Review: Unforgettable!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2012
Why, oh, why I read this installment in the Highland Destiny Saga first, I do not know. The intensely primal, sensual cover perhaps? Who knows. All I DO know is that Highland Pull has...PULLED...me into its spell and now I must go back to the beginning and see where this beautiful tale began.First of all. No, no. Now you know I don't talk about plots.So where does that leave me except with one of the sexiest, most virile, potent, primitive yet ultra sophisticated and suave characters I've ever read. Oh, hey, how did Ms. Harner pull THAT off? Oh, I don't know--just writing talent, I suppose, which this author is brimming with--but she DID pull it off.Dr. Gabrhran MAcLachlan is the Highlander in this book, who harbors a dark spirit and is cursed with `shifting realities'--i.e., traveling from the contemporary world to ancient Scotland, and he has no control over these changes.And I have to say this darks spirit was virtually a character of its own, even though we never see it, we only FEEL it inside him. It directs everything Gav does. It loves, hates, fears, cringes, lusts, taunts. It is a frightening yet beautifully described entity.I thought Gabhran was intensely sexy in his contemporary world, which in this book is set mostly in mysterious, brooding, sultry New Orleans. But when his reality shifts to ancient Scotland we are introduced to the most savagely beautiful Highlander imaginable. Rugged, fearless, unbearably handsome and--oh, yes--a very primal yet tender lover. Hot. Very hot. It's been a few days since I `met' him, and he is still fresh on my mind.The heroine, Detective Miranda Close, is Gabhran `Gav's' lover and the chemistry between them is delectable and the sex scenes range from wonderfully primitive to exquisitely gentle and oh so sensual.There are supporting characters--very sexy Liam and his beautiful tormenter/lover, Marie. And the erotic scenes between these two, filled with vivid and titillating voodoo and black magic, was enough to make me ask the author to please give us more of the pair.Like I said, the book was fabulous, romantic, sensual, panoramic in its descriptions of both worlds (modern New Orleans and the primitive world of Scottish Highlands).Unforgettable.