This historical romance just didn't seem realistic. I couldn't believe that a medieval warrior would be so obsessed by an unfaithful love and the heroine quivering from then a minute later threatening William the Conqueror. I didn't finish. Lord Brand defeated Brynna's father and she was given as his bride along with the castle.
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It's not that this book wasn't well written....
Quinn's writing does has quite a poetic tinge and an engagin style.

I just felt that, for me, the plot dragged a bit. I found myself skimming as the lead characters kept analyzing the same stuff over and over again and abandoned the whole endeavor altogether the day after their wedding night.

I do, however, want to give the 2nd book in the series whirl because the plot premise interests me. ( )

"Lord of Desire is a romance rarity, an erotic bubblegum Medieval. Quinn has crafted two likeable enough leads but they are out of place in the setting . . .The role of the match-making Fairy Godmother is played by William the Conqueror. For serious? The dialogue and idioms are so completely modern that it is laughable."

http://romancepicayune.blogspot.com/2008/05/lord-of-desire.html ( )