Mara's Reviews > The Prize

This book really drove home for me why Julie Garwood is one of the only "old skool" historical authors who is still regularly recommended to today's romance readers. These books are a fascinating hinge point between the older tropes in the genre and sensibilities that you see in historicals published today. I could not help but stan the heroine in this one, and it was kind of amusing to see the author vacillating between paying lip service to the conventions of the genre at the time of writing (that the hero ALWAYS is right, etc.) and the new direction she clearly wanted to take the characterization. Anyways, all in all, a very fun & enjoyable book that makes me want to dive further into her Scottish historical backlist