Review: Scottish hotties make it a good read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2012
After reading another really great historical erotic novelSecret Diary: A Forbidden Liaisons Erotic Romanceby Sandra Ross, I decided to give `Sins of the Highlander' a look.  It was a bit longer than the other book I read, and I thought I might lose interest after a few chapters, but I was pleasantly surprised by this hot little book.The story centers around Aileen, who is betrothed to a lord in order to keep the peace among the clans.  Typical of stories from this time, she has absolutely no say in who she gets to be with.  She is basically being shuffled from one abusive Scottish brute of a husband to another one, all for the good of the people.  She is escorted to her brother's castle by Niall, a friend of her family for a long time who has always held feelings of love toward her.  Once they are together again, it is hard to fight the feelings between them, and they know that if they give in to temptation it could mean war among the clans.Basically, Aileen is stuck between marrying a man she doesn't love, or betraying her people and causing a major riot.  So of course, she jumps straight into the sack with the Highland hottie!  The sexual tension doesn't last too long, and they are off and away, with hot and steamy love scenes that would make a good Scotsman blush.There was plenty of suspense and a little action.  After all, if you have that many sexy Scottish guys in one story, there's bound to be a few battles!  I love historical romance and erotic novels, and this one stayed fairly true to its genre.  There were a few lines of dialogue that I felt weren't true to the time period, but it was nothing that I couldn't overlook.  I also loved the characters since they were believable and I really felt bad for Aileen.  It's sad that women had so few options in those days, even though they were so important to their men's successes!The story was pretty sexy from start to finish, even during the parts that were not actually love scenes.  It was what I would describe as sexually charged the whole way through.  I think it might be part of a series, and I would probably check out the next one if it were about the same characters, but probably not if it is about different ones, since it did take a while to get these all sorted in my mind.  There were a lot of minor characters that I found hard to keep up with, but overall it was good.  I gave this one 4 stars because of the sometimes sketchy dialogue and the excess of minor characters, but would definitely recommend it.