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Title: The Horsemaster's Daughter by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1-55166-755-X Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What a touching story
Comment: A bruised and battered male heart and an incomplete and innocent female heart. These two lovers have many issues to overcome, and they do so admirably. Hunter is a great character, with both faults and heart melting tenderness. He knows what is "right" and what is "wrong", but his struggle with the debts his father left him, a vain and self absorbed wife, owning and then freeing slaves and trying to make a go of a horse farm that everyone looks down upon, leads him into a downward spiral of loneliness and alcohol abuse. Ms. Wiggs gives the reader a fairly good insight into Hunter's character and makes him very human. I enjoyed reading about that, as opposed to the clichéd perfect hero or reformed rake.
Eliza is also an interesting character, though to me a little less believable. The literary allusions and outright comparisons to Shakespeare's Tempest were well done and integral to the plot. I do not know if anyone could truly be as isolated as Eliza and then have such keen insight to Hunter and his children's problems. Her father raised her to be perceptive, learning how to read a horse (which she uses to read humans as well), yet was able to hide so much from her. This dichotomy was a little much for me.
All and all though, I loved this book. It was different and refreshing, unlike so many of the other hackneyed stories out there. The plot moves along and the secondary characters add much to the story. Ms. Wiggs, please keep up the great writing!
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth reading.....
Comment: " The Horsemasters Daughter" was a good book, however it took a long while for the story to grab hold of me...it sort of felt like it was split into 2 separate stories...first at the island and then later at Albion. I liked Eliza well enough, but I had a hard time connecting with Hunter. Honestly my favorite character was Hunters 9 year old son, Blue. This was a worthwhile read, and though I would have liked to have seen more of them, it was a pleasure to revisit with Ryan and Isadora from "The Charm School" I cant say that this book made it to my keepers list, but I have to admit that this story had an extremely satisfying ending that left me smiling.
Rating: 1
Summary: RESEARCH if you're going to write historical novels
Comment: p. 11
" . . .the room contained only the most necessary of firearms--a le Mats revolver, a percussion shotgun and a Winchester repeating rifle."
The first rifle to bear the Winchester name was the "Yellow Boy" (because of the brass frame) the "1866 Model". Unfortunately this particular scene is supposed to take place in 1854. A 12 year goof.
Jean Alexander LeMat obtained a patent for an open-frame single-action revolver 1n 1856.
Food, clothing, slang, etc. are all part of the background of an Historical novel. It's difficult, if not impossible, to get it 100%, but this is just bad! How much time would it take to google on period firearms?
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Title: The Charm School by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1551668556 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Hostage by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1551667568 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1551668807 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Halfway To Heaven by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1551668378 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Firebrand by Susan Wiggs ISBN: 1551667584 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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