A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

WEDDING FOR A KNIGHT

Author: Sue-Ellen Welfonder ISBN: 0446613819 9/2004 HISTORICAL Publisher: Warner Forever
Time Period: August 1332 - Scotland

Wedding for a Knight by Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Even a marriage by proxy can't spoil the joy Lady Amicia MacLean feels when she is wedded to Magnus MacKinnon. With his quick wit and dashing smile, the roguish warrior captured her heart when she was still a girl. It's not until he returns from battle that Amicia discovers the truth: the union was made to fill empty MacKinnon coffers with MacLean gold. Magnus knew nothing of this marriage. Honorable and proud, he intends to rebuild his clan's fortune coin by coin himself - and wants nothing to do with his bonny new bride.

But Amicia is not one to give up without a fight. She plans to invade Magnus's bedchamber, offer tantalizing glimpses of what every husband has the right to see, and settle for nothing less than the total surrender of the most stubborn knight in the realm!

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RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

As much as I love Scottish historicals, Sue-Ellen Welfonder's, WEDDING FOR A KNIGHT, surprisingly is not my type of book.

There is little to the tale other than the hero and heroine trying to guess each other's intent and thoughts, and a "certain someone" that sneaks around trying to cause harm to Clan Fignon.

That isn't to say that it does not have some appealing qualities or characters. It just does not delve into them the way I like, or understand. Rather, star-crossed lovers Magnus and Amicia simply observe one another and speak in riddles. As do a lot of the characters, especially when events happen, and you, as the reader, don't know what happened as they continue to discuss it. It's a bit confusing and hard to describe here as well.

And, that "certain someone" I mentioned is rather perplexing, since I still don't quite know what happened to that character in the end.

Maybe I will read this one again, and try to make more sense of it the second time around.

Shannon Johnson

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