Review: Pretty good Highlander book w/ room for improvement
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2011
Rated 3.5/5Summary:  Jillian Murry is devastated after the death of her Gram, her last living relative.  She travels from New York to Scotland to make arrangements for the funeral and take care of her Gram's estate.  She soon discovers that Gram owed back taxes and was about to lose her home.  Jillian refuses to accept the loss of her family's home, so she decides to sell some of her Grandfather's antique collection instead.  While sorting through the attic, she finds an unusual gold belt with sheaths for 13 daggers.shortly after showing the belt to an antiques dealer, Jillian is contacted buy a perspective buyer.  The buyer, Cameron Lachlan, is an immortal warrior.  He needs the belt to be able to travel back in time to save the life of his soulmate.  Because Jillian has no family left in the modern world, she makes an impulse decision to travel back in time to AD 1495 Scotland with Cameron.  To Cameron's horror, Jillian doesn't ask permission first.  Instead, she travels with him as a stowaway of sorts.None of the warriors are happy to see Jillian arrive in their time, because by doing so, she has broken a sacred rule of the belt.  The makers of the belt, the Guardians, are sure to punish everyone involved for breaking the rule.In spite of the hostility she receives after first arriving in Cameron's keep, she eventually catches the eye of the gorgeous Merrick.  The inexplicable attraction between Merrick and Jillian creates a variety of interesting situations for both the Warriors and the mortals in this story.  The only way they can really be together is if they are soulmates, and one Guardian, Rowena, will do anything to prevent that from happening.Review:  This is a pretty good Highlander romance, although perhaps not especially memorable.  Jillian is considered a bonnie lass in the fifteenth century, but her personality is nothing special.  Merrick becomes more likeable toward the end of this book, but for most of it he is a total jerk.  I wanted their relationship to work out, but it was more because of the storyline than the characters.  I like the story itself, it definitely held my interest.This book is written in first person POV.  While that can work perfectly fine in many books, I don't think it translated as well in this particular book.  If a story is going to be filtered through one character's POV, then I want that perspective to be really interesting, cerebral, or emotional.  In other words, I want to see the story unfold from the POV of a person who is interesting.  I don't think it works as well when the primary character is just average.  Only an opinion.  I bring it up because I think I would have liked this book a lot more if I knew what was going on in Merrick's head also.  We only get to see his actions, not what he was really thinking or feeling.  I think this was why it took so long to like him.As an overall rating, I'm going to stick with "pretty good."  It's worth a read, but it wouldn't be at the top of my TBR pile.