Conquered by the Highlander Conquered Bride Series Book 1 edition by Eliza Knight Literature Fiction eBooks
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First in the Stolen Brides spin-off series!
A hero determined to have it all...
After losing his betrothed to a Lowlander, Laird Gabriel MacKinnon is charged with saving her cousin along with a brood of children from an impenetrable castle. Though, the lady he’s been tasked to protect has been accused of a heinous crime, Gabriel has no fear of her. In fact, he’s a little irritated at the prospect of delivering her to her kin. But this hardened, cold warrior just may find his heart melting, for the hellion brings out a passionate side he’d thought long buried.
A lady who will stop at nothing to see him fail...
Lady Brenna has had more than her share of hardships and when freedom looks to be on the brink of her horizon, she’s not about to let some moody Highlander take it all away. She’ll stop at nothing to keep her children safe—and to guard her heart—even though the warrior’s heated kiss threatens to change every vow she’s ever made and every belief about love she’s ever known.
Conquered by the Highlander Conquered Bride Series Book 1 edition by Eliza Knight Literature Fiction eBooks
For the first half of the book, I wavered between 2 or 3 stars; in the last half I wavered between 2 and 1. I actually liked the idea of the story, and the characters too. Brenna was captured and forced to marry at age 12. Now fifteen years later, her husband is dead (she's the murder suspect) and his brother is holding her and her four children captive. Gabriel is recruited to rescue them, and does so.But the writing was distracting (frequent comma splices; dangling participles such as "returning to camp, the other two men still slept on the ground"; modernisms such as "to the max"; typos such as "sensations coarse through her") and needed much better copyediting. Worse, the characters, while nicely drawn in and of themselves, showed far too much inconsistency as the plot unfolded, mostly in the feelings of H&h for each other.
Gabriel's character in particular changes from a cold, hard warrior to warm and kind and throwing winks around – long BEFORE he falls in love, for absolutely no reason. It's like a switch gets flipped and he goes from grunting and pointing and not letting Brenna get a word in edgewise, to the exact opposite. And he feels attracted to her immediately, which is fine, and he's not going to give in to the attraction he feels, which is also fine, but he waffles between these two extremes so often – and within the same scene even – that I was feeling a bit whiplashed watching him bounce back and forth.
Brenna's character waffles as well, between suspicion and overwhelming attraction and hatred, again bouncing all over the place and back again without rhyme or reason. Worse, she was in an abusive marriage for fifteen years, and has never experienced gentleness from her husband or any level of desire for any man, and yet she is immediately consumed with desire for Gabriel, with absolutely no real basis for us to believe it. She notices that she's feeling things she never felt before, but there is none of the fear or revulsion one would expect from a woman who was raped publicly at age 12 and has been used without regard to her feelings or pleasure for fifteen years; there's not even confusion from her about why she would begin to have physical feelings for Gabriel.
Both H&h make firm decisions to do (or not do) certain things with no real motivation for their absolute commitment to such actions, as when Gabriel takes Brenna's castle and imprisons the evil brother-in-law, and then insists she and her children get ready to ride away immediately, in the middle of the night. Um, the castle is completely taken. The men just fought a battle, the castle needs to be secured, night travel was extremely dangerous … there's no need to rush off, and every opportunity to let mom and kids pack a few things (which H doesn't want them to do). He also refuses to tell her that he was sent by her cousin to rescue her … why? Because he wants her to trust him, or something. Okay, Mr. Warrior, if you want her to trust you then how about telling her that you broke into her castle and ruthlessly killed almost everyone there in order to take her to safety with her cousin? Or, hey, maybe telling her that you are not there to murder her son as well, in order to take over his lands, which is her real fear?
It's as if the author just has to make up things and situations for them to argue about.
I started being "done" with this book when we meet Brenna's aunt, the abbess of a nunnery, who tells Brenna to "follow her heart." Um. Really? Medieval Catholic nun. Pretty sure the call would be to duty, not to heart-followings. And then Brenna decides to stay and hide in the abbey with her children, including her 14yo son, the new laird, who will be raised with a good education and to be a good leader by … the nuns. I rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain. Forget the fact that a 14yo boy would not be allowed to live in a NUNNERY, and her younger twin sons would have been allowed to stay for only a few years at most, if at all. The only good education and leadership training for a 13th-century Scottish laird was war, and even the most tender mother would urge her son to get the training he needs to hold his lands. And her abbess aunt would be right there telling her to foster her son out for training. And, while we're on the subject, no 14yo boy - pretty much a man already - who is laird in his own right would feel any great need to ask his mother's permission to go with his guardian to learn the trade of war and lairdship.
And when Brenna is spending the night in the abbey (meeting her aunt and long-lost sister and deciding to incarcerate her four children there against their wills), Gabriel suddenly out of the blue decides he is absolutely desperate to marry her, and is totally devastated when she says no. And Brenna suddenly decides she loves him (let's be clear, they've know each other for four days, and for the last two she wasn't even speaking to him. K?) but is going to stay in the abbey anyway. (Whatever happened to "following your heart," Brenna?) Then much later even than that, after he has left her at the abbey and taken her son off to conquer their other castle, Gabriel suddenly realizes that he loves Brenna. Wait, why were you so heart-rendingly desperate to marry her earlier, again?
After the nunnery and "follow your heart," I mostly just skimmed to get the gist and get to the end quicker. I'm not planning to read any others in this series. Overall, a decent plot idea and good characters, which is what kept me reading to see how it ended; but seriously weakened by mediocre storytelling, inconsistencies, and writing that just don't tempt me to explore any more by this author.
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Conquered by the Highlander Conquered Bride Series Book 1 edition by Eliza Knight Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Ms. Knight has done it again with this fantastic read. The story of Gabriel and Brenna starts out in a rescue. Tasked with collecting Brenna and her four children, Gabriel finds them in the dungeon of their castle. Brenna’s husband died, and with the accusation of murder, she is left to her own devices, she thinks. Brenna’s husband stormed her family’s holdings and married her at the tender of 11. Brenna’s four children range from ages 5-14 and the older two follow their mother. The younger two children were very attached to their father because they did not see how he treated their older siblings and their mother. Gabriel has been burned by love before when his love was married off to another, so love is the last thing on his mind. As he enters into this adventure with Brenna and her brood he is captivated by her and starts to have feelings for her. She is reluctant because she doesn’t want another marriage like her first, loveless and brutal. As time wears on they begin to fall for each other but as always something holds them back.
The Conquered Bride series has many of the same characters from the Stolen Bride series, but you do not have to read the Stolen Bride series.
Considering this book is mostly a cutsie-sweet type of storyline, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. Cutise/sweet isn't my forte'. But it had enough "edge" to it to counterbalance the syrupy sweetness of it. Lady Brenna MacNeacail MacLeod (27) has allegedly killed her husband and is being kept prisoner (along with her four children). Lady Brenna has lived a harsh and brutally abused life. But she's strong...a fighter...a survivor at heart. And now her only wish is to be rescued so she can get her children to safety.
Laird Gabriel (the Wolf) MacKinnon is a warrior. He's a massive, huge muscled giant.....an imposing blond haired, cold intense blue eyed giant. He's embittered over a long ago lost love which causes him to be hard, fierce and unapproachable. Basically, he's cranky... all the time. But when he meets Brenna MacLeod, he begins to come alive.
I'm a reader who needs strong character visuals quickly in the story, in order to connect to the characters. It's vital. But character details and descriptions were weak and slow in coming with this storyline. While I'm reading along, I'm sitting here wondering what the characters look like, causing the story to lose whatever momentum it's achieved for me. Eventually the author gives some description...ie; Black hair/blue eyes/petite, etc., but it wasn't until chapters 4 & 5 that we're given some semblance of a clue. So I lost whatever miniscule headway I was gaining.
This story is extremely fast paced. Misunderstandings and false assumptions abound, carrying the storyline. Battles are waged, fought and won within a paragraph. Foes are disarmed, flattened and smacked down before they can blink! Amazing!! Each of our protagonists vow to never marrry...each for different reasons. But during the three day journey from one castle to the next, sins are confessed, wrongs are corrected, declarations of love are made...happiness is found, rainbows appear and birds sing on cue (well, so it seems). The only thing missing was villagers dancing in the streets while throwing confetti while the warm sun shines and the soft wind rustles their hair. The romance is sensual and not erotic. There is no adult language, except for two "F" bombs. Other than that, it's clean. This isn't my first Eliza Knight book..and even though the dialogue was witty and humorous at times, it's not enough to save it. It's certainly not Ms. Knights best work. Not even close. But don't judge her by this alone. I think she was just warming up with this one.
For the first half of the book, I wavered between 2 or 3 stars; in the last half I wavered between 2 and 1. I actually liked the idea of the story, and the characters too. Brenna was captured and forced to marry at age 12. Now fifteen years later, her husband is dead (she's the murder suspect) and his brother is holding her and her four children captive. Gabriel is recruited to rescue them, and does so.
But the writing was distracting (frequent comma splices; dangling participles such as "returning to camp, the other two men still slept on the ground"; modernisms such as "to the max"; typos such as "sensations coarse through her") and needed much better copyediting. Worse, the characters, while nicely drawn in and of themselves, showed far too much inconsistency as the plot unfolded, mostly in the feelings of H&h for each other.
Gabriel's character in particular changes from a cold, hard warrior to warm and kind and throwing winks around – long BEFORE he falls in love, for absolutely no reason. It's like a switch gets flipped and he goes from grunting and pointing and not letting Brenna get a word in edgewise, to the exact opposite. And he feels attracted to her immediately, which is fine, and he's not going to give in to the attraction he feels, which is also fine, but he waffles between these two extremes so often – and within the same scene even – that I was feeling a bit whiplashed watching him bounce back and forth.
Brenna's character waffles as well, between suspicion and overwhelming attraction and hatred, again bouncing all over the place and back again without rhyme or reason. Worse, she was in an abusive marriage for fifteen years, and has never experienced gentleness from her husband or any level of desire for any man, and yet she is immediately consumed with desire for Gabriel, with absolutely no real basis for us to believe it. She notices that she's feeling things she never felt before, but there is none of the fear or revulsion one would expect from a woman who was raped publicly at age 12 and has been used without regard to her feelings or pleasure for fifteen years; there's not even confusion from her about why she would begin to have physical feelings for Gabriel.
Both H&h make firm decisions to do (or not do) certain things with no real motivation for their absolute commitment to such actions, as when Gabriel takes Brenna's castle and imprisons the evil brother-in-law, and then insists she and her children get ready to ride away immediately, in the middle of the night. Um, the castle is completely taken. The men just fought a battle, the castle needs to be secured, night travel was extremely dangerous … there's no need to rush off, and every opportunity to let mom and kids pack a few things (which H doesn't want them to do). He also refuses to tell her that he was sent by her cousin to rescue her … why? Because he wants her to trust him, or something. Okay, Mr. Warrior, if you want her to trust you then how about telling her that you broke into her castle and ruthlessly killed almost everyone there in order to take her to safety with her cousin? Or, hey, maybe telling her that you are not there to murder her son as well, in order to take over his lands, which is her real fear?
It's as if the author just has to make up things and situations for them to argue about.
I started being "done" with this book when we meet Brenna's aunt, the abbess of a nunnery, who tells Brenna to "follow her heart." Um. Really? Medieval Catholic nun. Pretty sure the call would be to duty, not to heart-followings. And then Brenna decides to stay and hide in the abbey with her children, including her 14yo son, the new laird, who will be raised with a good education and to be a good leader by … the nuns. I rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain. Forget the fact that a 14yo boy would not be allowed to live in a NUNNERY, and her younger twin sons would have been allowed to stay for only a few years at most, if at all. The only good education and leadership training for a 13th-century Scottish laird was war, and even the most tender mother would urge her son to get the training he needs to hold his lands. And her abbess aunt would be right there telling her to foster her son out for training. And, while we're on the subject, no 14yo boy - pretty much a man already - who is laird in his own right would feel any great need to ask his mother's permission to go with his guardian to learn the trade of war and lairdship.
And when Brenna is spending the night in the abbey (meeting her aunt and long-lost sister and deciding to incarcerate her four children there against their wills), Gabriel suddenly out of the blue decides he is absolutely desperate to marry her, and is totally devastated when she says no. And Brenna suddenly decides she loves him (let's be clear, they've know each other for four days, and for the last two she wasn't even speaking to him. K?) but is going to stay in the abbey anyway. (Whatever happened to "following your heart," Brenna?) Then much later even than that, after he has left her at the abbey and taken her son off to conquer their other castle, Gabriel suddenly realizes that he loves Brenna. Wait, why were you so heart-rendingly desperate to marry her earlier, again?
After the nunnery and "follow your heart," I mostly just skimmed to get the gist and get to the end quicker. I'm not planning to read any others in this series. Overall, a decent plot idea and good characters, which is what kept me reading to see how it ended; but seriously weakened by mediocre storytelling, inconsistencies, and writing that just don't tempt me to explore any more by this author.
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