Honor's Splendour (General)

by Julie Garwood

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I have this memory of reading Honor's Splendour as a sixteen-year-old, and I chuckle at how much I've changed from that sweet and innocent little flower. I believed that once I found my true love, I would want to warm his feet if he ever needed it. Let's just say, I love hubby but he'd have to pay me BIG BUCKS to touch, let alone warm his feet. I love him though, so I'd buy him a pair of warm woolly socks. ;-)

LOVE this story. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the narrator, especially when she's performing the sexy times. A little too husky, sex-line for me.

I will be back for more Julie Garwood I'm sure, she is, after all, one of the Queens of Historical Romance.

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I did plan to take a little longer to listen to this one...

I forgot how much I LOVE this story, and how funny it was. I can't help but swoon when the big tough hero comes to realise that the temptress he kidnapped has the power to bring him to his knees. Duncan and Madelyn's love story was one of the first romance books I read as a teenager. Julie Garwood is still one of my favouritist historical romance authors and it broke my heart that she no longer writes them. I like her contemporary romances, I LOVE her historical romances.

The audio was good but the narrator's voice could get a little annoying sometimes. I really love re-reading/listening to my favourite historical romances and this will definitely be a regular step back in time for me.

I originally planned to take a little longer listening to this one but once I started, I just couldn't stop. I highly recommend this audio.

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Where's my gallant hero when I need him...

This was a re-read of one of my favourite Julie Garwood historical romances.

Whenever I think of this story I always remember it for the beautiful beginning when the heroine warms the feet of the hero.

Julie Garwood's stories make me want to step back in time to meet a gallant hero who will lift me on to his horse, tuck my head under his chin and protect me from all dangers.

This story is about a woman who has lived a life of fear from her abusive brother. Madelyn was sent away when she was younger to live with her elderly uncle who was a priest. In this time she was taught to read and enjoyed wonderful stories about characters including Odysseus. When she was forced to return to her brother she would remember the stories and retreat into her mind and imagine Odysseus would watch over her and protect her. I think she wished to have her own Odysseus.

When Duncan, the hero, has his feet warmed by a lady trying to save him, he was shocked to realise that she was the lady he planned to kidnap. After Duncan's men attack the fortress, he decides to keep Madelyn and take her home with him.

I don't want to give away the whole story, so I'll say that this was the start of a connection that grew between them. The story is filled with passion, intrigue and excitement that kept me riveted from the beginning to the end.

This is one of my favourite historical romances and Julie Garwood is a legend in this genre. I think I will have to start including a weekly re-read of some of my Favourites...maybe The Secret will be next.