The Blue-Eyed Witch by Barbara Cartland

The Blue-Eyed Witch Reviews

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  Berengaria

  “Blue-Eyed Witch”: simplistic and without much development of anything, almost like reading the historic novella of a beginning writer with a certain amount of potential…or like reading a foreign language easy reader.
  
  That’s what I read it for, btw, as I found a copy in Dutch in a give-away box and decided to use it for language improvement. And in fact, if read like that, the lack of real development, the basic descriptions and the more-or-less straightforward plot makes it a surprisingly excellent read.
  
  I'd give it 5 stars if it were a learner-targeted story intended for edutainment, but since it clearly isn't ...2 stars.
  
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  Lauren

  Really bad! 1.5 stars is generous.
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  Katherine

  Why mom? Why did you put the name of this girl on me? *sigh*
  At least it means Perfection. Lol
  
  Okay, here it goes the review.
  
  So, this girl is being accused of witchcraft.
  The Marquis of Aldridge coming back to his home, see the Damsel in distress at her trial.
  
  To know if she is a real witch, the locals, always so nice were dragging her to the river -between kicks and punchs and the other locals being oh, not so nice to her- to throw her down. Did I mentioned the big rock attached to her body?
  If she in any kind of way had the chance to save her own ass and live through this, she was a witch. If she drowned and died, waaay cool she wasn't. Niiice, eh? Better than a polygraph test right?
  
  Always -HA- the saver, Marquis saves her, and take her to his home. Takes care of her, who holds no memory about who the heck she is.
  
  With the passing time, someone break in his house and try to kill her. This doesn't happens just once, and the Marquis is always saving her.
  
  With her memory back at its place, she discover truths about herself and her family, and WHY so many people are trying to kill her.
  
  *****
  
  I don't see romance, sorry but I can't. Saving doesn't mean love. She falls in love with the man... But come on... This is Barbara Cartland we're talking about. LOL
  I only read because this is where my name came from, sooo, always the curious, here I am. And I survived.
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  Mojca

  The Marquis of Aldridge rides into a country town right in the middle of a witch-test and saves the raven-haired, blue-eyes beauty from certain death. She sure cannot be a witch, right?
  
  The usual template, cookie-cutter Barbara Cartland story with a nobleman saving the beauty from peril…They fall in love and they live happily ever after. You cannot call that one a spoiler. It’s Barbara Cartland, after all. ;)
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  Nadia

  I'm not sure if I liked it. It was too sweet for my taste and villain was too obvious as was heroine's heritage. Everybody was so amazing that I began to feel sick from that. It was like a fairy-tale for the 6th grade student and I guess I'm too old for that.
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  Tasneem

  Dame Cartland's style is unmistakeable. In a world of bland, her silly pink prose is so bad its brilliant. Her female leads can barely string one complete sentence together, they are so demure and timid. The irony is killing, but she just manages to pull it of. I wonder what it is in modern women that makes us still read about women who are basically too good and stupid to live.
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  Cecily

  I...love...these...stories... (if you have read one you will understand...)
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  RomLibrary

  To escape the attentions of a persistent ex-mistress, the Marquis of Aldridge retreats to his country home in Essex. As fancy-free as he is handsome and wealthy, he little dreams that the so-called witch whom he gallantly rescues from a bloodthirsty village mob can cast a spell over even his fickle and unloving heart. Idylla has lost her memory, and through his attempts to discover the secret of her past, the Marquis uncovers a cruel and murderous plot against her life.
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  MissKitty

  I quite liked this one, it had a good mystery going. That being said, its a Cartland. Nothing is ever too complex.
  
  As said in the blurb, the Hero rescues the heroine from a village mob who is convinced that the heroine is a witch simply because she was found lying unconscious on some druid stones w a dead chicken on top of her.
  
  Even when the Hero points out that her hands have no blood on them, the villagers are still skeptical. So he takes her w him to recuperate at his house. Even there, some of his staff are apprehensive. His old nanny is the one who takes care of the heroine, and is convinced that she is a lady.
  
  The heroine has amnesia due to the blow on her head, someone tried to kill her, and it looks like they set it up so she would look like a witch.
  
  I enjoyed the mystery in this one, due to the amnesia of the heroine. The villain tries to kidnap her again, so she is an actual target, but since we dont know who the heroine is, the motive is not so clear. I kinda suspected the villain, I also eventually figured out the motive and wanted to see how it would play out.
  
  So yes while it was a bit convoluted. In the end, I didnt see the need for why the guy kept his family a secret from his father.
  
  Of course the Hero has been falling in love w the beautiful heroine the whole time she has been recuperating in his house. He saves the day, the villain esposes himself and commits suicide so the Hero and heroine can have their uncomplicated HEA. 😁❤️❤️❤️
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  Lianne Burwell

  I read this when I was nine years old. When we moved back to Canada from the Netherlands, I had three books for on the plane: two Barbara Cartland novels, and Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island. After three years in a country where there were few kids my age that spoke English in our neighbourhood, and the television options were incredibly limited, I went from Little Golden books when we moved there to this level of reading.
  
  I read this one on the plane across the Atlantic. I can still remember elements of the plot, it was so bizarre.
  
  The fact that I have never read another one of the woman's books after that should tell you something. It still amazes me just how popular the woman was, with her archaic ideas of romance.
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  P

  The mystery of the "blue-eyed witch" wasn't very hard to solve, though I suppose this book caters more to lovers of romantic novels than to mystery novel enthusiasts. It's amazing to me how quickly the Marquis of Alridge, "an avowed bachelor", falls in love with the woman, Idylla, but I will not waste my time in trying to analyze it.
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  Gothicromantic

  As a teenager I loved these clean, entertaining novels. The Blue-eyed witch is yet another sanitized historical romance with innocent, breathless heroine, who is this time accused of witchcraft, and hero who saves her. It is solid Cartland, although not best of her works.
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  Pebbles Montoya

  Let's just saying that Barbara Cartland needs to be voted "Most Likely to Always State the Fwaeking Obvious"...just saying...
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  Melinda Catlin

  one of my favs
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  Janika Puolitaival

  Voi räätäleitä ja miespalvelijoita! Kirjassa tuskaillaan useamman kerran kuinka vaikeaa on saada muodinmukainen tiukka asu niin kovin lihaksikkaan ja salskean markiisin ylle. Hupaisaa romantiikkaa. Ja lopussa sankarimme "kohottaa taivaisiin" avuttoman Idyllan (!).
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  Ayesha Budhwal ♡

  How did they just fall in love over a few days? Not complaining though
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  Josh

  This wasn’t great. Took me ages to read as I had more important books on the go. Nothing really happened and it was too far fetched. Probably my least favourite Barbara Cartland so far.
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  CrystalIsReading on Storygraph

  I found this BC novel as tedious as the previous one of hers I read was fun. In theory, a story involving rural Essex, the ongoing history of witch trials, and a beautiful woman with amnesia, rescued by a handsome hero, should have been thoroughly enjoyable. But this wasn't. I forced myself to finish it, even though I'd figured out the mysteries about halfway through the book, and even though I didn't enjoy or buy into the romance or the hero. I appreciate that he showed a tiny bit of character development throughout the story (in showing more thoughtfulness towards servants, his own and others, mostly), but I didn't particularly like him or enjoy his point of view. In fact, I think his point of view was mostly what sunk this story for me, since apparently he knows he has this mystic love with this woman because she is too tiny and delicate and beautiful to be a witch or low class, but is perfect to be in love with, because deep blue eyes and delicate hands? Also, he admires, towards the end of the story, that unlike other women he's known, she will be totally biddable and do what he says without arguing or asking lots of questions. yet somehow she's intelligent... He also creeps me out wit how summarily he dismisses every other woman with whom he's been, for being too needy or too low-bred or whatever, yet somehow thinks his true love is going to last forever.
  also, so many books I've read set in this era harp on the necessity of a chaperone, of men and women not being alone together, and yet that's pretty much what happens this entire book. Not to mention attending a huge, important party together sans chaperone. weird. Cartland has obviously done tons of historical research, and incorporates it into her books. She can describe clothing and furniture and food of the time in detail. So why this lapse in protocol?
  Just overall disappointing. I might wait before I pick up another of her books for nostalgic reading.
  I do have to give props, though, to the artist of the cover, for skillfully capturing actual important elements of the story, like the Marquis with his carriage, the angry villagers, the "witch", the standing stones, AND the pond. AND making it pretty.
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  Karen-Leigh

  To escape the attentions of a persistent ex-mistress, the Marquis of Aldridge retreats to his country home in Essex. As fancy-free as he is handsome and wealthy, he little dreams that the so-called witch whom he gallantly rescues from a bloodthirsty village mob can cast a spell over even his fickle and unloving heart. Idylla has lost her memory, and through his attempts to discover the secret of her past, the Marquis uncovers a cruel and murderous plot against her life.