( 5 reviews )
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( 8 of 8 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 29 2005
...and a bad historical at that. This novel loses credibility by posing in the romance genre and is a disappointment in the long-running career of this fine author. Romance fans want accuracy in their historicals but we also want happy endings....and having the heroine end up as the Other Woman doesn't count. Sorry, only one star, and if you read it, get used.
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( 4 of 5 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 15 2002
if I've could do so. I didn't like this book....I didn't find it romantic at all, the characters didn't appeal to me to be in love much and there was now sparks between them and Ruy marrying another woman...I knew it was bases on the real on and so on but...I just dont' like the "heroine" living as the concubine or seconde wife. or whatever...Maybe it's just me, I don't know...you may try if you like but If you search for my advise? Skip this and save the money!
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( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 9 2001
I would have loved to give this book 5 stars because it's one of the most romantic I have ever read and you never doubt the sincerity of the protaganists' love. For that reason, I was satisfied with the ending, because there is no denying Ruy and Mirjana desperately love each other and will do their best to succeed. Besides, Ruy did wed Jimena, ward of the king, and this is historically accurate. Not that I can say that for the rest of the book. This is a book about the greatest Spanish hero of all time, El Cid, and never do we hear about or witenss any of Cid's heroic actions. He's a very nice hero, but that could have been anybody elsein history, too. What a wasted opportunity!
