Barbara Erskine, Child of the Phoenix Reviews

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Good Points: Beautiful depiction of a love story.

Bad Points: Making love to a ghost :( the author seems to have no problem with romantisising infidelity and borderline promiscuity. To be realistic, the lines between the good guys and the bad guys should rightfully be more blurred.

General comments: The heroine cheated on her husbands whenever she saw fit and never seemed to struggle internally with her infidelity much. It seems to me some the depth of her character could have come out when she found her last husband with another woman. As long as the book was, a few pages here and there throughout detailing a broader understand of life through experience would have fleshed her out. I wonder if it was intentional to depict people back then as doing whatever they wanted with each other and to each other behind closed doors.

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It was a good story that really pulled me into it. Half the time I felt like I was Eleyne while reading it. The descriptions of areas and castles were good, I could almost sense and feel where each character was in the story. I would certainly recommend this for anyone who does read historical romance novels, or anyone who enjoys a good story. I may even read it a second time it was that good.

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Barbara Erskine, Child of the Phoenix is is a wonderful story about a woman who can see the future, and stuff, she loved Alexander King of Scotland, but she and him could never be together, Alexander then dies, and she carries on life unhappy, with two children. She's definitely the ladies man, until she finds another man of her dreams, but the spirit of Alexander and her nurse Rhonwen want to put a stop to it. Eleyne also was first married to Alexanders brother John, then a evil abusive knight ...