Reviews for Dark Champion

The average rating for Dark Champion based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-19 00:00:00 Stephen Dellapenna Jo Beverley only wrote four medieval romance novels, and I need to take a minute to be sad about that, because Dark Champion had everything I want in a medieval romance, and reminded me why I love the subgenre as much as I do. This isn't a nice book. This isn't a pretty book. This is not a gentle book. There's war, and Ms. Beverley pulled no punches in showing us what that entails, not only the heat of battle, but the collateral damage, which is what our heroine, Imogen, has to handle after the death of her father puts her, his heiress, in a precarious position. What's best for her people, marriage to an older, respected nobleman, or to a battle scarred bastard, FitzRoger (yep, the Fitz stamps "bastard" right there on his name) a warrior whose fire matches Imogen's own. If you're thinking you can tell where the rest of the book is going to go from here, wrong-o. Not. Even. Close. Imogen can more than hold her own. She's a smart one, she's brave, and she's also got some rather, ah, we shall say interesting, views on exactly what the marriage entails, which makes the whole consummation part of it a challenge for FitzRoger. This couple has issues, which stem naturally from who they are and the times in which they live, and it's how they sort out these issues that binds them together as an unstoppable team even a truly dastardly bad guy can't beat. Not for the faint of heart, or for those who prefer characters, in whatever era, to think and behave like 21st century people, because these don't, and that's part of what makes the story as compelling as it is. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-04-03 00:00:00 Michael Bagley I liked Dark Champion's interesting hero and, up until around halfway through the book, the writing was also really good as well. However the heroine drove me up the wall. I understand that the author was trying to be period correct and wanted to add some kind of conflict with the crazy priest and his ridiculous advice to the heroine. However I had no desire to read about it. It was absolute nonsense what he told her and even worse that she believed him, even though I do know this is a situation that did occur during the middle ages. Regardless it just made me want to throw the heroine into a lake and I couldn't continue with the book.