Review: Rich Multilayered Story, But Needs Just a Bit More
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
This is a very well written novella.  I wish it had been a novel.  Evelyn is a young woman who has run to Scotland to get away from a Bishop who used her clairvoyant abilities, often causing people's deaths.  Roderick is a Berserker, a man who has been blessed with power and speed which allows him to kill with unbridled frenzy.  The cost of his berserker abilities was his voice.Evelyn and Roderick  meet the night before a battle. A battle in which Evelyn has dreamed that Roderick will die.  The question is can Evelyn change his fate?I found the writing to be crisp with enough description to fill my head with visions of medieval Scotland and enough passion to make me feel all tingly.While unnecessary to the story, I would have enjoyed more of Evelyn's and Roderick's back stories.  I am hoping to meet them in the next installment of the series.Unwilling (Highland Historical #2)or even the 3rdUnwanted (Highland Historical #3 The Holidays).Normally, I dislike couples that have sex too quickly, and these are fairly explicit scenes, however, for this story I did not feel that they were too rushed.  They felt organic to the story.ETA Just wanted to say, "I could see why a girl would choose to spend the night with someone she barely knows to avoid some very unsavory characters.  It might not be the "right" thing.  But women have been sleeping with men for a lot worse reasons.