Customer Reviews

The Temptation

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I like Claudia Dain and her other books. This book was too focused on her period, which occurs for 330 out of 390 pages.
So obviously nothing happens for that entire time. As well,
the entire concept of having relations during one's period is very unappealing, and not worth buying a book to read about that possibly happening.
Plus, the heroine is a shrew, never softening towards Hugh, or making peace with her world, as she tells herself she will and must. Hugh is too easily forgiven for lying through his teeth, although he comes to care for her more readily and honestly than she does for him. Skip this book and try another one of Ms. Dain's.

This book portrays itself as romance but there is precious little of that in this book. Instead we're presented with endless contemplation on the heroine's menstrual cycle, child molestation, murder, and constant gore. I read romance for exactly that - ROMANCE, and this book left me feeling like I needed a bath. Extreme disappointment from an otherwise talented author.

I've read many a romance novel. When I say many, I mean hundreds. It's one of my hobbies.

Having read so many, I'd like to think that I am a good judge of them.

This was a horrid one.

I could barely get through it. While it tries to tackle child abuse, it does it haphazardly. The author spends most of the book focusing on the main character's period, God and prayer.

While I'm all for God and prayer, this novel has page after page of medievil theology coupled with mensutration.

<sarcasm> Yah!</sarcasm>

I'm all for romance novels that try to go beyond the tried and true story lines of boy meets girl, etc., but I'm afraid that Ms. Dain does not succeed in her efforts to expand the genre.

A romance novel with the heroine on the rag is not my idea of a good time. Please, please, please save your precious reading time for something more worthy. Pick up a Jo Beverley romance or Julia Quinn. Or give Karen Marie Moning a chance. She's an excellent read.

Please skip this one.

This highly emotional and evocative read is romance at its best, with a keen picture of Olde England as it truly was, and a wonderful battle between the hero and the heroine.

This book is a battle of wills between the Elsbeth and Hugh and will keep you cheering for both up until the end. The 12th century is vividly recaptured in The Temptation and a must read.

I enjoyed reading this book. Although the book goes on about the girl's menstrual cycle, the way it was used, to me, was not so much disgusting as... well, I'm not sure how to describe it.

This girl's struggle to remain grounded in her ideals of faith and religion, and be submissive to what the historical period's idea of how she was to act made it a good read.

In today's society, the way this girl is treated would be an outrage. Its an outrage that women were treated this way in any age, but she comes through it like a champ.

I recommend it.

I have been reading romance novels for years and this has got to be the absolute worst "Wallbanger" I have ever run across! This was the worst waste of paper I have ever seen. Ms Dain what were you thinking? 300 pages of bloody female cycles. Yuck.... This is romantic???

This is my first time ever to comment on a book. I feel I must warn any reader to run. Unless of course you feel the need to have menstruation or the bible explained via a "romance" novel?!. I, like others before me, read on (7 days)in hopes that I had not wasted my money. It never got better. Not only did it go on for 300 pages of bleeding and prayer, but then you had to end with incest? Okay, which of these is romantic?? All have been included in historical romances before, but not at nausium. And certainly not without other plot issues to balance it. I have to say I have read 100's of books and this is by far the worst ever! It out did even the boring crap I read in college for Psychology class. AND THEY WERE TEXT BOOKS!

I got this book as a Christmas gift from my sister L, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I thought she loved me. Claudia Dain has a preoccupation with the minstral cycle and any questions that anyone has regarding it are answered by this book. Seriously, I like the other reveiwers have read many upon many romances and just books in general. I think that I am not alone in my opion that not even James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Stephen King cannot compare with the "blood letting" in this book. I will never EVER read another book by this aurthor. The good news is if she got published there is hope for us all.

Unbelievable sexual tension between a submissive girl and a true gentleman leaves you wanting more with every turn of the page. Hugh of Jerusalem is every woman's dream of seduction and fulfillment. His character is so strong and sensuous that he becomes addicting to the reader as well as Elsbeth, his naive and untrusting bride. The book is 388 pages of pure seduction. Dain offers great insight to the beliefs and practices of the time period (England, 1156). To anyone who finds the book distasteful or vulgar, they must remember the realities of history. It takes true talent to turn such a dark and dreary time to pure seduction and fantasy.