Review: Disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2013
I really loved the first book,The Magic of Highland Dragons, and gave it a rare 5 stars (for me that is). This book was lacking somehow and I'm sorry because all the right ingredients were there.Our H is the brother of the H from the first book and was gravely injured in a battle with the vilain. Our h is busy escaping her home, which has just been taken over by the man her father had chosen for her to marry. She had decided not to marry him and his army then kills her father and takes over their home. She escapes with her half brother and his wife and they make for a cottage in the highlands. On the way the h senses someone and she discovers the H, close to bleeding to death in a cave. They take him with them to the cottage where she nurses him back to health. From the first minute the h sees him she wants him and when the H wakes up there is also immediate attraction from his side. The H doesn't want to get married and has in fact taken a vow of celibacy. Both sides of the main characters' families contain Druid blood so there is that bit of a paranormal element to the story. Mostly this story seems to be about the H resisting the h in some way or another.***Spoilers***What didn't work for me  was the fact that most of the story was about the H's trying to keep his lust under control. We spent more time reading about him getting 'hard' than we did about the rest of the story. The language in this book was very modern at times and particularly towards the end. I'm not a huge stickler for these things but when the h says 'hi' at one point, even I had issues with it. Anyway there just wasn't the same depth to this story that there was to the first one.I will still probably buy the 3rd book about the youngest brother when it comes out. I hope the author irons out some of the mistakes she made in this book so that the 3rd is back up to standard.