Book Review: Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain
Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain. © 2011 Soucebooks Casablanca (originally published in 1977). ISBN 9781402242434. Mass Market Paperback. Historical Romance. 384 pages. Source: ARC furnished by the publishers.
Synopsis: After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night she encounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened…
With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung… As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other’s biggest threat, as well as their only salvation…
Review: Sabrina’s clan has been destroyed and now her grandfather has passed away leaving her to care for her family because her father cannot be depended upon, and all of this happened when she is only 11 years old. So how she cope? At an older age, Sabrina becomes a masked highwayman in order to provide for her family. Her alter ego is Bonnie Charlie, and the her life is a dangerous one that only becomes more perilous when she attempts to rob Lucien, Duke of Camareigh.
From that moment on, Lucien and Sabrina’s fate is intertwined as test after test is brought forth. Is their love strong enough to overcome a scheming grandmother seeking to steal an ancestral house from her grandson, an errant father seeking to take control over his family and Sabrina’s double-life.
Moonstruck Madness was so much better than the first McBain title I read (thank the gods *wink*) but still not enough to spur me to read another of hers. Good writing and decent storyline but it just doesn’t have ‘it‘ for me. 3/5.
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