WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT SOME MAY CONSIDER SPOILERS.
Synopsis
from Goodreads: A
sweet wild madness swept over Carolina Lightfoot at the sight of
elegant Lord Thomas Angevine, reputed to be the most notorious rake
in London. The proud Colonial beauty, graced with silvergold hair and
flashing eyes, hoped to be his bride. Then, swept into a growing
storm of scandal, she was banished to Virginia. Captured by
buccaneers on the high seas, Carolina became the Silver Wench of the
Caribbean...and the defiant prisoner of the infamous Kells, a
brooding man with insolent charm andd a mysterious past.
On
the island of Tortuga, where gentle winds caressed the perfumed
nights and a lustrous moon whispered love's allure, Carolina must
escape...to find Thomas again, and to flee Kells' passionate embrace,
the rapturous temptation of his...LOVESONG.
Stats
for my copy: Mass market paperback, Pocket Books, 1985.
How
acquired: Through Book Mooch.
First
line: Fitful shadows raced across the moon.
My
thoughts: I
was really excited to read this book after seeing some discussion
about it on Facebook in a group I recently joined (Old School Romance
Book Club, a wonderful group in case you’re interested!). Luckily I
found a copy, and copies of the next two books in the trilogy, on
Book Mooch (a wonderful book trading site, in case you’re
interested!) and immediately requested all three books.
The
beginning of LOVESONG was interesting, but nothing fantastic. I was
even a little ho hum about it. But then Carolina is sent off to
school in England, and it picked up. She meets Lord Thomas, a total
wanker, and normally I’d be hating on their relationship and
berating Carolina for being such a ninny. But, she was young, still a
teenager, and young girls can’t always help but be ninnies about
boys. And the author wrote her so well, her thoughts, her feelings,
her actions, that very much liked her and felt for her.
But
then again I knew from reading the back cover and from the FB group
discussion that the real “hero” of this book would be Kells, the
wild buccaneer who will capture her later in the book.
And
then Carolina goes home with her roommate for the Christmas holidays,
and meets Rye. And I REALLY liked him. And even though I knew that
Kells is still to come along, I wanted her to forget about Lord
Thomas and let Rye love her.
And
then comes disgrace, and she is put on a ship back home to Virginia,
only to run away and board another ship back to England, only to be
captured by a Spanish ship, only to then be recaptured by the
buccaneers. For a little while I even convinced myself that Kells was
going to turn out to actually be Rye. But then Carolina, now calling
herself Christabel, comes face to face with Kells, and the man wasn’t
Rye, and there didn’t seem to be any chemistry between them, and he
was not described physically or in any other manner the way the hero
of a romance book should be described. And even though I knew Kells
is the hero, I was very disappointed that, while she was certainly
now safely away from the cad Thomas, she was also away from Rye.
But
I sighed and pulled myself together, and settled in to see what would
happen. And I became completely mesmerized and stayed up late two
nights in a row to read, and at the end I was so frantic to find out
what would happen next that my eyes kept trying to skip ahead of my
brain, and when I finally finished the book, I had that wonderful
sated and satisfied yet wanting more more more feeling that only a
really good book (or a really good man) can give you.
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