Pre-Owned The Lass Wore Black (Paperback) by Karen Ranney

from BookAddictKatie

Catriona Cameron is a flirty young woman who highly values her beauty - she is in the midst of setting her cap at a suitor when tragedy strikes. Catriona is in a carriage accident that complete disfigures her face and body. Now that she has lost her beauty, who is she really? Catriona puts hersel...

from mariahsidhe

This is a story of triumph and learning, understanding and love. Catriona was beautiful, she knew it and used it to her advantage until one day there was an accident and she considered herself a monster. She hid herself away from the world until a doctor with the courage to act as if he were a fo...

from lexilewords

Prelim Review: I'm a bit torn on this book honestly. On the one hand I think its great that Ranney wrote a heroine who is truly disfigured, who had a realistic reaction to that disfigurement and the guy didn't turn into a gibbering nodcock about it. On the other hand Catriona is SO unlikeable fo...

from PNRList

I enjoyed it, but to be honest, it was too involved and dry for my angsty, dramatic tastes. Good plot though, and very well-developed characters. I suspect if I had read the first book (which I will likely go back and do now), I would have disliked the heroine too much to have garnered enough sym...

from librarydanielle

it's nice to see a truly flawed heroine who isn't a spectacular beauty or perfect in some way. Catriona (the name annoyed me most of the book for some reason) was a stunning, spoiled, terrible brat until she's horribly scarred. afterwards, she's still a spoiled brat, but in a coddled way. a spoil...