Comments on: REVIEW: Lord of Midnight by Jo Beverley

By: MB

MB — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:48:52 +0000

For those of you who like medieval romances, have you read Betina Krahn’s “Test” series. I love those books! They are my favorites of her novels. There are 3 (I think), and they revolve around women who have been brought up in a nunnery.

By: orannia

orannia — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:52:12 +0000

Sarah, it is so nice to meet someone else who has read Knight’s Move! I bought my copy from Amazon Marketplace as I was petrified that the library would delete their copy. It’s such a pity Jennifer Landsbert hasn’t written any more books…..

orannia

PS I just loved the bees :)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:48:06 +0000

The secondary romance was amazing. I’m not a big fan of secondary romances because I usually feel they’re too short-changed or event stereotypical as a subplot, but I don’t think The Shattered Rose would have been as strong without the secondary romance. The comparison between the primary and secondary romance strengthened the exploration of how one makes a (medieval) marriage work, how you make sure one side of the union doesn’t lose too much, how do you put a relationship (back) together, what’s forgiveable - and quite frankly, the lighter tone of the secondary romance was most welcome at times too.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:07:40 +0000

I noticed at Jo Beverley’s site that “The Shattered Rose” is the only medieval that hasn’t been rereleased yet. I hope that will change as I think it’s the most emotional of the medievals she’s written. I loved the secondary romance as well as the main one.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:24:14 +0000

This review inspired me to dig out the one Jo Bev medieval I have a copy of - and it turned out to be The Shattered Rose. What an interesting, unique story. I’ve never read any of JB’s other medievals, so I can’t say if it’s better than her other 3 - but I was very entertained. It had a strong story with interesting characters with what felt like a truly unique situation that I’ve never encountered before in a story. I’m not trying to be cryptic - I just don’t want to ruin the big surprises in the first few chapters.

On the whole, I prefer 19th century historicals to medievals, but even this lover of regency romances really misses the variety of settings and time period choices that the historical romance market seemed to have 10 - 15 years ago. Really, if it weren’t for harlequin historicals, I think my desire to read stories in other time periods would never be met. I’m glad that they are still willing to publish regularly American historicals and other non-traditional stories. I just read the Edwardian story by Nicola Cornick (The last rake in england - yay, I know - not an original title), and it was refreshingly different.

By: SarahT

SarahT — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:18:17 +0000

Orannia: I LOVED Jennifer Landsbert’s ‘Knight’s Move’! It’s also on my keeper shelf. My copy is a 2000 release from Mills & Boon Historicals. I don’t think Landsbert wrote another book, unfortunately.

By: Corrine

Corrine — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:21:32 +0000

Thanks, Jayne!

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:46:56 +0000

Corrine there are so many authors I’ve not tried yet that it’s almost embarrassing. Here’s a link to Jo Beverley’s website book list arranged by era. “The Shattered Rose” is actually probably my favorite of her medievals but it’s been such a long time since I read it, I’d have to do a reread before trying a review. “Lord of My Heart” is her fourth medieval book. Unfortunately, she’s only done 4 in that era.

By: Corrine

Corrine — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:07:17 +0000

Okay, I’m just starting to read Jo Beverly (I know, where have I been?) and I would absolutely love a list of the best of the best of her Medievals. I have the whole Malloren series coming in the mail. Are there any others that I must read?

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:45:21 +0000

orannia, I don’t think a lot of people know about the tags here but you can click on them from a particular post or from the tags section at the bottom right of the home page.

I went back and realized that lots of my posts were tagged either “medieval historical” or just “historical” and I’ve tried to add plain “medieval” to some of those.