Wild at Heart
They called him "the lost man." Raised in the woods, without speech, without civilization, he was beautifully, wonderfully wild. But only one woman looked beyond the wildness to see the man. "Delightfully different...brims with laughter and passion." (Literary Times) "With a lyrical voice and...
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They called him "the lost man." Raised in the woods, without speech, without civilization, he was beautifully, wonderfully wild. But only one woman looked beyond the wildness to see the man. "Delightfully different...brims with laughter and passion." (Literary Times) "With a lyrical voice and keen wit, Patricia Gaffney weaves compelling stories that echo in the human heart." (Nora Roberts)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451205988 (0451205987)
Publish date: April 1st 2002
Publisher: NAL Trade
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
What I enjoyed about this books was that the H was so naïve & innocent, but at the same time so virile & masculine. He was void of any selfishness & rouge characteristics that most H's in stories possess. What a lucky h!
Everything is very romantic, but it hasn't caught my attention at all, indeed, at times the characters are annoying (such as Sydney's tendency to be a prick-tease).
An engaging and well-written story, but after Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild" it was almost impossible to suspend disbelief that a child could survive practically on its own from age 6 to adulthood in the northern Ontario wilderness of the 1870's (Lake Nipissing is north of Algonquin Park and the cli...
I put this on my "sexy beta" shelf because Michael is one by usual romance standards, but I actually think Gaffney was not writing a “beta” hero, but completely re-writing the whole idea of “alpha.” By his standards -- which come from the wolves he grew up with -- Michael is alpha: he thinks about p...
12 years ago
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