Love in the Highlands (2) Paperback – November 24, 2020

Excellent

Ah...a trip back to the late 70s to teenage summer and weekend nights filled reading stacks of Barbara Cartland books by flashlight until dawn. The author wrote 900 plus short novels, mostly historical, that perfectly captured the classic spunky young woman working her wits against the older, often jaded, 30-something rich, titled man until he succumbs to her charms, sweeping her into a heart-pounding kiss of alpha-male possession...and, wink-wink, hinting at the love-making events sure to happen AFTER the make-her-a-respectable-woman wedding. Such sweet and tender fantasy. Thought I'd see how one of the books, all long out of print, held up today, and was pleasantly surprised. It's still sweet, well-paced and the sparks between the characters still happily aflame. The characters might be too lightly drawn by today's standards for some readers, but they still entertained me. I will pick up more as they become available. A small complaint--why so expensive, considering they are shorter than most novels at $7.00? And I wish the covers didn't have the pink frame that overlays part of the artwork--I spent as much time admiring the watercolor images at fifteen as I did reading.

Great Story!I loved it. It was exciting,and romantic. The author did a great job of pulling me into her fantasy. You have the villian Prince Stanislaus, the dansel in distress Lady Lavina and the hero the Marquis of Elswick. I would read this story again.

Lavina is a daughter of a Earl is being forced into a marriage by royal command to the odious Prince Stanislaus by Queen Victoria. The Earl is warned by the Duke of Bradwell an old friend just hours before he and Lavinia are to be summoned by royal decree. The Duke and Earl devise a plan to have the Marquess of Elswick pretend to be engaged to Lavinia. The Marquis is known to all to be anti-marriage. I won't give the rest away.

Wonderful!

I really enjoyed this story because the characters were somewhat quirky and different to the usual Cartland fare, not unlike A Hazard of Hearts, which I enjoyed for the same reason. Recommended!

The first chapters described the setting very well. The characters were a little confused with so many names given to one. The plot stayed exciting and made me turn the page. The dialogue switched back and forth without losing the masterful power of Love. Bravo!

Barbara Cartland is no doubt a very famous romance author but I have never read anything by her so when I saw this at the library I thought why not.Queen Victoria needs to pacify her relationship with a foreign Prince so she offers him a an English bride. The unlucky woman is Lavina. Lavina's father love his daughter and wants her to marry for love so with help from friends her father devises a plan to protect his daughter with a fake engagement to the Marquis of Elswick. The challenge is Lord Elswick has had his heart broken and now he avoids woman all together but for his own reasons he agrees to the crazy plan.The plot is a little far fetched but not bad. BUT the characters fell flat for me. The Prince is not a really likable guy kind of like a scumbag and I found it odd that Lavina's main complaint is that he did not bathe. They hint how horrid he is toward woman and that is her only fear?? Then there is Lord Elswick himself he ran so hot and cold it was like he was a bit of a socio-path.The book was mediocre at best. Really glad it was a library book that I did not buy.

A Great Book you could all most fell you were in Scotland