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Title: One Man's Love : Book One of The Highland Lords by Karen Ranney ISBN: 0380813009 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 2
Summary: annoying heroine
Comment: The heroine of this book was irritating. The writer tried to make her seem headstrong and strong willed but she was really just rather stupid to provoke men who were much more powerful than she so openly. She was just extremely lucky that the hero was a good guy and stopped her from getting hurt. She tries to defend men who are complete cowards and just cause trouble and let her take the consequences. There was zero chemistry and the you just don't care about the characters.
Rating: 2
Summary: Gloomy, bleak and depressing
Comment: This is a bleak tale that had me wondering halfway through the book if I was actually reading a romance. The circumstances of the people is so depressing that it is hard to imagine a romance set during these awful times.
Set in war ravaged Scotland in 1746, Ian MacRae returns to his mother's home where he had left upon her brutal rape and murder. Under the belief a warring clan had killed his mother, he had enlisted in the British army to wreck havoc upon the Scottish he hates.
Known as 'Butcher of Inverness' Ian arrives to find his mother's former home ravaged by war. The people are starving and defeated. Out of the few survivors he finds Leitus MacRae, a young lady he shared a stolen kiss with many years before. Not recognizing him, Leitus finds herself his captive in exchange for one of the older clansman who foolishly likes to stand on hills playing his pipes.
Karen Ranney depicts very accurately, not to mention vividly how the English decimates Scotland during this tragic period in history. However, the chemistry between the hero and heroine is lacking, perhaps due to the very violent realistic backdrop and total hopelessness of the situation.
As Ian begins to find his Scottish roots again, and becomes "The Raven" in order to help his mother's people. Leitus finds herself falling in love with him, and therefore her captor in disguise.
This story is too gloomy and sober for this reviewer's taste though Ms. Ranney is not to be faulted for her writing, which is fluid and well paced.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Beginning of this Trilogy
Comment: From the very first pages you will be caught up in the emotional maelstrom of this historical era. I've been known to weep during and at the end of a book - but from the very first pages - oh my God I was hooked. On his eleventh birthday, young Ian MacRae half English, and heir to a British Earldom, and half Scot would never be the same. His mother had been brutally assaulted and killed during her yearly visit to her family. On that day Ian would renounce his Scottish heritage for the brutal clan wars that claimed his beloved mother as the latest casualty.
Years later in Scotland 1746 - after the slaughter at Culloden - the English forces under the command of Cromwell are still persecuting the defeated Scots. Ian, now known as Colonel Alec Landers has come to take over the command at Fort Williams. The clan MacRae that once totaled over 300 was now a mere handful, but in that handful of survivors was the first girl he had ever kissed - Leitus MacRae. She was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen nor did she recognize the grown up man who had been her childhood friend. She only recognized the hated English uniform and not the man who wore it. Alec/Ian could not come out and let Leitis know who he was as it could cause him his very life if the English knew he was half Scot, and as her enemy she was sworn to hate him. In order to save her uncle, she agreed to become the Colonel's hostage to ensure her uncle's life. But this strange, and though she hated to admit it, handsome and kind man was not easy to understand. He was supposed to be the 'Butcher of Inverness' sparing no Scotsman - yet he showed compassion that confused her and his nearness aroused passion she was ashamed of.
Sickened by the slaughter and senselessness of war Alec played a dangerous game, assuming the disguise of 'The Raven' in order to help ease the burdens of the people, he tricked Leitis into helping him. That she would fall in love with the Raven who she learned was actually Ian was inevitable - that she could still have an attraction for the English Colonel was her torment.
This was an outstanding and beautiful love story with well defined characters that you will get very emotionally caught up with. The love between Alec/Ian and Leitis seemed to be an impossibility given the era and that is what makes this such an unbelievable story as to what a man would do - for 'One Man's Love'. A superb beginning for this much anticipated trilogy.
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Title: When the Laird Returns: Book Two of The Highland Lords by Karen Ranney ISBN: 0380813017 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Irresistible MacRae : Book Three of The Highland Lords by Karen Ranney ISBN: 0380821052 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: My Wicked Fantasy by Karen Ranney ISBN: 0380795817 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: After the Kiss by Karen Ranney ISBN: 0380812983 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning ISBN: 0440237556 Publisher: Dell Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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