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    The Hawk
    The Hawk
    The Hawk
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Hawk

    Written by Monica McCarty

    Narrated by Robert McNab

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author Monica McCarty captivates millions with swashbuckling Scottish romances like The Hawk. Brilliant seafarer Erik MacSorley has never encountered a gale he couldn't weather or a woman he couldn't win-until he drags a wet, half-clothed "nursemaid" from the Irish Sea. But Ellie's ordinary dress belies the truth that she's the spirited daughter of an Irish nobleman. And her determination to resist Erik's charms is a challenge he can't resist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 19, 2011
    ISBN9781501984280
    The Hawk
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    Monica McCarty

    Monica McCarty is the bestselling author of the Highland Guard series, the MacLeods of Skye trilogy, and the Campbell trilogy. Her interest in the Scottish clan system began in the most unlikely of places: a comparative legal history course at Stanford Law School. After realizing that her career as a lawyer and her husband’s transitory life as a professional baseball player were not exactly a match made in heaven, she traded in her legal briefs for Scottish historical romances with sexy alpha heroes. Monica McCarty lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two children.

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    • 4/5
      Doyle completes The Last Roundup trilogy, a story of Ireland and the Irish in the 20th century through the lens of one everyman - Henry Smart. The first book in this series A Star Called Henry is one of my favorite novels of all time. The sequel which follows Henry to America in the Roaring Twenties - Oh, Play That Thing - starts of brilliantly but then collapses due to some poor narrative choices. The final installment brings Henry back to Ireland and is a return to form albeit still failing to approach the brilliance of the first novel.Henry accompanies John Ford to make a film based on his own life which Ford turns into The Quiet Man. Escaping Ford's green-tinted lens view of Ireland, Henry settles into working as a janitor at a school in a modern Dublin suburb where he may or may not be reacquainted with his long lost wife. Henry gets caught in the 17 May 1974 terrorist bombings in Dublin (coincidentally the second book this month I've read where these bombings play a crucial role after Let the Great World Spin) and his true identity is revealed. He's hailed as a hero of the rebellion and called back into action by the modern IRA. Yet, Henry soon comes to realize that the IRA's vision of Ireland is as false and idealistic as Fords.Overall, Doyle does a great job in this series at taking on modern Irish history - warts and all - through the lens of this fascinating (if not always likable) character. I highly recommend reading all three books even if you have to slog through the second half of Oh, Play That Thing.
    • 5/5
      A satisfying end to the story of Henry Smart. While this book can't match "A Star Called Henry" in terms of plot or surrealism, it far surpasses "Oh, Play That Thing" in absolutely every area, and lays Henry to rest in a very moving, well-written, and interesting way.
    • 4/5
      Other reviewers have written that Doyle is much better when he's focusing on character and dialogue rather than plot, and I'd have to agree. There are times when this book sings, and it's most often when Henry Smart is talking, even though he in fact says very little (outloud at least). It never quite reaches the heights of A Star Called Henry, but it certainly eclipses Oh Play That Thing, though all three of them will sit happily on my shelves for a later re-reading.And I'm pleased to see that Doyle has taken Henry Smart to something resembling a logical ending. Smart, is after all, modern Ireland -- though I'm not sure what that says about Ireland today.
    • 5/5
      A satisfying look into the last years and days of Henry Smart and Miss O'Shea.
    • 4/5
      Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into the desert of Utah's Monument Valley to die. He's stumbled onto a film set though, and ends up in Hollywood collaborating with John Ford on a script based on his life. Eventually, Henry finds himself back in Ireland, where he becomes a custodian, and meets up with a woman who may or may not be his long-lost wife. After being injured in a political bombing in Dublin, the secret of his rebel past comes out, and Henry is a national hero. Or are his troubles just beginning? Raucous, colorful, and epic, The Dead Republic is the magnificent final act in the life of one of Doyle's most unforgettable characters.
    • 5/5
      It's a great ending to the trilogy. Henry Smart, arguably Doyle's most powerful character, returns to Ireland after a 20+ year absence. Smart's well defined sense of ethics and justice are here in force, from protecting children from violent teachers to challenging every sweet and not so sweet stereotype. Doyle has a great deal of courage taking on the icons of Hibernian pride -- I appreciate his willingness to present the truth as he sees it.Doyle continues to be the best darned dialogue writer I know of, and the richness of Henry's character, as well as those of the major and bit players in this book, is what makes him my favorite writer.
    • 3/5
      From this trilogy, A star called Henry is the most mythical, romantic and sensual book. The plot of the two other is in my opinion diluted by the interaction of Henry Smart with Louis Armstrong and John Ford and should not have taken such a prominent place. The most gripping moments of the story are when HS is looking for his family at the end of Oh play that thing and when he is conversing with the IRA people. Still, Roddy Doyle is one of my favorite writers.
    • 2/5
      I left this as a DNF, but eventually came back to it after readers in my group raved on and on about it saying every other historical romance was ruined for them after reading this one. (How could I not give it another try after that, right??).

      DNF- I got a few hours in, and it wasn't *terrible* but I've determined this series isn't for me. This is my third book by McCarty and in every one there's an awful female lead. I scanned ahead reviews for the next 5 books or so in the series and it looks like that's one of the most common complaints in each of them. That's just not going to work for me. Which is a bummer, because I'm interested in this time period and I like the idea of a 'Special Ops' team each with a special skill-set, who we get to know throughout the series. I think the problem is that McCarty tries to make the men nearly perfect, so she needs the women to create the drama. There's a war going on, so it seems like that could account for most of the drama, but instead it's the women, mostly through stupidity, recklessness, and fits of irrational anger. The women are a very immature foil to the Scottish He-man males. Like modern-13-year-old levels of decision making and attitude. For example- This woman has been abducted by pirates. The captain of the pirates beckons her to cross the ship to him, (and is smiling even, so it's not like he's sharpening a knife menacingly). But she *doesn't care to be beckoned*, so she looks right at him and then, nose in the air, turns her back. ... To a pirate captain she just met, on his own ship, surrounded by all his pirate crew! (We know he's the hero and won't straight up rape and murder her for her insolence, but she couldn't possibly know that!) Add to that, to protect her identity she told them she's of the servant class, (might not want to then immediately out yourself as *clearly not* a servant). AND, this is right after she nearly got everyone aboard the ship killed! AND after he saved her from a grisly death, TWICE, in like the past hour!!! ... I wouldn't want a heroine to just meekly submit to everything all the time, (though that behavior would be extremely common for the time period!), but for F's sake! She's *reckless* for snubbing her nose at a pirate captain she's entirely at the mercy of, an *idiot* not to keep up a lie her life may depend on for even an hour, *arrogant* to not be even the least bit agreeable after endangering everyone's lives, and an *ass* for being so rude to someone who went out of their way, TWICE, to save her measly life! I just can't.

      Second attempt- lol. It perhaps got somewhat better from the low point where I had left off. Maybe. For about the last half of the book, it was actually the hero making horrible decisions! So, that's mixing it up a bit I guess... Both are noted for being clever people, but actually each of them were quite slow at catching onto some very basic things. The heroine doesn't come right out and say she's an in-law to the Bruce until late, but she does ask with concern after the welfare of his wife and call her "the queen" which at least shows some sympathy to their rebellion, (one does not risk treason lightly!) and later refers to the king as just 'Robert' and says 'that's what the family calls him', and the hero doesn't pick up on any of this! Or, later on, guards *address her by her title*, but she doesn't realize until it's pointed out later that they must have known her identity...? (Poor sods were trying to rescue her, but, *shrug* RIP). ugh. But those sort of things pale in comparison to the hero being so terribly slow on the uptake of basic social understanding (after he's supposed to be such a socially savvy character!). Terrible first reaction after taking her virginity! (But it somehow takes him ages to realize it.) If he were just generally socially awkward, it would be understandable, but he's supposed to be very charming! Worse, when he decides he'll marry her, doesn't bother mentioning it to her, she tells him she loves him and he shrugs it off super callously(!), *still doesn't mention that he even cares for her at all or intends to marry her* and then is super confused when she cools on him! Well, duh!!! Then he gets mad at her for having a secret, (even though he'd had his own secrets and had never asked for her trust, or showed he could be trusted with her secrets). She saves his life and mission anyway, (good on her). Later, she risks her life to save him and his mission, again, (even though he hadn't bothered to contact her at all when they'd been separated for weeks and he'd had a bit of downtime (even though he knew she was a lady by then (whom he'd deflowered) and related to his king). She still offers the blighter her love *again*, -(and he even figures out (then) where it went wrong last time 'oh, she wanted to be loved in return!' (who'd a thunk?!), AND he finally realizes that he does actually love her back as well... -he STILL doesn't tell her! In some high-minded 'for her own good better to break her heart now just in case I don't make it through the war' sort of decision. Bah! Lots of time passes, he ends up regretting his choice, yet still does *nothing* about it, until he's sent on a specific mission to retrieve her by direct order of his king. ...?? Totally unimpressed with his love for her! He's then all shocked and appalled that she would consider marrying someone else, (even though she'd been engaged since before they even met **and he rebuffed her love** TWICE!) But he swoops in, on the day of the wedding, and abducts her to keep her captive until she'll agree to marry him instead! And then he acts totally entitled to her love and the rest of her life and like he's doing her a favor! Ugh. Zero groveling for being such an ass for several months. He'd had potential in the first half, but really went downhill after that. Too bad that the main couple couldn't both be decent for the second half of the book. I wanted to root for them!
    • 4/5
      The second book in the Highland Guard Series. Erik is a seafaring chieftan who supports Robert the Bruce's bid to be King of Scotland. Lady Elyne comes across Erik by mistake finding herself at the wrong place at the wrong time. He has no choice but to take her with him. She hides her identity thinking it will keep her safe but there never seems to be the right time to set things right.This book has a good mixture of political intrigue and romance.