9. Dark Seduction (The Masters of Time, 1) - Brenda Joyce, HQN Paranormal Romance, April 2007, ISBN: 9780373772339, 372p.
Featuring: Malcom of Dunroch and Claire Camden
Synopsis:
Highland warriors sworn to protect Innocence through the ages….
Malcolm of Dunroch has been chosen by the secret Brotherhood, a nameless society of pagan knights sworn to defend mankind. He is a novice to his extraordinary—and dangerous--powers. But he has already broken his vows--for an innocent woman’s death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his dark sexuality, denying himself all pleasure…until fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller, Claire Camden.
Desire is the first weapon
Since her mother's murder, Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city where danger lurks on every street corner, especially in the dark of the night. But nothing can prepare her for the powerful and sexual medieval warrior who sweeps her back into his time—a treacherous, frightening world where the hunters and the hunted are one and the same. Claire needs Malcolm to survive, yet she must somehow keep the dangerously powerful Master at arm’s length. For she has no wish to die in his bed like the others—in the throes of dark, forbidden pleasure…
Comments:
This is my first time reading this author. I can't say I cared for the book at first because of the way the heroine and females are regarded. I know that goes hand in hand with the time period that the hero was from and the majority of the story took place in (the 1400s), but it still irks me. In any case, that aspect of it improved as the story went on and by the end of the book I was fond of the characters. Claire continued to think for herself instead of giving into the "I'm protecting you and know what's best for you," for which I am truely glad. Anyway, I'm currently reading the next book in the series, so that says something, doesn't it? And I'm looking foward to reading Aidan's story.
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."~ Shakespeare
I had trouble with...
this book as well. I finally gave up but sounds like it got better later on. Maybe I should have stuck with it! Great review, btw!
It was hard for me to get
It was hard for me to get into, and I'm not sure I would have stuck w/ it long enough for it to get better if not for two things. 1) I'm mailing it off to someone and wanted to read it first and 2) I bought it and the book after it... If I pay for them I at least want to read them. I would say it's worth sticking w/ bc it is the first book of a series and sets the scene. I liked the second one much better and have high hopes for upcoming books in the series.
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."~ Shakespeare