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Knight Errant – R. Garcia Y Robertson

War Of The Rose
Book One
Forge Books, January 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0765344915
ISBN-10: 0765344912

Reviewed by Laurel
November 2004

What would you do if you were walking along the Welsh border on an autumn day when a Knight on horseback comes up to you asking for directions? For Robyn Stafford it was really quite simple, humour the raving lunatic especially when he tells her that he us Edward Plantagent, outlaw from Mad King Henry’s Court. But the more she got to talking with this young man the more she questioned her sanity and reasoning. He was pleasant and full of grace. When armed knights come rushing after them he separates himself from her for her protection. Vowing one day they would meet again.

Robyn is a studio executive who came to England for her lover Colin’s surprise birthday party, but she was the one who was surprised when his wife answered the door. Angry and frustrated that she was made a fool of, she is enjoying the land and people she has become surrounded with. When she gets back from her walk, she tells Jo about this incredible tale. With keen interest Jo takes her to a witches home. Encouraged and wanting to see more of Edward she allows herself to be displaced back to 1450 England. Where she learns that it was not fate that sent her there, but a crafty and cunning plan involving Colin, Edward and the people around them.

High treason, King Henry has gone mad, and declared war against all who oppose him. Killing lords and ladies and even members of his family, dogs were trained to sniff out witches and they were burned at the stake, but not before they were starved, raped and pillaged. Most of the English people who oppose his direction have escaped to Ireland to live in exile. Robyn plays a very important an integral role in all of it. Learning to cope with her witch abilities, being hunted, and captured a few times. She uses her newfound skills to the best of her ability and save those that she has come to love.

I really enjoyed this book. Being the first of a series it did leave a cliffhanger in the book and me wanting to continue the story. Written by a man this book is rich in historical details, the times and the people in it. The food, castles, clothes and customs and battles were given in such detail it was easy as a reader to travel back in time to this era. To see Robyn search for Edward and maybe find her hearts desire was a treat, her anger, her fear, the love, the emotion and finally her acceptance. When given the choice to stay in the past or return to the future and not come back, left Robyn with a heavy choice to make. She had come to care for these people in the past but she thought of all she was leaving behind.

Edward Plantagent possibly one of the most romanticized historical figures in novels was just so knightly, so gallant and so cute, this reader fell in love with him all over again. So manly for such a young boy at the age of 17 he had certainly seen a lot given the era, it was acceptable to me that this woman was having romantic illusions of her one true love. The only compliant I have to offer in regards to this book was absence of sex scenes, you know they did, he told you so with a simple line…”then they did”. I wanted to see the steam, I felt the steam, and the undeniable attraction, the heartbreak of being separated, the will to return to each other. I wanted to be rewarded with one steamy sex scene, alas to be disappointed with “then they did”.

Following in the tradition of Diana Galbaldon’s Outlander series I am certainly looking for the second book and the third to continue the adventures of Robyn Stafford and her Errant Knight, Edward Plantagent. It was a funny, charming and over all a enlightening tale.

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