Review: A huge disappointment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Here we go again, another bitterly disappointing second book, as so often happens in these days of the trilogies. I loved the first book and gave it 4 stars. I pre-ordered this one as soon as I was able and couldn't wait to get it. The writing was sloppy and the story was all over the place. I actually fell asleep a few chapters before the end of the book. That never happens to me. I was annoyed by the h and her younger sister, I found them whiny and just wanted them to get a life. I definitely will not be buying the final book about the younger sister.For those interested in an honest review, basically the H is the cousin to the h in the first book. According to tradition, bloodlines etc the h should have become the guardian of the targe but her cousin was 'chosen' instead. I felt that the h felt hard done by for a large part of the book and she was beyond irritating in trying to 'train' the cousin to use her gift. The cousin wasn't interested in her 'help'. The h had been trained by her mother since birth to become the guardian and is now all adrift as her identity was in that. The H is an injured Highlander that the h finds when she's out walking and feeling sorry for herself. She offers to attend to healing his arm in exchange for him helping train the warriors in her clan. She isn't the Laird and I was rolling my eyes at this. The laird (the H from book 1) came across as weak and even the h's sister is telling him what to do at one point. The H and h are attracted to each other from the beginning and the long meandering story continues.+++Spoilers++++One of the things that had me wanting to throw my Kindle was the way the H called the h 'angel' in every second sentence. I'm not one to complain about this sort of thing usually so you have to know it was excessive.The H and h can't keep their hands off each other from very early on and the writing was on the wall that this was going to be a modern historical. I wasn't wrong and it went against everything I complimented the author on in the last book. I will continue to repeat myself over and over again but there is no way you can convince me that the h would've given up her innocence so quickly and never ever once mention the consequences. After pledging to marry each other after they are intimate, the h changes her mind when she discovers that she's a guardian after all. I wanted to vomit truly. She sends the H off and neither of them even think that she could be pregnant. The H returns to fight for the King and discovers that his clan have appointed someone else as chief whilst he was away when his father died. He accepts it all and goes back to the h. No, no, no. His birthright was to be chief and I would have preferred that the h leave her clan and go with him. Far more realistic but it wouldn't support the convoluted plot that the author has going on. It doesn't take a crystal ball to work out what is going to happen with the bratty younger sister. For a large part of the book the h was living in her cousin's shadow in my opinion. I just didn't like any of them. Even the cousin, whom I really liked in book 1 was painful in this book.What happened to the Lauren Wittig that wrote 'The Devil of Kilmartin' and 'Charming of the Shrew'???