Forbidden by Elizabeth Lowell6/24/2023 I haven’t read much metaphorical before so this was a thing I had to get over.) (Re: the prose, this was written in the early 90s, where metaphor heavy love scenes were pretty commonplace. Even the metaphor-heavy love scenes, though they took some getting used to, felt right for the time period. Indeed, I found the world building pretty believable. Having been to see Stonehenge and a few other stone circles IRL, I can kinda understand the creepiness of an unknown man found INSIDE such a sacred place and how people of that time might have reacted. This book features light mysticism, which I typically don’t like, but worked well within the guise of the story. Drama ensues when the naked man regains his memory. She nurses him back to health, with the blessing of her friend / the local heir, so that they can find out if this mysterious man is friend or foe….and of course he’s the one person she can touch where she feels pleasure, not pain. She is born under a foreboding prophecy that promises an extraordinary love followed by “rich life might grow, but death will surely flow.” A man is found naked in a stone circle, wearing her sign (an amber talisman, though she has never met this man before). Plot summary: Amber the Forbidden is a young woman who can sense others’ feelings when she touches them, though it hurts her to touch others. And more feminist than an initial reading might suggest. Angsty - tense - gripping (at least towards the end) - and deeply, satisfyingly romantic. I wanted to read an old school romance and this was a very pleasant surprise.
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