Review/recenzija: Stephanie Laurens: Scandal's Bride/ Gospodarica doline
Recenzija na hrvatskom nalazi se ispod recenzije na engleskom ?
Whoever got to know Cynster family by now, knows once they start reading the book, they can't stop after just the first one. Or the second. So here we are, reading the novel number 3 in Cynster series, Scandal's Bride.
Catriona Hennessy is a lady of a walley she lives in. She has been living alone for a great number of years and doing just fine.
But now, after the death of her uncle, to save her family from ruin, she has to marry Richard Cynster, a man also known as Scandal.
Catriona lives by the law of her Lady, a mystical being that gives her premonitions of the future father of her children, that is Richard, but after meeting him, she realizes he's not a right man for her.
She think she needs a man ready to live by her laws, one that will not ask questions but obey her in everything.
A man nothing like Richard Cynster.
But is her way the right way? Or will her blind determination bring her nothing but trouble?
Cynsters are a family that lives to acquire and to keep. But what they like to worship most are people. They seek love as the only thing that can guarantee their family to survive. Love means family, and family means wealth. Every one of Cynster's men live to keep that family growing. Richard does it by being a man ready to live in a shadow of his lady, ready to help, but out of the spotlight.
Catriona is a woman described the way men are used to be described in this kind of novels. She keeps for herself, and has ever only trusted herself. That makes us ready to see her as a cold and arrogant person, but gives us an ppportunity to observe how her behavior changes. She realizes she doesn't always have to be right to make things right.
Her 'Lady' makes the whole novel a bit more mystical and fantastic, the thing that made me like it even more.
But there is that one thing I have to comment, the thing that made me a bit nervous, so I'll do it (not to spoil) by only saying this: having sex with an unconscious person makes it a rape.
I don't know how they succeeded to miss this 'detail' before publishing but it made a lot of Laurens' fans angry, and some even refused to read the book after seeing the scene was not somehow justified later on.
Anyway, I'm sure that the loyal fans of this author will find this novel as amazing as the first two in this series, and will want to read the next installment ASAP. There are 20 more novels to go, people. Time to start reading.
Rose ?
I don't know how they succeeded to miss this 'detail' before publishing but it made a lot of Laurens' fans angry, and some even refused to read the book after seeing the scene was not somehow justified later on.
Anyway, I'm sure that the loyal fans of this author will find this novel as amazing as the first two in this series, and will want to read the next installment ASAP. There are 20 more novels to go, people. Time to start reading.
Rose ?
Tko god je upoznao zlo�este ro�ake Cynster, jedva je do�ekao Gospodaricu doline, tre�i nastavak u serijalu Cynster. Meni je najprije, prije samog naslova, za oko zapela odli�na naslovnica. Znanje op�enito volim �to se toga ti�e jer su im naslovnice uvijek me�u najma�tovitijima, ali ova je potpuno u meni omiljenoj kombinaciji boja, koja mi ba� odgovara uz tematiku pa �e uvijek imati posebno mjesto na polici.
Catriona Hennessy od smrti svojih roditelja samostalno upravlja dolinom u kojoj �ivi, te vlastelinstvom koje hrani sve njezine stanovnike.
Nakon smrti strica s kojime se nikad nije slagala na�e se pred zidom. Ako se ne uda za Richarda Cynstera, sva stri�eva dobra bit �e oduzeta njegovim nasljednicima, ostavljaju�i cijelu obitelj na ulici.
No Catriona je skepti�na unato� tome �to izgleda da joj je Cynstera namijenila upravo njezina Gospa. On je previ�e energi�an, previ�e odlu�an i dominantan da bi joj mogao biti suprug. Njoj treba �ovjek koji �e se prilago�avati njezinim �eljama i obvezama.
No Richard zvani Skandal je i dalje Cynter �to zna�i da zna prepoznati prave vrijednosti i prona�i ravnote�u koja �e ih oboje ispunjavati kao osobe i supru�nike.
Catriona samo mora staviti pod kontrolu vlastitu aroganciju dovoljno dugo da primijeti kako ima priliku vezati se za mu�karca koji joj nudi upravo ono �to ona �eli.
Cynsteri su obitelj poznata po svojem motu imati i zadr�ati. No za njih zemaljska bogatstva vrijede samo onoliko koliko dobra �ine istinskim vrijednostima: obitelji i ljubavi. Svaki od Cynstera koji smo dosad imali priliku upoznati na svoj na�in doprinosi obiteljskom imenu, a Richard se posebno isti�e svojim strpljenjem i sposobno��u da ostane 'vladati' iz pozadine.
Ovdje mi se posebno svi�a Catriona, koja je prikazana na na�in na koji se ve�inom prikazuju mu�ki likovi. �ivot ju je nau�io da se oslanja samo na sebe, svoja znanja i mogu�nosti pa bi se njezino odrje�ito nepovjerenje prema drugima moglo proglasiti arogantno��u i hladno�om. Zanimljivo mi je bilo pratiti kako se slojevi njezine samonametnute maske tope jedan po jedan dok poku�ava svijet sagledati novim o�ima, a iz umi�ljene djevojke pune predrasuda prerasta u �enu koja shva�a da ne mora uvijek biti u pravu kako bi uspjela u svojim naumima.
Takozvana 'Gospa', lik koji Catriona i stanovnici doline �tuju kao bo�anstvo ovom romanu daju dozu misti�nosti koja predstavlja elemente fantasti�nog, �to je upravo ono �to volim.
Drugu stvar koja me malo potresla u ovom romanu naprosto moram komentirati, a to �u (da ne spoilam) napraviti uz ovu tvrdnju: seks s osobom koja nije pri svijesti obi�no bi se nazivao silovanje...
Osim te zamjerke, za koju ne razumijem kako je nekome prije objavljivanja promakla (jer se nadam da ju ne smatraju opravdanom), a koja je, koliko vidim, podijelila Laurensine fanove na one koji �e joj to oprostiti i one koji ne�e, ovom knjigom sam zadovoljna i mogu je preporu�iti.
Sve u svemu, �itatelji koji su upoznali autoricu u prethodnim romanima (�avolja nevjesta i Preljubnikova zakletva) zasigurno ne�e presko�iti ni ovaj roman. U originalu postoje nevjerojatna 23 nastavaka u ovom serijalu �to me vrlo veseli, jer ih je jo� dvadesetak pred nama!
Sljede�a pri�a je Demonova. Ja sam nestrpljiva, a vi?
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