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Özgürlüğe Hasret (2000)

by Michelle Willingham(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 4

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Romance

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MacKinloch Clan

review 1: 3.5 stars. This story packed more into it than I'd expected. Separated on the wedding day, Bram goes to war with his dad and is imprisoned for seven years and is assumed dead. Nairna tries to move on and eventually remarries, losing that husband some years later. Bram escapes his prison and finds himself back with more than shocked Nairna.The story deals much with Bram's PTSD, his fight to get well physically, the plan to retrieve his brother, still in the English prison, and Nairna's struggle to put the keep back to rights and figure out how to deal with her husband.Highland stories are not a favorite of mine and I appreciated that it didn't go too dark. The ending is a bit Pat and the underlying issues with the keep not addressed but I enjoyed Nairna and Bram and the... moreir interactions together.Not a series I'll continue as I don't follow this theme but glad I took the time with this one.
review 2: I enjoyed this story of love lost, and found. I adored Michelle's Irish Warrior MacEgan series, and was looking forward to her switching the backdrop to Highland Scotland.This is a fine beginning. The hero Bram MacKinloch escapes prison, after seven long years of torture and brutal treatment. He was but a fresh faced lad of seventeen when captured, and newly wed. So newly wed he didn't even have a chance to consummate his marriage to the equally young Nairna. What a bummer.But what must be an absolute downer to Bram is to find his wife, thinking him dead. remarried, and has a daughter. She is however, now a widow.Bram is the tortured hero here, literally. He finds it hard to vocalize anything, let alone his emotions. So Nairna has her work cut out for her. Michelle thoroughly delves into what Bram is suffering, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The poor man has been put through hell. Watching them have to fall in love all over again, after so much had changed, was very moving.Nairna was a fine heroine, strong, loving and very patient. A lot of secondary characters and adventures, some of it unresolved, as there are a few more books in this series. I am interested in brother Callum, as he was captured the same time as Bram, and seems in worse shape. Younger brother Alex had to take over as Chieftain in Bram's absence, and his marriage is not the best.Stir into this mix guilt, as Bram's father was killed in the battle that saw Bram and Callum be taken prisoner, and you have almost insurmountable odds of Bram ever leading some sort of life.Enjoyable read, lots of deeply felt emotion and turmoil, and well drawn secondary characters that show promise for the continuing series.3.5 stars out of 4 for the book less

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