Moonstruck Madness, Laurie McBain

Lord is this a dumb romance novel. Sabrina is the granddaughter of a Scottish lord and then he gets killed by the English and she and her little brother and older sister (who has the Sight) have to go live in a house in England but they're neglected by their father so Sabrina becomes a highwayman. Sure, why not? And then she robs this big angry dude named Lucien (of course that's his name) and he vows to figure out who she really is. Many spoilers follow. 

So he sets a trap and she gets caught and he realizes she's a chick and nurses her back to health with lots of sex, but then he offers to make her his mistress because he doesn't know she's the daughter of a Marquis, so she runs away and then they meet up later and he thinks she's whoring around with everyone AND MEANWHILE his grandmother will only let him inherit if he get married but he has two evil cousins plotting his death who murder the fiancee he didn't like anyway. Meanwhile Sabrina's dad finds out she's hot and tries to sell her off to this creepy old man and Lucien decides to ruin her whore-y good time and makes out with her to ruin that deal and she's like, "THANKS A LOT, NOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO STARVE IN THE STREETS," so he decides to marry her himself but she can't have that so she runs away to go be a robber again. And he follows her and I forget why but at some point here his cousins attack and also she gets amnesia. AMNESIA. Obviously she forgets that she hated him so he marries her and they have like, 6 idyllic months together before she remembers and hates him and has his baby and then they get madder and madder at each other because they both think the other one is whoring around and it's like the worst version of Gone with the Wind ever, and then her little brother finds out there's treasure in Scotland so the two of them ride off and her husband follows and one page from the end they finally realize they love each other. (I didn't even mention the sister's ridiculous subplot with her visions.) Lord this was silly, but as airplane reading it wasn't bad, even if it was weird to have to switch my book to airplane-safe mode.

Grade: C

Originally posted 2011