Search - Uncommon Vows

A truly awful book, in my opinion. Suffers badly from an overly recycled medieval captor/captive plot, and then becomes mucked up even worse by a melodramatic heroine with a martyr complex. Ok, so the "hero" kidnaps her and locks her in his tower, hoping to break her will so that she will agree to become his mistress, *yawn*. Bad enough, but the heroine's subsequent suicide attempts, one of the most absurd cases of double amnesia I've ever seen in print, and the obligatory mustache twirling, cardboard cutout villain, make this one of the most excruciating books I've ever managed to actually finish. I'm still nothing short of amazed that I did:P
I gave it two stars - and it would have been one, had it not been for some pretty decent love scenes.

I've had this book on my TBR shelf for some time now. Although I love everything Putney has written, I was in no hurry to read "Uncommon Vows" because of it's time period, around 1148, a period about which I am mostly unknowledgeable. However, once I started reading it, I regretted that I'd waited so long! Such a poignant, heart-wrenching love story! I couldn't tear myself away from it once I got started. Though I was worried about the final outcome of the lovers, they did, indeed, have a happy-ever-after ending. I heartily recommend this book. Once you get started, you won't be able to put it down.