Highland Promise
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4.5 • 116 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Ordered by King Alexander to wed an Englishwoman, Laird Brendan Sutherland heads to England to wed the sister of his best friend's wife. Having no use for love, he intends to beget a few heirs and forget the lass.
After being falsely accused of the Sin of Eve when she was twelve, Lady Faith of Hawkhurst hides her beauty beneath a hideous disguise, becoming a hag in public. She believes she must enter a convent and live a life of penance or suffer perpetual damnation.
Learning her brother intends to ambush an approaching Highland party, Faith intercepts Brendan and his men to ask their aid in reaching the convent. Brendan quickly sees through her disguise and agrees to take her with him. After a court scandal, King Henry orders them to wed. As they return to the Highlands with a killer on their trail, Brendan discovers he can't remain aloof from the woman destined to restore his faith in love.
Customer Reviews
Highland promise
It was a funny, cute book. Good bit of dialogue which I love. Good story and characters.
Slow moving
Way too long. The story got boring after awhile. I usually read a book in 2-3 days. This one took about a week and I skipped a few chapters just to get through it.
Good but not great
I love the sass and dynamics between our clever English Heroine and her Highland Hunk, but the one thing that dragged the book down for me was the antagonist—a cannibalistic rapist with some (vague) desire for revenge against the protagonists - still not sure why that was warranted. Rape is unfortunately used as a prominent plot device in historical fiction, and while I acknowledge the reality of it especially in historic cultures, it’s an unfortunate trope that wasn’t deviated from in this book. I loved the strong girl friendships Faith has, although the subplot with one of them was left disappointingly unresolved.
It’s an easy read with a randy muscleman and his sassy but amusingly naive beloved and some obvious but not brutally graphic sexual scenes. I would’ve actually preferred more romantic, implied sexual stuff rather than a midway point between “implied” and “explicit” that, to my mind, is less hot and more “meh”, but it’s not violent or unnervingly kinky, either, which I appreciate.
Overall, 3/5 stars.