6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Angel and the Highlander, October 27, 2009
This review is from: The Angel and the Highlander (Mass Market Paperback)
Lachlan Sinclare has been sent by Lord Bunnock to return his daughter to her home. Lady Alyce has decided to avoid marriage and has run away to an abbey. She doesn't want to marry the man her father has chosen for her and would rather assume the persona of Terese, a nun than of Alyce, a wife. Lachlan just wants to return Alyce to her family - he never expected to fall for a beautiful woman of God.
On the blurb for this novel, Alyce is described as shrewish. The blurb was being nice I am sad to say. She was not at all likeable as a character and more than once I just wanted Lachlan to leave her where she stood. Stubborness in a heroine is a great trait, stubbornness to the point that the female lead becomes a pain to read, then enough is enough. Lachlan deserved better.
Donna Fletcher just didn't satisfy my historical romance loving soul with The Angel and the Highlander. I would suggest skipping this book and finding one where the lead characters actually connect.
Talia
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Reading!, June 27, 2009
This review is from: The Angel and the Highlander (Mass Market Paperback)
The first two books so far in this series have been the best. "Return of the Rogue" with Cavan, and "Under the Highlander's Spell" with Artair (my favorite). I have to agree with one of the other reviewers here that there was something about Alyse that I just didn't like. In this day and age it's easy to understand strong, intelligent women, but maybe not quite so in medieval times, where women were traded like baseball cards and expected to produce sons for heirs. I felt there was something false about Alyse not talking to Lachlan about the mercenaries - especially when she goes to meet one of them, and we discover her basic impulse for doing so is to find out how everyone is doing at Everagis. Sounds like betrayal to me. Five stars though, the writing is good and story is solid. If your looking for a great warrior check out Judy Garwoods "The Prize" - there's something about Royce that gets under your skin.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Third in series, August 6, 2009
This review is from: The Angel and the Highlander (Mass Market Paperback)
As Donna Fletcher's series about four Highland brothers - Cavan, Artair, Lachlan and Ronan - continues, we focus now on Lachlan. The brothers' search for the missing Ronan continues as a theme through this book, but most of the focus is on Lachlan as he is sent to bring back wayward Alyce Bunnock from a nunnery. When Lachlan arrives at Everagis Abbey where the nuns live he discovers there are only five of them left, the others - including Alyce Bunnock - having died.
Lachlan and his men decide they must stay to protect the nuns from mercenaries whilst they send a message to the church authorities to ask what to do with the few women left. Unfortunately for Lachlan, the more time he spends with Sister Terese, the more he sees her in a rather un-nun-like manner.
Terese knows that she is hiding rather a lot from Lachlan and his men; firstly, that the five women aren't nuns after all, secondly that her identity as Alyce Bunnock needs to be hidden or she will be forced home to wed the man her father requires, and thirdly that she has struck a bargain with the mercenaries, despite not seeing their mysterious leader. But as Lachlan and Terese/Alyce fall in love, he has to learn to trust her and give her freedom and she has to discover whether she can leave Everagis to be with Lachlan.
This book was enjoyable in that the story flowed well and was easy to read. However I found the central 'difficulty' of the plot, the fact that Alyce feared Lachlan wouldn't like her when he discovered she was the shrewish Alyce, very unlikely. In fact, the second half of the book felt more and more unrealistic at times. Alyce's father's behaviour seemed rather erratic too - treating her like a son, then treating her badly - although it appeared necessary for the plot to show how she'd got her leadership skills and yet why she had run away.
This book was an OK read, similar to the previous two in feel, but I felt it lacked a certain something to make it a really good read.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2009
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