To Marry a Scottish Laird
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4.2 • 41 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns to the Highlands of Scotland in her hottest new historical romance yet!
Highlander Campbell Sinclair is no stranger to battle, so when he sees a lad attacked by bandits, he jumps into the fray. He didn't count on being stabbed. Grateful to the boy for nursing him back to health, Cam offers to accompany Jo safely to his destination. But when he accidentally comes across the lad bathing in the river, Cam discovers that Jo is actually Joan . . . with the most sinful of curves.
Joan promised her mother that she would deliver a scroll to the clan MacKay. But traveling alone is dangerous, even disguised as a boy. When a Scottish warrior lends his aid, she is more than relieved . . . until he surprises her with lingering kisses and caresses that prove her disguise hasn't fooled him. As their passion ignites, will the secrets of the scroll force a wedding . . . and lead to a love she's never known?
Customer Reviews
Promising plot, disappointing writing
It breaks my heart to say this but this book was a total flop for me. While the plot was very promising land had a lot of potential, I felt that the writing was all wrong. The chronological order of the events in the story was all wrong, with love scenes happening way too fast with no real emotional build up to their first love scene, and major plot twists being revealed too soon in the story, leaving the second half of the book to just drag on and on. To be honest, it was painfully boring. There was no real character development in the beginning, but any information we did get about character’s back story was utterly useless to the entirety of the story. The heroin is introduced as a skilled healer and strong girl with a mission to honor her mother’s dying wish and along the way saves the handsom laird from certain death. BUT THEN THE SECOND HALF is just her whining about not being skilled and that her man doesn’t love her! I mean PAGES of self doubt. I found myself time and time again rolling my eyes. There was barely any interaction between the two lovers, just a ton of moping and and everyone sitting around repeating over and over the details of events. I seriously think that Joan left her room only twice in the entire second half of the book. It’s so disappointing because I love when a writing brings back characters from previous books, and there was great potential to take this story and make it exciting. But she took Joan’s character and made her into a weak self loathing baby and then made us listen to her whining for 300 pages. Even the dialogue between other characters is just dry. Just repeating information back and forth that did not require over explaining (over and over again).
I will read the next book in hopes the writer produces more compelling characters and less dry dialogue.