Book Review - Ride with the Moonlight (Thunder on the Moor, Book 2) by Andrea Matthews @AMatthewsAuthor @maryanneyarde

 

Ride with the Moonlight

(Thunder on the Moor, Book 2) 

By Andrea Matthews

Publication Date: 25th November 2020. Publisher: Inez M. Foster. Page Length: 387 Pages. Genre: Historical, Time-Travel, Romance

After rescuing sixteenth-century Border reiver Will Foster from certain death at her family’s hands, time traveler Maggie Armstrong finally admits her love for the handsome Englishman, though she can’t rid herself of the sinking sus-picion that her Scottish kin are not about to let them live in peace. What she doesn’t expect is the danger that lurks on Will’s own side of the Border. When news of their plans to marry reaches the warden, he charges Will with March treason for trysting with a Scot. Will and Maggie attempt to escape by fleeing to the hills, but when Will is declared an outlaw and allowed to be killed on sight, they can no longer evade the authorities. Will is sentenced to hang, while Maggie is to be sent back to her family. Heartbroken, she has no choice but to return to Scotland, where her uncle continues to make plans for her to wed Ian Rutherford, the wicked Scotsman who she now realizes murdered her father in cold blood. With Will facing the gallows in England, and herself practically under house arrest in Scotland, she continues to resist her uncle’s plans, but her efforts are thwarted at every turn. Will’s family, however, is not about to stand by and watch their youngest lad executed simply because he’s lost his heart to a Scottish lass. A daring plan is set into motion, but will it be in time to save Will’s life and reunite the lovers? Or will Ian’s lies prompt Maggie’s family to ensure the bond between them is forever destroyed?

Trigger Warnings

Violence, sexual content.

Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚⭐ = A book in a million

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review

Ride with the Moonlight

(Thunder on the Moor, Book 2) 

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.

Before, Maggie may have felt trapped in the sixteenth century, but things have changed since she travelled there with her father. For one thing, her beloved father is no longer with her, slain in a Border raid, which means her welfare falls to her uncle Geordie, who does not care as much about what Maggie wants as her own father did. When Maggie stepped up and saved the life of Will Foster, the man everyone believes was the person to kill Rabbie Armstrong, she unintentionally begins an unfavourable chain of events for both Will and herself.

With Will being hunted down by the law, and the Fosters doing everything in their power to keep Will from the hangman’s noose, Maggie finds herself dragged along with the man she loves as they run and hide. But, it is because of her that Will is being hunted in the first place, and Maggie would rather spend her life married to Ian Rutherford than to have Will dead.

Maggie is a wholly loveable character, who knows what she wants and does what she can to get it. She is aware of the people around her, and generally about how her actions will affect people, but when push comes to shove, she will prioritise the safety of some people over others. Her feelings for Will obviously run deeply, and from Will’s actions and the fact that he can’t keep his eyes off of her, it is clear the love is mutual. It must be incredibly difficult to live in a time when you don’t get to decide who you marry, and when the people ‘in charge’ of you can marry you off to whomever they would like. Even still, if you fight for your love, there is the chance that the law may get involved and ruin everything. This book perfectly depicts the fears that Maggie has, that she will lose Will, and how determined both her uncle Geordie and Ian Rutherford are to get her back and to prevent her from becoming a Foster.

This novel is the kind that hooks you in and does not let you go, even after you have finished it. There is a book three that hasn’t been released yet, but I eagerly await it and cannot wait to rejoin Maggie as her life continues at the Border.

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Andrea Matthews is the pseudonym for Inez Foster, a historian and librarian who loves to read and write and search around for her roots, genealogical speaking. In fact, it was while doing some genealogical research that she stumbled across the history of the Border reivers. The idea for her first novel came to mind almost at once, gradually growing into the Thunder on the Moor series. And the rest, as they say, is history…

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