Fly by Knight (eBook)

Sahara Kelly
Ellora’s Cave (2008)
ISBN 9781419915284
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (4/08)


Sahara Kelly emigrated from the United Kingdom to New England where she lives with her husband and teenage son. With a string of historical novels to her credit, Sahara has made a transition to the Romantic. “Fly by Knight” is an example of that romantic and erotic transition.

“In days of old, when knights were bold, and they weren’t particular.  They’d prop their women up against the wall and s***w them perpendicular.” That actually happens in “Fly by Knight,” believe it or not. The story is just full of little interludes such as this. With “Hussies” and “Spirit Guides,” wars and warriors, the tale unfolds, first with the introduction of a “Hussy Warrior Hunter” named “Danu.”  Her mission is to find and recruit a hussy warrior hunter and save a noble warrior. But “Danu” has been in limbo for over a hundred years and times have changed. Her choice of a hussy is a brave little Welsh woman that has infiltrated the castle of an English Lord.

“Baron Aubrey Thaxton” was the Knight of the realm, his allegiance sworn to the “Earl of Hoddenbury.” But the Earl had accused him of witchcraft and had him imprisoned in the tower of his own castle. As fate would have it, he is rescued by “Gwyneth Mor Hafren,” a Welsh woman that was posing as a male servant in his castle.  The adventure only gets more erotic and intriguing from there. “Gwyneth” takes “Aubrey” to her village to escape the clutches of “Lord Hoddenbury. She fulfills her destiny as a Hussy Warrior Hunter, she saves a noble warrior.

“Fly by Night” was a good book with enough happening that it kept my interest. The erotic interludes between “Aubrey” and “Gwyneth” were a bit unusual in their presentation. Sahara Kelly seemed to have a problem with the vocabulary of the period.
She consistently made reference to the “F” word and male and female genitalia using the “C” and “P” words, which I don’t believe was the verbiage for that period. This detracted from the intimacy of the moment as one would not expect such vulgarity from these two beautifully depicted characters.

Overall, I enjoyed “Fly by Night” for its exciting storyline and the way in which Ms. Kelly presented it. The only disappointment was not keeping the characters speaking the language of the period. All things considered, I would give this adult novel a strong B on my usual grading scale.

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