
His Bonnie Bride
Highland Brides, Book 1
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Ashford MacNab
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Hannah Howell
New York Times best-selling author Hannah Howell traverses the embattled border between England and Scotland, where two warring families prolong centuries of discord....
Storm Eldon was first caught up in the war between England and Scotland as a young girl, when she and her family were held hostage by their sworn enemies, the MacLagans. Years later, Storm finds herself trapped in the clutches of her Scottish adversaries once again. Now she must fight to preserve her loyalties, guard her virtue, and resist the charms of Tavis MacLagan, her handsome Highland captor....
Contains mature themes.
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Strong female lead
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The story is well written and one of my favorite books by Hannah Howell
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Vivid and well written old style Scots speech
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Very good
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Great story line.
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Awesome and entertaining, over and over!
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She’s tiny, we get it.
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The characters were so well defined
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However, violence is violence. The acceptability of it in a certain time period does not necessarily validate the use of it.
To pull back big picture and try to see how the author was juxtaposing the sacredness of some sexual encounters even without the blessing of the church (marriage), against the vile evil of those done while in a married state (though still not with the spouse) deserves attention, and especially given the time when the book was published, perhaps praise. I’m not here to discuss that aspect.
I definitely wished that there was warning about the violent depravity not just hinted at, but explicitly described. I was honestly sickened by some of what the author wrote. Not saying it was out of character for those characters, nor that the author was seeking to describe some reality. And it was not just one episode shall we say.
I knew I was reading a historical romance novel containing mature themes. But I did not know I was reading something with that level of malice. Those with any sort of sexual trauma should not read this book-or at least should def know what is coming at them.
Of course I read to the end. Think what you like, but I get pretty into books and I needed to have the main characters come through to the other side. This has so much good depth of characters and so many different types of redemption arcs. It’s a complete story that then leaves for both possible prequel or sequel though doesn’t depend on that.
It just needs to be stated that this has not just sexual content but violent abusive sexual content. There are several ways that ppl may want to apply depravity and sexual abuse. I will describe the two scenes that most horrified and disgusted me (and I quite understand that was the authors intent). So fair warning:
1) a woman being “sent” from one person to another for the express purpose of being used sexually without any consent asked and was almost assuredly a slave given the historical context. Then more than once we see in detail how this woman is being used sexually.
2) a flogging/beating, in order to receive consent for marriage of the person being beaten to the one beating her while she is naked and then tied to a bed. Directly following a pause in this beating, on the same bed where the beaten woman is tied up, the one preforming the beating and the one looking on have violent various forms of sex-all while the injured woman looks on the a haze of pain. They leave but intend to come back and resume beating the woman until she consents to be married to the person beating her. Later telling a trusted/safe person about this trauma, the beaten woman states that the one watching the beating, looked “as though she was being made love to” by the one preforming the beating. The beaten woman asks if that could be so and the trusted/safe person affirms that some find sexual pleasure in the pain and abuse of others.
That is a lot to put under the description of “mature themes” and I really do think that audible needs to put in a better warning. I’m not saying it’s wrong for the author to have wrote this. I’m not arguing that it’s not historically accurate. I’m not even giving an opinion on the “consent/not consent” argument I see in the other comments. My argument is about the lack of a real label about the violent sexual content that feels like it came slamming out of nowhere.
Violent Sexual Content
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It's not a bad story.
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