The Realistic Jonese and Rebel and Misfits and Reviews
St Martin's Press, $seven.99, ISBN 978-1-250-08475-0
Historical Romance, 2016
You know how I ever go along most how then few heroines are willing to exist proactive in making things happen for themselves? Well, Tara Iverach is ane such heroine. Crawly, isn't information technology? Only maybe information technology'southward because there is merely and so many awesome to go around – peradventure in that location's a limit to the quota – but information technology seems like the author gives all of that to the heroine and none of that to the hero Magnus.
You lot tin can say that this one is modeled subsequently Rapunzel, although I'd say it's more the recent animated movie, Tangled. Tara has been kept isolated from the world past her guardian, and she is finally released from her "tower" only to finish up in a more than dangerous prison. You see, she learns the news of the death of her sister from her guardian the very same moment that he tells her that she would be taking her sister's place equally the betrothed of the eldest son of Lord Alwyn. On her way there, she and her nun companion are waylaid by carnal highwaymen, and she is rescued past a man, Magnus, who claims to be the eldest son of Lord Alwyn. He even steals a osculation. Her matrimonial! Things don't seem so bleak after all… until she realizes that Magnus is the "wrong eldest son". The official eldest son, if you know what I hateful, is Hugh, a wildly, comically evil fellow that practically breathes rape and abuse every time he is on the planet.
Magnus isn't the wrong eldest son – he learns afterward meeting his blood brother in The Animal of Clan Kincaid that he is actually Niall'southward lost brother. Lord Alwyn is in fact ane of the men who orchestrated the death of his real begetter, and Magnus swears revenge on the man he has considered his male parent all this while… by brooding. Wringing his easily and doubting himself a lot. While actually preventing Tara's escape fifty-fifty as he swears that he will assistance her escape. By doing so, he keeps placing her in harm'south way, only he vows that he volition keep her safe. Maybe his brooding powers work in mysterious ways, but bluntly, that guy is a useless plank who is more than of a hindrance than anything else.
It is Tara who orchestrates her escape in the finish, and it is Niall who decides that the best way to keep Tara safe is to have her marry Magnus. Magnus… well, I suppose he looks pretty. Oh, and he has sex with Tara, without considering what will happen to her if Hugh finds out. Simply that's okay! He has sworn to keep her safe, just like he has sworn to help her escape. This guy is very good at swearing, simply not much skillful at really doing something useful.
I like Tara. She is resourceful, daring, and self enlightened – and all-time of all, in a realistic manner. Which is to say, she is not some super-feitsy all-capable superheroine sort; she tries, and if she fails, it's considering she'due south a sheltered daughter way out of her depths. I can only imagine that she falls for Magnus because he looks similar a saint compared to the cast of drawing villains in this story, and it's not like the poor dearest has a decent option of blokes to choose from. Really, though, she deserves better.
Oh yeah, the cartoon villains. This one has and so many over the acme MUAHAHAHA moments that I find it difficult to take it seriously. Hugh is just crazy and abusive, spewing cuss words and threats 24/7, and he is besides a cheat, a coward, and more. And he's not the only ane. Every bad guy hither is just evil. EVIL. The whole thing just feels absurd.
In the cease, I am giving The Rebel of Clan Kincaid three oogies, generally due to the heroine. The hero is a passive heart-searching waste of space, a disappointing turd on a tree stump despite his initial bravado of wanting revenge and what not, and the cartoon villains make it even harder to go into this story.
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