Shamrocked (Her Irish Treasures)
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A gargoyle, a leprechaun, and a motorcycle gang walk into a bar . . .
Scratch that. A human woman (me) accidentally walks into a Faerie bar run by a leprechaun who keeps a cursed gargoyle on a shelf. Somehow, that gargoyle goes home with me, and I start dreaming of a man.
Doran. He's trapped in stone and darkness, and only I can free him.
He says I'm the treasurekeeper, and I need to find his friends, the other treasures, so we can break his curse. He haunts me night and day, driving me to hurry. I can't sleep. I can’t think. I have to find them. I have to free him.
Turns out his friends aren't that hard to find, because they're drawn to me, too. But these whiskey-drinking, tattoo-loving, motorcycle-riding badasses are resigned to their fate. Over the centuries, they've lost too many treasurekeepers to risk their hearts and souls again.
I have to find a way to convince them to join me. Before it's too late.
Contains mature themes.
Customer Reviews
On the Fence
The concept is good. The execution starts off really well, but then it seems like Burkhart got sick of writing and just quickly finished it. It’s like the beginning and middle were written as a novel, and then the ending was written as a short story.
Once again, someone used the Irish language without checking how it’s actually used. Burkhart had her guys calling her FMC “mo stór” (my treasure). This is technically correct. Mo is my and stór is treasure. But calling someone “my treasure” is actually said “a stór” (my treasure). This really annoyed me. I’m still very much a beginner at the Irish language, but even I knew this one. I feel like she didn’t even really try.
I don’t know if this is a Burkhart issue or a Meghan Kelly issue, but Kelly used a soft C for Celtic (like the Boston Celtics) instead of the correct per Irish pronunciation hard C (like Celtic Knot). “Seltic cross” and “seltic knot” pulled me entirely out of the story. Jesus Boston, stop forcing English pronunciation on Irish. I’m begging. You’re letting the English win and your Irish ancestors would be appalled. She said Gothic (as it’s pronounced) as opposed to Jothic as English g followed by a vowel rules state.
Shamrocked
I purchased the book because it was fantasy. But it had a lot of cussing which I don’t like and the end of it had nothing but sexuality in it and it just gave me chills, and I did not like it at all.