If You Dare (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 1)
by Kresley Cole
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Author: Kresley ColeEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 1416540946
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Pocket
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Book Review: Alright, but not as good as her other books...
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book because I love Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series. Naturally it's not much like the paranormal series because its set in the 1800's and is a historical romance, however the book was entertaining. I didn't find it to be page turner like her others, but it was good enough for me to want to read the other two.
Run Down of the Story:
Court is a Scottish missionary from the highlands, he is in France doing what he does best - making war - when the evil Spanish warlord, "Pascal", who hired him betrays him. Court nearly dies and is washed ashore on the banks of a river where he is discovered by Anna, a French hooty-tooty, whose brother is running the defensive against Pascal.
Anna lives alone on her and her brothers estate, seeing how her brother is off fighting the Spanish. She decides to take mercy on the Scottish brute and bring him to her home so that she may nurse him back to health. This wouldn't be a historical romance novel if Anna was not clueless to the male physic and stuck up as all get out, of which she is both.
When Court comes around he is taken aback by Anna's beauty and not so much by her personality which borders on prejudice and cruel. Anna meanwhile thinks Court is an uneducated barbarian and once he is feeling better she attempts to get him out of her home. Court is not ready to leave; he has sent word to his mates and waits their arrival so that he can take his revenge on Pascal. Since Anna lives alone he takes advantage of her weakness and flat out tells her that he isn't going anywhere.
While Court becomes more intrigued with the moody Anna it comes to light that Anna's brother has been captured by Pascal and in order to secure his release Anna must marry the evil Spanish Warlord. Anna goes to Court to ask to hire him and his mercenary's so that they may rescue her brother and prevent her from marrying her enemy. Confusion ensues where she attempts to ask and Court doesn't fully understand her situation seeing how she never fully explains it and what do you know he finds out just in time to kidnap her from Pascal's home before the wedding. She's none too pleased because she believes that she has committed herself to the marriage and that this is the only way to save her brother.
Court decides to hold her against her will and take her to London where she will be safe. Her brother escapes after some help from Pascal's daughter (side line romance) and is to meet up with Anna in England. On the road Anna and Court become involved, but don't go too far (her virtue - blah blah) once in England though they confess their love to one another and seal the deal.
Okay that's it in a nut shell. Pretty cut in dry, no real twist, not that much action, mostly just a lot of dialogue between Court and Anna (she likes him, she hates him). Tons of sexual tension.
Summary of If You Dare (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 1)
With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse.
Can he exact revenge?
High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed, but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée.
Can she deny her passions?
Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. But nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal -- for if she doesn't wed him, she signs her brother's death warrant, as well as her own.
Can there be love between them?
From the moment Court discovers that Anna's prim facade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart's ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life -- to walk with death or walk alone. But Pascal vows that he'll hunt the two, never stopping until he's destroyed them both.
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