The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
2010 October 28
The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
Guy of Gisborne, a large & darkness of sin, meets a woman who would be his redemption … Sir Guy is a warrior, intense brooding. It is feared & scorned by those under his command. But under that hard exterior lies a tortured soul, haunted by his sins of many … Cassia is a healer of farmers, with a secret yearning into master Gisborne scary. When fate thrusts him into his hands, he will find it a daunting reputation into live up into it. But he also learned there was more into him than meets the eye … Soon they pulled into a passionate love affair, one that will change both their lives forever …
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Review by MissMargaret for The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
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I am a Guy of Gisborne fan, so this appealed to me before I even read it. I was surprised at the quality of the writing, which is pretty good for an unknown author. It’s not perfect (Some of the language is a bit too modern) but it wasn’t so bad as to turn me away. What I really enjoyed were the two main characters. Guy is here in all his brooding badness, but the author has given him a lot of depth. We see into his soul and get into his head, and I love him even more now than I did when I watched him in the BBC series.
Cassia is a great leading lady. She’s intelligent and loving, but she’s no shrinking violet. She’s a peasant healer, which makes for some interesting scenes between her and Guy. I won’t give anything away, but let’s just say that she tends to his wounds in more ways than one. Lucky girl.
I have to wonder if the author imagined herself in the role of Guy’s lover, because she sees Guy the way most fans see him. She feels for him the way we do. Yes, he’s a bad boy. He’s a criminal, and he’s terribly selfish and spoiled at times, and we would love to knock him across the head when he does certain things. But he’s so darn vulnerable. He wants to be better, but he doesn’t quite know how to do it. He wants to be loved, but is fearful of it. But once he gives in to his feelings, his devotion is absolute. Cassia seems to sense this from the very start, and though it takes some time to redeem her man, she eventually claims her prize…and what a prize he is.
Take this story for what it is…a hugely entertaining love story with a lot of spice and great characters. It’s not Shakespeare, but who looks for that when reading a romance novel? This is pure escapism, and it’s worth a read.
Review by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet for The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
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If you’re a fan of Robin Hood baddies played by Alan Rickman or Richard Armitage – dark, smouldering, conflicted – this is made for you. Charlotte Hawkins likes her character but doesn’t make the mistake of softening him too much. Her Guy of Gisborne can be tamed… perhaps… but it will take an entire story, and a mettlesome leading lady, to get him there. This is not great literature, or academic-type Medieval history (but then neither were the movies or the series!) but it’s a hugely enjoyable book, exactly what’s needed on a long plane haul or a holiday week-end in the country.
Review by JustDuck for The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
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As a life-long Robin Hood afficianado, I’ll admit I’m something of a snob…but I have to say I’ve read better at FanFiction.net. In this book GoG is a bad bad boy, who’s misunderstood by all but our heroine Cassia. Beginning with your standard hurt/comfort premise, Guy has an accident that puts him isolated from his world of toadying (c’mon, it’s a word) and completely at the mercy of Cassia and her father, who happens to be the local physician. Blah blah blah, she nurses him back to good health and he begins to change/fall in love with the saucy, secretly smart and hidden beauty Cassia who conveniently hates King Richard & the Crusades & Robin Hood.
If this can get published, then those fandic writers I mentioned earlier should really get the editor’s #.
Bleh
Review by Sammi-K for The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
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This book had the potential to be really amazing. I like the idea of focusing on a character that is traditionally the villain of the story and it seemed to work at first. I couldn’t put the book down for the first half of it, but she ran out of steam towards the end. At first a tasteful love story, by the end of the book every other scene was a graphic description of the characters’ bedroom encounters. She could have ended the book much sooner- the last bit didn’t add to the story at all and to be honest I skimmed through it in an effort to be over and done with the thing.
Review by Helen F for The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story
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I loved this book. It was well written and easy to read and follow. The love story was very romantic and the sex scenes where very steamy. An amazing transformation of two people, very much in love.