Review: review of the highlander's accidental bride
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
I was a little curious when purchasing this book from Ms. Cathy MacRae why there were quite a few negative reviews.  So in actuality this prompted me to buy the book just to see what upset everyone.  I will say that the story was fairly interesting.  There was a sort of caveman mentality to the hero Eaden and just by the fact that he knocked a woman or she was hit with something in the head senseless for marriage and ownership.  In fact throughout the book this behavior was glaringly obvious in Eaden which irritated me a little that I was just waiting for him to hit his chest and say me man you woman lay down I desire you and now want to have sex with you.  With Eaden since he had this type of mentality why not just go with this and write it in that style as opposed to placing it in 1375 the Scottish highlands.  To me it would have made more sense for it to be written in the Paleolithic time since the hero portrayed most of the appropriate characteristics of a caveman.  In reading the book I never really figure out how Mary gets hit so hard in the head that she suffers from a mild concussion and some type of temporary amnesia from who knows what whether Eaden hits her in the head with a weapon maybe a club or did she hit her head so hard to cause her to forget who she was and what her name is.  Really Ms. MacRae never states what exactly happened to cause the concussion and temporary amnesia which I would have liked to know what caused this in that case.  Plus, coupled with the fear and being forced to sign and agree to an unwanted marriage and consummating it could also just make Mary comply with whatever they wanted her to do just to save her life which I guess she felt like she had no choice so I can understand that to some degree still the whole situation seemed quite shady and just didn't really make much sense to me at all.  Plus,  there is a little too much violence going way beyond BDSM in a marriage for my taste and usually BDSM is totally completely consensual which some of this really went a little beyond the border of that.  I couldn't really understand why Mary would want a guy like that?  First of all Eaden doesn't believe her when she attempts to tell him who she is.  He also doesn't seem to respect, fight or even care for her in the least.  I really was hoping Mary would have ended up with someone like Ranald or even Ranald who seemed honorable, chivalrous, and respectful plus he really cared for her too.  In actuality I was really rooting for Ranald and I really liked his character more than Eaden's I really wished that he could have ended up with Mary as opposed to Eaden.  Another thing is I never figured out how to say Eaden name throughout the book I was pronouncing it as Eden which really seemed a little to feminine for a strong warrior male type character but then again there are a few guys named Marion, Leslie and Sasha rare as it may seem to me so I guess it is okay then. Ranald is just a strong male sounding name especially for a warrior and a clan chief.The arrogant, brash good-looking warrior highlander hero Eaden abducts the beautiful innocent heroine Mary from the enemy; but due to unfortunate circumstances and mistaken identity Eaden kidnaps Mary believing that she is the lady Miriam Barde and the king has decreed that he must marry her to keep his land, titles and wealth.  Eventually Mary falls in love with Eaden and he with her which is really hard to believe and why I really don't know why these two fall in love anyway.This actually sounds like I didn't really like the book which I didn't mind reading the story.  I did finish the book so it wasn't that bad as some people made it out to be.  I still rated it at four stars despite all the issues I seemed to have with it.  I think I should have attempted to read another book of Ms. MacRae and will try another one of her books before I misjudge all of her books and her writing style from just this book alone.