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Rescued By A Highlander (2013)

by Keira Montclair(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

149106739X (ISBN13: 9781491067390)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

series

Clan Grant

review 1: While I PERSONALLY loved this book I will admit first and foremost it is not a book that is going to appeal to everyone. It's hard for me to describe exactly who this book is for, but I will try. * Do you like heroes saving damsels in distress?* Do you like a romantic pair healing each others emotional scars?* Do you love watching a romance develop slowly over time?GOOD NEWS! This IS a book for you.x Do you NOT like your characters to be too "perfect?"x Do you NOT like historical plots that focuses more on the plot created then getting the time period 100% accurate?x Do you NOT like to read about abuse?MOVE ON! This REALLY might NOT be the book for you.The biggest thing I have to warn against here is that yes, there is description of abuse. There is a lot of that, but it's... more never between the main pairing. The heroine has got a lot of emotional and physical scars that she carries from her past. The book is very open about this. Very VERY open. It doesn't sugar coat anything. But the thing that makes the book not only bearable but a downright enjoyable read to me even with so much ugliness is the healing process. Never before have I seen a heroine with such baggage paired with a man that is so understand, gentle, loving, and devoted to her and the obstacles she must overcome to be able to love him fully. He is happy to take things slow because his focus if fully upon helping her to heal. He never EVER pushes her and is always 100% supportive and protective of her. That is super romantic to me. I have seen books attempt to tackle the idea of abuse before but I've never seen it done to such an extreme level of abuse BUT at the same time with such care given to make the recovery process seem logical and genuine.
review 2: Ugh... where to start with this... I don't usually like to give books a bad review but COME ON!!!For a first time out... at least the editing was pretty good... just a couple of mistakes ... wrong words in wrong places but I've seen way worse. The premise was good... the description of the tortures that Maddie went through are horrific (almost on the borderline of unbelievable)and the final twist was absolutely ludicrous. So here we go:Oh holy hell... the characters drove me up the wall!Maddie is our main character and it is well established she is perfect (to the point of nausea). Her Evil step brother is a maniacal bastard who should have been drowned at birth but apparently the tavern wench mother was able to convince Maddie's father that the baby was his so he lived. He beats her because she refuses to marry the sadistic bastard next door (who's already raped her too). So she's been traumatized but still the author wants us to believe that she hates them but doesn't want anything bad to happen to anyone... REALLY??? So in comes our hero Alex who is supposed to be this yummy strong highland laird but really, with all of his internal dialogue and thoughts he's just comes off as horny... sappy... and FLAT!!All of the characters in this book are flatter than a wafer cracker. There is basically no character development, Maddie's dialogue is elementary at best, the hero is a pathetically sappy nitwit... the evil is over the top and the ending leaves you saying WHAT? Are you Serious? You went THERE? Good Grief. On top of all of that... There is little to no imagery established. Yeah, there are some descriptions of rooms or the basic layout of the keep, but HELLO!!!! this is supposed to be a highland story!! Imagery is important! Give me a mental picture of what it really looks like, smells like and not just vague terms.. I need details in order to picture where I am. Seriously... this author needs to study Monica McCarty, Diana Cosby, Karen Marie Moning, and Paula Quinn to get an idea of what a good highlander book looks like. I didn't get any feel of accents, traditions, or ANYTHING. I got to a point where I just wanted to finish the damn thing to see if it got any better... I'm actually mad at myself that I didn't check reviews here on GoodReads because I don't know what Amazon reviewers are smoking but the reviews there are completely off! Seriously... I want the time that I spent reading this back... less

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