Fiancée à un lord (Les Historiques) (French Edition)

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Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. Withoutabox Submit to Film Festivals. She also stutters, has really bright red hair, and limps. She's 26 yrs old, and firmly on the shelf. A big fan of Plain Jane stories, I was wondering where things would lead as I read this story. Would this be a 'makeover' story or the kind of plain jane tales I prefer where the hero sees the heroine as she is and loves her for the person she is. Luckily this fell into the second category.

Grace's lack of looks wasn't really an issue for Lachlan. His issue was his weariness at all the fighting and intrigues, his distrust for his bride who may or may not have been his deceased brother's lover and murder. He is attracted to her voluptuous curves, her brown eyes, and her bright shiny hair. He also finds himself attracted to the courage she shows, despite the fear that she has. Lachlan is one of those hard heroes that you have to warm up to. He fully intends to keep his mistress, although he will take full advantage of having a comely wife to get with child many times over.

There is an almost adultery scene, but I was gratified that he couldn't do it in the end, because all he could think about was how it felt to be with his wife instead. But I was pretty annoyed when he was allowing his mistress to fondle him at the table with his wife. Grace was a cool customer about it. I probably would have brained him with a tankard. But all ended up well with that situation. Lachlan soon comes to realize that he doesn't want any other woman but his wife. Grace is considered an outsider initially, but she slowly wins over her husband's people, first by saving a boy from a severe burning, and then by saving the son of a neighboring clan, who could be an enemy of the Kerr clan.

However, there is sabotage trying to make it seem like Grace is trying to bring down the clan. I liked that Grace remained steadfast and true to herself the whole time. She didn't jump off the handle or do anything stupid. She showed the maturity of a woman of her age, and trusted that her integrity would shine through.

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This book might not be to the taste of those romance readers who don't like a lot of history and politics in their romance. But I felt it was well intregrated into the story. Lachlan is in a dicey situation. He has loyalties to some of the English rulers but also the Scottish rulers. This book is set during the time when King David has returned, but also there is Robert the Bruce with his agendas, and some of the Scottish leaders want Scotland to be free of English rule, and some want Scotland under England.

And right in the middle is Lachlan. He had been fighting his whole life according to pre-decided loyalties because of his French grandmother and his Scottish father who turned into a womanizing drunkard. Plus his brother wasn't the best man either, being a womanizer himself, and also very self-serving, going off and making political alliances he shouldn't have. All Lochlan wants is a home and a family. Although he is not happy at the edict from King David to marry Grace, she turns out to be the key to having the home he always longed for. At times I was frustrated at Lochlan's lack of faith in Grace, in the face of clear evidence that she had proven her loyalty.

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I tried to tell myself that it was reasonable for a man who had buried a faithless wife and was cuckolded by his brother, and who spent most of his life involved in court intrigues, to be distrustful. Thankfully, Grace shows her solidarity to Lochlan and her new home not by going through any changes, but by being herself and being steadfast in her loyalties to the husband she quickly falls in love with. This was a beautiful story, and the writing is fairly artistic in some passages. I think that Ms. James really poured her heart into writing a story that would touch the reader and give them entertainment that engaged the mind and the senses.

Highly recommended for fans of Scottish-English conflict romances, arranged marriage, and plain jane themes in romance. View all 6 comments. Started strong but petered down to an average moc-mu-second-chances fare. I liked the idea of a plain h with a skin condition novel that, probably eczema , with a limp at times and chancy vision? But then the author forgot all that and the skin got soft and 'translucent' and the hunky H couldn't get enough of her, leaving the buxom live-in mistress fuming and plotting.

Apr 04, SheLove2Read rated it really liked it. The only problem I had with this is that in the beginning, Lachlan had a mistress. Apr 03, NorthernLightsGirl rated it it was amazing Shelves: This turned out to be quite a story.



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I really enjoyed it even though it did have a small part of a story line I did not favor. Jul 04, Gerrie rated it liked it Shelves: The author really did emphasize the historical in this historical romance. The historical time period is an interesting one. Scotland is now under the rule of King David, son of Robert Bruce. David has been a prisoner of the English for 12 years, and is now back on the Scottish throne.

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However, he is engaged in negotiations for a member of the English royal family to take over the Scottish throne. This was probably political maneuvering to keep England from taking advantage of its weakened neigh The author really did emphasize the historical in this historical romance.

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This was probably political maneuvering to keep England from taking advantage of its weakened neighbor while David figured out what to do next. Further, Scotland was divided into several political factions, also contributing to its instability. The hero, Lachlan, is a close ally of David. The heroine, Grace, comes from a powerful English family.

The kings of England and Scotland decree their marriage for political purposes. Lachlan is strikingly handsome. Grace has a limp and a bad skin condition. While she is immediately struck by his beauty, at first he just sees her as a political alliance. I love an historical romance where the history is as much a character as the lovers, and is skillfully woven into the story. But the romance has to work as well, and it did not do so here. Lachlan has a mistress.



She was his mistress prior to his marriage. When he takes Grace home to his castle, his mistress is ensconced there. He flaunts his relationship with his mistress before Grace, and even has the mistress sit at the head table at meals with him and Grace. Further, the members of Lachlan's clan are hostile to Grace, and he does nothing to smooth the way for her. All of this could have been promising, but never delivers. Lachlan starts to feel lust for Grace, and beds her whenever he can.

But he's also apparently still with his mistress as well. At some point he also begins to fall in love with Grace, but it wasn't believable to me. Finally, Lachlan, despite his apparent developing feelings for Grace, never severs with his mistress. Their relationship ends for other reasons, and not at his instigation. He never apologizes to Grace for his behavior to her, and never, ever, atones in any way for the humiliation he caused her. Maybe men in the 14th Century never explained their behavior or mistresses to their wives. That may be historically accurate. But it's completely unsatisfying in an historical romance.

And undermines and negates the romance aspect. I give the book 4 stars for history, 2 stars for romance which is probably generous. So 3 stars is what it ends up with. Jan 19, Claudia rated it really liked it Shelves: James has her own way of writing and it took me a bit to get used to it, but it is beautiful in its own way. Neither Grace nor Lachlan are very open with the truth, which results in a lot of mistrust and wrong accusations.

Grace is a great heroine. Lachlan had never anyone he could really trust and as he begins to trust Grace, he is always reminded that neither she nor he are telling the truth. I understand where his feelings are coming from and although I don't like the idea of a mistress, it turns out ok. Overall and in the end the book was good. However, I didn't care for the fact that the hero had a mistress for a good while.

I don't like the fact that he basically shamed the heroine in front of his entire clan when they were back at his castle by embracing and heartily kissing his mistress. There were many parts of the book to me that felt disjointed and just thrown together.

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A couple of times I had to go back and ascertain what exactly was going on as the top changed rather drastically withou Overall and in the end the book was good. A couple of times I had to go back and ascertain what exactly was going on as the top changed rather drastically without the benefit a break or a space or anything to indicate a change. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web.

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