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A Highlander Of Her Own (2009)

by Melissa Mayhue(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416572597 (ISBN13: 9781416572596)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pocket Books

series

Daughters of the Glen

review 1: If you are looking for Romance this book is not it!!! This is an adventure story mixed with a little Fairy Mischief and very little magic. Ellie Denton's mother has died. Her step father has inherited everything including her home. Ellie is told by Ray her step father she must become his new bed partner or leave which she does. Ellie doesn't know she has fairy blood or even what that means, but she makes a wish for a Highlander her true love to come rescue her. She is pushed back in time to the 13th century ,she happens upon Caden her one true love. After which the author goes page after page after page keeping them apart (repetitive) until the story of love and magic gets Lost!!! leaving the reader bored!! Their is maybe 4 or 5 pages out of 324 pages devoted to the romanc... moree between Ellie and Caden which is not enough to make this a romantic story. Maybe it was not intended to be romance story but the title of the book makes you think it is. If you are looking for a romantic story with magic and and adventure THIS IS NOT IT!!!! Ms Mayhue need to spice it up a bit I really wanted to like this book, but I only liked the idea of the story. SORRY BUT THIS WAS BADLY DONE AND BADLY WRITTEN!!!!!
review 2: The Daughters of the Glen series has been an interesting series for me. Originally I thought the first book Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband sounded promising but upon reading it discovered that it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. By then I'd already grabbed up the second volume Highland Guardian which wasn't spectacular but peeked my interest.After that I and no interest in this series but was told by a friend that the third volume Soul of a Highlander was worth the read so I paperback swapped for it. It was definitely better than the other two but still not spectacular and I re-swapped them. But by this time I was interested in the family in the books and this title seemed to sound better and was getting better reviews.So I opted for it over at PaperBackSwap.com. I'm rather happy I did. Despite not being the best series out there they have continued to peek my interest and this one did a little more than that.Ellie our heroine is a Texas who has lost her mother and discovered some kind of mark on her breast. Then her mother's ex-husband comes back to take her family ranch away and she's put out of the house. She finds herself wishing for a secure love of her life not knowing that the mark on her means she's related to the Fae and that such a wish would send her hurtling through time to the man who would be her one true love. - Yeah I'm a sucker for this stuff.Caden (love the name) is the heir to his cousins lairdship and a stubborn man who in the past books we learned was betrothed to a woman named Alycie who couldn't stand that he was descended from the Fae and wanted to be a nun (okay?). Caden has this misconception that he will never marry because no woman would ever want him (stupid boy). In comes Ellie who can't seem to do anything right and gets under his skin at every turn. Problem is he likes it a lot more than he lets on.I would say this book would sound boring only it isn't all about their love story. Also in the mix is the fact that one of Caden's brothers and his Uncle (the Laird) have been taken hostage, his overseer seems to have plots of his own that puts Caden in danger, and Caden's herd of sheep are in danger from an infection of their hooves.So with all that is going on you would think Mayhue would lose track of things including the love story but she definitely manages to balance it all while getting a little revenge over on the man who stole Ellie's ranch in the beginning.As it stands, I'll probably opt for anymore books in this series but while I've really enjoyed this book I'm not planning on keeping it but instead will be swapping it in hopes of getting another book to read. less

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