the other (really? no said "hey, saw your old girlfriend recently with a baby" because I don't care what the reasons were, that news would be spread far & wide)
They set off together to rescue the prisoners from book 3. The romance with these 2 worked for me much better than the others. The mining plot was resolved, there was a sword fight, it was all looking set to end well.
But we were still 40% away from the ending. *sigh* Naturally the whole of the ton (or every Laurens' character ever, same difference) has to show up and help solve it.
I love seeing some old characters popping up occasionally in a series as much as the next person. But this is not 'some' 'popping up occasionally'. This is nearly all of them, having significant speaking parts, popping up in all the serieses. Do the Cynsters have some contractual obligation to appear in every series? Devil must have negotiated a hell of a deal on that because 20+ novels on he is still a regularly recurring character.