Love's Ransom

by Lisa Samson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565075293
• ISBN13: 9781565075290
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Ho hum!

I really never grew to care for ANY of the characters in this book. Jane was seduced and taken advantage of by a nobleman -she gets pregnant and punished by her village(we meet this nobleman later in the book and find he is really not a bad man--his wife, poor misguided creature that she is hasn't been "a wife" to him (!!??) His wife is the only character I found remotely interesting but alas she only takes up about two pages. The doctors character is just as bland as Janes. And there are these secondary characters in the book that add fluff but it really isn't such that add depth to the book, just clutter. For instance, the nobleman sister (or sis-in-law) we get some of her sordid history and she drugs and seduces the Dr but it is in no way enriching the tapestry of the book. And then there is the witch (and Jane goes to her for medicine???)...Yes it is a medieval book, but one to skip in my opinion!

Great book for medieval romance fans

Love's Ransom is the first Christian medieval romance I have read, and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. The main characters are Jane Lightfoot, who is a cook at Marchemont Castle, and Patrick McBeath, who is a doctor. Both have a past that they are afraid to reveal to each other. Unlike a lot of romance books that focus on nobility, this book concentrates mostly on the lives of the servants. Just reading about all the work it took to feed and care for the nobility made me tired. Also, there was plenty of storyline other than the romance that kept me interested. There was jousting, kidnappings, villains, secrets, and on and on.