Find Highland Treasure (Sisters By Choice 0.5) Presented By Mary McCall Rendered As Textbook
story that had many stories within I loved it! It was a little long, but that was fine with me because I didn't want it to end! Loved the characters, loved the story, loved it all! I read a lot of highland romances.
. This one might be my new fav, Had me laughing out loud, and unable to put the cursed bloody thing down!!!!! I was kind of skeptical about reading this book because though it has a lot of, it hasn't been reviewed by many people, which made me think the rating would not be very reliable, and it wasn't.
I would probably give this book between,stars. What is sad is that this book had a lot of potential, but an extremely fastpaced story line, a lack of depth, and unrealistic situations/characters made it just an ok read.
For one thing, everything happened extremely fast in this book, from Leonce and Hope getting married to them falling in love, This all happened in just a couple of days, and it just wasn't realistic and didn't allow the reader to enjoy the buildup of emotions between the H/h.
It also was not believable that Hope, who had been abused by her father for years, could trust a man within days of meeting him, It was disappointing that Hope didn't make Leonce fight for her love, Instead of reacting like a normal woman who has been tricked into marriage by a man she has known for mere days and trying to escape or make his life impossible, Hope just randomly decides that she will give her heart to him and she will make him fall in love with her, WHEN THEY BARELY KNOW EACH OTHER!!!! Ugh it was just so unbelievable and annoying.
And seriously, what was up with Hope Was she bipolar or something because she would be exuberant one moment and completely defeated the next, I
swear it gave me emotional whiplash I couldn't keep up with her mood swings.
The lack of buildup also contributed to a lack of depth in the book, Because the author didn't give the characters time for their feelings to develop, it all felt very fake and cheesy, It would have been nice if Hope and Leonce had both had to work at cracking the other's shell and gradually falling in love, rather than how it played out.
I'm also not sure whether to call Leonce an alpha male I'm leaning more towards NOT, He just didn't make me feel like he was dominant and in control most of the time he felt more like a petulant child rather than a grown man.
Mind you, I'm not saying he should have exerted more control over Hope, but rather exuded more confidence and manliness than he did in the book, It just did not seem realistic that a Highland chieftain in theth century would have acted how he did,
I also felt like there was little plot in the book, It mostly consisted of Hope playing games, angering people, fighting with Leonce, and discovering she had family pretty much everywhere, which was also highly unrealistic and cheesy.
I felt like the matter of her abusive father was not given much thought and was resolved much too quickly, There was basically nothing to make this book exciting, like mystery or intrigue, The magical aspect of the book totally fell flat and was way too downplayed for my tastes.
When people found out she was the Gifted One, they were in awe for like two seconds and then everyone forgot about it, If it had been made a bigger part of the book, it would have made it so much better, It would have been cool if, say, her abusive father and his men were after Hope for being the Gifted One but this was a secret from Leonce and everyone else, and they had to figure out why she was hunted or something like that.
Just anything to make it more exciting!!! Sigh oh well,
Overall, it's an ok read if you're looking for something without too much depth, But if you're looking for something a little deeper, steer clear of this one, This was suchhhhhhh a beautiful romance! With a heroine like this, you can't go wrong, I felt all fluttery inside when it ended, Can't wait for Highland Captive to be released on Audio Book! Originally readand gave,stars! Listened to audiobookand would givestars, I really wish I still had the ebook but could only find on audiobook, I was up the whole night reading it : Just loved it so :D This book was a little strange, I liked the characters and the overall story was very interesting, However, I felt it dragged a lot in the middle, and that it was unbelievable/over the top at many points, I didn't like this one as much as "Highland Captive", Maybe if I read it first I hate reading books out of order
, Bradana, Alera mother, is not mentioned in this book, She, Hope, had twin boys, No girls so There a whole generation missing between books, Unless there is another I don't know about,
I was disappointed from the start, Only because I was hoping to read Faiths and Bradon and got Alera aunt instead, Even if, I'm glad I read it,
I've reread these books so many times and won't stop:
I've lost count of how many times I've read the highlander series by Mary.
I don't know what it is, They're not classics, they'll never be Jane Austen, but they are magic,
Highland Treasure is the third one in the series,
Hope is a very neglected daughter of a Norse Baron and daughter of a Highland chief who was killed by the Baron, Learning to survive on her own from a very small child, she finds some animal friends along the way and becomes a gifted healer, When discovering that her father has kidnapped the son of a chief for his own depraved uses, Hope takes the boy, along with his father's sword that the Baron had taken in a devious battle two years prior, and brings both back to the Highlands.
She accomplishes this while recovering from a massive beating, Unable to run away, Hope needs to learn to trust humans again, Tricked into marrying the chief, Hope tries to become a noble chieftains wife with some hilarious results, She finds hee true family, in every sense of the word, and Justice is done!,