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From the NYT bestselling author of "Devil of the Highlands" and "Taming the Highland Bride", here comes another exciting and humorous historical romance as only Lynsay Sands can tell it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The problem with 'The Hellion and the Highlander' was that it wasn't very interesting. Feisty, red-haired heroine (there's a surprise) meets manly Scottish warrior, marries him, falls in love, helps to solve a not-very-mysterious mystery. And that's it, really. There are 373 pages of story but the actual content is fairly meagre.
Lynsay Sands is able to write books pretty quickly - you only have to see how many she publishes in a year to realise this. However, this book really showed the flaws in this method of writing, as it seems that the author didn't have time to put together a real story. There was little character development, the hero was monosyllabic most of the time (and didn't seem that interesting apart from being rather a New Man for the times) and the heroine's actions were questionable. I think it'd be considered slightly bad form to partially poison your new in-laws, but this seemed to be considered OK.
I feel that Sands' Argeneau series has become tired and it seems that this Highland offshoot group of books is the same. There's nothing particularly wrong with this book, it just doesn't have enough in it to keep a reader's attention.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2010
Lynsay Sands is able to write books pretty quickly - you only have to see how many she publishes in a year to realise this. However, this book really showed the flaws in this method of writing, as it seems that the author didn't have time to put together a real story. There was little character development, the hero was monosyllabic most of the time (and didn't seem that interesting apart from being rather a New Man for the times) and the heroine's actions were questionable. I think it'd be considered slightly bad form to partially poison your new in-laws, but this seemed to be considered OK.
I feel that Sands' Argeneau series has become tired and it seems that this Highland offshoot group of books is the same. There's nothing particularly wrong with this book, it just doesn't have enough in it to keep a reader's attention.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2010
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Great book... couldn't put it down!
25 Feb 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a great-reading book. The romance and developing feelings of the characters are believable. And the author does an outstanding job at capturing the time period and the Scottish brogue of her characters. The scenes flow well and it really keeps your attention. I really can't think of anything negative to say about the book. It's just a great read! Lynsay Sands is now one of my favorite authors (this was the first book of hers that I've read)!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
a fun read
3 Mar 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the 3rd novel in LS's highland series. 1. Devil of the Highlands 2.Taming the Highland Bride.
Kade is a Scottish warrior on the mend at his good friend's castle in England. Averill has been caring for Kade in between parading around for English lord's hoping to find a husband. But the Englishmen seem to find her..um... charms laking. Kade likes Averill from the beginning but thinks she may be too timid/sensitive to stand up to his drunken brothers and father back at home. (See Taming the Highland Bride for same drunk brothers and father). After a hilarious run in with a portly English lord, Averill unknowingly proves her spunk to Kade and thus he decides they will marry. She on the other hand is not so sure.
Kade makes plans to travel back to Scotland to take over as laird. His father's inebriated ways have turned the castle to ruins and most of the people have fled. Someone has other plans for Kade and is attempting to murder him. Averill and Kade must work together to find the killer and make a life together.
There are some great characters in this book that I look forward to seeing in future books. Look for a brief meeting with Tavis, from Devil of the Highlands. I'm hoping he'll be in an upcoming book. Hopefully as someone's hero. Can't wait for the next one!!!
Kade is a Scottish warrior on the mend at his good friend's castle in England. Averill has been caring for Kade in between parading around for English lord's hoping to find a husband. But the Englishmen seem to find her..um... charms laking. Kade likes Averill from the beginning but thinks she may be too timid/sensitive to stand up to his drunken brothers and father back at home. (See Taming the Highland Bride for same drunk brothers and father). After a hilarious run in with a portly English lord, Averill unknowingly proves her spunk to Kade and thus he decides they will marry. She on the other hand is not so sure.
Kade makes plans to travel back to Scotland to take over as laird. His father's inebriated ways have turned the castle to ruins and most of the people have fled. Someone has other plans for Kade and is attempting to murder him. Averill and Kade must work together to find the killer and make a life together.
There are some great characters in this book that I look forward to seeing in future books. Look for a brief meeting with Tavis, from Devil of the Highlands. I'm hoping he'll be in an upcoming book. Hopefully as someone's hero. Can't wait for the next one!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good Read; Nothing Out of The Ordinary Though
14 April 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is not too exciting past the first couple of chapters.
The heroine is true to her virginal status. In addition, she lacks self confidence and esteem and I did not conclude that she overcame these emotional issues.
Surely, readers can fall in love with the hero, but based on the heroine's physical and emotional description, I do not see why the hero falls in love with the heroine; other than the fact the he totally loved the stories about the heroine from his captive friend and fellow crusader which also happens to be the heroine's brother.
The only realistic aspect of the book was the fact that the heroine remained true to her virginal character and qualities, but you could not conclude that these two protagonists held long deep desires and passion for one another; they only consummate their marriage and relive the experience at the end of the book due to too many attempts on the hero's life when he initiates romance with his wife (VERY unrealistic for a hero being caught fighting long and hard for years in the crusades and finds himself suddenly and agreeably wed. If he really was in deep passionate love with his new bride as he claims later on in the story, nothing would've kept him apart from continuing his intimacies with her.
The author seemed to have needed to fill up the pages of this book with three attempts on the hero's life and his unending duty to take over as clan laird by setting his father and brothers straight in their drunken lives. The description to this read can only be described as cute and sweet, but not suspenseful and lacking in reality within the time period.
The heroine is true to her virginal status. In addition, she lacks self confidence and esteem and I did not conclude that she overcame these emotional issues.
Surely, readers can fall in love with the hero, but based on the heroine's physical and emotional description, I do not see why the hero falls in love with the heroine; other than the fact the he totally loved the stories about the heroine from his captive friend and fellow crusader which also happens to be the heroine's brother.
The only realistic aspect of the book was the fact that the heroine remained true to her virginal character and qualities, but you could not conclude that these two protagonists held long deep desires and passion for one another; they only consummate their marriage and relive the experience at the end of the book due to too many attempts on the hero's life when he initiates romance with his wife (VERY unrealistic for a hero being caught fighting long and hard for years in the crusades and finds himself suddenly and agreeably wed. If he really was in deep passionate love with his new bride as he claims later on in the story, nothing would've kept him apart from continuing his intimacies with her.
The author seemed to have needed to fill up the pages of this book with three attempts on the hero's life and his unending duty to take over as clan laird by setting his father and brothers straight in their drunken lives. The description to this read can only be described as cute and sweet, but not suspenseful and lacking in reality within the time period.
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