Traveling through time…for a Highlander.
Anne MacLeod’s identical ancestor has made a wish on the Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, one which sees the two young women swapping places in time and leaving Anne set to handfast with the very man her ancestor wished to escape. Only Anne sees the possibilities, because now she could change the future and ensure her parents never perished in the inferno … the inferno which took their lives.
Highland warrior Alex MacDonald has made an agreement to handfast with Anne in order to bring a halt to the feud raging between their clans. The last thing he expects though is a woman claiming to come from the future, a woman who stirs him on a physical and emotional level to protect, and to even believe.
When Anne finds herself in her MacLeod chief’s presence, she chooses to go with him in order to leave a message for her parents. In full pursuit, Alex wages a battle of the heart, and of the very essence of time. Can he defy the odds as Anne is taken from him…to work his own magic and get her back?
New York Times Bestselling Author Joanne Wadsworth brings you her bestselling Highlander Heat time travel series. Readers are loving it!
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Steamy time travel historical romance! An enthralling love story of a woman from the modern time and a highlander from the past. Alex is everything I love in a Highlander hero-sexy, strong, protective and possessive.
At best this book was cheesy. At worst; a story written only for erotica. There was very little depth to the story and the most unbelievable chemistry and romance. Unbelievable mainly because there was zero chemistry and zero emotional connection between Anne and Alex. It was pretty much insta love and the rest of the relationship after that was sex.
I find authors like Joanne Wadsworth, who make an instant love relationship between two characters, extremely lazy. There is no effort put into the love or the story, no development or twists, no getting to know the characters, their strengths and weaknesses. It’s simply dull and unrealistic the way she wrote it. To make a good, heartwarming and 5 star love story you need to put some effort behind the relationship development. Instead of a lazy as f instant love with no depth, corny declarations of love and understanding (pretty much the only dialogue between them) and basically only sex, write a growing love in the relationship. Make the characters spend time getting to know each other, joke with each other, argue and find their right places in the relationship. Not only would it make a believable and likable romance. It would also develop some personalities for the characters. Instead we have these empty of emotion characters that they almost felt like programmed robots.
I found Anne so unbelievable and unrealistic. She could never be angry, scared or confused. Basically any emotion or mindset other than happy, neutral and overly confident did not exist in her world. There were moments where she should have been sad or angry in the book and it really annoyed me that the author did not take it anywhere. When someone tells a person to shut up because he does not believe her, you should become angry. When you think you will never see the love of your life again you should be devastated. Nothing of that though. Anne and many of the characters were pretty much robots when it came to emotion. Another reason why the relationship felt unreal.
The worst part of all was that some things just did not make sense. Now, I did not count the days Anne spent in the past, but I think it was around 5 days at most. Plus the 10 days at present time. So, at around 15 days she finds out she is pregnant? Right me if I’m wrong, I’m certainly not an expert in that area, but can you really find out if you’re pregnant 15 days from conception (and that’s just assuming that it happened her first day in the past)? It seems very unlikely.
There is only one reason that I give this book two stars and that is for the accuracy, detailed world build and accurate accent of that time. At least, Joanne put some effort into that, but it is far from saving this book. She should have put that effort into the personalities, romance and for the love of god gotten rid of all those super cheesy lines, speeches and ending.
Enjoyable read The characters were fun and I had fun reading it.
Couldn’t put it down!! Facinating
loved the characters, loved the Scottish accents I could hear in my mind, time has no control over love
Good writing and gives you an insight of how life was back then.
Love anything about Highlanders!
Shallow Outlander wannabe is an entertaining disposable diversion.