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53 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Impossible Love -Wonderful Scottish Historical Romance, December 5, 2007
This review is from: Laird of the Mist (Warner Forever) (Mass Market Paperback)
He was like an angel sent from heaven. In the midst of a losing battle with death imminent, Kate Campbell is rescued. But her rescuer is not what he seems, not an angel but ironically her enemy -a MacGregor. And he is the worst sort. The one they call The Devil. The one who killed her family. The one who is now her abductor.
Callum MacGregor is the Laird of the persecuted Clan MacGregor. Revenge is all he lives for. Revenge for the deaths in his family. Revenge for taking away his Clan name. Revenge for losing his lands. And revenge for the years of torture at the hands of the Campbell's. They will suffer and die for their deeds. He'll do whatever is necessary, even kidnap an innocent Campbell woman to ferret out her uncle (Earl of Argyll) -his sworn enemy.
But Kate is no ordinary woman and Callum is no ordinary man. Soon these enemies find that love knows no barriers, not even revenge and hate.
Great book. Not a boiler plate Scottish-hero-kidnaps-heroine at all. An engaging plot with some twists and turns made this a one sitting read for me. Plenty of sexual tension and love scenes (Ohhhh.....steamy!) with a to die for hero and a spunky heroine who knows her way around a sword.
I really love how Quinn portrays Callum. A mentally and physically scarred man who has essentially lost all hope for love. He lives and dies for revenge, if fact he doesn't expect to live very long at all. And he certainly doesn't expect to fall in love, so he's caught by surprise. Kate is just the sort of woman he needs. A strong take charge type thats tough as nails and at the same time living with her own scars. Kate is one of the few that understands Callum, as a man and as a Laird of a persecuted people. Its very heartwarming to see the love grow between these two. Really an impossible love of two enemies.
I also have to mention the wonderful secondary characters (which unfortunately I find sorely lacking in some romances). They include the belching and brawling Angus, the posy picking Jamie (I had to wonder about him and his flowers for awhile -lol!), gorgeous ladies man Graham and Maggie with her menagerie. Those characters made me love H/H even more. They were at times hilarious and at others well...*sniff* inducing would be the right word.
So an all around great read. This is why I read Scottish romance. and if you like this genre, check out Quinn's other books as well as Garwood, Sands, Cole, Macgregor, Howell and McCarty.
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45 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
so not good, August 4, 2008
This review is from: Laird of the Mist (Warner Forever) (Mass Market Paperback)
My recommendation if you are interested in purchasing this book is to read the first few chapters in a book store and then decide whether you still want to buy it. If you like well written believable romance novels that feature fully developed characters and situations then this is definitely not the book for you. This is one of the most absurd stories I've read in quite a while. Let's start with the first couple of chapters. Our heroine actually fights in a vicous battle weilding either a sword or an axe against seasoned warriors and is able to hold them off for a quarter of an hour without even a scratch or breaking a sweat. Either she's one tough amazonian woman or the men she fought were total wimps, but by the time our hero charges in to rescue her he is struck by her beautiful visage and glorious hair and is instantly smitten. When the carnage is over, there are fifty bodies strewn about but just a few hours later our feisty spitfire of a heroine forgets all about this while verbally sparring with the hero. But let's go back to the bit when she is shot in the shoulder with an arrow and instead of being violently thrown from her horse she just simply swoons gracefully into the hero's arms. And absurdity after absurdity continue with this novel. The hero was imprisoned as a child in a dungeon and yet manages to escape years later and also kills all the guards. How is that possible? People imprisoned in dungeons for years would have been suffering from serious ill health and feats of strength would have been impossible. I know this is fiction but seriously you have to suspend a lot of disberlief to take this silly book at face value. Also it's supposed to takes place during seventeenth century Scotland but honestly you'd never know it as there is never a sense of history or place. The charcaters are nothing more than caricatures and never feel like real people. Oh and the romance itself which is why we are all here after all is tepid and boring. If you still want to read this book then check it out from the library and don't waste your money like I did.
I would give this book a grade of D, but honestly it's almost an F. It's that bad:(
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Passionate Possession!, December 8, 2007
This review is from: Laird of the Mist (Warner Forever) (Mass Market Paperback)
Paula Quinn breaks away from her Risande Family trilogy with this masterfully written 17th Century Scottish Historical Romance. It is a time in Scotland where the name of MacGregor has been declared under proscription; wiped out from the name of all Scottish clans. The strong and handsome highlander Callum MacGregor and his darling of a sister Maggie grow up as small children surrounded in evil as they are imprisoned and shackled deep in the Campbell's dungeon, after their family was killed, their lands taken away, and their very name wiped away as a Scottish clan. Callum never gives up and his hatred grows as he continues to grow up in the dungeon. One day he finally escapes with Maggie by killing his captors and becoming known as the evil MacGregor.
With the help of other sympathetic clans he refuses to drop away and hide as anything but a MacGregor and instead becomes their laird. But the evil Duke of Argyll has made it his life's work to destroy all MacGregors, especially Callum and Maggie. As Argyll rides across the Scottish lands killing any and doing evil to those who harbor or claim to have helped the MacGregors, his beautiful niece Kate Campbell and her brother Robert, unbeknownst to them, live on Callum's previous lands, have been told that the MacGregors are considered evil, but do not understand the full effects until one day the large handsome Callum kidnaps her in order to use her as a lure to bring Argyll to him so he can finally kill him and earn his final vengeance. As Kate lives amongst Callum, Maggie and the MacGregor people, she not only falls in love with the highlands and its people, but deeply for Callum. Maggie and many other MacGregors want peace as well and fear for their handsome and strong leader and his continued thirst for vengeance. Can the deep, passionate and sensual love Kate feels for Callum, as well as the love of his sister Maggie and his people, make him realize the true meaning of life and happiness and overcome this severe vengeance and bloodshed?
As Kate becomes possessed by Callum, the reader will become possessed by the story as well as the main and secondary characters, unable to put the book down. Laird of the Mist is a beautiful love story that will touch the deepest parts of your heart. It is masterfully written and will make you laugh and cry, with an ending that will not disappoint. If you loved Paula Quinn's other medieval romances, you will not want to miss this one and if you haven't had the pleasure of reading one of her books before Laird of the Mist, you will want to purchase them all to add to your collection. Her masterfully written medieval historical stories are a reader's joy!
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