- Paperback: 297 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin Books (1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 037328893X
- ISBN-13: 978-0373288939
- Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
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#517,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Books > Romance > Series > Harlequin Historicals
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Because *why not*!, Nov 9 2008
By Blue Socks Fox - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Unicorn vengeance (Paperback)
I picked up a copy of this at a church rummage sale two years ago, and it's the best thing a church rummage sale has ever done for me.Anachronistic, awkward (oh, poor virgin templar-man; ohh, poor angry lutenist), historically impossible, and demonstrating a keen fondness for the word "naught" (and its misuse), UNICORN VENGEANCE has nonetheless provided me and mine the most fun we have ever had with a romance novel. Maybe it's not the best book--or even the best romance--ever written, but if you approach it with the right attitude, it has more to offer than C.D. probably intended.
And, seriously, there is naught but one way to approach a book with a title like UNICORN VENGEANCE. Seriously. So have fun. :)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not this author's best, annoying dialogue and unbelievable plot, Sep 28 2010
By Melissa - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Unicorn vengeance (Paperback)
I had to force myself to finish Unicorn Vengeance. I have read another of Claire Delacroix's novels, a medieval one at that, and thought I would enjoy this tale but everything seems to be off kilter in this story.The heroine, Genevieve, lives in France and spies in her home the assassin who killed her brother and his knights. She is alone in the world but full of righteous vengeance and travels to Paris to confront her brother's killer, she is armed with only her lute. Genevieve plays her lute in a Parisian square and who should come along but the assassin. Does Genevieve kill him; no she is too astounded to see him.
The assassin is hero, Wolfram, a sergeant in arms to the Templar Knights. He can not become one of these exalted men as he is illegitimate but he is kind of a hanger-on doing all kinds of misdeeds for the knights. He does not know Genevieve is the sister of the man he recently poisoned but he is drawn to her lute playing and her ethereal beauty. These two run into each other often as Genevieve is looking for the opportunity to kill Wolfram and he is fascinated by the lovely lutist.
Genevieve has an impulsive nature and a very quick temper, both get her into trouble time and again and who is there to pull her out of her messes but Wolfram. He is both patient and distant with Genevieve and when he finds out her identity he becomes her protector.
These two argue quite a bit, Genevieve is stubborn and Wolfram is reserved, this bothers Genevieve immensely as she just expects Wolfram to possess her same passionate extroverted nature. Their personalities actually work well together but their story doesn't partly because it relies very heavily on coincidences.
Finally this book could have been written by Master Yoda from Star Wars. Often the sentence structure sounds reversed to the reader's ear and it happens on almost every page of this book. Here is but a sample "Trouble it could only be and too late she wished... High born she sounded in comparison to them... No intention had she of easily relinquishing her spot... 'My blanket that is and no other!'" These phrases were on only two pages. Oh, and the phrase "Well it seemed" started many many paragraphs. This was irritating and the convoluted plot unbelievable.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining but historically inaccurate, May 18 2000
By L Grayson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Unicorn vengeance (Paperback)
Clearly Ms. Delacroix didn't do much (okay, any) research about the Templars and not a great deal about France in 1307. She does put in a lot of action, though, and if you like sappy, flowery writing, you won't be able to put this one down. If you are an avid historian, run screaming the other way. (Everybody knows the Templars were assasins, even in 1307!)
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