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I'm a great fan of Ms Ivie but this was not one of her best. I've had this in my TBR folder for over a year and that tells a tale all by itself. The truth is that I'm not a huge fan of female leads who masquerade as men. Here the h has been pretending to be a man for more than a decade. She is trying to avenge her clan and the H is the youngest son of that clan. I have to say that I didn't enjoy the period where the h pretended to be a 'lad'.

+++Spoilers+++
Once the H had had a lot of work helping him to realise that the h was in fact a woman, I really didn't enjoy the 'romance'. It was clear that the h didn't want to be the H's wh**e but although he confessed his love very early on, he didn't try to convince the h to marry him. I found this a very trying part of the story because I truly sympathised with the h. She clearly loved him but felt that he was treating her like a mistress. He had mentioned marrying her initially but never did anything about it. Once the h fell pregnant and the H kept telling that that was his aim, she then fell she was carrying a bast**d child. However once the H then tried to convince the h to marry him, she then became very obstinate not to marry him. The whole plot was very frustrating and I wanted to throw my Kindle on a few occasions. The author then pulls it all together in the final chapters and reveals everything and it was pretty good. I just haven't been able to get over those middle chapters.


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Lady Of The Knight Zebra Debut Jackie Ivie 9780821778081 Books Reviews

GREAT STORY!!! Very good history lesson amongst the fiction.
Beautifully rounded characters. Amazing taste of history spiced with fiction that reads real!
A must read from Jackie Ivie. Morgan is a kick ass female warrior and Morgan is a dark and handsome highlander. Morgan and Zander's relationship will have you laughing and wondering why Zander can't see what is right in front of his eyes.
I bought this book after I met the authors sister-in-law on a cruise and she told me to find this book. I was hooked. After I purchased my I had to stay on the publisher to release it for . This is one of my top five books.
This book was amazing and kept me up past midnight just to see what happened next. The characters had real depth to them and the author did a great job with the premise of the hero falling in love with his squire. This was my first Jackie Ivie book and I'm looking forward to reading more.
I honestly loved this book. I like how Morganna didn't immediately give in to our dear Zander (in fact she was pretty damn stubborn). The romance wasn't insta-love so...YASS! Thank god! There is romance, but you're not drowned in it. I also found the ending very sweet after all that crap Morganna had to go through. It was very satisfying. The one thing I hated (which I was probably meant to hate) was the 'villain', Zander's brother Phineas. What a douche.
I first read this book, as a paperback years ago when it was first released. Ever since I bought my kindle, I've set out to purchase my favorite books since I love to reread them. But this one wasn't available. I've been checking for it periodically and when I found it, I was over the moon.

Morganna and Alexander are probably one of my favorite historical romance couples. I love they way they fall for each other, each thinking there's no way they can be together. There's tension and humor and so much chemistry between the characters. This was my first Jackie Ivie book, but it definitely wasn't my last.
Lady of the Knight by Jackie Ivie is exactly the type of book I love to read. The heroine is not a feeble, hide-in-the-corner mouse. Instead, she is strong, honorable, and loyal. Her family has been brutally killed. As the only person left of a Scottish clan, she disguises herself as a boy and focuses her efforts on learning bow, knife, and axe in order to eventually take revenge.

Fate has her found by the youngest - and strongest - of the six brothers who control the enemy clan. At first she hates him, but over time she is won over by him. The question then is if her loyalty to her dead family will outweigh the passion she feels for this one member of the clan. A typical Romeo and Juliet storyline, but in this case Romeo thinks Juliet is a boy, and also doesn't know that Juliet is a member of the enemy.

There's a lot of positive to say about this book. I enjoyed the characters, with their nuanced personalities. I enjoyed the scenery, learning more about Scotland in medieval times. The author puts effort into describing the clothing to help readers get a sense of what this way of life was all about. I stayed interested in the story through to the end.

There were also issues I had with the book. There are several times the author introduces a foreign word without any description at all, so the reader has no idea what is being described. Similarly, a line of dialogue will just appear in a nebulous situation, so you don't know who is saying it - or how it is being said - until later in the paragraph. So then you read it once mis-assigning who is speaking and then have to read it again later once you know what the actual situation is. There is what I believe is an attempt at "cuteness" by having the heroine and the horse have the same name, but any cute factor wears off quickly and just means the phrasing is awkward through the rest of the story as the author tries to make clear if it's the horse or the heroine she is referring to.

There are minor issues with typos and missing punctuation - I normally give those a pass in self published books and point that out in books with "real" publishers who should have caught those issues. So Kensington's team gets the fault there for not polishing those out.

Then there are factual issues. I believe in this time period that couples did NOT marry inside the chapel and then just walk out afterwards. Rather, marriages were solemn, religious ceremonies and the couples didn't enter the chapel / cathedral / etc. until they WERE married. So they would marry on the steps with all in attendance. Then the entire group would enter - with the man and wife now sealed - and would have a long, formal mass at that point. Also, I don't believe a woman can be jarred by powerful signs of a baby moving within her at barely 4 months pregnant.

For me, though, the larger issues are with the main characters. There were several things the hero says right from the beginning that seem to indicate he knows that the heroine is a she. I kept expecting the storyline to - early on - show that he knew and had been playing her. So to find that he didn't know early on was almost a let-down given the things he was saying.

He was so hostile towards her that I really didn't have much desire for them to hook up. I admired her - but I didn't admire him much. In fact, when his brother Plato showed up, I was much more drawn to Plato as a hero and almost hoped he was intended to be the real match for her.

I felt a sense of disbelief that she was SO perfect with every single weapon that she outshone every other man in the entire land mass of Scotland, even seasoned warriors, at her young age, and her with no real training at all. I want to again caveat here that I adore "women using weapons" stories. Those are specifically the stories I adore. So it's not that she could use a weapon that bothers me. It's not even that she was great with a weapon that bothers me. It is that she was so superlatively fantastic with every single weapon she touched that she could outshine even people who had been training far longer than her with specialized trainers. It's one thing to have a "gift from God" in one specific area, let's say knife throwing. Maybe her anatomy is just perfect for throwing knives and her eyes are perfectly attuned and so on. I could see that. But in a wide range of weapons, again such a large field of trained specialists, it just exceeded my ability to accept.

This final issue is one that I know is a personal one, and I know that other readers will disagree with me on. And that's fine. We all come from different areas of the world, with different beliefs, and that is natural. So, just from my own personal point of view, I found a core part of the gays-are-pure-evil storyline one that I did not thrill at reading about. Yes, I understand that in medieval times many people disliked gays. However, I also understand that in medieval times some men loved to rape women too. It still does not mean I would actively want to read a book about a male who loved raping women. This is my relaxing, leisure reading time period that this book falls into. Even if we posit that most husbands beat and raped wives, those would not be the stories I wanted to read about when relaxing after a long day. So in the same way, even though provenly there were people in medieval days who were virulently anti-gay, it is just not a topic I would want to read pages about as my relax-and-escape-modern-stress activity. I'm sure some people might find those same scenes to be the highlights of the story.

So, to summarize. I loved that Morgan, the heroine, was strong, loyal to her clan, and brave. I love that she was skilled with a weapon and willing to stand up for what she believed in. I'm very happy that she found a man who appreciated her skills. I enjoyed the work the author put into describing the outfits and kilts and so on. On the down side, I resisted the heroine's God-like abilities, I didn't find the hero to be one I connected well with. The storyline of the hero thinking he was lusting after a teen boy and the discussion around it was not pleasant for me to read. So for me this would not be a book I would read a second time - but I'd be interested in reading other books by this author which might feature similar heroines with heroes more like Plato.
I'm a great fan of Ms Ivie but this was not one of her best. I've had this in my TBR folder for over a year and that tells a tale all by itself. The truth is that I'm not a huge fan of female leads who masquerade as men. Here the h has been pretending to be a man for more than a decade. She is trying to avenge her clan and the H is the youngest son of that clan. I have to say that I didn't enjoy the period where the h pretended to be a 'lad'.

+++Spoilers+++
Once the H had had a lot of work helping him to realise that the h was in fact a woman, I really didn't enjoy the 'romance'. It was clear that the h didn't want to be the H's wh**e but although he confessed his love very early on, he didn't try to convince the h to marry him. I found this a very trying part of the story because I truly sympathised with the h. She clearly loved him but felt that he was treating her like a mistress. He had mentioned marrying her initially but never did anything about it. Once the h fell pregnant and the H kept telling that that was his aim, she then fell she was carrying a bast**d child. However once the H then tried to convince the h to marry him, she then became very obstinate not to marry him. The whole plot was very frustrating and I wanted to throw my on a few occasions. The author then pulls it all together in the final chapters and reveals everything and it was pretty good. I just haven't been able to get over those middle chapters.