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A FAERIE FATED FOREVER

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

I thought this book sounded like it had a cute premise, but despite the fact that it is historical fiction, the author uses many modern day, anachronistic words that completely pull you out of the story. These include "baby" as a nickname, "okay" (characters repeatedly ask one another if they're okay), "buddy," "she's not my type," etc.

The hero is thrusting his pelvis against the heroine in the first five minutes of meeting her, surrounded by a crowd of people. This is not romantic, this is gross.

The action moves from Scotland to Regency England. The heroine repeatedly undresses the hero on ballroom floors. Not in a hidden alcove, not in a darkened hallway, not in the garden, not in an empty room. On the dance floor. And not a single person ever seems to notice the hero is half-naked. This includes balls that the heroine's extended family and her parents attend.

Women's breasts seem to randomly pop out of their bodices at different parties on more than one occasion. Again, no one mentions it as being risque.

The heroine kisses the hero on the lips at another ball. Back then, this was a marriage announcement. Nobody seems to care that it happens.

The hero is in a constant state of arousal, and given the fairly tight pants they wore in that time period - again, no one notices or seems at all shocked (including the girl's parents!).

Fairies also show up a couple of times and nobody seems all that surprised by that either.

I finally had to stop at about 75% through the book because I just couldn't take it anymore - and I almost always finish books regardless of how bad things get. I skimmed the ending.

Honestly, I didn't expect to like this one, I only got it because it was free, and I will admit to loving almost anything with faeries in it. With that being said, this story takes place in the days when clans still did battle and arranged marriages for land. When an author sets a story in a time like that, and then uses what I would consider to be modern terms...a man calls his friend 'buddy', and a mother calls her daughter 'baby'...it pulls me right out of the story, and I have to work to get back into the story's world.

I was very surprised with just how much I enjoyed this book. Be warned though, this is a book where the characters do waaay more than kiss, for a lot of this book. To summarize, it's about a guy (Laird Maclee) who, due to a family curse, can only fall in love and marry one person. That doesn't mean that he can't mess around with other girls though and due to his incredible looks (also from his family curse), he has his fair share of women. He doesn't realize his faerie fated love is right in front of his nose until his looseness with one woman in particular hurts his love enough to cause her to run away. That's when he realizes who she is and he will stop at nothing to gain her trust and her love again.

You can't not be attracted to Laird Maclee...he's the man's man, he's gorgeous, he knows how to satisfy women...and the vulnerability, sensitivity and love he shows towards his faerie fated love (that he gives to no other woman) is enough to make any girl swoon. Their love is such a fairy tale love story, it's what every girl dreams of as a little girl. I liked that the author carried out the twists in her story. It wasn't like some other books where each 'twist' is dragged out through pages of back and forths between characters and then descriptions. She gets in, gets out and gets on with the story and on to the next twist. The perfect amount of suspense and satisfaction for the reader.

That being said....the author did drag out some things a bit too much. For example, his faerie fated love takes the majority of the book to trust him again. Ok, I get she's cautious after what happened but holy crap is she insistent that he can't possibly love her. It got pretty old by the end. Also, the 'claws of passion' that goes on with the two was sweet at first, how irresistable she was to him but that got old too. I mean...ok you guys want to do each other but every 2 seconds? Really? Is that necessary? Every time she touches him he practically loses control in his pants. Like I said...sweet at first...unrealistic and overdone by the end.

If it weren't for the problems I stated at the end this book would definitely get five stars. Even with the problems I'm hesitant to only give 4 stars since by the Amazon rating scale I guess that means 'I like it'. I give this 4 stars but I don't just like this book, I love it. :)

OMG will this book EVER END? I've somehow gotten to 65% and then I've made a mistake of looking at my progress...

Although the premise of the book is fun and has a lot of potential, the execution has a lot left to be desired. For one, I still can't figure out what time period this is set in. There is so much grabbing, lapping, stroking and fondling IN PUBLIC that I have a hard time believing this is historical romance. But wait, we have a laird and balls with London's ton, so it must be. But then we have a gown (with corset nonetheless), which has no back and which cut so low in the front that it basically almost shows Heather's navel. Forgive this poor Ukrainian foreigner, but isn't navel is just another name for belly button? So how can a dress have a corset, which pushes her "udders" so high up that they almost spill out, which not having any back and have a very low cut in the front? My head still hurts trying to imagine the logistics of THAT gown.

That dress aside, both of the main characters are pretty annoying. Heather is a pushover, who listened to her "loving" grandmother just a little too much. Come on, anyone who calls her breasts as "udders" and "devil's playthings", then goes on to talk about how ugly her hair was, and just generally spending time putting the poor girl down is not loving. I was really cheering for her mom, who tried to tell Heather otherwise and when Heather FINALLY listened I was pretty excited. Only to have her go back to calling her breasts "udders" and herself a "sow". Ok, ok, I get it about emotional abuse and how it's not that easy to get over but seriously?! Grow at least a resemblance of a backbone!

Then her refusal to believe that Nial actually loves her. Oh no, this is all just an act, he is going to use his famous swipe of the hand. Sure she'd been hurt by him, but the dude saved her life and rode all the way to London for her, AND proclaimed to anyone willing to listen that he WILL MARRY HER LIKE THIS SECOND! Nope, apparently that's not enough for her to even consider that he might, just a little bit, love her.

Nial started out as a shallow jerk, then went into obsessive, possessive jerk. The whole time I felt like he will start talking like "Me Scott, you my bride". Just because he is this mighty Scott he is suddenly exempt from all the rules of etiquette? Yeah rrrrrrriiiiggggghhht! And all he cares for is the looks anyways, he admitted it several times. The main reason he didn't want to marry Heather to begin with because he thought she was ugly. Oh who cares that he was totally attracted to her? Nope, gotta wait for that faerie fated someone.

Sorcha story-line felt out of place because it was over so quickly I wasn't sure it was much needed to begin with. The rest of the book (so far) was spent in public groping. I really have a hard time believing that the whole ballroom full of people would turn a blind eye on them making out and fondling each other... not discretely either! From reading the description I got a feeling they were somewhere private, then suddenly some other character had appeared. And the modern slang kept throwing me off. "She was pissed", "baby", etc? COME ON! I don't think those words were even invented (at least their meaning) before 20th century. Or overused expressions like "lapped up" (how can "she lapped her finger" be in any way sexually appealing?) or "her heart in her eyes", "his heart on his sleeve" and "liquid pleasure"? I'm no writer, but it bugged me to no end! The part where a faerie (supposedly) saved Nial at the last moment, I literally went back to see if that faerie was ever mentioned. Nope, after the fact everyone just suddenly decided that there was SOMEONE ELSE! And the book is full of stuff like that!


Overall, I think there is a possibility to enjoy this book if you don't think too hard into it. Just read, enjoy the (repetitive)sex scenes and the (lack of) story-line that dragged on forever and ever. I would skip to the end, but I can't since I'm using Kindle. So instead I'm marking it as "read" and putting it in a faraway corner to never be seen again.

I liked the idea behind the story. It was very creative and interesting; however, there were a few things about it that took away from the story. The love scenes for instance, seemed more coarse than romantic, the language was out of place, and there were some things that the author seemed to just ignore in order to keep the story line going. For example, when they fought the duel, one of them used a fencing sword. I don't know much about swords, but I really don't think that highland warriors fight with fencing foils. That difference could have been addressed and explained away neatly enough with some creativity, but she just ignored the issue. The biggest thing that bothered me when reading this story, however, was that the majority of the people's actions and feeling were extremely exaggerated. It was difficult to lose myself in the story because I kept thinking, "He wouldn't do that." "She would never say that." "They wouldn't act like that." I felt that the author went much too far in that way. The situations on the dance floor are good examples. If anyone had dared to act that way, there would most definitely have been some response from the other people present, but nobody seemed to notice anything. Another example is that the hero had an almost constant erection throughout the whole story. Now, I understand that men think about sex a lot, but good grief, I'd advise someone to get serious medical help if he suffered like that. The one that bothered me the most, though, is at the end. Instead of being overcome by the great love that the hero had for the heroine, I began to find him really creepy. I know that I would not enjoy being treated the way she was at the end. It wasn't endearing, it was suffocating. Finally, the last scene bothered me also. She talks about how one of his actions will greatly affect his future, and then the story ends without another mention of it. I would have liked to have heard how that turned out. Did he overcome the problem? If so, how?
I think the author has a wonderful imagination and great potential, but I just think she tried to combine too many types of stories (British regency romance, Scottish highland romance, etc.) into one, and I think that she needs to pull back just a little. Great love and passion can be portrayed without such exaggeration that it makes it difficult for the reader to believe it could be real.

I couldn't figure out what time period it was. I thought the whole book was so far out there it bordered on stupid. Most of the book he had a constant erection. I thought if I had to read one more time about his erection I would throw my Kindle. The basics of the story would have been interesting if it were better written and not so much raunchy sex. I am glad that I got this one for free but regretting wasteing several hours of my life reading it.

The story was good...really it was...the author just carried it about ten chapters to long. She should have ended the book a chapters earlier to make a great read. But as it was, it was reasonably enjoyable.

The other reviewers were not kidding when they said this book was terrible. I won't bother to repeat everything already said, but don't waste your time on this one, even if it's free.

After reading other reviews I thought "How bad can it really be?" Well, I found my answer. This story is something that you just have to read it for yourself. It is supposed to be historical fiction, but while it has a historical setting there is nothing accurate about the people, the language used, the dress, and especially the behavior depicted.

I found myself skipping entire sections in hopes that the storyline would move on, but no such luck. While the plot is similar to many other romances out there, it stays stagnant. Nothing interesting happens once the two main characters get together and their behavior towards one another and even in front the girl's parents is truly ridiculous. I finally gave up trying to read this book as it had lost my interest long ago and I could not continue to force myself to finish it.

This book would have been way better as a short story first off. It just dragged and dragged till I was skimming the last chapter just to finish it. Second others were right when they said there were to many modern terms used in this book. And third I hated the hero of this book he got on my nerves. He was suppose to be a highland laird and a warrior but he was so in love with the heroin he cries way to many times in this book. And not just tearing up... out right crying! He is suppose to be macho male not a pussy whipped pansy. And they have sex way to much in this book too. I mean come on he cant keep his hands off her in all the public scenes and keeps her in arms reach constantly barely leaving her alone so the father can walk her to the altar. How annoying and clingy. Lets not forget to mention how the father of the heroin knows all the times they have sex (when they are not yet married) jokes about it, and in one scene the father delivers the daughter to the hero so they can be together before a duel. Its disturbing how the parents view the relationship. The more I think of the book the madder i get. It even took me four days to read the thing when I can easily read two 300 page books a day. I've never written a review before but I had to get this off my chest.