DARK AND BURNING

The frame (Island of Skye, wild and beautiful) The early period the islanders and their way of life (the ubiquitous boats, ancestral rivalries) I liked very much.

I also found original and very pleasant successful alternating passages on the love story between the hero - and the more virile, relating to the training of the elite unit of the secret guard with rivalries and friendships between roughing the commandos. It's true that it makes you want to read the stories to follow other warriors.

The period is dark and danger lurks. But I did not feel that the history "nibbling" the love story. Instead, I found the clever way the author uses the historical background and its gray areas to house his narrative credibility to spring and strengthened.

Moreover, I found the most realistic characters than usual in this kind of novel where the Highlander is often a perfect knight model in a slightly brutte bark. Conversely, Verily Tor is rough and calculating, by necessity. It is a fierce warrior and chieftain crashed responsibility, in a very troubled period of history.

The novel makes very well the tension that colors the romance between the two héros.Pas of sentimentality or of courtly love in his relationship with Christina, but a burning desire, a passion and soon he tries to keep ruthlessly clamped while his wife too young and romantic, rocked chivalry novels, imagine being unable to make him love her.

In conclusion, a dark, burning travel made me réver wild strike windswept at times ferocious islanders.