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La Captive Du Highlander (2012)

by Julianne MacLean(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

2811208518 (ISBN13: 9782811208516)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Milady

series

Highlander Trilogy

review 1: The story starts with the hero (Duncan) sneaking into a castle to kill his mortal enemy. His enemy is lieutenant Bennett who is leading the English troops in Scotland against rebels. Duncan wants to stop him at any cost because the lieutenant brutally assaulted and killed his fiancée Muira and he is doing the same thing to other women and children.Duncan had to kill several of the guards to gain access to the room of the lieutenant however he will be surprised what he will find in the room. Instead of finding the lieutenant in the bed a beautiful girl was sleeping there and he nearly chopped her head. He is very happy to find out that she is the fiancée (Amelia) of his enemy so he can use her as bait. The lieutenant is away from the castle so Duncan will use Amelia to ca... morepture and kill lieutenant Bennett.During her time as a hostage her image of the Scots as villains starts to change and she could see that English troops could be cruel and unfair towards their treatment of Scottish women and children. She found the true about her fiancé but till the end of the book you can see that annoying and naïve devotion to her former fiancé. She was able to escape twice her captor and the second time she was able to reach a castle where the famous Scottish laird Moncreffe lives and who wants peace between Scotland and England.She is admitted in the castle by the brother of the laird and waiting to meet the laird to ask for help. However, she will be surprise to see that laird is Duncan the same person who kidnapped her and drag her through whole Scotland.It was nothing special as romance and the end really ruin the book for me. The heroine was really naïve and she couldn’t put herself in the position of other people in order to understand them better and their course of actions. I think this is due to the fact that her father sheltered her from everything bad and unpleasant happening in the outside world. The romance between the characters was not exciting because you could see any sparks between the characters or anything to relate to each other. The emotional aspect of the book was blanc and I couldn’t really believe that the characters are in love.
review 2: This is the first thing I've read by Julianne MacLean and possibly the last.The flow and writing were good, it was just the heroine. I generally try not to be too hard on the heroine and use the 'tstl' tag judiciously. In this case I almost created new tags for 'self-righteous-b' and 'she-needed-to-grovel'.Lady Amelia is a self-righteous prig engaged to Lt. Bennett of the fabulous English Army. He'd once saved her father in battle and therefore gained favor with her father and herself. She's captured by 'The Butcher' when he breaks into the English fort to kill Bennett who had left on his usual campaign-o-terror in the highlands. The hero, Duncan aka 'The Butcher', was betrothed to the daughter of the Laird of the McDonald clan. The McDonald supported the Jacobite rebellion, so Amelia's fiance decides to rape and murder his daughter (Duncan's fiance) then return her head to her father in a box. This is what starts the reign of 'The Butcher'. Duncan and his best friend (fiance's brother) want revenge. So, they go on a campaign of terror against the British soldiers in Scotland with the ultimate goal of killing Bennett. It's not all about personal revenge either. Bennett is raping and burning his way through the Highlands. He's not keeping it to the battlefield. He needs to go.It's revealed right-off that Amelia is very prejudiced toward the highland Scots as any good English aristocrat likely was. She also had a traumatic childhood memory of seeing English soldiers (guarding her and her mother on a trip to Scotland to see her father) killed by a band of highlanders. Her father was an Earl and an officer in the English army occupying Scotland. It's notable however that the Scots who made the raid did not harm her or her mother. They kept it between the men. She quickly begins to realize that Duncan is not the heartless brute she'd imagined. They are both instantly attracted to one another and she "claims" to learn a lot through her interaction with him and the other Scots she meets. However, she has a bizarre reaction to the news about her fiance. She's never properly horrified at what the man did to an innocent woman or concerned with what he's still doing in Scotland. Personally I think she's just jealous of the poor dead woman because Duncan loved her and still such a snob that she doesn't truly see the Scots as people. I believe that's why she was so insistent that Duncan set aside his revenge and go through the courts like a "civilized Englishman" instead of using vigilante justice. As the daughter of a celebrated and respected officer, I would have expected her to understand Duncan's warrior side. But, no. She never makes the connection between him and her father. She doesn't see Duncan as a soldier. She sees him as simply a rebel against the English crown. I had no complaints against Duncan. He was a great and very hot hero. I just don't see why he was so desperate for Lady Amelia's approval, but feel it probably had to do with some childhood trauma of his own. She didn't deserve him, IMHO. Ok, yes, she does make up for her idiocy somewhat in the end, but her insistence that the rescue plan involve no one getting hurt made me roll my eyes. I realize that she would have been sheltered from the realities of war by her father, but she supposedly learned a lot (something she kept saying but never proving). This book makes me remember why I love the older HRs. There was so much less time spent navel gazing in Emo-land. Highland Scott warriors don't need to go there. EVER. less

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baretmax

This book got very mixed reviews. The hero is typical highlander warrior until u read more into book and find secrets about him. The heroine was reviewed by others as annoying and naive asking the butcher to put down his arms because there could be a better solution the blood shed and vengeance that will darken his soul and send him to hell. She keeps this belief all way through book and even though she starts off very sheltered and naive about the world and real war, she does wise up after certain events almost get her raped and abused. My reason for only giving 4stars was the modern speak used by characters and the mostly English pronounced words spoken by the Scottish character's, when I read book with accents I find I get more into it and remember their Scottish if the words are wrote the way they speak. Aye lass, bluidy hell, lassie and fookin wasn't much in a 390 book with mostly Scottish characters. I did enjoy the slow romance and subduction and eventful HEA. No epilogue at end which I didn't like. I'll still carry on with series because I need to find out what happens to Angus.

liezl

Unfortunately this book was a DNF for me at 52%. Here's where I finally decided to let it go:"He would likely tie her up and gag her from that moment on. But it would not be so very different, she supposed, from the bonds of his sexual power, which had enslaved her in a mad, irrational desire and almost kept her from running this morning when she finally had the chance to escape."

Jonny69

This was enjoyable story. I can't seem to get enough of the highlanders

ntigris

It was good and I plan to read the others in the series.

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