Rebellion (Nora Roberts)

I started this series with this book, though I realize it was added later. And this is also the first Nora Roberts book I ever read, and needless to say, I am seriously addicted. It is well written, the charaters are strong, and after reading some of the other books of the series, completly fits in but still is strong enough to stand alone.

This was my first Nora Roberts book. I loved it. I enjoy historical romance so this may be the only Nora Roberts I read as it seems she writes alot in the present. But this was well worth my time. I was pleasently surprised.

I'll start of by admitting I'm not a huge Nora Roberts fan. I usually like romance novels with a lot of humor and quirky characters (think Julia Quinn and Eloisa James) or with mature and emphathetic characters (Mary Balogh). "Rebellion" was pretty standard fare for the genre. I completely agree with an earlier reviewer who said that Brigham and Serena were fairly shallow characters. They both had interesting backgrounds and really should have been more intriguing. But almost every interaction between the two characters played to the overbearing male/tempestous female stereotype. He provokes her by being heavy handed, she responds by some small act of violence, he wrestles her to the ground... and we all know where this is going. It should be sexy, but I guess I've just read it too many times now. Also, it baffles me that so many heroines in romance novels (which are mostly read by mature women) act like bratty 13-year-olds. I mean really, how many grown women act like this? ... Read more

This was actually the first romance novel I've read and I loved it. I think I'm hooked.

Startling romance tangled with the reality of the Battle of Culloden of 1746. As a young girl growing up in Glenroe Forest, Scotland, Serena MacGregor must face the horror of watching her mother brutally attacked and raped in their home after a group of English soldiers (lead by one Captain Standish) break into their home looking for her father. At only eight years of age, Serena is left at the scene after the soldiers take their leave to care for her broken mother and protect her younger sister (Gwen) and baby brother (Malcolm) while her older brother, Coll and father are on their way home from a hunting trip. Serena grows up despising anything and anyone British. Ten years later, her brother Coll brings home a young Englishman who goes by the title, Lord Ashburn, a/k/a, Brigham Langston. Serena is not only completely unimpressed by his good looks and charm, but feels a deep contempt for him because of his heritage. Brigham has come to support the cause of the Scots in an attemp... Read more