Kathryn Loch

**4.5**

This is an incredibly powerful story about overcoming adversity, as well as a very tender love story. So many of the scenes between Garin and Alyna were incredibly moving and just made my heart melt. Rather than the typical romance I find, where the H and h suffer tons of misunderstandings and and seem more driven by lust than love, this was just a beautiful story of two people learning to overcome life's obstacles together and finding each other at the same time. I was invested in their story and cheered for them the entire time. Garin particularly was a wonderful character. He is a character made up of extreme feelings so you saw him as both a powerful knight and a loving softie. I felt for Garin as he struggled with this huge adversity, in a time where the typical response would have been to lock him away in a church for the rest of his life. And then Alyna's patience and ingenuity to help him overcome it, sometimes despite himself, was really beautiful.

There were some grammatical mistakes (particularly toward the end), but I was so engrossed that I was able to gloss over them.

This is a very talented author - I am so glad I found this book (and as a kindle freebie too!)… (más)

**3.5**

I don't believe there is a synopsis of this book anywhere right now, so I will try to provide a brief one:

When Micah de Montfort's uncle, the man that raised him, tries to kill Micah in his rebellion against King Henry, Micah's faith in family and love are destroyed. Two years later, a loyal knight to Henry in his attempt to make up for his family's history, Micah is ordered to take back Appleby Castle from the Scots who raided and captured it, killing Baron Liulf and his family. Micah is surprised to find that the Baron's only daughter, Kate, is alive, but had been imprisoned in the dungeon and badly mistreated. Micah helps Kate recover, both physically and emotionally, but Kate's existence threatens the barony that King Henry promised to him. Henry gives Micah the choice to send Kate to a convent and take the barony himself or marry Kate. Not wanting to imprison and betray Kate again, they agree to marry, but Micah continues to battle the emotional demons from his past. As Micah and Kate learn to care for each other, Micah begins to wonder if his dreams of love and family could possibly come true after all if he could learn to have faith in others again. But the Scots plot to regain the castle and Kate and there is a traitor in their midst.

So that was the first synopsis I ever wrote. Hope I did a good job. :)

This one wasn't as emotive as [b:Blind Impulse|16095617|Blind Impulse|Kathryn Loch|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1351084365s/16095617.jpg|21903145] (which is the first book I read by Kathryn Loch), but it was still an entertaining and enjoyable read.

Based on this book and BI, I would say that Kathryn Loch builds her stories around strong emotions, and that's where the strength lies. In this one it was Micah's feeling of betrayal by a man he loved and his struggle to overcome it. The intrigue with the Scots kept the plot moving along, but it was the emotion that added the depth and feeling to make the story something more.… (más)