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Sensual Highland Adventure!, March 29, 2007
This review is from: Highland Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)
With close to 60 romance titles in print, Connie Mason delights her fans once more, returning to the Scottish Highlands in this tale of feuding Highland clans. The MacKays and MacKennas have warred for years. Many loved ones on both sides have died. When Laird MacKay loses yet another son he is desparate for the killing to stop. Laird Ross MacKenna has lost much as well and the most recent battle has taken the life of his young counsin Gunn. Laird MacKay uses his most precious asset to stop the fighting; his beautiful daughter Gillian's hand in marriage to the strong and handsome Ross MacKenna. Ross agrees to the marriage in order to stop the generations of feuding. When Gillian discovers the arranged marriage she is enraged, thinking how can she leave her beloved home and live with her enemy? Ross remembered seeing the flame-haired beauty wielding a sword on the battlefield. He feels loving her lush body not too high a price to pay, but even as he desires her, he cannot trust her. Gillian soon begins to desire and fall in love with the handsome and strong Ross. Just as an idyllic life seems possible there are those within the MacKay Keep and without that would come between them and create trouble. When a series of attacks against the MacKay clan begin, and they appear to be truce breaking attempts by the MacKenna clan, Ross unfairly banishes Gillian. Struggling with his desire and love, he does not realize that he has released her into the real enemy's clutches. Strong and beautiful Gillian refuses to give up and battles to uncover the real villians. As Ross comes to her rescue, the suspense and intrigue build, and soon generations of trouble that has plagued the peace of both clans is revealed. Highland Warrior is a well-written, fast paced, sensual Scottish Romance adventure that keeps the reader riveted to the pages. Another masterfully written book to add to your Connie Mason collection!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, May 29, 2011
This review is from: Highland Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was a big disappointment to me. I didn't believe it for one second, plan as that. The whole time I was reading it I was thinking to myself, Ya right. All the characters need to do is just talk to each other and everything would be fixed. I didn't buy the story at all!!! I would not buy this book. If you want to read a good book by Connie I highly suggest A Taste of Sin.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A verra verra bad book, I doona recommend it, August 29, 2009
This review is from: Highland Warrior (Mass Market Paperback)
That is, unless you like a silly plot along with very bad sex all wrapped up in a faux historical setting. Granted, there are readers who enjoy that type of book and while I'm not knocking them I am definitely not one of them. You are not going to get your Jamie and Claire fix here, although September is almost upon us and the long wait for An Echo in the Bone will soon be over. Yay!
This is pretty much your basic Highland romance - Laird MacKay wishing to end a decades long feud gives his daughter Gillian in marriage to the Laird of the rival MacKenna clan. Gillian is as fiery and spirited as her red mane of hair and hates her husband Ross on sight, despite the overwhelming sexual attraction between the two. Of course there are the evil bad guys (and gal) who want to keep them apart for their own nefarious purposes and well, that's pretty much it. Gee, how original, and I have to tell you it was verra verra hard not to send the book flying every time I heard about Gillian's flame red hair (six times in 20 some pages), let alone the "flame" comments from the wise woman. Despite an effort to make the setting seem authentic with the dialogue, clothing and customs, things just didn't always ring true. Tossing Gillian out on her ear to return to Da in the middle of winter with no escort? Telling her husband to "leave off"? Potatoes in 1415? Oy.
But worst of all, as mentioned at the top, was the OTT sex scenes in minute, embarrassing, and oh so disgusting detail. So bad I can't even bear to quote a few to poke fun at them - and after what I read in That-Tudor-Vampire-Book I have to tell you that's pretty darn bad. Skip this, I wish I had.
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