Enjoyable Highlander tale
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This was a strong read. I enjoyed it. This plot always works for me. I love a damaged hero and heroine who find love through a forced marriage. The heroine seemed quite damaged to start but she overcame her fears and inhibitions almost a little too easily I thought. Also, I did not like that Alex had been beaten and almost raped by the man he was fostering with to train. It seemed a bit too convenient that he was saved at the last second. It was like the author wanted the hero to have a horrible past but did not want him to quite suffer that much. Other than these few draw backs I njoyed the story and finished it in one sitting.
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This is book 4 in the authors Highlander series. Having not read the previous books in the series, I was still able to enjoy it. This book was given to me by the author to review. Although I do love historical romances, I usually stay away from highlander books. I hate when the Scottish accent is very pronounced, and sometimes the hero is a bit too gruff for my tastes. I decided to take a chance and read this because I have enjoyed other books by this author. Happily for me, I ended up really enjoying this book and looking forward to reading others in this series.

The heroine of this story is Edana Chattan, daughter of the chief of the Chattan clan and rumored to be touched by the fae. I liked Edana and did not find her obnoxious or whiney. She was clever and caring. At the opening of this story, Edana is woken by her brother Kaynes call for help in her mind. He says the word dungeon, and she knows that all five of her brothers were on their way to visit their cousin. She worries that all of them might be trapped in a dungeon and in need of her help. She tries unsuccessfully to convince her father to take action, so she takes matters into her own hands. I liked that rather than rashly heading out on her own, she at least takes her maid and companion Una as well as two castle guards. For me, this was a classic heros quest story. Early in her journey, Edana gets separated from her traveling companions and encounters Angus MacNeill, his cousin Niall, and their friend Gunnolf. The men have actually been out looking for Edana. They have heard of her disappearance from her fathers home and have set out to make sure shes safe and to return her. Edana and Angus know each other. They both had a secret crush on each other when they were younger. Angus always regretted not saying something to her at the time. Edana always worried for her safety if anyone found out about her special abilities. Angus is how I wish all highland heroes were  an all-around good guy, cares about his family and others, hes a hottie, and he is so sweet to Edana. I enjoyed their romance. I thought there was the right combination of sweet, sexy, humor, and good story-telling. The rescue/search party runs into a few obstacles along the way. Edanas gift is only as good as the person she is able to mentally communicate with. They follow the clues her brothers send her as they get them. Another obstacle comes in the form of Keary, the newly minted Laird Lockton. He ended up being a villain in this story, but something of a complex one for me. He chases the good guys, but helps hunt down the villainess Oppida. He has murderous intentions toward Angus intending to get Edana for himself, but you feel sympathetic toward him for having an abusive father growing up. I was very conflicted about how he ended up. I found the two women, Oppida and Zeneva, to be almost succubus-like  especially Oppida. I found the part in the story when they finally find Edanas brothers to be very exciting. I liked the character Pol  he was a sweet boy. I look forward to reading more books in this series  especially books about Allison, as well as Niall.
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I love my Highlander stories, the hard brutal lives led.  But I especially enjoy the love stories.  They take me away  in a fun way.  I doubt life in that time was truly loving but one never knows.  After all, these are ficticious stories.
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This was yet another yummy highlander book in this series.  I don't think this one was really better than the last one, but since it was leading up to the Fever series, I was looking around for clues constantly.

In this story we follow Jessica, the overworked archaeology student (who is also a virgin, of course).  During a rather stressful night, she ends up stumbling in to the world of Druids and Unseelie hollows.  In this Unseelie hollow?  A really hot and sexy Highlander (of course).  I wasn't in love with Cian the way I was with the other Highlander characters.  He just came off as a big jerk for about half the book.  I was having trouble getting myself to read it (which is a big deal for me).

Something happens at the 50% mark.  All of the sudden, Cian is a romantic, adorable, alpha male, and he really endeared himself to me.  His declaration in the supermarket might have been the tipping point.  I also really enjoyed watching Dageus and Cian bicker.  That alone made reading this book worth it.

The end of this book contains a lot of vague foreshadowing for the Fever series, but not enough to really be spoilers (I think).  I like seeing all these "insider" looks at the fairy world along with the Highlanders.  I wish there was more Christian, though.
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I really enjoyed this short novella, Highlander's captive, written by Joanne Wadsworth. This is my first read by this author and I had fun reading Julia MacLeod and Ivor MacDonald's short story. Nice debut to get us introduced to her Historical Highlander Heat series!  I recommend this new Scottish series!
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I enjoy highland stories and usually read any I can get my hands on.  This was also a mystery which I like.
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B . J . Scott has done a excellent job on this story about a highlander who safe a woman from the English soldiers. Find out that he fill in love with this woman. I give this story a four star rating.
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In keeping with the obsession with all things historic romance, lets go to14th century Scotland to meet James and Davina in The Highlander Who Loved Me by Adrienne Basso.  The second son of the McKenna chief, James is nearly everything one would want in a hero: honorable, protective, strong, determined and wholly Scots in his outlook.  Its hard not to like him, even when events turn and twist and horrible things happen.

Davina is an orphan, raised by the chief of the Armstrongs, her uncle and aunt.  At first, she was a solid character with a good heart and while not untouched by personal tragedy shes not wallowing in self-pity or hopeless.  Her instant attraction to James is understandable, and his concern and caring for her is palpable, and you just know these two need to be together.

But then tragedy strikes and Davina, scarred and scared is brought back into the arms of her family who shelter and fuel her fears, and she becomes a clingy, critical, wallowing miss, not displaying the backbone or heart that we first met.  James too has changed, but his feelings for Davina never quite went away, even though her careless and thoughtless behavior for a large part of the story is confusing and frustrating for him.

And there is where I had a problem: yes, much of the change displayed by both James and Davina did have some justifiable reasons, but the wholesale change in Davinas thoughtfulness and caring nature was completely missing in the latter part of the novel.  The explanations just didn't fit the behavior and back and forth for her, and especially the disrespect that she showed James repeatedly.  He was a true gem, sticking about and weathering her rather mercurial behavior. And no matter the explanation from the author (she needed to be civil) actually fit with the behavior or earlier build of the characters.

Those moments took time to develop and display, and the repetitive displays of Davinas new nature without real solid reason pulled the flow of the story off kilter, and made the romance elements feel dragged out and along.  Incorporated well was a mystery element that kept popping up and adding new twists until the reveal, and was well-structured and paced. Overall, it was a rather uneven story that started out well-paced and then started to fluctuate in pacing and interest to the end.

I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
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I enjoyed reading this ebook.  I love reading about the highlanders during this time period.
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This is an excellent classic highlander romance, it has all that you can expect in this type of story and it's written well. Good mix of emotion and humor, witty dialog, fast pace.
The H and h are both well developed, I was connected to them and wanted to see how things will evolve. I especially felt for  Marion, her need to belong with the difficult of loving someone who cant love you back.
If you are into highlander romance, this is highly recommended.
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This was my first by Medeiros an I will read more by her as I found it entertaining and the action held my interest. The story includes the Regency period and the Highlands, an English miss and a strapping Highlander!--a great combination!

Set in 1814, it begins in the Highlands and later moves to the outskirts of London, and tells the story of orphans Pamela Darby and her half sister Sophie. Their mother, a famous actress, was killed in a suspicious fire that Pamela thinks is tied into her mother's friendship with the Duchess of Warrick. When the Duchess, now dead, ran away from her unfaithful husband, she took her baby son and started a new life in Scotland while laying a trail to France. Only Pamela knows the duchess went to Scotland since only she has the note the duchess left Pamela's mother. Pamela and her sister need money to live and to save Sophie from a lecherous Viscount. They hope to collect the reward for finding the duke's lost heir so they rent a carriage and head for Scotland. When Pamela's search suggests the baby boy died with the duchess, she decides to find a Highlander who can pretend to be the duke's son. Who should happen along but a highwayman with gray eyes and a god-like body? Connor Kincaid gave up on his dream to restore his clan and has been living the life of a highwayman robbing the dreaded English who murdered his father and mother. He has little to lose and English money and a title to gain, so when Pamela proposes he pretend to be the duke's son, he agrees. When he gets to London, the old duke easily accepts him as his son saying he has his mother's eyes. Conner is happy to play along. He decides that to keep Pamela by his side he will claim she is his fiance. Pamela doesn't like it but she can say nothing.

This was a fast moving, well written tale that held my interest. The first part of the story that took place in the Highlands was fun and I liked the back story of Conner's early life. Medeiros did a great job of showing us why he was truly a hero worth loving. The rest of the story (except the ending that brings us back to the Highlands) takes place in the duke's home at Warrick. The developing relationships and explosive chemistry between Pamela and Conner were well done. There are some great secondary characters, including the duke and his nephew. Medeiros does a bit of "head hopping" in some scenes but it worked very well. I recommend it.
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Title: Sold to a Laird
Author: Karen Ranney
Genre: Historical (Victorian) Romance
Year: 2009
Rating: 4 stars

This one is a keeper! I liked Douglas and Sarah. The epilogue was amusing but also made me feel sorry for the lady the duke was planning to marry. Its my understanding that the next story in the series is about her and am looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy.

Tulloch Sgathan trilogy
1) Sold to a Laird
2) A Highland Duchess
3) A Borrowed Scot
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Started out very similar to most Highland stories, but the took some twist that weren't expected.  Now onto the next in the series.
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My Fair Highlander takes place in the Tudor time period, on the border between Scotland and England.  Laird Barras is the neighbor (on the Scotland side) to Jemma Ramsden, an English lady.  I really was not Jemma's biggest fan, at first.  She was consumed by grief after the passing of her father, and she was very selfish.  She was argumentative towards her brother, and she made bad decisions, such as taking an evening ride along the England/Scotland border.  During this fateful ride, Jemma was accosted by English soldiers and subsequently saved by Laird Barras, who had been attracted to Jemma for awhile.  Gordon (Laird Barras) decides to keep Jemma at his keep to get to know her and "court" her.  Although, after her bad decision for evening riding, Gordan is not sure she is the woman he needs.  Jemma needs to overcome her grief and embrace her life and hopefully her future.

I really liked Gordon, Laird Barras.  He is a Highlander in a difficult time, a time period where religious tensions are high and the Scottish monarch was only a babe.  He is a good leader for his people and he is willing to negotiate and work with the english, to do whatever would be necessary to take care of his people and his land.  Gordon manages to keep to the highlander ways of capturing brides.  After rescuing Jemma, he keeps  her in his keep, and I fully enjoyed his manner of courtship.  He shows his sweet side with Jemma as well as his tough, warrior side creating good chemistry between himself and Jemma.  As for Jemma, while she has selfish tendencies, she does begin to come out of her shell and grow as a character.  She has to deal with prejudice from some of the Scottish women, and she has to stand up to Gordon himself quite a bit as well.  I can appreciate the prejudice that Jemma faced as an Englishwoman in Scottish territory, she was not accepted just because the Laird liked her.  She had to earn her place, and with that she earned my respect.

My Fair Highlander is a very good historical romance read, the issues the people face are consistent with the historical time period.  While this book is book 2 in a series, it is still able to be read as a stand alone.  I have not yet read book 1 in the series, and I had no problem understanding the story or the characters.  However, after reading book 2, I think that I am going to have to get book 1 as well because previous story lines that were mentioned sound pretty good too.  Readers, if you enjoy historicals, highlanders, or romances I recommend reading My Fair Highlander.

I received this book as a gift from RomCon, a romance novel convention in Denver, CO.
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Ok, I wasn't sure I was going to like this series at first but towards the end it got a lot more interesting. I kind of cheated and went and skimmed the next few books and it will be interesting to see how this plot develops. I like this author and really enjoyed her highlander series, which actually kind of parallels this series - I think.
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Scottish Highlander immortals fighting undead vicious vampires.
A California Air Force female Captain extremely hurt in battle in Afghanistan.
That is the setting for this book.
This was an enjoyable story.
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*I received an e-ARC of The Highlanders Folly from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

A fierce Highlander from the fifteenth-century, a faeries plot and a modern day time-traveling maiden.  Whats not to love in that combination?

Read on for my thoughts on The Highlanders Folly.  No true spoilers, promise.

This is the third novel in this series, and I was a bit concerned because I have not read the others.  Sometimes you can jump into a series anywhere and others, not so easy.  There were enough comments about previous stories in the early chapters that I could read Hunter and Meghans story without feeling I had jumped into the ending.  While not a stand-alone, in my opinion, it didn't feel like I was lost.

When a Highlander knight crosses paths with a modern day martial arts instructor  well, sparks are going to fly.  Then add into the mix that Meghan is totally unsurprised by the notion of time-travel and you add another level to the story.

I enjoyed the richness of details of the times, conditions and how life is lived day by day.  Im not so sure that Meghan did though.  It is a major adjustment from taking part in medieval tournaments for fun, and actually living them in a life and death situation.

Hunter is a man of his times, arrogant most of the time, sure that his way is the right way, honorable to a fault.  Even though he has fae blood running through his veins, he is none too pleased to have been tricked by Giselle into bringing Meghan back in time to her past.

It was fun deciphering the two languages used.  Hunters local brogue with its meaning, and Meghans modern day conversation that often baffled Hunter.  Overall, this was a charming, sexy, enjoyable tale.  Time-travel is always a fascination, and the author handled this aspect of the story extremely well.

The only part of this novel I took a bit of exception to was Hunters honor where it came into play where Sky and Meghan were involved.  He knew his intentions toward Sky from the start, he had considered himself betrothed to her from the moment of her birth.  Yet he didn't mention this to Meghan, even when he was having conflicting emotions about her.  He was falling for the maiden from the future, but he didn't tell her that he was spoken for.  That bothered me  perhaps it is simply true to the nature of the medieval beast, but it put his honor into question in my mind.  Again, in my opinion, perhaps you will see his actions differently.

I enjoyed this novel very much  enough to go searching for the earlier novels in this particular series.  That in itself says it was a very good read for me.

I would recommend this one.  It was face paced, action packed and a passionate love story with a satisfying conclusion.