Title: Highlander Unchained
Series: MacLeods of Skye Trilogy
Author: Monica McCarty
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ASIN: B000W7KNJ4
Lachlan Maclean will do whatever it takes to protect his clan—even if it means abducting the most willful woman in the Highlands with the secret intention of wooing her for marriage. A searingly sensual born leader possessing brute strength and an imposing command, Lachlan is unprepared for the beautiful spitfire, Flora MacLeod, who jeopardizes his plans to save his clan, and digs beneath his hard, chiseled exterior to expose a tenderness that may be his undoing.
The greatest marriage prize in the Highlands, Flora is determined at all costs to avoid her mother's fate of being bartered away as a political pawn. Vowing to make her captor pay for his ruthlessness, she boldly engages him in a battle of wills, sweetening the challenge with dangerous passion—even as the lingering curse and deadly ghosts of a past tragedy reach out to thwart a tender love that has yet to be spoken.
My rating:
A man determined to protect his clan and a woman determined to avoid political marriage are thrust together in a battle of wills and passions...
If you go by the definition that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results, I guess I'm officially insane, since I stuck with these books in hopes they'd get better. And they didn't.
I loved the prologue! If the book revolved more around that particular tidbit instead of yet another set of constant repetitions, back and forths, will-they-won't-they-should-they and contradictory inner musings, I'd have been quite happy.
Instead I got yet another book eerily similar to its predecessor with a hero who knew what he wanted, but he'd be damned if he said the words that would get him that and the heroine who had absolutely no idea what she wanted and in the end even turned TSTL. Grrrr.
Again, cut the ballast, shorten it, tighten it and you have a decent story. Left like it is, not so much.
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