Book Description
Cassandra Sheridan is furious! Not only has her parents arranged a marriage between herself and a titled Englishman, but he doesn't even have the decency to show up at their betrothal party! Cassie realizes the man she's supposed to marry is nothing like the prince in her daydreams, and decides to set off on an adventure to the wilds of Scotland.
Devlyn St. Clair, Earl of Hampstead, heir to the Duke of Hastings, belongs to a League of spies that secretly works for the Crown. He's too busy staying alive to make time for a little thing like his betrothal party. But while traveling to his next mission, he meets a spirited young woman...a woman who ignites his heart...a woman, he shockingly discovers, who is his bride–to–be! Now with the enemy hot on his heels, will he be able to protect Cassie from the dangers of his life? And will he be able to protect his heart from falling in love?
Customer Reviews:
Wild and Wicked?.......2007-05-22
If you are wanting a refreshing, rollicking good romance with wit, charm and passion, look elsewhere. This Scotland is more weak and watery than wild and wicked.
eh.......2007-05-07
I read numerous romance novels and this was not so great. I don't think it's so wild and wicked that you make love the day before you get married. Oh, the scandal [sarcasm]. It also didn't seem to move along very well. It definately wasn't a page-turner.
Western/Scottish/American Romance/007 Plot.......2007-04-22
I found this book to be a refreshing change. Set in 1874 Scottand. Full of spies, espionage and all the cloak and dagger stuff--but in a good way. It was also a nicely written romance. I could reread this book in the future and probably pick up more of the cloak and dagger parts. I did not find the book slow and liked both characters. Could have written an epilogue....
pretty good.......2007-04-07
I really liked the beginning of the book when they didn't know who the other was and also the way they found out they were betrothed. However, after this point, I felt like it dragged a little until the very end, which was very exciting.
It was a good book, not my favorite; I probably will never read it again, but it was good enough to provide ample entertainment.
One thing I really liked about it was that Cassie and Devlyn were always able to talk out their problems before they got to the "big misunderstanding."
Great Characters! .......2007-02-22
Wild and Wicked in Scotland by Melody Thomas has a nice mix of romance, mystery and adventure. Cassie is an American Heiress that is engaged to The Earl of Hampstead. He misses their betrothal ball so she decided to set off on an adventure. She heads to Scotland only to find the Earl. It was good and I will read more by this author.
Average customer rating:
- Wild, Wicked, & Wanton
- OMG
- Wild , Wicked, & Wonton
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- Wild, Wicked and Wow!
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Wild, Wicked, & Wanton (Berkley Heat)
Jaci Burton
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Book Description
Three friends reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master."*
They're inseparable friends who share their wildest secrets and dares. The latest bet is the boldest of all: each must sleep with whomever the others have chosen and return with every juicy detail. For divorcŽe Abby it's a pair of sexy veterinarians who are fulfilling their own desire. For heartbreaker Blaire it's the one man she never had the courage to bed. For sensible Callie it's an irresistible stranger. For readers, it's an erotic fantasy come true.
Customer Reviews:
Wild, Wicked, & Wanton.......2007-08-12
10 stars!! I swear that's what I'd give this book if I could!! This was actually not only my first "erotic romance" but also the first thing I'd ever read by Jaci Burton. And let me tell you...from the moment I opened to the first page, to the very last...my body throbbed. I couldn't read it w/o wanting to reach for my significant other. It was just that amazing!! The premise of three gf's, a sexy bet, and each of the women's ensuing fantasies...just so DID IT for me. Wild Abby is approached w/a sexy menage proposition...and it would kill me...to be asked by even one of her sexy suitors...much less both. So I could TOTALLY relate to her shock, surprise, and the downright hedonistic pleasure of THAT CRAZY NIGHT. Damn. This was a really, really, hot story. And probably my favorite of the three. Then there was Wicked Blair...I didn't get that she was all that "wicked" since she needed Rand to help her "let go"...but the sex scenes were still pretty damn hot. Raunchy talk at it's finest!! And last but not least...is Wanton Callie. Definitely a fun girl. Not at all what you'd expect from a widow & sweet coffee shop owner! She & lawyer Jack deserved to be called more "wicked" than Blair & Rand, in my opinion....but whatever. This whole book was just one fabulous fantasy fest....Definitely another keeper for my collection.
OMG.......2007-08-08
This book is so hot I swear my fingers were singed while reading it. If you are looking for a hot book to read to keep you warm on a cold night. This book is for you. You can't go wrong with it.
Wild , Wicked, & Wonton.......2007-06-18
Three friends, a bet surprises beyond their wildest dreams.
First up is Abby's story. Seth and Mike want to give Abby a graduation party and present. The present being the two of them! Of course Abby needs the advise of her two friends Blair and Callie. They advise her to go for it, she does and goes on the ride of her life. This was one sexy story.
Next up it Blair's story. Blair is a closet submissive but refuses to give up control to any man. Rand is the one man she knows she can surrender to but does everything she can to stay away from him. Rand has wanted Blair since he was 15 and he knows just what kind of a man she needs. I liked Blair's spunkiness and Rand was just too cool for words. This was my favorite story in the book.
And last but not least. Callie's story. Callie is into voyeurism and is a exhibitionist. She meets Jack who just happens to like the same thing. This was shortest story in the book but no less hot.
This was a fun fast paced read that will go on my keeper shelf.
5 Klovers! Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques.......2007-06-17
Best friends Abby, Blair and Callie make a bet that culminates in each of the women experiencing a night of lusty kink and fulfilling their most secret sexually fantasies. But something happens that none of the women expect - each woman finds true love while experiencing the most wild, wicked and wanton nights of their lives...
Abby never suspected that the two drop-dead gorgeous veterinarians she works for have been secretly lusting after her for the last year. They are determined to have her - no matter what they have to do. Seth & Mike set Abby's senses reeling, and together they deliver an erotic experience she'll never forget.
Blair is a pro at maintaining control in all of her relationships - that's why she's studiously avoided any involvement with Rand, a man who demands control she finds her body all too willing to give him even while her mind protests. But Rand is not the kind of man who takes no for an answer...
Widowed Callie has long mourned her husband, and focused her life on her friends and her thriving coffee shop. She never expected to love again, and she certainly never expected the hunky lawyer who frequents her little store to sweep her off her feet. When they find they share voyeuristic and exhibitionist tendencies, passion ignites!
I have been purchasing Jaci Burton's books for a while, but somehow not yet found time to read any of those purchases, although they were high up in my to be read pile. Finally I received one of this popular author's books for review, which gave me an excellent reason to prioritize Wild, Wicked & Wanton in my reading list. All I can say now is: WOW! Have I been missing out or what??? I had a strong suspicion I was going to love Jaci Burton's work, based on excerpts I have read from her stories and recommendations from friends who praise her novels and now those suspicions are decidedly confirmed! Upon finishing this book, I proceeded to various message boards and reading groups I am a member of and posted how much I enjoyed Wild, Wicked & Wanton, and I will continue singing the praises of this wonderful book to anyone who will listen to me!
Technically, this book would be considered an anthology, as each woman's story is complete in and of themselves. But Burton has tied the three tales together with an overall storyline to bind them, allowing each of the women to appear as supporting characters in the other's tales. Left to their own devices, neither Abby, Blair, nor Callie would have pursued these romances, but a clever little bet forces each to face their true desires, allowing romance to blossom.
I loved each of the romances, and found something in each heroine that I could personally identify with, drawing more empathy from me for each story. With sexy scenes hot enough to burn your fingertips while turning the pages, Wild, Wicked and Wanton more than lives up to its libidinous name, but Burton deviously infuses her latest book with a hefty dose of sweetness that will melt your heart more surely than even the most sizzling of love scenes can.
I will be hitting my own book cases soon to read the other Jaci Burton titles I currently own, which should keep me busy while I wait for Amazon to ship those I haven't already purchased. This is definitely a new favorite author for me!
Wild, Wicked and Wow!.......2007-06-12
It is great to have this author in print. Jaci Burton delivers a tale of three friends and their adventures in paradise. Great characters, plots that grab you and don't let go and lots of romance, hot passion and happy endings. Who could ask for anything more.
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- Valuable for its information on medieval & renaissance witch persecutions; lacking in reference to religious Witchcraft (Wicca)
- It Has Nice Pictures....(A Rare Blunt and Personal Review)
- Dead right.....
- A Feminist View of Witches
- Not what I expected, but worth the read.
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Witch: The Wild Ride From Wicked to Wicca
Candace Savage
Manufacturer: Greystone Books
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Drawn to "bad girl power" from an early age, Candace Savage brings a historical and feminist perspective to witches. Savage doesn't simply report on the centuries-long witch hunts in Europe and America; she explains how such atrocities could happen and why these communities were so threatened by powerful, independent women. From France's witch burnings in the early 1600s through the current Halloween mascot of North America, Savage offers a well- researched discussion alongside an abundance of exquisite color artwork on every spread. While serious scholars may balk at her conversational tone, most readers will delight in Savage's trademark, engaging narrative (also found in Born to Be a Cowgirl). In the end, we are left with the impression that there is something so potent and threatening about a woman in her full power that she will always be seen as an object of fear and scorn. Savage predicts, "Until that unease is magically laid to rest, the witch will continue her wild ride into the future." --Gail Hudson
Book Description
Witches have always been figures electric with possibility, feared as menacing hags, but also standing as towering images of female rebellion. Trace their wild ride across the centuries, flying on brooms, turning into animals, making spirit journeys, visiting the dead, casting spells, and causing or healing illnesses. Every age has fashioned this legendary shapeshifter to fulfill its dreams and nightmares, and she has transformed from Renaissance devil worshipper to fairy-tale character to New Age priestess. A brilliant study going far beyond the witchhunts of the 1600s.
Customer Reviews:
Valuable for its information on medieval & renaissance witch persecutions; lacking in reference to religious Witchcraft (Wicca).......2006-01-04
(It should be noted that this book is almost entirely about historical/anthropological witchcraft; it contains very little information relating to modern Neo-Pagan religious Witchcraft and/or Wicca.)
'Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca' is an engrossing, entertaining, and lavishly-illustrated essay which aims to trace the figure of the witch from the middle ages to modernity. Although it is in large part scholarly and well-researched (it is published by the British Museum Press after all), it is still highly accessible as a leisurely read.
There is definitely a woman-centered focus to the work, but while the lens through which the author approaches the material is often palpable, it is understandable and even justifiable by the nature of the historical information itself. The branders of witches and witch-hunters themselves specifically targeted women, and they promoted a worldview which demeaned women as spiritually weak and morally inferior to men, viewing females as agents used to taint the more righteous gender. The primary resources of that era makes those ideas quite clear. The quintessential witch is always envisioned as female. And, of course, the proportion of women arrested, tortured, and/or killed under pretense of witchcraft verses that of men is undeniable. Thankfully though, the author does not go so far as to paint the witch persecutions as the "women's holocaust" and she rightfully identifies the figure of nine million individuals killed during the infamous "Burning Times" to be inaccurate. Overall, I found it to be a highly enjoyable, informative book, however, it definitely has its faults.
The author asserts that medieval intellectuals and theologians essentially invented the witch as a diabolical threat to the order of the Christian universe in order to deliberately accomplish certain social and political goals: "For a start, this scholarship suggests that the idea of the female witch was largely the work of spin doctors. Rather than emerging authentically from medieval folk culture, the witch was the brain child of theologians, lawyers, and other intellectuals who (with the deepest sincerity) conjured her up to satisfy their own political and cultural needs."(9) While the author certainly presents ample evidence that those intellectuals did give the specter of the witch greater definition as an individual who had made a pact with Satan to obtain supernatural powers, fully outlining her role, her habits, her demeanor as well as how to deal with her upon capture (even artificially projecting their definition onto the distant past), they could not have invented the witch whole cloth. I found it odd that there was no mention of etymology whatsoever, even when the modern religious incarnations of Witchcraft as a constellation of Neo-Pagan belief systems are briefly touched-upon. The word "Wicca" is simply thrown into the mix in the last chapter without any sort of background information as to the origin of the word and its original meaning as the Old English word for witch (specifically a male witch as a female witch was referred to as a wicce). No real effort is made to discern what "witch" implied before said paranoid, misogynist intellectuals took hold of it in the dark ages to mark a peculiar sort of heretic. They did not invent a word to label her from thin air, so there must have been some raw materials, however nebulous, to work with in the first place. Unfortunately, Savage does not even attempt to investigate that material; she only accompanies the witch from the middle ages onward, and the middle ages, understandably so, occupy the majority of her attention.
Another significant disappointment arises in the last chapter where the author hopes to address contemporary Neo-Pagan religious Witchcraft. While the previous chapters show signs of rigorous research on the author's part (evidenced by the bibliography and quotations from primary source material), the last chapter seems to have fallen by the wayside. Her overview of the modern Witchcraft movement is regrettably simplistic and one-sided, and in this particular case her chosen feminist lens proved to be extremely exclusionary of fundamental information which did not tie in nicely with the woman-centered thread of her book. For instance, she defines Wicca as "feminist witchcraft" and considers it only as a dimension of the "feminist spirituality movement." Her quoted primary source material on religious modern Witchcraft stems from only two books, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 20th Anniversary Edition and Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics, which are by the very same author no less. While there is most certainly a very strong feminist current to some modern forms of Neo-Pagan Witchcraft, including some strands of Dianic Wicce which are explicitly women-only groups and Starhawk's own ecofeminist Reclaiming Tradition, it is inaccurate and short-sighted to label the entirely of Witchcraft as simply a permutation of "feminist spirituality." One gets the impression from her writing that Witchcraft in the modern religious sense only arose in the late 1960's and early 1970's, a suggestion that is at least a decade too late. She completely ignores the true roots of Neo-Pagan Witchcraft in what is referred to these days as British Traditional Wicca, and absolutely no mention is made of important (male) individuals including Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders, Robert Cochrane, Raymond Buckland, etc. The omission of Gardner is especially grave since she devotes an entire chapter to Margaret Murray's thesis; I would have imagined that Savage would have turned up some information on him if only because Murray wrote the foreword to Gardner's seminal book Witchcraft Today. One might also think that since Savage was familiar with Ronald Hutton's books Stations of the Sun and The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, both of which she cites under the heading "Witches and (Neo)Pagans," that she would also be aware of his highly relevant The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, but apparently not . I was also puzzled by the fact that significant works of literature relating to witchcraft including Leland's ARADIA: Gospel of the Witches and Michelet's 'La Sorcière' were only mentioned in very brief captions and not within the bulk of the text itself.
Despite these drawbacks though, 'Witch' is still a worthwhile, concise overview of the witch in history. It is especially valuable for the information it provides on the medieval and renaissance witch persecutions.
It Has Nice Pictures....(A Rare Blunt and Personal Review).......2002-08-04
Ah! Such an odd statement from a rabid reader like me,but this book is worthwhile largely because of Savage's use of propaganda from the Inquisiton as well as rare art from the period. A few quaint Victorian children's books illustrations are also note-worthy. However,the actual text is rather loopy. Savage cannot settle on her theory of Witches. She cannot settle on an opinion,either. She spins personal stories from her childhood that advocate feminism while denouncing feminists as misguided as the believers for the Inquisition! Also,she apparently has been hiding under a rock with her fingers in her ears,because she is unaware of the immense Pagan movement that has taken place over the past thirty or forty years. She dismisses modern practioners of Witchcraft(of which I am one)as deluded flakes chasing a rosy-imaged version of our deity(!) that doesn't exist. She contends that our vision of the Goddess and the God is as unrealistic as the Inquistors' image of Witches worshipping the Devil! We sadly must ascertain that obviously Savage obviously isn't a Pagan,as well as she seems determined to eschew respect for others religions. Literary speculations of the so-called "Pagan Renaissance" have been fairly common these days,with every researcher taking a crack at "debunking" the myths,and usually presenting a half-accurate, half-researched,and frequently offensive version of the phenomenon and it's participants. Savage's text does not disappoint. However,the rare and interesting pictures tell more and more accurately than she herself can. I kept my copy for that,and also for the fact I got it at a bargain price. Look elsewhere for your facts about modern Paganism. Might I suggest "Drawing Down The Moon"?
Dead right............2001-07-21
The cover of WITCH by Candace Savage depicts a motly assortment of characters terrorizing a frightened youth. The scene is a reproduction of "The Spell" by Goya, who painted it in 1797 at the height of the witch craze. The picture shows a conjurer in a yellow robe bending over a youth in white. A group of old hags in the background (presumeably witches) are dressed in black. Icons in the painting include the traditional witch imagery of owl-light, bat-wing, and mangled bablies.
WITCH is an extremely well-written and concise account of the "witch" story in the west. To label the book as a "feminist" tract is misleading, and a not so subtle manner of saying it is second-rate. WITCH provides the lay person with a solidly written and historically researched account. Many longer and more scholarly accounts by male historians tell the same tale in much more detail. WITCH is not propaganda, nor is it biased by a political agenda. The book is written for the layperson who does not wish to wade through the thousands of tomes written on this subject. Savage provides a nice bibliography if you wish to know more. She has sourced and cited her study from beginning to end. One drawback is that her work is based on secondary research, so if a primary source has an error she repeats it--but she cites the source so you can go to the original if you have a question.
WITCH is an art book filled with beautiful drawings, paintings and depictions of witches and their trials and tribulations over the past 500 years. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Other societies had/have witches, but the witch in the West is a direct out-growth of an amalgam of beliefs associated with the Bible. One of the most important points Savage makes is that the "witch craze" did not take place in the Middle Ages as most believe. The persecution of witches by the Roman Catholic Church was incidental. The Church was after heretics--such as the Cathars and Waldensians. Think of it as bringing in Al Capone for tax evasion. Witchcraft was a means to an end. The fact that the accused eschewed orthodoxy was the real issue.
Savage says, "The Reformation began as a movement to cleanse the church of "pagan" superstition. Christianity had been corrupted by Satan, the Protestants said, and they found his mark even on the Mass..." Savage reiterates what many historians point out...the worst persecutions of "witches" took place after the Protestant Reformation, and in predominantly Protestant countries. One-half of all the people executed for witchcraft died in Protestant Germany. Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland were dangerous places for old ladies with no friends. The night Shakespeare's play "MacBeth" opened in England, and three witches stirred their cauldron on stage, people were being burned and hung for witchcraft all over Europe.
When the average person pictures a witch s/he visualizes a woman with a pale skin wearing a tall hat and flowing black cape--the typical dress of the 16th Century Puritan. In his painting "The Fight Between Carnival versus Lent" painted at the height of the Reformation, Brueghel depicts a "mock" battle in the foreground with colorfully arrayed miscreants ready for sin while the forces of repression dressed in black flood into the background.
Savage covers the story of witches into the 19th and 20th centuries, where behaviour once categorized as evil became "sick" or demented. Freud and his friends soon determined that much of the "hysteria" of the witch craze was a form of projection.
By the 20th Century, new targets of victimizaton were at hand in the form of Communists and others deemed "evil" by the established forces and folks lost interest in witches. Savage does not explore these other "witch hunts" but rather continues her tale with an overview of modern Wicca. This book is short and to the point and a good synopsis for anyone who wants a brief overview and a lovely work of art.
A Feminist View of Witches.......2000-11-23
Candace Savage's succinct history of witches, _Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca_ shows a real enthusiasm for her subject. It is also a fine history of how curiously people have behaved when confronting the supposed supernatural, and how fashions can change our view of history. Savage shows that black magic was for millennia subject to legal prosecution, but that the medieval church wasn't particularly worried about black magic or the women who supposedly practiced it. Priests who heard reports from women who said they had flown during the night and taken part in satanic rituals were encouraged to maintain disbelief. Reasonable men were not to take such things seriously. One priest of the time wrote of such dreams, "Who is imbecile enough to imagine that such things, seen only in the mind, have a bodily reality?" The church itself lapsed in its wise toleration when it opposed a couple of dissident sects in France around 1400. The sects allowed women to administer baptisms and so on, so in prosecution, the church tortured them until it got confessions of copulating with the devil, riding broomsticks, and eating infants. Witches were seen everywhere if something bad happened; they sowed disease and discord; they were the Devil in female shapes; they were Public Enemy Number One.
Against the wishes of many Bible believers, the image of the witch was changed during the enlightenment from a vicious devil-worshiper to a foolish little old lady. Still later they became the subjects of children's literature and cautionary lessons about what roles women really should fulfill. Finally, through the faulty scholarship of one Margaret Murray they were erroneously revealed as priestesses practicing an age-old pagan cult and proudly defying the Christian church. Scholars agree there was no such organized religion practiced by witches, but of course that doesn't matter. Savage shows in this profusely illustrated book that whether we need a scapegoat on whom to blame barrenness, a negative role model with which to warn our children, or a high priestess of cultural renewal, the image of the witch will always be there to scare or inspire, reinforcing the regrettable idea that there is something anomalous, something otherworldly, something not quite human, about a powerful woman.
Not what I expected, but worth the read........2000-10-25
When I picked up this book I was expecting a history of witchcraft from an occult prospective. I was not expecting an examination of the Archetypal female witch through history from a feminist point of view. Despite my wrong expectations, I found this book to be extremely fascinating. The author follows the evolution of society's perception of the witch and how these perceptions helped to shape the roles of women. The material is presented is well written and insightful. The author's conversational style of writing draws the reader in, as she guides us through this sometimes-gruesome sometimes-funny history. While it is too short to a "definitive work," it does present all the information someone with a casual interest would want. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this work and recommend it.
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- Plenty of action
- 3.5 Stars Great Start..quick finish?
- Not as enchanting as it is plodding
- jewel of a novel
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Wild and Wicked
Lisa Jackson
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Lord Devlynn's night with Lady Apryll promised ecstasy. But before the sun came up, the wanton angel had vanished-along with the castle jewels. The Lord and Lady will meet again, and when they do, the night will promise vengeance-of the most wild and wicked kind.
"Her books are compelling, her characters intriguing, and her plots ingenious." (Debbie Macomber)
Customer Reviews:
Plenty of action.......2007-03-25
The book reads like a roller coaster ride, one exciting scene after another. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I agree with the other reviewer that the story ended abruptly. I would have liked to see the resolution of conflicts drawn out a little more. And a little more hoochie koochie in the bedroom. But overall, it was a fine story, well told. A fun read.
3.5 Stars Great Start..quick finish?.......2004-10-15
This is the first historical I have read from Ms. Jackson. Its a medieval tale set in Wales during 1283. Classic tale about a brother set on revenge and uses his sister as bait. It begins fast-paced and soars through, never letting up, always interesting, but it seems to end abruptly. I wasn't ready for the ending so soon when it seemed like some of the major conflicts were yet to be resolved.
I was a bit disappointed. I was disappointed mainly because the entire book was set on betrayal and backstabbing and who was backstabbing whom. Questions were continuously raised throughout the novel about who has caused the mess and continued to be the Judas. But when we get to the crucial section of the person or persons responsible, we are left wondering if we missed something important because I was never satisfied with the answers. It doesn't make much sense. The reasons aren't clear. Some of the character development seems choppy and a few characters we never get to know too well.
In all, if you have this bit of info, just sit back and enjoy a fast-paced read that is entertaining and spans a total of 3 days with loads of action.
Lady Apryll is forced to help her brother scheme Lord Devlynn of Black Thorn to get what theirs at one time by using her mother's wedding gown and appearing as if out of nowhere at his castle during revels.
What begins as a simple distraction to steal jewels, turns into a nightmare of gigantic proportions. Apryll's brother has more on his mind than jewels, he wants the Baron's son as a hostage.
Now Apryll must flee before she is drawn and quartered for her deceit and find out why her brother lied. If she gets out alive that is.
Devlynn's plan to punish the witch who duped him and took his only son finds his heart isnt into it and has a hard time taking her in hand when she seems to be telling him the truth about her brother's deception.
Can she persuade him to trust her when all she's done is lie thus far? Will her brother destroy the fragile hold she has left on her life if he harms the Baron's son? Who helped her brother in the castle and who is still healing him and his men?
Many betrayals and backstabbers among Devlynn cause him to question everything and everyone. Who would hate him so much that he or she would help her brother to do this???
Tracy Talley~@
Not as enchanting as it is plodding.......2003-04-03
Very drawn out. The characters were not well developed, and the sex scenes were boring and formulatic. A medieval setting and long dresses does not a romance make.
jewel of a novel.......2002-02-05
In 1283 England, her half brother Payton assigns Lady Apryll to obtain the means of gaining needed goods for the cold winter. When Apryll arrives for a holiday feast at the castle of Lord Devlynn, everyone cannot help notice how beautiful she looks. Devlynn, a single father since his wife died in a failed childbirth, cannot resist Apryll's lure. The next morning, Devlynn learns that his enchantress has vanished abducting his son Yale with her.
Frantic, Devlynn gives chase and quickly finds the abandoned Apryll. Payton lied to the extent of his scheme and no longer needs her, but has taken Yale as a pawn in a bigger plot. Devlynn wants to kill Apryll, but instead makes her his prisoner. As they work together to free Yale, they fall in love, but he rejects her protestation of innocence.
WILD AND WICKED is an exciting medieval romance filled with drama and several delightful twists and turns. The cast is fully developed so that the audience understands the essence of the key players especially the lead couple. The hero struggles with his feelings of love and distrust while the heroine tries to atone for her inadvertent role in Yale's kidnapping. Lisa Jackson writes a jewel of a novel that makes the thirteenth century seem so darkly real.
Harriet Klausner
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From jester to king, Guillaume sees the Current Middle Ages from every angle. In his second collection of humorous stories and insightful reflections, Guillaume looks at the lighter side of castle building, jousting on ESPN, learning Arthurian mythology (with the help of tequila), and making topiary animals out of duct tape. Plus, just to prove that no subject is beyond the scope of his irreverent sense of humor, he also shares the laughter and chaos that took place “behind the scenes” during two reigns as King of Caid. Whether by fate or “an implausible disruption of the natural balance of the universe,” Guillaume's readers are in for some royal laughs, and some touching moments, as the SCA's funniest knight wins the throne and seeks shelter from the reign in a deluge of hilarious stories, including:
- Spitting Distance from Chivalry
- Christmas Crazies: Forgotten Medieval Holiday Folklore
- Of Arms and the Knight I Sing
- To Find the SCA, Just Turn Right at Spiderman
- Fangs for the Memories: Medieval Halloween Monsters
- Reigny Days and Mondays
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining if you are in the SCA- or just interested in the SCA.......2006-03-04
This is a humourous telling of Sir Guillaumel's first reign as King of Caid- some ripples of which even were heard up here in the West.
I recommend this book for any of the following:
Those in the SCA
Those interested in the SCA
Those thinking about "going for Crown" in the SCA!
and those that enjoy some slightly offbeat real-life humour, even if you have never even heard of the SCA.
Warning- do not read this book when drinking carbonated beverages!
Not quite up to the level of Terry Pratchett, so it only gets 4 stars.
Baron Wulfstan Darroldson, OP
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- Wild Wicked West Indeed!
- Kentucky Lawman
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Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West
Stan Hoig
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo.
After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers, Indian warriors, buffalo hunters, border ruffians, hell-for-leather Texas cattle drovers, ready-to-die gunslingers, and steel-eyed lawmen. Peerless Princess of the Plains, they called her.
Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson were here, but so were Jesse Chisholm, Jack Ledford, Rowdy Joe and Rowdy Kate, Buffalo Bill Mathewson, Marshall Mike Meagher, Indian trader James Mead, Oklahoma Harry Hill, city founder Dutch Bill Greiffenstein, and a host of colorful characters like you've never known before.
Stan Hoig depicts a once-rambunctious cowtown on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, neighbor to the lawless Indian Territory, roaring and bucking through its Wild West days toward becoming a major American city.
Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West provides tribute to those sometimes valiant, sometimes wicked, sometimes hilarious, and often audacious characters who played a role in shaping Wichita's past.
A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.
Customer Reviews:
Wild Wicked West Indeed!.......2007-08-29
This is not your typical dime store western novelty book....although you'll find some very interesting stories held within. It's really a collection of excerpts from various journals and letters, brilliantly strung together by the author. If you're looking for fictional characterization of frontier Kansas...there are definitely better writers out there. This book is all about the history of Wichita and the importance of the city in the development of the West. I would challenge every history, or social studies teacher in Wichita to include this book in their curriculum....it's really that good! I found it a breeze to read and finished it in under a day of casual reading. The historical pictures and quotes from period letters and newspapers were of particular interest. If you live in Wichita....you must read this book!
Kentucky Lawman.......2007-08-17
A very boring, boring book. I read anything I can get my hands on about the Kansas Cowtowns and their history. It was an exciting time in American and old west history. If you expect this book to add to that, you are mistaken.
The author almost starts the book at the time God created the earth, "And then there was Wichita" is how I would best put it. I really didn't care how the first Spanish found the land and the future French adventures into this unknown land. The title said "Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West". By the time I am 2/3rds through the book and we finally get to 1860's and 70's. I have lost interest and it was very hard to finish the book.
I have an extensive library of western books and most in particular the era of the Kansas Cowtowns, the Law Enforcement Officers, GunFighters,and cattle drives of that period of Kansas history. I keep them with pride.
This book was donated to the local library in the hope that someone else might read it. I certainly will not again.
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An exclusive 2-in-1 hardcover edition featuring twin sisters Amanda and Amelia Cynter.
Customer Reviews:
Worth More than Five Stars Brilliant Book.......2007-07-22
I love these stories of the cynsters. These are the stories about the twins and are captivating with wonderful romance and intrigue. A real page turner I could not put it down from page one. Like others have said I too will read anything with Stephanie Laurens name on it.
Book Description
Charlotte Charkes father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth-centurys great actor/playwrightsand it was thought that the comedically gifted young Charlotte would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane. However, Charlottes habit of wearing mens clothes off stage as well as on, proved an obstacle to her career. Kathryn Shevelow re-creates Charlottes downfall from the heights of Londons theatrical world to its lascivious lows (the domain of fire-eaters, puppeteers, wastrels, gender-bending cross-dressers, wenches, and scandalous sorts of every variety) and her comeback as the author of one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. Beyond the appealingly unorthodox Charlotte, Shevelow masterfully recalls for us a historical era of extraordinary stylishness, artifice, character, interest, and intrigue.
Customer Reviews:
Well written, definitely not how romantic novellists see it..........2005-07-24
There is a tendency in romantic novellists to spice up their novels with tales of actresses and cross-dressing young women who make good and marry the handsome peer - this is perhaps a more accurate reflection of what happened in reality to women of their ilk in eighteenth century Britain
Charlotte's story is probably not typical as such of the period, being a woman's lot - but the reactions and results, well researched and written by Shevelow - seem to accurately reflect the period.
Charlotte was born of a good family, her father was the poet laureate, and she had all possibility of advantage - however marrying at 17 and later abandoned by both her husband and her father, she was forced to make her own way in the world. she wrote plays (some apparently good for the period) and acted - specialising in male roles. This cross-dressing she later took into her real life.
If anything this seems like a slow unfolding and destruction of a life. Much of it seems to be from her original autobiography published in the mid eighteenth century - no doubt to boost her finances as well - but gradually she was forced into all kinds of generally male dominated occupations.
Saddening to read, at times heavy going, but enlightening. This is an excellent portrayal of the limitations on women in this period, and the consequences.
A Romp Through Georgian London.......2005-05-10
This book is of interest to anyone who cares about 18th century England but it also could work well for someone looking for an introduction to those extraordinary days. The struggle to survive has never been more acutely portrayed than in this remarkable and yet true story of a daughter spurned by a famous but cold hearted father. You will laugh and cry with and about Charlotte but you cannot come away from this book without a deep appreciation for just how easy our lives are today.
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