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    The Lass Wore Black

    By Karen Ranney

    3.5/5

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    In The Lass Wore Black, New York Times bestselling author Karen Ranney offers up a new tale of desire and romance in the Scottish Highlands.

    After a near-death experience at the hands of her lover in London, a physically and emotionally damaged Catriona Cameron flees to Edinburgh to heal. It’s up to Dr. Mark Thorburn, disguised as a footman, to capture her heart and make her whole again.

    Fans of Mary Balogh won’t be able to resist this tale from Karen Ranney, the Queen of the Scottish historical romance. Deeply emotional and satisfying, The Lass Wore Black is a suspenseful tale mixed with adventure, passion, and compelling characters you will fall in love with

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062197641
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    The Lass Wore Black
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    Karen Ranney

    Karen Ranney wanted to be a writer from the time she was five years old and filled her Big Chief tablet with stories. People in stories did amazing things and she was too shy to do anything amazing. Years spent in Japan, Paris, and Italy, however, not only fueled her imagination but proved she wasn't that shy after all. Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, she prefers to keep her adventures between the covers of her books. Karen lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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    • 3/5
      Catriona Cameron is a flirty young woman who highly values her beauty - she is in the midst of setting her cap at a suitor when tragedy strikes. Catriona is in a carriage accident that complete disfigures her face and body. Now that she has lost her beauty, who is she really? Catriona puts herself in a self-imposed exile and her aunt hires the gorgeous doctor Mark to help her. He disguises himself as a footman to earn her trust, but will he end up wanting more?Overall, I really enjoyed this romance. Ranney has an easy-to-read writing style that will let you pick up the book at any moment and read without having to go back and figure out where you had last left off. The character of Mark adds not only handsomeness, but also a humor that will make you laugh out loud. Catriona is the traditional troubled soul who must go through tragedy to understand her true self, but she is also highly intelligent if sometimes foolish.I did have a few problems with this book - the biggest one being the cover. I understand that they wanted to go with the traditional romance cover with the woman swooning into the man's arms, but the whole focus of the book is Catriona's disfigurement - the woman on the cover is completely unscathed. Why can't a woman be beautiful even without her good looks? While Ranney explores this topic, the publisher/cover artist obviously didn't read the book!Secondly, there is the story arc that goes into Catriona's past and how someone is trying to kill her. This particular character was just not believable for me - I know that the author was trying for a real villain to add to the conflict, but he sort of came out of nowhere without real motive.I do recommend this book for a fun romance with a hunky and charming leading man. Ranney writes her two main characters beautifully and explores what real beauty is. I will definitely be reading more of her books.Thanks to TLC book tours for giving me the opportunity to host this book.
    • 4/5
      it's nice to see a truly flawed heroine who isn't a spectacular beauty or perfect in some way. Catriona (the name annoyed me most of the book for some reason) was a stunning, spoiled, terrible brat until she's horribly scarred. afterwards, she's still a spoiled brat, but in a coddled way. a spoiled brat who's found her world ripped out from her isn't going to change immediatley. she spends a good amount of time trying to find her new place, in her head as well as life. after all, in Society if you aren't pretty you don't matter. I liked that she isn't magically redeemed into a wonderful person, but keeps her personality. she's still spoiled, but also learns that she isn't the center of the universe and so achieves the label of 'interesting main character'. I got the impression that she was still "growing" as well, which I quite liked since so many end with "and they all had lots of beautiful babies and lived happily ever after, the end!" which I don't mind, but this was a refreshing change.
    • 4/5
      Beauty and the Beast. We all know it from th Disney movie, right? And it's a familiar trope in romances. A beautiful woman can see past appearances to rescue the hidden away heart of a disfigured man. But what happens when it's the woman who is disfigured, a woman who was formerly so beautiful that her selfishness and bad/improper behaviour was excused because she had the looks of an angel? In Karen Ranney's newest historical romance, The Lass Wore Black, this is exactly the premise. Catriona Cameron was used to being the most beautiful woman in the room. She hid her less than innocent past and her selfishness behind her beauty and was being courted by a Duke when she was in a horrific carriage accident that left her badly permanently scarred and limping. After she recovers from her physical injuries, she still carries emotional scars so deep that she may never recover, donning a thick lace veil, becoming a complete hermit in the gilded cage of her rooms, and even shunning food. So her aunt Dina enlists the services of an Edinburgh doctor to try and reach the decent and caring Catriona she was just starting to uncover and whom she knows is still inside the damaged shell. But because of Catriona's understandable dislike of doctors, Dr. Mark Thorburn will have to masquerade as a footman to get close to Catriona, to help her to accept her new reality, and to bring her back to life. Mark Thorburn is not only not a footman, he is actually the grandson of an Earl and will one day inherit the title himself. But he is uncomfortable with his class' tendency to rest on their inherited wealth and so he's pursued his career as a doctor, finding an affinity for the profession and a passion for healing. He treats not only the monied class but also donates his time to the underserved and desperately poverty stricken who live in the slums of Old Town Edinburgh. Although she is not one of his deserving charity cases, he is fascinated by Catriona's case and in fact by the woman herself. As he pretends to be Catriona's new, stubborn footman, he enjoys sparring with her and watching her become a more introspective, caring person, less appearance driven, and more outwardly focused. Catriona is as attracted to her handsome footman as he is to her but they have secrets and issues to overcome before they can possibly find happiness. And in addition to the truth of Mark's identity and Catriona's need to move beyond her fear of exposing her appearance to others, an old acquaintance will reappear, hellbent on destruction and revenge, threatening Mark and Catriona's relationship before it even has a chance. The characters of Mark and Catriona are interesting, quite different than the usual romance hero and heroine. And while Catriona has already been described as being very in touch with her sexuality and her desires, promiscuous even, definitely unusual for the time period given her unmarried state, she and Mark are drawn to each other very quickly and completely and yet it is hard to understand why. She's a brat and snotty to him when they first meet, hardly an aphrodisiac, although she does mature some as the book goes on, becoming less of a selfish and spoiled character and that helps make her character more appealing than she starts out. The revenge plot line is far fetched and less engaging than that of Catriona realizing that others live so much less well than she does and that her ruined looks are really a superficial concern. Coming into her own as a decent and compassionate person, worthy of the good doctor, is far more interesting than any demented madman storyline. But the theme of revealing one's true self, either because of a well-intentioned ruse or because the actions of the past have obscured it, is an interesting one and handled surprisingly here. The sexual tension between the lead characters may not be as thick or convincing as in many romances but the uniqueness of turning the Beauty and the Beast trope on its head will happily engage most historical romance readers even without it.