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Product Description At last, USA Today bestselling author Lynn Kurland tells the story of Patrick MacLeod-the first MacLeod to discover the secret of time travel through the Scottish forest next to the family keep...
Too slow and lacking passion - more like a amateur YA RomanceNovember 16, 2008 I've read a couple of books of Lynn Kurland and never really found her to my liking (the heroine is a 30 year old virgin lawyer in year 2003 - if you get my gist). If not for the misleading 4.5 stars, I'd never have bothered to check out this book from the library.
There is never much passion in her books, with very amateur kissing scenes. While I'm not a huge fan of notorious sex in books, I do find that it is necessary to at least pen out good, sizzling kissing scenes to make a romance novel worth reading, to lose yourself in passionate love story. For Kurland, she seems to be writing adult books with an early teen audience (like 12-14 yrs??) - that's how tame her books are. Even YA authors nowadays, like Stephenie Meyer and Meg Cabot (my favs), can pen sizzling passion between lovers without involving actual sex. However, Kurland just left me feeling cold and unmoved by the totally lame kisses that a 30-year virgin and 35-year old widower share. It is childish to the extreme, I must say.
So here goes the totally boring story - a warrior-type highlander (Patrick MacLeod) in modern day Scotland meets a virginal 30-year old lawyer (Madelyn Phillips) and an unpassionate affair starts where 80% of the time, neither can decide if they want the other. Then Kurland throws in a psychopathic ex-fiance (Bentley Douglas Taylor III - how pathetic a name to burden the poor guy with) of the heroine, who tries his best to cause mayhem. This is of course to bring Patrick and Madelyn together repetitively, otherwise how will the hero prove he's all-that's-macho?? And then Patrick, Madelyn and the psycho fiance get thrown back to year 1282 or something. From then, I totally lost interest in the book and could not even bring myself to finish it. So get it at your own risk...snooze....zzzzzzz
One of the Best Books I've ReadJuly 14, 2008 I so enjoyed this book that I've ordered more. Lynn Kurland's books are romantic yet action packed. A great read
good, but not greatJune 28, 2008 I liked this book, but I didn't love it. It was a little slow in some spots. I still cried and laughed, so it wasn't a complete loss. However, I just finished reading When I Fall in Love, before this one. Now, that book received a lower rating from the average reader, but I thought it was more romantic than this one. That one would definitely get more stars than this one, still a good story though...add it to your collection.
Familiar echoesDecember 3, 2007 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I am a fan of Lynn Kurland's writing, I am also getting tired of reading the same book over and over, just with different characters. That feeling of sameness is heightened by the similarity to Devereaux's KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR. As reviewer N. Hall of Chicago noted, the heroine's predicament here is awfully similar to that of Douglass in that book.
Another problem is Bentley. It's one thing to have an obnoxious character to stand in counterpoint to the hero but it's another to have his actions make no sense whatsoever in terms of human motivation or reality. In what universe would stealing your former fiancee's violin make her want to get back with you? And I'd second the point that, for a supposedly competent lawyer, Madelyn is awfully incompetent at taking care of herself.
These aspects - the copying of Devereaux's set-up, the inexplicable actions of Bentley, the incredible weakness of the heroine and the similarity to prior Kurland books - really undercut my enjoyment of this book. On the other hand, I did like Patrick, especially his love of fast cars (a legacy of his love of fast horses), even if six years did seem too long to keep grieving.
For an original time travel romance, give me Linda Howard's SON OF THE MORNING.
OkayMarch 1, 2007 This was okay. I've read better time travel novels. But when you've got nothing else to do, this will kill time and will make the time passable.
