Title: Highlander Untamed
Series: MacLeods of Skye Trilogy
Author: Monica McCarty
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: July 31, 2007
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ASIN: B000U6F9XW
Rory MacLeod is a bold and powerful Highland Chief with only one allegiance—to his clan. He vows revenge against the rival MacDonald clan, though duty demands a handfast marriage to Isabel MacDonald—a bride he does not want and has no intention of keeping. But Rory couldn’t have anticipated the captivating woman who challenges his steely control, and unleashes the untamed passion simmering beneath his fierce exterior.
Blessed with incomparable beauty, Isabel MacDonald is prepared to use every means possible—including seduction—to uncover her husband’s most guarded secrets. Instead Rory awakens Isabel’s deepest desires and her sweetest fantasies. Now Isabel has found the happiness she’s always dreamed of with the very man she must betray, and discovers that passion can be far more dangerous than revenge.
My rating:
To end the feud between the MacLeod and MacDonald clans, king James orders the handfasting between the chief of Clan MacLeod and the niece of the chief of Clan MacDonald.
They both have their own agendas, though. He plans to keep the handfasting in name only and send her back, untouched, after a year. She, in order to please her family, is sent into the lion's den as a spy.
Neither is prepared for what they're about to find in this unwanted union.
Jesus, this book dragged on. It would've worked much better if it were shorter. The plot, at least, would've been a little tighter and I wouldn't have to suffer through repetitive passage after repetitive passage about how she wanted to please her family, how he needed to keep her at arm's length, how suddenly she couldn't betray him, how desperately he desired her, how he would never forgive her if he found out she was sent there to betray him, how incredibly beautiful she was, how captivatingly handsome he was...
I got the gist, lady author, enough already.
The constant repetitions were a nuisance, the push and pull between the two and the heroine's qualms about her mission got real old real fast, and, beside the insta-lust, I didn't really feel the connection between the two. I didn't feel the connection between the two separately, either. The constant repetitions just annoyed me, until I couldn't be bothered. I persevered only to see if the next chapter might end the agony of constant repetitions. It didn't. Then the ending came, and I was just "meh."
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