To Marry A Scottish Laird 12c Mixed Prepak (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
(Oct) Cam is hurt while helping a young boy fend off an attack. He awakens and agrees to help Jo make his way to deliver a scroll Jo's mom left him. Cam likes the young boy and they become friends until one night Cam discovers Jo is actually Joan! He's in complete lust after her and beds her pretty quickly (it really came out of the blue, as did her acquiesing to his advances) and quite frequently. Once the scroll is delivered, it changed Joan's life completely, and next thing she knows,she and Cam are married and living back at his castle, which is filled w/young single women - one of whom his mom, who brought all the women there, was hoping Cam would choose for a wife. All of this was fine, but then the story became so cookie cutter of every other medieval highland romance I was predicting what was going to happen pages in advance. There is of course the slutty bad girl, who makes advances on Cam that he rebuffs, but not before his wife has seen them and gets the wrong idea. There are the numerous attempts on Joan's life - but it takes a while before anyone realizes someone is trying to hurt Joan. And so on. It was a fine book, but nothing special, and certainly not as good as Lynday Sands' earlier historical romances, which were fun and funny. It was a quick easy read - but just as easy to forget once you finish. Worth more than 4 stars. Lynsay never disappoints. Traveling alone, Joan dressed herself as a lad to protect herself but hadn’t counted on being attacked by thieves hoping for an easy score. When a big handsome Scotsman comes to her rescue and nearly dies for the effort, she stays with him, heals him, and without intending to, begins to fall in love with him.Life gets turned upside down for Cam Sinclair when he comes to the rescue of a young lad who nurses him back from a stab in the back, but then he’s thrown a curve or two after discovering young Jo is actually Joan. Soon he’s unable to resist the beautiful young woman pretending to be a boy. After spending two weeks on the road with her, he wants to keep her with him but instead, is rejected by her. When luck shines on him, he does what is expected of him only to wonder if he’s forced something upon her she still no longer wants. Things heat up in the bedroom as well as elsewhere, after strange accidents begin to happen around the castle. Someone is up to no good, but who is it and why?TO MARRY A SCOTTISH LAIRD by Lynsay Sands kept me glued to the pages from the beginning and once mysterious things start happening, I became intrigued with trying to figure out who the bad guy (or girl) was. In the beginning, I was a bit concerned with how quickly Joan gave up her virginity to Cam but then I got to thinking about it. If this was a contemporary romance and a young woman finding herself attracted to a gorgeous Scotsman did what Joan did, we would think it normal so why shouldn’t she act on her desires in a historical just as well. By assuming that Joan would never act on her desires even though she has no wish to marry or have children, leads us to believe that only a modern woman has sexual desires. Is there really any difference between a woman of today and a woman of days gone by? I don’t believe there is, and so I applaud Lynsay for giving Joan the desire for a man and the willingness to give in to it, while keeping her self-respect by refusing Cam when he wants to make her his mistress.Supported by a lively cast of secondary characters, both good and nasty, TO MARRY A SCOTTISH LAIRD by Lynsay Sands is a delight to read, Cam is a hero worth falling in love with, and Joan is a good model for all women – to thine own self be true.I highly recommend TO MARRY A SCOTTISH LAIRD by Lynsay Sands because it will make you think while allowing you to escape to a time gone by and the Highlands of Scotland. Do you need more reason than that?***purchased this one for my personal reading, but am sharing my honest and unscripted review.
What do You think about To Marry A Scottish Laird 12c Mixed Prepak (2014)?
It wasn't as entertaining as some of Lynsay Sands other works and I was kind of bored.
—roxidz
Good book that had funny parts. I loved it.
—belo4ka
At turns both fun read and overly corny.
—merebush
