Fellow blogger Karen Scott tells us about Small’s crowning work (and a favorite of Bev and Gwen), Skye O’Malley. Read on for her inimitable thoughts and part of Karen’s plot summary…
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Skye is the beautiful fiery daughter of Dubhdara O’Malley, chief of Clan O’Malley, born to him in 1540.
From birth, Skye is promised to the odious Dom O’Flaherty (are you still awake?) who is basically an absolute c*nting twat. (erm… that’s my view but Skye didn’t like him either).
Days before her marriage to Dom the Twat, she meets Niall “Hubba Hubba” Burke, with whom she falls instantly in love with. She begs and pleads with her father to stop the marriage, but The O’Malley (as he’s fondly known in Ireland) refuses to renege on a promise made years before.
Niall obviously falls in love with Skye, and is frustrated by her upcoming nuptials to another man.
Anyway, the wedding takes place, and just as Dom The Twat is about to take Beautiful Skye to bed, Niall claims the droit du seigneur, which basically means that he can have sex with her before her new husband (yeah, that was a WTF moment for me too). So he does, to the displeasure of Dom The Twat.
Anyway, after their assignation, Niall is kidnapped (how rude?) from Skye’s bed whilst she’s still sleeping, and when Skye wakens, she finds that her Daddy Dearest has organised for her to stay at a convent whilst she waits to see if her and Niall’s union has resulted in a child being conceived.
Luckily (or unluckily) for Skye, she’s not pregnant, and so her torturous married life to Dom The Twat begins. She is immediately installed in Dom’s house, where his sister Claire The Fucking Bitch lives also. During their marriage, Dom treats her like shit, and forces his sick perversions on her whenever he can.
Things come to a head when Skye comes across her husband and his sister shagging.
Jesus. Mary. And Fucking Joseph.
WTF? Incest? Urgggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!
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Back to Sybil Azteclady now…
bwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaahaaahaaahaaa!
You can read the rest of KarenS October 2005 review? thoughts? uh, whatever you wanna call that HERE. I think Karen is back up though at word press and talking about contests again. Go figure… Such a pain in the arse that girlie.
Sorry, I must run. Be back really really soon unless Bev or Gwen keel me first but uh I have prizes… LOTS of them! Really! So don’t let them keel me. Anyways, I am too cute to die young. le sigh not that I am all that young anymore. So how long can I hold the 25 book thing over you guys?
Although I guess the list is made and Bev or Gwen can get to it but they have been sick and now Gwen is spring-breaking it and like useless and prolly drunk RIGHT now… and Bev I is off planning good vibrations or something… [be ascared…]
You are a mean duckie who enjoys torturing us.
Carry on 😀
(and I hope the sick duckies get better soon–have you seen to the bleach thing yet?)
Oh and *shuffling feet* the one blathering about contests is *ahem* me *running off to hide under rock*
Damn, Azteclady! Your Sybilish is almost as fluent as the Syb herself!
And I’m not drunk – just pleasantly buzzed.
I only had two Prickly Pear Margaritas (gosh they were goooooood and very, very purple). Two very LARGE ‘ritas, but still just two.
*hic*
Now that I have arisen from my 12 hour nap (seriously, that’s all I do is sleep, dammit), I approached this thread with Sword of Vengence raised— Bertrice Small is a goddess dammit! Do I dare to also follow the link to Karen’s full review? And what brought this up anyway? The reprint of this glorious tapestry that my goddess created?
And WTF is Gwen so freakin’ healthy when the rest of the duckies are dropping like flies? Voodoo dolls are involved. I’m sure of it.
Okay, back from Karen’s place…
She LIKED it! She REALLY LIKED IT!!
Hot DAMN!
Oh, and Karen, you missed one of the more repugnant aspects of the incest scene that Skye walked in on. He was doing his sis in the Portal of Sodom and when they saw Skye, slutsis turned around and took him into her mouth while smirking at Skye.
Those two pieces of work deserved each other. One of the things I love about the Ske O’Malley books is that the women bury multiple husbands before finding their HEA. Doesn’t matter how much Skye (or her offspring in the later books) love them, chances are they are gonna die. I also LOVE the rivalry between Skye and Queen Elizabeth throughout the books. Everything I know about English history I learned from romance books, you know.
Oh, and droit du seigneur? The first time I ever came across that term was in the movie The War Lord starring Charleston Heston. He grabbed one of his vassal’s brides using Ye Olde droit du seigneur, but then started a revolt when he decided to keep her, as was his right.
Gwen, it’s clear as mud!
Earlier (as in, some other comment thread) Sybil commented that all the pond duckies are feeling poorly (save Gwen, I just learned), and I suggested adding a few drops of bleach to improve the water’s quality.
Syb blames the pig, though–which makes no sense, since we all know pigs are clean creatures.
😀
Yummmm… Roast pork… I ever tell you gals how good of a roast pork shoulder I make? Da BEST! Whole bottle of wine in the pan with it – braised over a very low heat for a very long time.
But it’s no fun if the Pig isn’t around for us to roast. 🙁
K, Gwen, you get the roast shaped bits, but I want the ribs. MMMMMMMM… BBQ pork ribs…
Oh, and what wine you use for the pork roast? Sounds yummy. What do you serve it with?
Pig is off picking on gay boys that are really straight girls but who claim to be a little of both. Or a bunch of those. Or something like that. So we can talk about him all we want and he won’t know the difference.
I hope the sick duckies get better soon! As to the 25 books… whu – pft – I’ll just wait. 😀 I’ve also got a crazy tiny destructive dog on my hands, so I can’t read this as carefully as I’d like.
Geez, I can’t believe that I wrote that in 2005. It doesn’t seem that long ago.
LOOLOLOL
didn’t you just post that ::looks up:: THERE some where 🙂