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Highland Captive (2000)

by Mary McCall(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Sisters by Choice

review 1: What can I say about this book? Many things actually, first thing, I am beginning to think that families of certain authors like to write 5 star reviews, to convince a reader that they should buy the book because of the 5 stars. I am not saying that all authors ask their family and friends to go to amazon.com and write an outstanding review, but I am suspecting that this was the case in this book. My mistake when buying a book is that I tend to look up at how many stars a book might have, in order to make my decision to buy it. This book does not deserve to many stars. Now having said this, the book is not as I expected. The girl name Alera was supposed to be a strong character. She does have a strong personality, but that is not what I am talking about. What I meant is s... moreomething like a warrior woman. That is what the first chapter led me to believe. I got a sample sent to me to my amazon kindle. After reading the first chapter sample I bought the book. I thought, well, hey, this must be good, she looks like she is going to grow up and be this great kick a**, Xena warrior princess, Underworld, Selene Lycan slayer. Bad assie Buffy the vampire slayer. But sadly I was wrong. The book is titled "Highland Captive". I thought, oh, the girl is going to be taken prisoner, and she is going to fight her way out. She is going to beat the sh** out of the men who kidnapped her and she is going to somehow become some warrior chick that no one messed with. DID THAT HAPPEN NO???? The book is about a girl who is taken captive and falls for her abductor. This was stupid because who in the right mine would fall for a kidnapper. Then I thought, wait this is just a book and authors could write what they want. They do not have to write anything believable. Who really falls for the kidnapper? No one. I also believe that the girl is not the smartest person in the world. She does dumb things. The first night she meets this man she had a “ONE NIGHT STAND”. I totally lost interest in the book right away, the entire book talks about her being tamed by this barbarian war lord and how many time she escaped later to be found again by her lover. Then “BANGED” again for escaping. That was her punishment. Well, not her punishment, it is not a punishment if the woman liked it. The book is something I've read before. Girl is kidnapped. She has a one night STAND. Girl escapes. SHE IS BANGED In a cave. In the lovers home. BANGED. Girl escapes again. BANGED. Girl is found. BANGED. Girl is forced into marriage. BANGED. Girl is tamed by her lover warlord barbarian. BANGED. (BANGED OR ONE NIGHTER, CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL PEOPLE). IT IS STILL THE SAME.I have heard this story told by many authors, only the characters names are changed. I fell asleep reading this book. Is that a good thing, I asked. For me yes, because I can’t fall asleep. I need to take some sleeping pills each night which is a bit frustrating. So, people, now I know that if I need to sleep, but cannot, I just need to read the book again, and it will have me sleeping like a baby in no time. Bad for the author because, I sleep.What saddens me is that romance has taken a different path. These novels have to do with sex more than love between to people. In fact, I looked up the definition of the word “ROMANCE”. It reads: involvement between people; love, A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something. A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful. Nowhere in this definition does it say: sex, one night stand. Okay, I guess you can call me old fashioned. I really do not think that a good book has to be based in SEX alone. Why do I know this???? Because many authors have written books that are great and that have nothing to do with sex. This is one of the many reasons why I stopped reading romance novels. Readers lose track of the main goal, the purpose why the book was written to begin with. Lets not overdo it.People say that MEN think about SEX every two seconds, I am beginning to think that women do the same but instead of talking about it like men do, females write about it. I’ve read many male authors books and I’ve never read a book of theirs that has that many sex parts. Or maybe I am the only person who thinks this way. Take no offence to the female authors out there, but I’ve noticed this when I started to read male authors book and started to piece it together. I am not trying to be mean, but if you guys pay attention you will see that I am saying the truth. I hate writing bad reviews, this time I couldn’t help it. The one star is for the characters, she did do a good job on them. The other star is for the first chapter of the book. Everything else, the entire story was not the very best. The same story told by one author is good enough for me. But to have many authors tell almost the same story, it can get a bit old. Thanks for reading my reviews, have a good one.
review 2: I've realized that my Kindle is going to be my downfall. I see a book on sale for $.99 and I'm like "Oh my gosh, so cheap! It's sounds good... Let me read a review to make sure. Okay, looks good! CLICK." -_- I need to stop. For one, I've never really read a historical romance before. Not my cup of tea. The language was weird and awkward, and I was pretty irritated the whole time reading it. I was confused most of the time, too. Things happened and the author seemed to think that I could read her mind and deduce the reasons for things happening when she never actually tells us in the book!!! OH she got kidnapped because YOU KNOW WHY!!!!! No!!! I don't!!! Explain!!!!! A hundred pages later.... Oh, that's why... I would have liked to know sooner! Another issue, I need to look at multiple reviews. I usually pick a mid-range rating and read that, hoping that it's accurate. Again, NEED TO STOP! The review I read was like "Well, I Really liked it, but it wasn't as good as some I read blah blah great romance blah blah and it's clean!" I like clean! Nice uncreepy and totally TMI romance. Sounds good. Let me ask you, dear person, what the heck is your idea of clean??? Sure maybe it's not as bad as some, but I'm delicate and like my clean actually CLEAN!! They can do it, just don't spell it out for me. And basically all this was was them doing it over and over and over and over and over again. Stop. Please. And he basically rapes her at the beginning, but oh, that's okay because she actually wants it. Just because she's saying no, stop, let me go, she has a really mind blowing orgasm, so that must mean it's all fine and dandy. NO!!!! I get that it's all "historical" and stuff like that happened, but it seemed more like an excuse for the author to right an entire book about sex.Now, all of the above complaints could have been avoided if I had just stopped ready when my spidey-senses started tingling....The guy, Duncan whatever, is a big, barbaric, ape, hairy, shithead, GINGER!!! No offense to any gingers reading this, but honestly, I don't want to do it with a giant kilt wearing, long haired, hairy red headed man. In fact, I wouldn't do it with anyone in a kilt regardless of hair color. Or with anyone overtly hairy... or who RAPES me (well, I guess I wouldn't have a choice if he raped me, but I certainly wouldn't do it with him WILLINGLY after that).Moral of the story, I have learned my lesson and will no longer be sucked in by cheap prices, pretty covers, and misleading reviews (ehem, fellow goodreaders! Get on the ball!). This is my pledge, and I will probably break it within the hour... less

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