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Dr. Reilly Stanton, eighth Marquis of Stillworth, must mend his injured pride by proving himself a hero -- and not a drunken wastrel, as his former fiance claimed. Against all sane advice, the Londoner takes a medical post in a tiny fishing village on the remote Isle of Skye -- and is convinced that he can cope with the primitive conditions, horrendous Highland weather, and rampant illness. But Miss Brenna Donnegal is another matter entirely.... Try as he might, Reilly cannot ignore the toweringly tall lady with flaming chestnut locks and an equally fiery will. She has filled her father's former role as the local physician, and is more than annoyed to find the urbane Dr. Stanton taking over her work and her father's cottage. By fair means or foul, she will give the usurper his comeuppance. But what begins as a sparking tug-of-war between two proud hearts soon flames to a passionate fire... Critically acclaimed author Patricia Cabot delivers an exquisitely warm and witty novel of love set against the dramatic backdrop of Scotland's magnificent Isle of Skye.

452 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 26, 2000

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Pseudonym of Meg Cabot

Meggin Patricia Cabot was born and and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, daughter of Barbara and C. Victor Cabot, a college professor. She also lived in Grenoble, France and Carmel, California (the setting for her bestselling Mediator series) before moving to New York City after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University.

After working for ten years as an assistant residence hall director at New York University (an experience from which she occasionally draws inspiration for her Heather Wells mystery series), Meg wrote the Princess Diaries series, which was made into two hit movies by Disney, sold over 20 million copies, and has been translated into 38 languages.

Meg also wrote the 1-800-Where-R-You? series (which has been reprinted under the title Vanished and was made into the Lifetime series called Missing), as well as numerous other award-winning, best-selling stand-alone books and series, including All-American Girl and Avalon High (on which an original Disney Channel movie was based), and several books told entirely in emails and text messages (Boy Next Door/Boy Meets Girl/Every Boy’s Got One).

Meg’s newest series include the tween hit Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, the YA trilogy Airhead, and Abandon, the first book in a new paranormal series for young adult readers (the sequel, Underworld, will be in US stores in spring 2012). Insatiable, Meg’s first paranormal romance for adult readers, was followed by a sequel, Overbite, in July 2011.

Meg is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for both adults and tweens/teens. Meg married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on 1 April 1993, she currently lives in Key West with her husband and two cats.

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1,043 reviews103 followers
May 19, 2009
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! This is officially my first "real" romance novel - I don't think Mills & Boon or Francine Rivers really count. I thought I'd give Meg Cabot's older novels a try as I've found her newer stuff to be really hit or miss, and, hey, I had some spare BookMooch points.
I liked the fact that the two main characters were very unique - the man wasn't a jerkish, alpha male, and was actually rather gentlemanly. The woman had hobbies and interests, and wasn't a typical beauty. There were realistic, fleshed out minor characters who didn't disappear once they'd served their purpose in introducing the main characters to each other. There was even a sub-plot, involving cholera!
And yes, in some places it was predictable, and Cabot made some major errors which a proof-reader should have picked up on - she used both "trousers" and "pants", and "nappies" and "diapers," and at one point referred to a character as "The most beautiful woman in England" or something to that affect, when any numpty could tell me that they were on the Isle of Skye which is DEFINITELY in Scotland, which is NOT part of England - it is part of Britain. Also: no Englishman would refer to a kilt as a "skirt" and haggis is a poor man's meal; not something an Earl would feed posh guests.
However, these are minor errors which didn't really spoil the book for me. 'Lady of Skye' was great escapism and as I'm a true romantic at heart, I'll be on the look out for similarly fun and unique looking romances in the future. 8/10
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2,880 reviews155 followers
August 29, 2020
Ripped Bodice 2020 Bingo: Set on an Island

“It was okay.� I read this very slowly and there was nothing terribly wrong, but yeah, it was written in 2001 and it’s not what turned out to be Meg Cabot’s niche and I already forgot so much.

Owned physical book 1/2 for the month
Overall owned book 3/5 for the month
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Author7 books173 followers
May 2, 2015
Dikasih buku ini sama Nana...

SUKA! SUKA! SUKA! Saya termasuk jarang banget baca hisrom, meski koleksi hisrom & harlequin milik Ibu ngga kalah banyak dengan koleksi novel detektif milik saya. Dan cerita Patricia Cabot aka Meg Cabot ini keren banget! As usual, Cabot selalu mengusung tema unik dan menarik di setiap novelnya, yang bisa dibilang risetnya kece badai. Di novel kali ini tentang penyebaran wabah kolera di awal abad 19.

Romance-nya ngga menye-menye, malah cenderung lucu, manis, dan menggemaskan. Semua tokohnya lovable, dari hero-heroin sampai Hamish, si bocah yg nyaris mati dan malah ngomel saat nyawanya selamat karena dia harus botak :)). Sindiran2 cerdas atas kehidupan bangsawan, deskripsi setting, semua-semuanya sukaaa... Hisrom yang berbobot dan sangat humanis.

Thank you, Nana atas bukunya.. :D
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106 reviews5 followers
January 20, 2024
The best thing about this book was the setting by far. The Scottish Highlands are always such an interesting and magical place to set the plot of a story in, and the descriptions did a great job of making the coastal village seem real. The male lead kind of sucked, and I don’t think he deserved the girl boss that is Brenna.
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14 reviews
September 14, 2013
Romances de Época: livros que nunca me decepcionam. A Dama da Ilha não foi exceção. O livro que foi escrito por Patricia (pseudônimo de Meg Cabot) tem como protagonista Brenna, uma quase médica/veterinária determinada que não se faz de rogada e Reilly, nosso caro doutor em provação. Quando esses dois se encontram é fagulha pra todo lado! As provocações, os diálogos intensos, as personalidades de duas pessoas que quase sempre discordam em tudo, faz do livro uma leitura engraçada e agradável.

Bem, vamos ao começo: Lorde Glendenning, que é apaixonado por Brenna, manda um anúncio para o Jornal The Times com a intenção de contratar um médico (você pode pensar que essa é uma ação nobre, mas na verdade é só uma estratégia para fazer com que sua amada caia em seus braços), e é aí que Reilly aparece. Ele se candidata ao posto, segundo ele, para provar à sua ex-noiva que não é um inútil completo (não me perguntem como isso pode provar alguma coisa). Brenna, que é como uma médica da Ilha de Skye (Escócia), assim que fica sabendo que será substituída parte furiosa para cima, tanto de Lorde Glendenning quanto de Reilly. A cena em que Brenna e Reilly se encontram pela primeira vez, com certeza, vai fazer você rir!

Algumas coisas sobre Brenna chamam atenção: ela usa calças! (E daí?) Daí que estamos falando de um romance ambientado em pleno século XIX, onde as mulheres usavam vestidos todo santo dia. Ela é independente, mora sozinha, porque os pais e os irmãos partiram em viagem pela Índia, e tem o pensamento fixo de que nada nem ninguém pode atrapalhar sua pesquisa sobre a propagação do cólera (ou seja, nada de casamento). Tudo isso são coisas que não eram consideradas adequadas à uma dama da época.


[…] Na verdade, essa Brenna em particular era bela e atraente. Isso ele era capaz de atestar, levando em conta que sob a capa a jovem usava, um segundo olhar o confirmou, uma par de “calças de homem�. […] pag 12


[…] - Senhorita Donnegal � a senhora Marshall interveio -, não posso me convencer de que sua mãe aprovaria essa permanência solitária naquela cabana afastada. Ainda mais agora... […] pag 148


Sobre Reilly, tenho que admitir que o achei um pouco idiota no começo. Christine King, a ex-noiva, o deixa pelo simples fato de que achou um outro homem mais rico... mas para o bem das aparências, ela o largou por ser um bêbado. Então o pobre coitado vai até as Terras Altas, lugar considerado atrasado e selvagem, para provar que é digno de seu amor. Me digam se isso por si só já não é uma prova de devoção e de burrice ao mesmo tempo?! Destaque também para Pearson e Shelley, amigos de Reilly, que protagonizam boa parte das cenas de humor.

Já li várias resenhas dizendo que A Dama da Ilha foi fraco ou razoável. Não nego que comparado aos outros livros da autora como “Aprendendo a Seduzir� e “A Rosa do Inverno�, sua trama é bem mais leve, menos complexa. Porém se você procura uma leitura sem pretensões, um pouco de drama, muito humor, sensualidade e com um final garantido (já que não seria um Romance de Época se não soubéssemos como termina), então esse é o livro certo. Nota 4!
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4,515 reviews1,749 followers
December 12, 2018
Let me preface this by saying that my taste in romance novels is sometimes kind of garbage. I am very aware that Lady of Skye is not a great historical romance, but I rather enjoyed it anyway. The awesome thing about historical romance is that, as long as it’s not massively offensive, bad ones can be just as much fun as good ones.

Cabot’s style really starts to shine through here. There’s a bit more humor, and there’s some delightful trope flipping. As Cabot stops trying to write romances like old guard romance authors would have, they’re improving. Dr. Reilly Stanton is another hero who doesn’t fall into the typical alpha male thing, though he is very strong and tall and blah blah blah. He’s a doctor, and he wants to help people, and he’s kind of an idiotic goofball. He finds himself wondering if Brenna’s a vampire when he sees her in the cemetery at night, because that’s the sort of fantastical oddball he is. Meanwhile, Brenna’s basically a doctor, if women were allowed to be doctors, and she’s sturdy and steadfast and stands the fuck up for herself.

There’s a love triangle of sorts, and I actually even like how that plays out…mostly. The local lord on the isle wants to marry Brenna but she keeps turning him down. He tells Reilly to stay away, and Reilly agrees, but then obviously Reilly doesn’t. Brenna’s super concerned that the Earl will kill him, but actually they’re just bros, and that’s pretty awesome. The Earl’s romance, however, was super icky.

The book’s overly long for sure. It could have been a lot stronger with a hundred less pages. There’s a lot that’s hard to believe about the set up too. And, this book has absolutely the worst sex scene I’ve ever encountered. There was a funny one in A Little Scandal, but I literally cackled for like five minutes when I read this one. I’m linking the scene in question, but there are more hilarious bits if you open up twitter and read the thread.



Lady of Skye was totally worth my time, if only for those ridiculous sex scenes. Such comedy has ne’er been seen. It also does some nice trope flippy stuff, but you’re better off reading Tessa Dare tbh.
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142 reviews14 followers
March 15, 2012
Finally! An author who can actually write Scottish dialect without going over the top and butchering the language!

Brenna (the heroine) is a strong, confident women, who lives by herself (shocking!), and is trying to prove her father's theory that miasma's of disease don't exist. I love when books have strong female leads, instead of simpering ninny's. The book instantly becomes 10x better.

Reilly (the hero) is a gentleman who has moved from London to the Isle of Skye. Whereas most of the other men that he knows don't give a rat's ass about how they treat their women, Reilly is a gentleman, through and through. It helps that he sounds really ruggedly handsome.

One thing I didn't get about this book was how Reilly understood everyone - Scots can be quite broad. I've lived in the North East all my life and we're hard enough to understand as it is. The West is even worse and quite a lot of them speak Gaelic - which I don't understand at all. Imagine how much broader it would have been in 1847 (when the book was set). My mum's family is from London and she always has to translate for them whenever they come to visit.

There were some little errors where she called things by the American name instead of the English name ('diapers' instead of 'nappies'; 'sweater' instead of 'jumper'; 'pants' instead of 'trousers'. That sort of thing). But, overall, it wasn't that bad.

I also quite liked Lord Glendenning's character. Even though he's a womaniser, he cares about his people and seems to be a nice person. Also, he's quite funny when he's drunk.
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80 reviews19 followers
December 21, 2014
It took me so long long to finish this read I can only assume that either I'm no longer the voracious historical romance reader I used to be or this book is just really not that good. And it is such a shame because I got myself an amazing hardcover first-edition in a secondhand bookstore believing I'd found a literary treasure. Poor me.
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565 reviews13 followers
January 29, 2014
Levaria as 4 estrelas se a autora não se repetisse muito. Ri muito, personagens e diálogos interessantes. Embora esperasse um final diferente e um epílogo, explorando um pouco o "depois" do casamento.
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76 reviews13 followers
January 29, 2025
📚#5 in My Meg Cabot Read Through
I've reached the fifth book in my Meg Cabot readathon. Once again, it took me longer than expected to read, though in this case it was mostly my fault. [It's been a month.] Lady of Skye really feels like a Meg Cabot novel. Here I can tell that Meg is starting to find her voice and not just following the typical historical romance formula. My biggest issue is that I think the book is about fifty to a hundred pages too long. While the first three hundred pages felt like a breeze, the pacing afterwards started to feel so slow. It could've been improved upon with less pages imo.

The book is set in 1847 in the fictional village of Lyming on the not fictional island of Skye in Scotland. The female lead, Brenna Donnegal, is a nineteen going-on twenty-year-old young woman who wears pants, has medical knowledge, and truly cares about the people of Lyming. She is serving as the village's sort-of doctor until Dr. Reilly Stanton arrives. He's a thirty-year-old marquis who'd rather be addressed as "Dr." than "Lord," and has a strong moral compass. As a bonus, he's only the tiniest bit rake-ish [which all of Meg's male leads have been so far]. Their romance feels very natural, though I will say that the consummation of it happens a tad fast. And aside from the misunderstanding near the end, I really happen with the romance aspect over all.

Lady of Skye also deals with a real life topic of the time, which is cholera. At the time, the medical community still held some misbeliefs about how the disease was spread. Brenna, continuing the work of father, attempts to discern the real reason on how cholera is spread. This aspect of the story was intriguing, but I thought that it bogged down the plot towards the end. An interesting thing to note is that this is the first instance of one of Meg's heroines having a "cause" for lack of better word. All of Meg's heroines have so far been forward thinking, but Brenna is the first to have a steadfast belief and is actively working towards fixing it. Anyway, since I've read a lot of Meg's later books, I though that was an interesting thing I noticed.

I really enjoyed Lady of Skye and I'm hoping that February is a better reading month for me, but I'm currently sick so... who knows? On to Educating Caroline!
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336 reviews2 followers
August 8, 2019
Amüsanter historischer Liebesroman mit einzigartigen Figuren...

Der historische Liebesroman „Beim stolzen Herz der Lady� von Patricia Cabot ist als überarbeitete Ausgabe im Juni 2019 (Erstausgabe 2001) im DIGITAL PUBLISHERS-Verlag erschienen und spielt in Lyming, einem fiktiven Ort auf der Insel Skye.

Reilly Stanton (oder auch 8. Marquis von Stillworth) hat ein gebrochenes Herz. Seine Verlobte Christine King hat die Verlobung gelöst, weil er Anerkennung als Arzt sucht und nicht sein adliges Leben vorzieht, das sie sich jedoch wünscht. Daraufhin geht Reilly als junger Arzt aus London nach Lyming, einem kleinen Dorf auf der Insel Skye und will Christine beweisen, dass man auch ohne Adelstitel Anerkennung und Ansehen erlangen kann. Doch auf Skye ist es völlig anders, als Reilly es sich vorgestellt hat. Alles ist sehr rückständig und es ist schwierig, das Vertrauen der Bewohner zu gewinnen. Erschwert wird das durch eine gewisse Brenna Donnegal, die als Heilerin in Lyming bekannt und geschätzt ist und Reilly als Bedrohung wahrnimmt. Der ist ab dem ersten Moment fasziniert von ihr, doch sie ist eine moderne, junge Frau, die sich von niemandem etwas sagen lässt, genau das Gegenteil von Christine. Als er dann noch erfährt, dass sie ein Geheimnis hat und sich nachts auf dem Friedhof rumtreibt, ist seine Neugier endgültig geweckt. Vor Reilly liegt eine aufregende Zeit, die geprägt ist von vielen neuen Erfahrungen, aber auch jede Menge Schwierigkeiten und seinem inneren Konflikt, für was er sich entscheiden soll, das bequeme Leben als Marquis oder das weitaus herausfordernde Leben als Landarzt.

Nur ein paar Abende habe ich für dieses Buch gebraucht, das mich am Ende glücklich und zufrieden zurücklässt.

Das Cover passt gut zur Geschichte, hätte aber für meinen Geschmack noch mehr auf das raue Klima bzw. auf die Insel Skye hinweisen können.

Der Klappentext ist sehr gelungen. Er führt die Protagonisten und den Hauptkonflikt ein, schafft direkt eine Stimmung beim Leser/ bei der Leserin, weckt Neugier, ohne zu viel zu verraten und verspricht jede Menge Spaß. Und ich kann vorwegnehmen, den wird man auch haben.

Reilly ist ein junger Arzt aus London, der sich selbst etwas beweisen will und hofft, so seine Ex-Verlobte zurückzugewinnen. Anfänglich wirkt er etwas naiv und nimmt für meinen Geschmack, die Rolle ein, die sonst meist die Frauen in diesem Genre haben, aber das gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut. Er ist sehr engagiert, hilfsbereit und hat sein Herz am rechten Fleck. Trotzdem ist er sehr überzeugt von sich und auch wenn er nicht nur der „Marquis� sein will, muss er erst lernen, mit seiner neuen Rolle umzugehen. Es sieht nun mal nicht mehr jeder wegen seines Titels zu ihm auf (weil er diesen ja auch bewusst verheimlicht), sondern er muss sich sein Ansehen hart erarbeiten. Nur stellt sich das als ziemlich schwierig dar, wenn einem eine Frau in dieser Zeit um Längen voraus ist und weit mehr praktische Erfahrung mit wirklich schweren Krankheiten hat, als er und all seine Kommilitonen zusammen. Reilly Stanton stellt sich aber allen Herausforderungen und überwindet alle Hürden zu seinem Ziel, das dem Leser/ der Leserin zu jeder Zeit klar ist. Er macht eine beobachtbare Entwicklung durch und ist in dem, was er sagt und macht sehr glaubhaft.

Brenna Donnegal ist eine äußerst selbstbewusste Frau, Anfang zwanzig. Sie ist in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters, als Landarzt getreten, nachdem dieser zu Forschungszwecken nach Indien gegangen bzw. vor Scham geflohen ist, weil seine Theorie zu Cholera belächelt wurde. Nun hat sie es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Theorie ihres Vaters zu beweisen, aber auch sich dem tradierten Rollenmuster der Frau zu entziehen. Und das ist wirklich gelungen. Brenna hat ihr Ziel klar vor Augen und lässt sich durch nichts und niemanden davon abbringen. Sie meistert alle Hürden, auch wenn manche ziemlich sexy sind und sie bleibt sich auf ihrem Weg treu. Brenna sagt, was sie denkt und genau das macht sie äußerst interessant und einzigartig. Auch sie macht eine gelungene Entwicklung durch und ist in ihrer Art sehr authentisch.

Beide Protagonisten sind sehr sympathisch und haben ausreichend Tiefe für diesen Roman.

Auch alle anderen Nebenfiguren finde ich mehr als gelungen. Jeder hat eine Aufgabe bzw. ein Ziel und jeder ist besonders. Auch wenn ich z. B. die Pastorsfrau nicht mochte, war das sicherlich gewollt und hat der Geschichte einen gewissen Mehrwert an Unterhaltung gebracht und das Thema vielschichtig gestützt.

Besonders gefallen hat mir die Dorfgemeinschaft, denn man konnte den Zusammenhalt spüren. Jeder war auf seine Art sympathisch und sie haben sich so genommen und akzeptiert, wie sie sind.

Die Handlung fand ich ebenfalls sehr gelungen. Es gibt eine ansteigende Spannungskurve, auch in den „kleinen� Nebenerzählsträngen, die mich immer im Buch gehalten haben. Es war spannend und unterhaltsam mit vielen größeren und kleineren Konflikten und auch überraschenden Wendungen, die sich aus der Handlung logisch ergeben haben und nicht konstruiert wirkten. Das Ende entsprach dann genau meinem Geschmack. Es war romantisch und amüsant, aber eben auch nicht drüber. Wirklich toll!

Aber wie liest sich der Roman nun?

Es sind 31 längere Kapitel, die in der 3. Person Singular im Präteritum in der personalen Erzählform, abwechselnd aus der Sicht Reillys und Brennas geschrieben sind. Mir persönlich gefällt das sehr gut. Man kann sich so sehr gut in die Figuren hineinversetzen und weiß immer, was sie gerade beschäftigt und wie sie sich gerade fühlen.

Der Schreibstil ist grandios, wie ich finde. Locker, flüssig und sehr bildreich. Die Dialoge sind frisch und unterhaltsam und passen dabei trotzdem zum Genre, was den Ausdruck angeht. Auch die atmosphärischen Beschreibungen und die Beschreibungen des Settings finde ich überaus gelingen. Ich habe mich gefühlt, als wäre ich dabei und konnte mir alles super vorstellen. Frau Cabot schreibt aber auch sehr emotional. Auch prickelnde, erotische Szenen kommen nicht zu kurz.

Besonders das Ende hat mich gerührt. Es war so schön und in einer so angenehmen Stimmung, dass ich mir ein paar Tränchen verdrücken musste.

Mein Fazit nach 474 Seiten:

„Beim stolzen Herz der Lady� ist ein wunderschöner historischer Liebesroman, der auf eine sehr unterhaltsame Art zeigt, wie sich die große Liebe heimlich anschleichen kann und wie unwesentlich sie manche Dinge erscheinen lässt, wenn man ihr verfällt.

Wer einen amüsanten historischen Liebesroman sucht, der im 19. Jahrhundert in Schottland auf der Insel Skye spielt und auch „die Rolle der Frau�, „häusliche Gewalt� und „den Umgang mit neuen wissenschaftlichen Theorien� thematisiert, dürfte mit diesem Roman gut beraten sein.

Von mir erhält dieses Buch eine klare Kaufempfehlung (5/5 Sternen), weil es mich so grandios unterhalten und so einige Male zum Lachen gebracht hat. Dabei ist es aber auch sehr gefühlvoll und die Protagonisten sind einfach besonders und mir ans Herz gewachsen. Kritikpunkte habe ich keine.

Insgesamt ist es ein rundum gelungener Roman, den ich nur weiterempfehlen kann.

Vielen Dank an Patricia Cabot für diese wundervolle Geschichte.
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Author3 books
May 29, 2020
Der Klappentext und das Cover haben einiges an Spannung und Romantik versprochen, leider wurde der Roman dem nicht gerecht. Der neunte Band der Historical-Love Reihe war wohl der schwächste Teil der Reihe.
Die Handlung fing gut an und hatte viel Potenzial. Jedoch nahm die Spannung mit den Seiten ab und die Romantik kam gar nicht auf. Alles wurde ohne Unterlass mehrmals durchdiskutiert, alle Gedanken ständig wiederholt und hinterfragt. So auch der erste Kuss. Endlich kam mal ein Funken Romantik auf und dann wurde alles zunichte gemacht, indem jede Handlung auseinander genommen wurde. Nicht jedoch der uneheliche Sex. Die junge Brenna war von dem Kuss unglaublich geschockt, aber schläft mit Reilly, ohne sich darüber groß Gedanken zu machen. Sie macht sich Gedanken über die Konsequenzen des Kusses, nicht aber über eine potentielle Schwangerschaft und zweifelt nach der Vereinigung weiterhin an einer Heirat mit Reilly.
An anderen Stellen wurde dagegen gespart. So zum Beispiel an medizinischen Hintergründen. Wählt man als Autor einen Arzt als Protagonisten, dann erwartet der Leser Hintergrundwissen dazu. Es reicht nicht zu schreiben „und dann operierte er den Jungen.� Seltsam war auch Brennas Abneigung gegen den Adel. Mir ist nicht klar geworden, warum sie den Adel so verabscheut. Sie gehört selbst dem Adel an und der einzige Grund für ihre Abneigung ist, dass die Theorie ihres Vaters von adligen Arztkollegen abgelehnt wurde, weil er keine Beweise hatte
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122 reviews25 followers
October 20, 2017
I think out of all the historical romances I've read by Meg Cabot, this is probably my favorite. I liked the characters a lot more (I used to think Drake was my favorite, but I like Reilly a lot more!) and I think the character development and progression of the relationship between the two leads was much better written here. I think in general Meg Cabot tends to write her historical romance heroines as very independent and progressive and I think this was really highlighted in Brenna's character, who is 100% devoted to her career and research aspirations. I also really enjoyed the fact that the novel was centered around medicine and public health :).

*Also, this might just be me reading too much into things but I did think there was a very Beatrice (MABN) moment when Brenna had her "If I were a man" outburst in chapter 17!
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239 reviews14 followers
September 3, 2016
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Lady of Skye berkisah tentang Dr. Reilly Stanton yang datang ke Lyming, sebuah desa di pulau Skye, untuk bekerja sebagai dokter di sana untuk menjawab iklan dari Lord Glendenning. Reilly rela jauh-jauh dari London dan meninggalkan kehidupannya yang nyaman untuk membuktikan kepada mantan tunangannya bahwa ia bisa menjadi dokter yang baik, dan bukannya seorang pemabuk tidak berguna. Reilly berharap apa yang dilakukannya mampu meluluhkan hati sang mantan sehingga mau menerimanya kembali.

Begitu tiba di Lyming, Reilly langsung memperoleh kesempatan untuk membuktikan keahliannya, yaitu mencoba menyelamatkan nyawa tukang perahu mabuk yang tercebur ke laut yang sangat dingin. Akan tetapi usaha Reilly sia-sia, dan dengan berat hati ia memvonis bahwa tukang perahu tersebut telah meninggal. Namun kedatangan Miss Brenna, wanita yang selama ini dianggap dokter desa Lyming mengejutkan Reilly. Bagaimana tidak, hanya dengan pukulan super-keras dari Miss Brenna, tubuh tukang perahu yang tadinya telah dianggap mati oleh Reilly ternyata bisa bangun lagi, setelah terbatuk-batuk cukup parah. Dalam hati Reilly menjuluki Miss Brenna sebagai “Wanita Amazon� karena sikapnya yang bar-bar.

Sebenarnya, tujuan Lord Glendenning (tuan tanah setempat) memasang iklan adalah agar siapapun dokter yang menjawab iklannya akan menempati pondok tempat Miss Brenna tinggal, sehingga mau tidak mau Miss Brenna harus keluar dari pondok dan pindah ke kastil sang Lord. Ya, Lord Glendenning menyukai Miss Brenna, dan itu satu-satunya cara agar Brenna mau tinggal bersama dengannya. Di sisi lain, Reilly awalnya mengalami kesulitan sebab penduduk setempat lebih mempercayai Miss Brenna sebagai dokter. Reilly harus berusaha untuk memperoleh kepercayaan masyarakat. Untungnya, hal tersebut tak terlalu berat bagi Reilly, oleh karena pembawaannya yang ceria, mudah bergaul, dan tidak menganggap Miss Brenna sebagai saingan, tapi justru sebagai rekan kerja.

Bisa ditebak ke mana arah jalan cerita. Dr. Reilly Stanton diam-diam mulai menyukai “Wanita Amazon� tersebut. Meski sikap Brenna cenderung kasar dan suka mengenakan celana panjang layaknya laki-laki, Miss Brenna sebenarnya cantik dan berhati lembut. Hal tersebut terlihat dari bagaimana wanita itu dengan tulus dan penuh perhatian menangani setiap pasien yang datang kepadanya. Perlahan-lahan Reilly mampu menghapus ingatan tentang mantan tunangannya. Akan tetapi, Miss Brenna sendiri penuh dengan misteri. Reilly dilema, sebab sebagai seorang Marquis, ia tak boleh sembarangan memilih pasangan hidup. Lagi pula, Lord Glendenning pasti akan membunuhnya bila tahu dirinya menyukai Brenna.

Sebenarnya misteri apa yang menyelimuti Miss Brenna? Mengapa wanita itu kerap terlihat mondar-mandir di pemakaman saat malam tiba? Mampukah Dr. Reilly Stanton dan Miss Brenna menangani wabah kolera yang mulai menghantui Lyming—wabah yang pernah membunuh hampir sepertiga populasi desa itu? Bagaimana akhir kisah cinta terlarang mereka?

Lagi-lagi saya harus mengakui bahwa novel historical romance memang bukan sekadar cerita romance semata. Setidaknya untuk novel ini. Novel yang ditulis oleh Patricia Cabot a.k.a Meg Cabot ini benar-benar membuat saya kagum. Begitu banyak hal positif dari novel ini yang membuat saya larut di dalamnya. Ceritanya menarik, karena mengangkat profesi dokter dan wabah kolera yang konon benar-benar terjadi di pada masa itu. Dibutuhkan riset yang baik untuk mengangkat tema wabah kolera dan profesi seorang dokter pada tahun 1800-an ke dalam kisah romance. Dialog dan adegan dalam novel ini penuh dengan humor yang mampu mengundang tawa—benar-benar ciri khas Meg Cabot.

Tiga tokoh penting dalam novel ini juga menarik. Reilly digambarkan sebagai sosok bangsawan yang tak ingin profesi dokternya hanya sebagai gelar semata, tapi juga ingin agar gelarnya itu benar-benar dapat bermanfaat bagi orang lain. Kepribadiannya pun hangat dan ceria. Ia juga digambarkan sebagai sosok yang penyayang. Hal ini terlihat pada adegan di mana ia selalu memikirkan dua sahabatnya di London. Saya sebagai membaca pun ikut penasaran tentang dua tokoh sahabat hanya selalu hadir dalam benak Reilly tersebut. Untungnya, kedua orang itu akhirnya muncul juga. Yeah! Tokoh Brenna cukup unik. Ia adalah wanita yang keras kepala dan pantang menyerah. Meski awalnya tidak menyukai kehadiran Reilly yang dianggapnya sebagai ancaman, tapi akhirnya ia menyerah juga sebab ada kasus di mana ia membutuhkan Reilly sebagai rekan kerja sesama dokter. Interaksi antara Brenna-Reilly dan Brenna-Lord Glendenning kerap mengundang tawa. Bahkan, ada adegan di mana Brenna menonjok Lord Glendenning yang playboy itu. Benar-benar lucu dan di luar dugaan! Sementara Lord Glendenning sendiri sebenarnya tidak sepenuhnya antagonis. Di luar sikapnya yang playboy dan suka menggoda gadis-gadis di Lyming, Glendenning sebenarnya sangat perhatian terhadap warga desa. Pada akhirnya, sifatnya yang penyayang benar-benar muncul saat wanita yang sebenarnya ia cintai terbaring tak berdaya oleh wabah kolera. Siapakah wanita itu? Temukan sendiri jawabannya di novel ini ya. :)

Bila ada yang membuat saya kurang puas terdahap novel ini, hal tersebut adalah ending-nya. Novel ini memang berakhir bahagia (seperti yang diharapkan dari novel romance pada umumnya). Hanya saja, saya merasa bahwa novel ini ditutup dengan tergesa-gesa, sehingga tidak menyisakan ruang bagi pembaca untuk lebih menikmati akhir novel ini. Meskipun demikian, adegan penutup yang singkat tadi dibumbui dengan twist manis yang menghangatkan hati. Itulah sebabnya saya tetap memberikan 5 bintang untuk Lady of Skye karya Patricia “Meg� Cabot ini.
65 reviews
July 13, 2023
I’m conflicted about this one. I’ve always enjoyed Patricia Cabot’s historical romance novels. Her writing is superb and she doesn’t typically follow the typical bodice ripper/historical romance style. I think “Lady of Skye� fell short for me because the pacing felt odd. It felt as though we missed some scenes between the love interests that were vital to the progression of the story. It was almost like a slow burn that fell just short. Anyway, I really enjoyed the premise of the story. Isolated island/genteel doctor/independent woman. 3.5 stars.
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1,196 reviews10 followers
January 1, 2023
Roughly the last of my December comfort reads but finished today. This had all the ingredients for something I'd like and there were some good characters, humor, and some nice set pieces but ultimately it didn't come together (lots of weird plot stuff that felt unmotivated or as if it came out of nowhere or ended up nowhere for example I'm unclear on why anyone's rank in the aristocracy actually mattered either as a conflict or a solution).
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138 reviews4 followers
May 6, 2024
Dr. Reilly Stanton is the 8th Marquis of Stillworth who accepts a physician position in Skye where he meets the strange but beautiful Miss Brenna Donnegal. He took the job to show his possible ex-fiancée that he was not just a loser. At the same time, Miss Brenna is being pursued by the local Earl and wants the doctor to declare her insane so that he could marry her. This sounds so incredibly sus. For half of the book, I didn’t see how the two had any interest in each other. And then they added a piano scene and a singing scene, and somehow that’s where they kiss passionately.

It was very well written and I liked both the characters. They were strong in their own ways and stood up for what’s right. It felt like a good old classic romance.
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21 reviews
January 10, 2018
The story is ok and the book is easy to read, but the characters aren't in any way deep or too believable. The writing style is quite redundant and confusing - the way she explains thoughts mid sentences throughout the entire book can get, in my personal opinion of someone who reads a lot of books and is trying to exemplify it right now, quite annoying. I'll give it 2,5 stars.
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188 reviews2 followers
November 20, 2019
Não esperava que eu ia gostar tanto dessa história, mas me apaixonei pelo casal principal e os momentos de sensualidade entre eles. Contudo, o grande ponto alto da história foi o pano de fundo da história, a epidemia de cólera que assolou a Inglaterra e a Escócia no século XIX. Adorei o fato da mocinha ser uma cientista, cirurgiã barbeira, a determinação dela encanta a cada página 😍😍
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56 reviews1 follower
October 13, 2024
This book was so much fun. Cabot has such a delicious way with humor. This story was funny, sweet, sexy, romantic, with a delightful cast of characters. Reilly and Brenna were a swoony lovestruck couple, while the Byronic earl filled out the part of romantic rival as perfectly as he did his kilt. With “Educating Caroline� and now, “Lady of Skye� Patricia/Meg Cabot has staked her position as my new favorite author.
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235 reviews4 followers
September 11, 2018
Engraçado em algumas partes, o boy não é lixo (graças aos céus, não ia conseguir ler se fosse), foi ok, mas em 50% eu ja queria que acabasse logo. 2 🌟 mas com aquele gostinho de podia ter uma nota mais baixa.
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738 reviews
September 21, 2018
I do like Meg Cabot as a genre writer, she's even better here than she was writing her most famous YA series. She's respectful of historical accuracy and I like that the "romance" here is a secondary thing, it's a lot more about what is happening in the town than just it's main characters.
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854 reviews
November 12, 2018
For the most part I enjoyed this book but I felt like it took me way longer to read than it should have. It didn't hold my interest as tightly as I expected. The setting was fascinating, the characters likeable and I enjoyed the historical medical information and yet, only 3 stars.
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294 reviews12 followers
January 14, 2022
Achei um livro ok, semelhante ao outros que a autora escreveu. O que se destaca aqui é o local onde se passa a história, Escócia. E também a discussão acerca da cólera que matou muitas pessoas, principalmente na Inglaterra.
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288 reviews
June 7, 2023
An old favourite. This must be the 5th re-reading. I did find the meandering inner dialogue of the characters a little boring - slowed down the pace of the story (although what historical romance had pace? 😂).
2 reviews1 follower
October 20, 2019
Meg Cabot's adult novels are not as good as teenage novels.
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493 reviews2 followers
April 5, 2020
Kind of historical, kind of out of place, all bad.
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