Review: review of to dream of a highlander
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
I just really enjoyed reading this story from Ms. Samantha Holt!  It seems it is part of a series because it mentioned a few characters from the first highland fae chronicles but really the story can stand alone.  I really admired the heroine Catriona despite being beautiful she doesn’t use her beauty as a crutch to get people to like her or get things like her dead sister Katelyn.  Catriona seemed to have a sort of silent strength about her attempting to escape from the Norse and trying to get away from the hero Finn at first.  Even though Katelyn is just mentioned in the story and Catriona must play her throughout Katelyn seemed to me a little petty and self-absorbed.  At first I really liked Finn he was so gallant swooping into to save Catriona but as his feelings developed for her he just couldn’t handle it very well.  Finn repeatedly denies his feelings and his attraction to Catriona to other characters that he has feelings for her he seems to run from her at every chance he gets even in his attempts to save her.  Even when Finn becomes intimate and sleeps with Catriona he runs away from her yet again for some reason that really bothered me.  What he can’t take what he did and confess to Catriona that he really loves or has feelings for her but he has no problems sleeping with her?  Well maybe I had to give them both the benefit of the doubt that magic or fairies were both messing with them causing them to show their lust for each other. I just didn’t like that about Finn okay this guy can fight battles and protect others yet runs away from women and his emotions? Then again Catriona is not honest with herself either even after sleeping with Finn she still doesn’t tell him who she really is and explains the situation of why she is play-acting as her dead sister Katelyn.The beautiful wary heroine Catriona is taken out of her home which is under attack from the Norse by the handsome strong highlander hero Finn.  Catriona in order to protect herself and her family by consenting to an arranged marriage for her dead sister Katelyn agrees to play as her dead sister and twin Katelyn to Katelyn’s betrothed until her father can save her.  So there was a bit of mystery with mistaken identity, almost two romances, a villain groom, some magic and an exiled fairy-Teile which is an interesting combination but Ms. Holt really knows how to tell a highly amusing story with good characters.I really do hope there are more in this series because there is an unfinished story of two of her minor characters Lorna and Logan written in with no chance of them having a happily ever after which does bother me and makes me wonder what happens to them.  Even though I didn’t like some aspects of Finn or Catriona and two of her minor characters story ends in a cliffhanger I still rated the story four stars.  I would read another of Ms. Holt’s books and if she writes more in this series as well.