Taming the Scotsman (The MacAllisters)

by Kinley MacGregor

Book Overview

To avoid the dreadful fate of marriage to a man she does not love, Nora, niece of Eleanor of Aquitane, implores Ewan MacAllister, a man that both her father and betrothed fear, to help her seek... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380817918
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Avon
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

LOVE The MacAllisters!!

In order: Book 1: Master of Desire Book 2: Claiming The Highlander Book 3: Born in Sin Book 4. Midsummer's Knight (Where's My Hero?, Anthology) Book 5: TAMING THE SCOTSMAN half-way through this one & LOVING IT!!!

Awesome! Sexy and emotional at the same time.

This was my first Kinley read. I was NOT disappointed. The characters are well-rounded and the story line was interesting and relevant to the romance.The love scenes were hot and yet there was still enough romance to make this a touching and emotional story. I actually found myself tearing up at times!I give this 5 stars.

Ha! ..... definitely top notch!!

Fellow readers, I am extremely happy to tell you that after FINALLY reading `taming the scotsman' I can confirm that this is certainly Kinley at her best! ...... a few months ago I blindly `stood' up for this novel (having not read it at that stage) and said that Kinley was a great writer and that I thought this novel had to be a winner ...... and I am glad I did so!I have now read all of the books in the MacAllister series and `Taming the Scotsman' is an exceptionally wonderful story for Ewan ......... I could not have hoped for a more sweet story!!!!!!!! It is great that Kinley didn't make this one morose (as Ewan sometimes seemed in other related novels), she let Ewan tell his story his own way and his personality shone through .... he is sweet, gentle, and adorable!Ewan is extremely loveable and Nora is an absolute delight! This story fits right in with Kinley's tone for the series and oozes emotional depth and an adventuresome, amusing story that I found simply wonderful .... I will read this novel again and again, and I believe this novel is as good as "born in sin", for those of you who have already read that gorgeous novel!Buy it, rent it, borrow it ..... you need to read this one! It is a grade A+ read!

I don't normally do this but....

When my credibility is attacked, I feel the need to respond. I am a historian and my students refer to me as Dr. Kenyon. I read 15 languages, most of them dead now and they include Old and Middle English. The word "cold" is in fact older than our written language. The idea of having a "cold" is more medieval than even Chaucer himself. In fact, if you read Latin and Arabic medical texts, you will see that Hot and Cold are always used to refer to medical conditions.So many times we like to think that we have "modern" thoughts that are in fact older than time. I quote Socrates who once said, "Women wear their skirts too short, too much make-up and the men are concerned with nothing but attending parties and other trivial pursuits. What has happened to the youth today?" It was also Plato who wrote the ever popular quote "Let sleeping dogs lie."Eleanor of Aquitaine set up abused women shelters. Give me a "modern" idea and I can easily give you an ancient/medieval equivelant or law (internet laws aside). As for slang, if I wrote my book in medieval slang terms, I daresay modern readers wouldn't know what rounsey, stew, kagoule, simsey, kerry, coffyn, convent/nunnery (both of which refer in slang to brothels--virgin row was the redlight district) or thousands of other words would mean. I have read medieval and ancient works extesively in their original languages. Things people think are modern aren't. Crocodile tears is a medieval expression taken from John Mandeville's writings in the 14th cent as are terms such as crow's feet, holograph, grenade, uppercrust, take the cake, taken with a grain of salt, etc. These are all from the 12th cent or before.Modern expressions: Now die! Written in the Aeneid by Virgil Nunc Morere. I will have my way with you upstairs and down...Catullus Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. Ovid's Garrula Lingua can be translated to mean Motormouth.Lastly, the wounds. Ewan was more seriously wounded than Ryan. Ryan took a small knife to the ribs, Ewan did not. Have you ever seen the damage a sword does on pig's flesh? I have. For that matter, I have wielded all manner of medieval weapons, worn armor (both chain and plate) and even titled the quintain. Oh and there is one last thing. There aren't any MacBains in my book. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else. Because I know my history, have taught and read it, I don't feel the need to flaunt my knowledge and bore reader's with inconsquential details.