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Title: Becket's Last Stand (The Beckets of Romney Marsh)
ISBN: 0373772815
Author:
Kasey Michaels
Publicate Date: 2007-11-01
Publish: 2007-11-01
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Becket's last stand
A fitting end to the 7-book series. I got the book not long after I ordered it, in good condition.
However, I still have not received the FIRST book in series "A Gentleman by Any Other Name" and since it was ordered on November 2nd, I consider that very bad treatment of a customer. So I am not too pleased with the Amazon performance on that.
Linda Sheean
12/6/08
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2: Disappointing
I agree with others who found the Cassandra/Courtland relationship icky, and I thought the whole book had the feeling of just going through the motions. I was disappointed by the ending--the series has been leading up to this final confrontation, but by the time it happens, there are now so many characters that it takes pages to fill and empty a room of them all. I wouldn't buy this one again--if you must read it, get it from the library.
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3: good ending
Ok, I see some other reviewers were a little creeped out. I get that, Courtland and Cassie were raised as siblings. However, I was able to get around that OK, since for practically the whole series; Ms. Michaels has been telling us that Courtland and Cassie were a done deal. So I was prepared. Cassie was sheltered, it is true, as were all the Becket girls, whom all seemed to have fallen in love with the first man they met. For some reason that didn't bother me either, normally, it would. I will say over all the writing, dialogue, adventure, action were all very well thought out and presented. My concerns were these: I was bothered about all the build up about the battle between "good and evil" with the Voodoo priestesses, and when I read the outcome I was let down, I reread that passage a few days later and was OK with how it was handled. I was taken aback at how Jacko went from fairly robust to broken down and again I wanted more information at the end. Where did everyone finally end up and were they happy? I feel that I kind of just left them there. I really would have liked a fuller epilogue. I was very happy for Geoffrey and that is self imposed penance was over and he could find love and be happy.
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4: Too creepy for me...
I have to agree with A. Arend, this pairing is too creepy for me to stomach. As far as I'm concerned these two were raised as brother and sister, hence that makes it incest. Adoption makes them family, period. I don't care if they aren't blood. Woody Allen tried to sell that one and I didn't believe him either. I just got goosebumps, and not in the good way, every time they made love to each other. Especially as Court's always having memories of her as a baby playing with dolls or something else nausea inducing from their growing up years.
I found it hard to believe the rest of the family would think it so wonderful either. All in all it ruined the end of the story for me.
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5: Finally Over
First, I have to say that I wasn't fond of the Court/Cassandra match, and found it to be a bit creepy. Not only because of the huge age difference, but because of the brother/sister connection, AND the fact that Court so obviously had a huge crush on Cassandra's mother, whom it's mentioned before that Cassandra looks exactly like. Perhaps die-hard fans of this series find the match to be very romantic. I just didn't. The girl is eighteen and had always had a childish crush on Court, and yet I'm supposed to assume that no, this isn't just a crush but "Love" with a capital "L," even though this kid is too young and too sheltered to really know what she wants. The author tries to get us to think that Cassandra has aged beyond her years, but she just sounded like an immature brat to me most of the time, pouting because she hasn't yet gotten the toy she wanted, and Court's inability to resist her seemed weird given the circumstances. I know it's just me, but again, I found the romance odd on several levels.
That having been said, I have to wonder if maybe Kasey Michaels felt the same way I did about the union, since I really felt the sex scenes lacking. Their first time together happened basically "off page," (then afterward, Cassandra ponders "so this is what it's like to be a woman." Insert rolling eye smilie here). The other times they're together seem...I don't know...glossed over? Safe? And I had to wonder whether Michaels was feeling a little squicky too about describing sex between a brother and sister, even though they're not brother/sister by blood.
Because of the Court/Cassandra union that I disliked, I honestly didn't want to even pick this last book up, but...since I'd stuck with the series this far, I really wanted to finish.
I have to say though that the last several books...including this one...were a huge disappointment. To drag the whole "Edmund Beales" story arc out over seven books was just too much. I was over it halfway through the series. I found myself skimming through the last three books more than reading them, which is a shame. By the time I got to this one, I just had the feeling of wanting it to be over. This one is a must-read if you really feel you need to complete the series, but it's by far not the best of the series.
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