Reviews for Besieged (Skye's Legacy Series #3)

The average rating for Besieged (Skye's Legacy Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-07 00:00:00 John Cramer I must have really terrible luck to have stumbled across yet another book that uses the term "love lance" during sexual scenes. Joking aside, this book is repetitive and spends a lot of time describing things that readers won't care about. Fortune's choice of a husband was obvious from the very beginning, and the dialogue between characters is peppered at strange times with dialect instead of being consistent. Historically, I find this romance novel lacking.The Irish struggle for religious freedom was and is a very serious subject. Except for one particular scene, Besieged merrily creates a fantasy land where Catholics and Protestants frolic together in meadows and are free to marry because they are distantly related to royalty. I don't expect the entire book to revolve around suffering and anguish, but I also don't want historical inaccuracies simply to make the love story possible. Besieged comes off as a little offensive and ignorant towards the true struggles of the Irish people.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-03-26 00:00:00 Shauna Lyn Besieged, set in 1630's Ulster area of Ireland, is the first of Small's Skye O'Malley series I have read which is a matrilineal historical romance series. It tells the romantic story of Skye's granddaughter Fortune Lindley and Kieran Devers, she a Protestant and he a Catholic, in a very intolerant world. They are faced with the classic "A fish could marry a bird, but where would they live?" While Small does a fairly good job of portraying the conflict between the local Irish Catholics and their new Protestant landlords, Fortune's family is painted as the only tolerant Protestants in the book. The noble Irish under the cruel Protestant yoke makes the story a bit one sided. Kieran's brother William is a nasty, obsessive villain as is his stepmother, Lady Jane Devers, who marries a poor Irish lord for his land and covets Fortune's large estate. It is in romance where Small excels and Fortune and Kieran are inspiring lovers. Their passion and devotion are well-portrayed. Her sex scenes are excellent examples of women's erotica, although they are less prominent in this book than they are in works like Love Slave.