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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
I actually can't be that bothered to do a long and indepth review on this.
This was definately my least favourite read out of the 6 books I have read of hers.
Jeannie and Duncan were apparently in love, there was a big misunderstanding, he thinks she betrayed him, she's upset that he doesnt trust her and he leaves Scotland under the label traitor. He comes back 10 years later and low and behold go to find her to help clear his name. She doesnt want to help...and has a big whopper of a secret of her own and doesnt want him to find out.
After some arguments some "chemistry" they end up back together in the fight to help clear his name.
To be honest, I just didnt like this that much.
I gave it 3 stars out of respect to the author. But I didnt like Jeannie....if she had truly loved Duncan she would have warned him....because he could have been killed.
Duncan should have listened to her rather then jump to conclusions...even when the evidence was damning.
I just didnt get how these 2 were in love in the first place, let alone, fall back in love with each other. They only seemed to have lust and lots of it.
It was also obvious who had set Duncan up....I had guessed it from the previous books actually, so wasnt surprised at all.
It wouldnt put me off reading more in the future but was a disappointing end to this trilogy.
This was definately my least favourite read out of the 6 books I have read of hers.
Jeannie and Duncan were apparently in love, there was a big misunderstanding, he thinks she betrayed him, she's upset that he doesnt trust her and he leaves Scotland under the label traitor. He comes back 10 years later and low and behold go to find her to help clear his name. She doesnt want to help...and has a big whopper of a secret of her own and doesnt want him to find out.
After some arguments some "chemistry" they end up back together in the fight to help clear his name.
To be honest, I just didnt like this that much.
I gave it 3 stars out of respect to the author. But I didnt like Jeannie....if she had truly loved Duncan she would have warned him....because he could have been killed.
Duncan should have listened to her rather then jump to conclusions...even when the evidence was damning.
I just didnt get how these 2 were in love in the first place, let alone, fall back in love with each other. They only seemed to have lust and lots of it.
It was also obvious who had set Duncan up....I had guessed it from the previous books actually, so wasnt surprised at all.
It wouldnt put me off reading more in the future but was a disappointing end to this trilogy.
2.5 stars
This one was better than the first two but, that's it. The first half of the book was really interesting with the backstory and all. But I still felt lackluster to me. The sex scenes were the only thing going for this book.
This one was better than the first two but, that's it. The first half of the book was really interesting with the backstory and all. But I still felt lackluster to me. The sex scenes were the only thing going for this book.
Found this in a little free library and read tongue in cheek on a whim. Not a romance fan and the scenarios and characters are goofy AF, but the pacing is good and keeps one's attention.
Dear Monica, neden anlamsız bir şekilde kitaplarına final yazmıyorsun? Sanki yazmaktan final bölümünde sıkılmışta bir şeyler karalamış gibisin -_- Serinin herhangi bir kitabını bitirebilmiş gibi hissetmiyorum ne yazık ki. Çünkü finalleri yoktu...
That ending was very surprising. I was convinced of the central issue within this story though I of course knew Duncan was innocent. The story kept surprising me when I was sure I knew what was going to happen. I wanted to shake them more ofte than not but I loved Jeannie and Duncan....
Final book in the Campbell Trilogy and it was a good one. This is Duncan's story and he is the classic Highlander. He's also an outlaw. Charged with a crime he says he did not commit. After 10 years he comes back to Scotland to clear his name. The love of his life is Jeannie and she has secrets she must keep. It was a good way to wrap up this series.
Good read, but my least favorite of the three. Solves the mystery about the missing Campbell brother.
Black Duncan's return.
Monica McCarty has to be one of the most inconsistent writers I've ever encountered. Out of the six or so of her Highlander books that I've read so far, I've rated them anywhere from 4.5 stars to 1.5 stars. Some books have seen me so invested in the romance, that happy tears were streaming down my face as I read the final pages. Others have been tedious and left me completely unaffected.
This one falls somewhere in the middle.
I was quite keen to read this instalment to find out the full story behind Duncan Dubh's treason at long last, since it's been mentioned in the other books of the trilogy several times. The story opens with quite a bang in the present—albeit still in the 17th century—day, then it takes us back the 10 years to when the hero and heroine, Duncan and Jeannie, met and fell in love originally, before the alleged betrayal/treason nastiness all happened, causing Duncan to flee to Ireland for a decade or else face the hangman's noose. So it started very well, and I rather liked the couple at the beginning; they were very sweet together and had some great sensual scenes and some nice angst and drama. It was once we returned to present day that I found myself falling out of love with the story.
One of the main reasons I don't like romances featuring ex lovers, is the inherent bitterness they always bring with them. In this case, I never felt like Duncan and Jeannie truly got back that magic they'd had when they first met. There was just too much water under the bridge.
The next problem was that the plot just seemed to stop for about a hundred pages or so while they dithered about deciding whether or not to trust each other again. It was annoying to the nth degree to watch them get close and then retreat into distrust again, a cycle which was then repeated ad nauseam. I really think the book could have been a good hundred pages shorter and lost a lot of this padding and filler section. I realise it's the finale of the trilogy, and the one we've all been waiting for, but making it longer doesn't automatically make it more 'epic'.
It perhaps wouldn't have been quite as tiresome if we, as readers, didn't already know everything that was going on. We knew Jeannie's secret, we knew about Duncan's innocence, and we knew who the real villain was. It was just a matter of waiting for the characters to catch up.
All together, I'm glad I read it and that I've completed the trilogy, but it wasn't one of McCarty's best efforts.
3 Stars ★★★
Monica McCarty has to be one of the most inconsistent writers I've ever encountered. Out of the six or so of her Highlander books that I've read so far, I've rated them anywhere from 4.5 stars to 1.5 stars. Some books have seen me so invested in the romance, that happy tears were streaming down my face as I read the final pages. Others have been tedious and left me completely unaffected.
This one falls somewhere in the middle.
I was quite keen to read this instalment to find out the full story behind Duncan Dubh's treason at long last, since it's been mentioned in the other books of the trilogy several times. The story opens with quite a bang in the present—albeit still in the 17th century—day, then it takes us back the 10 years to when the hero and heroine, Duncan and Jeannie, met and fell in love originally, before the alleged betrayal/treason nastiness all happened, causing Duncan to flee to Ireland for a decade or else face the hangman's noose. So it started very well, and I rather liked the couple at the beginning; they were very sweet together and had some great sensual scenes and some nice angst and drama. It was once we returned to present day that I found myself falling out of love with the story.
One of the main reasons I don't like romances featuring ex lovers, is the inherent bitterness they always bring with them. In this case, I never felt like Duncan and Jeannie truly got back that magic they'd had when they first met. There was just too much water under the bridge.
The next problem was that the plot just seemed to stop for about a hundred pages or so while they dithered about deciding whether or not to trust each other again. It was annoying to the nth degree to watch them get close and then retreat into distrust again, a cycle which was then repeated ad nauseam. I really think the book could have been a good hundred pages shorter and lost a lot of this padding and filler section. I realise it's the finale of the trilogy, and the one we've all been waiting for, but making it longer doesn't automatically make it more 'epic'.
It perhaps wouldn't have been quite as tiresome if we, as readers, didn't already know everything that was going on. We knew Jeannie's secret, we knew about Duncan's innocence, and we knew who the real villain was. It was just a matter of waiting for the characters to catch up.
All together, I'm glad I read it and that I've completed the trilogy, but it wasn't one of McCarty's best efforts.
3 Stars ★★★
Reading the trilogy out of order but this was the first one I found in the series. Maybe it is just me, but I am not getting into this book. I have decided to not finish this book after getting stuck on chapter 2.
Highland Scoundrel – Campbell Trilogy #3
For most of the book, I couldn’t stand the leading lady of this book, Jeannie Grant. I liked her well enough at the beginning but later in the book, I thought she was kind of selfish and mean. I think she was supposed to be conflicted but that’s not how she came off to me.
Jeannie Grant was the eldest daughter of Chief of Grant of Freuchie. Her mother was flighty and ran off with an Englishman when Jeannie was eight or nine years old. She caused a scandal at court and ruined her family’s reputation. Jeannie has tried not to be impulsive and to be the good daughter so as not to cause her father grief but she is willing to risk everything for Duncan Campbell, a bastard born son of a chieftain, who is not an acceptable husband for a lady of her standing, but she doesn’t care because she is in love with him. She realizes her mistake when after she gives him her maidenhood, he betrays her and leaves her pregnant.
Her only choice is to marry the Earl of Huntly’s son who has agreed to raise her child as his.
Duncan Campbell is the eldest son of a powerful chieftain. He was born a bastard and abandoned by his mother just after he was born but his father took him in and treated him as a favored son. He is bound for greatness even if he is bastard born. His father put him in charge of getting the Chief of Grant of Freuchie to side with them against the Earl of Huntly in the impending battle soon to come. When he lays eyes of the Chief of Grant’s daughter, he is instantly enamored. They have a short romance where he takes her innocence during a swim at the loch and when he asks her to marry him she agrees.
But then Duncan is betrayed by the Grant chief. He believes Jeannie was part of it and accuses her of it, not believing her when she denies it. He is forced to flee Scotland because he was convicted of being a traitor.
Ten years later, Duncan is back in Scotland to clear his name. He needs to find proof of his innocence and has asked Jeannie to help him but she is reluctant to help him after he accused her of betrayal and left her. She also doesn’t want him to find out that her son is not her recently deceased husband’s child but Duncan’s child. That could ruin her and her son’s reputation.
As with most of Monica McCarty’s books, the leading male character is bullheaded, quick to believe the worst in their love interests and quick to anger which drives me nuts. I don’t know how I end up liking their characters because if I met a man like this in modern times, I wouldn’t have anything to do with them. I guess I give allowances for this behavior because it is the 1600s and men had absolute authority over women back then and they are eventually tamed by the heroines of Monica’s romances.
This was the last book of the Campbell Trilogy. I usually read paranormal romances but I’m a sucker for historical romances based in Scotland so I am debating whether or not to read Monica McCarty’s other trilogy, MacLeods of Skye. I probably will.
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For most of the book, I couldn’t stand the leading lady of this book, Jeannie Grant. I liked her well enough at the beginning but later in the book, I thought she was kind of selfish and mean. I think she was supposed to be conflicted but that’s not how she came off to me.
Jeannie Grant was the eldest daughter of Chief of Grant of Freuchie. Her mother was flighty and ran off with an Englishman when Jeannie was eight or nine years old. She caused a scandal at court and ruined her family’s reputation. Jeannie has tried not to be impulsive and to be the good daughter so as not to cause her father grief but she is willing to risk everything for Duncan Campbell, a bastard born son of a chieftain, who is not an acceptable husband for a lady of her standing, but she doesn’t care because she is in love with him. She realizes her mistake when after she gives him her maidenhood, he betrays her and leaves her pregnant.
Her only choice is to marry the Earl of Huntly’s son who has agreed to raise her child as his.
Duncan Campbell is the eldest son of a powerful chieftain. He was born a bastard and abandoned by his mother just after he was born but his father took him in and treated him as a favored son. He is bound for greatness even if he is bastard born. His father put him in charge of getting the Chief of Grant of Freuchie to side with them against the Earl of Huntly in the impending battle soon to come. When he lays eyes of the Chief of Grant’s daughter, he is instantly enamored. They have a short romance where he takes her innocence during a swim at the loch and when he asks her to marry him she agrees.
But then Duncan is betrayed by the Grant chief. He believes Jeannie was part of it and accuses her of it, not believing her when she denies it. He is forced to flee Scotland because he was convicted of being a traitor.
Ten years later, Duncan is back in Scotland to clear his name. He needs to find proof of his innocence and has asked Jeannie to help him but she is reluctant to help him after he accused her of betrayal and left her. She also doesn’t want him to find out that her son is not her recently deceased husband’s child but Duncan’s child. That could ruin her and her son’s reputation.
As with most of Monica McCarty’s books, the leading male character is bullheaded, quick to believe the worst in their love interests and quick to anger which drives me nuts. I don’t know how I end up liking their characters because if I met a man like this in modern times, I wouldn’t have anything to do with them. I guess I give allowances for this behavior because it is the 1600s and men had absolute authority over women back then and they are eventually tamed by the heroines of Monica’s romances.
This was the last book of the Campbell Trilogy. I usually read paranormal romances but I’m a sucker for historical romances based in Scotland so I am debating whether or not to read Monica McCarty’s other trilogy, MacLeods of Skye. I probably will.
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