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3.5 Stars

I have such conflicting feelings about this book. I was ready to DNF this about 200 pages in because of how annoying Shanna was and how dragged out the story was. I finished because it was for a book club, though, and I thoroughly enjoyed the last two hundred pages. Ruark was honestly the best hero for how much he genuinely loved Shanna and was doing everything in his power to protect her and be with her. And he was SO PATIENT when she was being extremely annoying and flighty about her feelings with him. She made the most annoying mistakes and so many problems arose because she was insecure or upset. The ending was a lot of fun and I did genuinely laugh at some moments. That all being said, I do really appreciate this romance novel being one of the pioneers of the modern historical romance and I'm interested to check out more of Kathleen Woodiwiss's books!