Barbarous by Minerva Spencer

Series: The Outcasts Series Book #2
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 371
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Barbarous is book two in The Outcasts series by Minerva Spencer. I hardly know how to review this absolutely breathtaking story. I was spellbound almost from the beginning. Set during the Regency era, Spencer weaves the tale of Hugh Redvers, the Baron Ramsay also known as One-eyed Standish from the first book in the series “Dangerous”. Several of the characters from the first book appear in this one. Although it can be read as a stand alone, it is much richer if one reads the series in order.

What happens when a man long thought dead is suddenly resurrected? “This man was tall – remarkably so – golden, and devastatingly attractive. Not even almost two decades, brutal scarring, and the black patch over his eye could obscure the truth. He was, without  doubt, Hugh Redvers, her dead husband’s true heir: a man everyone had believed dead for almost twenty years.”

There are a number of triggers in this book, and by that I mean issues that some may struggle through. Rape and slavery are themes that run throughout. Both are seen as the evil that they are and are not glorified in any way. There are several intimate steamy scenes. If they bother the reader, then just read the dialogue. 

I hated coming to the end of this story and am looking forward to the third book in the series “Scandalous”.