The Conqueror | Brenda Joyce | Heartpounding Raw Passion and Love...

The Conqueror | Brenda Joyce | A MUST!!

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The Conqueror

	The Conqueror Brenda Joyce Dell, 1996 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Heartpounding Raw Passion and Love...

Not for the faint of heart, Ms. Joyce weaves politics of the time(1069-England) and raw passion so real that you are swept away. Not a 'fluffy' romance during William the Conqueror's time, but a meaty and controversial one sure to cause some murmers of disapproval.
I enjoyed it very much and appreciated what she was trying to get across to the reader. Some readers missed the message of the true world of war and upheaval and the odd accountance of passion and love that rises above the carnage. A very real and serious look into the life of a reknowned knight of William of Normandy's army and how he cannot understand his love for a Saxon woman that can't belong to him.
What would it be like if someone like Rolfe the Relentless were to fall so madly in love with the very woman he was supposed to despise, a Saxon enemy, the conquered...and maybe risk treason to have her...defy a king to be with her...it would not happen to someone so loyal to the crown...or could it?
When Rolfe rides into Castle Aelfgar to claim it and its prize, the Lady Alice as his bride as William has decreed, he finds himself helplessly attracted to Lady Alice's illegitimate half sister Ceidre.
Was Ceidre a spy? So mysterious was she that Rolfe refuses to see that she aides her nobel rebel brothers and flaunts treason to help them. He cannot help but feel protective. Soon he is caught in her forbidden passion, both are caught in a dangerous liason tied to the fate of England.
Can love conquer all? Can the will of a tyrant king bring down the fires of Hell on the two starcrossed lovers?

So passionate and fast-paced, I was at once caught up in the turmoil until the very end. The sequel to this unbelievable book is 'Promise of a Rose'.

Tracy Talley~@

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A MUST!!

although my immediate reaction when i read this book was OH MY GOD EHHHHH!! i read it again and thought that this was exactly what happened all those years ago. brenda joyce captured the true essence of life in that era. the rape scene at the start and the sister did sicken me but made this book truely original in every aspect. thus i recommend it to all those readers who live in their fantasy black and white world where love is all consuming and not in the least violent!

please write more romance...

First of all I'd like to say how dissapointed I am with Brenda Joyce and her attempt to write "mystery" novels. She really should stick to what she knows best.
Having said all that, I really highly recomend this book. It's touching, it really is. I wish I could find someone that loved me like that. I'd be in seventh heaven. There are some rather ah "vulgar" seens, some people would say, but if you look past the "rape" of the heroine you'll find a story that goes much deeper than your average romance novel.

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No flowery words of romance here.

Not your usual romance tale. There are no flowery words here. Rolfe the Relentless rides into Ceidre's life like the Norman conqueror that he is. I did find some of this rather hard to believe... ...The ending of the book is just as off-key as the rest, although, quite frankly, probably more along the lines of what really could have happened in that time period. A decent read, it is more along the lines of "The Wolf and the Dove", conqueror and vanquished finding love in the face of unbelievable adversity and against all odds.

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