Untamed edition by Anna Cowan Romance eBooks
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Outspoken and opinionated, Katherine Sutherland is ill at ease amongst the fine ladies of Regency London. She is more familiar with farmers and her blunt opinions and rough manners offend polite society. Yet when she hears the scandalous rumours involving her sister and the seductive Duke of Darlington, the fiercely loyal Katherine vows to save her sister's marriage - whatever the cost.
Intrigued by Katherine's interference in his affairs, the manipulative Duke is soon fascinated. He engages in a daring deception and follows her back to her country home. Here, their intense connection shocks them both. But the Duke's games have dangerous consequences, and the potential to throw both their lives into chaos...
Wildly romantic, Untamed is a passionate and beautifully written debut novel. This decadent historical romance defies convention and will shock and delight in equal measure.
Untamed edition by Anna Cowan Romance eBooks
In Untamed, author Anna Cowan twists the tropes of the regency period to create an engrossing story that’s hard to put down. One constantly wonders: “where will she go with this next?” It’s a regency, but the characters barely attend to the social mores of the time and have a modern sense of inadequacy and supercilious pride in lording their in-bred superiority over their peers – and that’s just our hero.We have a cross-dressing Duke, a blueblood of wealth and taste who prides himself on his intelligence and ability to put down others with sardonic wit. More villain than hero, he is sharp, and cheeky and keeps an emotional distance by avoiding personal engagement through snarky remarks and an irritating cadre of bejeweled dandies who swarm around him running interference. He is a user of the worst kind, a rake, and debaser of women, not above ruining those who show any inclination toward sympathy.
He is a classic regency rogue, but hardly loveable and prefers a pig to a hound or horse. He is often more feminine in manners and taste than masculine. He masquerades as a woman for much of the action and when called to fight, cannot defend himself. Even the author’s character descriptions defy the conventional. For example, our hero is more beautiful than handsome, and his smile makes his face look worse.
The heroine, born of the upper class, but reduced in life to become more man than woman, a hardworking drudge with dirty, chapped hands, drab clothes and muddy shoes. She is trying to pay off her despicable father’s debt without her mother or siblings knowing of it and to hide her own guilt. This is no Cinderella. Naïve, repressed, and fiercely loyal to her family, she is awkward in society, without taste, and no refinement of speech or manners. She, too, is devastating in her withering criticism of others, and she can’t even dance! There is a constant juxtaposition of the male/female roles in this novel that can be amusing and self-revelatory.
Two such unlikely characters have probably never graced the pages of any conventional regency novel. Yet, we are pulled in. Gradually, we begin to understand the deep psychology at work in these flawed human beings, the past horrors they’ve endured to shape who they are, and finally, they come to understand themselves and each other and to change, gradually, realistically, but most un-novel-like, never completely.
There is scandal, marriage of convenience, cards and brandy. There is seduction, rejection, tension, desire-building, deception, estrangement, all tropes of the regency novel, but wait -- a duel by women? Yes, this becomes the ultimate Pygmalion makeover story, but the author doesn’t limit transformations to the main characters only. There is depth here, and continual doubt even as several characters build confidence and belief. Will the outcome be ever-after? Will there always be bliss and stars in the eyes? By the end of this novel, you understand that like real life, nothing is perfect and there will always be more moments of doubt and more problems to overcome (although wealth certainly helps). Ms. Cowan has not created a perfect world, only a real one, as relevant today as it likely was during the Regency, and that’s why Untamed was so hard to put down. One reviewer called it “literature,” and that it is.
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Untamed edition by Anna Cowan Romance eBooks Reviews
This book is absolutely fabulous. It is not at all your typical historical romance novel, so reader be ware. It is not comfortable or cozy, the Duke does not save the damsel, and she is most definitely not in distress. If you love strong female protagonists, rascally villains turned hero, or pet pigs, this book is for you.
It is fast paced and has so many twists and turns that it might as well be a maze of a plot. The sex scenes are intense and emotionally charged and this is a fairly lgbtq+ friendly book. I can't wait for more from this author.
I'm giving this book 2 stars because I think the writer tried to write an intelligent, innovative story. But, boy, did she get it wrong. In trying to bring depth to the characters, she merely made them annoying and illogical. The downtrodden situation of the heroine's family made no sense whatsoever. The supposedly competent, self sufficient heroine still allowed herself to continue under the thumb of a very poorly sketched secondary (or was he tirtiary?) character. The heroines brother, instead of helping in the labor of survival, was a limp wristed non entity. (And a question that I insist on asking, in spite of disliking this story so much is.....if the brother was a successful author, why was the family in such dire financial straits?) And I can't even start on the hero, who the writer tried so hard to make so complicated. What he was was annoying and completely unlikable. I see this book was published in 2013, and the author hasn't published another one yet. If she does, I might try her again. Maybe she's taking so long because she realizes she needs to sharpen her skills. But I won't buy that book.....once bitten, etc.
Post Update it started out so strong at first and then it devolved into chaos. The multiple povs, the riverdance of sexuality and sexual preference, the undefined attachment bewteeen one male lover and two sisters and almost their brother. I couldn't keep up and eventually I stopped trying. This had the makings of a truly transformative romance. What I got instead was an episode of Queer as a folk. A particularly bad episode.
So insightful it went beyond romance and underscored the flaws of humanity that flag us even today. The pithiness. The ennui. I was underlining sentence after sentence, sentiment after sentiment. This was more than the average read. It jolted me. Dragged me. I didn't want to like it. But the writing and characters , even the hateful ones, gave me no choice.
In Untamed, author Anna Cowan twists the tropes of the regency period to create an engrossing story that’s hard to put down. One constantly wonders “where will she go with this next?” It’s a regency, but the characters barely attend to the social mores of the time and have a modern sense of inadequacy and supercilious pride in lording their in-bred superiority over their peers – and that’s just our hero.
We have a cross-dressing Duke, a blueblood of wealth and taste who prides himself on his intelligence and ability to put down others with sardonic wit. More villain than hero, he is sharp, and cheeky and keeps an emotional distance by avoiding personal engagement through snarky remarks and an irritating cadre of bejeweled dandies who swarm around him running interference. He is a user of the worst kind, a rake, and debaser of women, not above ruining those who show any inclination toward sympathy.
He is a classic regency rogue, but hardly loveable and prefers a pig to a hound or horse. He is often more feminine in manners and taste than masculine. He masquerades as a woman for much of the action and when called to fight, cannot defend himself. Even the author’s character descriptions defy the conventional. For example, our hero is more beautiful than handsome, and his smile makes his face look worse.
The heroine, born of the upper class, but reduced in life to become more man than woman, a hardworking drudge with dirty, chapped hands, drab clothes and muddy shoes. She is trying to pay off her despicable father’s debt without her mother or siblings knowing of it and to hide her own guilt. This is no Cinderella. Naïve, repressed, and fiercely loyal to her family, she is awkward in society, without taste, and no refinement of speech or manners. She, too, is devastating in her withering criticism of others, and she can’t even dance! There is a constant juxtaposition of the male/female roles in this novel that can be amusing and self-revelatory.
Two such unlikely characters have probably never graced the pages of any conventional regency novel. Yet, we are pulled in. Gradually, we begin to understand the deep psychology at work in these flawed human beings, the past horrors they’ve endured to shape who they are, and finally, they come to understand themselves and each other and to change, gradually, realistically, but most un-novel-like, never completely.
There is scandal, marriage of convenience, cards and brandy. There is seduction, rejection, tension, desire-building, deception, estrangement, all tropes of the regency novel, but wait -- a duel by women? Yes, this becomes the ultimate Pygmalion makeover story, but the author doesn’t limit transformations to the main characters only. There is depth here, and continual doubt even as several characters build confidence and belief. Will the outcome be ever-after? Will there always be bliss and stars in the eyes? By the end of this novel, you understand that like real life, nothing is perfect and there will always be more moments of doubt and more problems to overcome (although wealth certainly helps). Ms. Cowan has not created a perfect world, only a real one, as relevant today as it likely was during the Regency, and that’s why Untamed was so hard to put down. One reviewer called it “literature,” and that it is.
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