Review: review of the highlander's temptation
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
For some reason this book from Ms. Eliza Knight kind of confused me a little which isn’t to say that Ms. Knight is not able to tell an absorbing easily understood story with good characters.  I had no problem understanding the story of the heroine Lorna who long ago when she was four years old her family was murdered was saved by a young boy who it turns out is the hero Jamie.  Lorna grows up into a beautiful headstrong woman under the protection of her brother and current Sutherland laird Magnus who decides to betroth her to an unseen laird since no one else wants her or has asked for her hand in marriage.  Lorna being a bit of a hopeless romantic wants to marry only for love which seems impossible but luckily in comes the devilishly handsome all grown-up current laird of the Montgomery clan and hero of the piece Jamie.  Jamie remembers long ago saving Lorna and the attraction and love for her is instant.  For Lorna on the other hand it takes a while but eventually she starts to remember him as the guy who saved her so long ago but also can’t help falling for him as well.  Their love is somewhat doomed by Magnus Lorna’s brother who is bound and determined that Lorna will wed someone else and definitely not Jamie because he is a lowlander.  Will Magnus let Lorna and Jamie be together or will Lorna end up betrothed to the unseen laird?See easy enough story not hard to follow along with plus there is fairly interesting plot twists and even William Wallace makes an appearance to shake things up a bit too.  Okay what confuses me is some of the side characters.  I have read only a few of the stolen brides series from Ms. Knight the first one the highlander’s reward and correct me if I am wrong but the hero’s name was Magnus Sutherland and he was a laird too but he does get married to an English lady named Arbella the heroine in that book. I have also read the 6th book in the series the highlander’s sin which concerns Lorna’s younger sister Heather Sutherland as the heroine but she gets married to the hero Duncan Mackay in that book as well.  Are these the same characters then because in this book Magnus isn’t married and Lorna bemoans that fact of him not being married and unable to understand her at all?  Magnus does even show that he is not attached by the bonds of matrimony during the Beltane festival due to the fact that he is shacking up with some other girls so unless his wife Arbella doesn’t mind other women in bed with them and he is able to practice polygamy which I didn’t know that was a common practice in the Scottish highlands or the practice of flagrantly showing his sexual prowess by taking a prostitute in front of everyone in the clan including his wife which I am sure happens but I thought that was not mentioned or was behind closed doors.  In fact I couldn’t find anything on lairds being able to have a whole visible harem of women or even them having a mistress which I am sure is possible and does happen but all the Scottish highlander romance books I have read they appear to have only one wife.  Another thing that confused me was Heather was married in the previous book but now she’s not and is living with Magnus and Lorna.  So since Heather gets to live at home in her brother’s keep her husband Duncan must be cool with this arrangement and leaves her alone while he does whatever he pleases.  I just kept thinking that since this book is part of a series then some of the same characters will appear in future books am I correct in this line of thought?  The only thing I could figure out was that it was a different Magnus and Heather Sutherland so same first and last names but totally different characters in this book.  When I thought of it like that then I wasn’t trying to think that they were the same people or what not and had no problems finishing the book.  Now this really sounds like I didn’t like this book at all which is untrue I did like the story, the heroine and hero but since everyone is unrelated from the previous books in the series to this book I don’t think Ms. Knight should of put it in the series to begin with and just kept it as a stand-alone book.  I still enjoyed it nonetheless rated it four stars due to the issues mentioned above and will read another book from Ms. Knight.