Rating: Summary: Still Reading this series Review: I have read the series on this book by Karen Marie Moning. I especially enjoyed this book it has something for everyone. I also read this book in one night and if that does not say what kind of book it was i do not know what else will. I am anxiously awaiting the next book in this series....
Rating: Summary: Sexy, but where's the plot? Review: The first half takes off with steamy seductive scenes. But the plot and characters don't hold up. There are too many confusing references to the prior book, as if it doesn't have it's own story line. Too bad. The sexual tension was very good. If there had been a better story behind it, it would be a terrific romance.
Rating: Summary: A great sexy read Review: I have read all Karen's other books and have found this one to be my favorite. If you liked Outlander, you will like this even more. I will never think of Scottland the same again.
Rating: Summary: The Dark Highlander is a truly great read! Review: This book is filled with mystery, romance and adventure! All that a woman could want and more.... I definitely recommend this to anyone who believes in fate, soul-mates and true love.
Rating: Summary: The best sort of brain candy. Review: I don't really like time travel stories, either in Science Fiction or Romance. They always seem to have some sort of trick or cheat in the plot resolution. Despite that I started reading Ms. Moning's work because she is a local writer and a friend of a friend knew her and recommended her.Her books were a pleasant surprize. Sure there are the expected tricks in the story lines, but I was willing to overlook the time travel tricks because the plots and characters are engaging, and the sex scenes are hot, but not too over the top silly they way they are is so many Romance novels. Ok, maybe they are over the top silly, but they are so fun you don't care they if they are anatomicaly possible. This is the sort of book that can help you unwind and relax after a stressful day, and forget that you have a whole box of double stuff Oreos in the kitchen calling your name. It's brain candy, but it's brain candy of the best sort.
Rating: Summary: Always a 'Keeper' Writer Review: Karen Marie Moning has that 'certain something' in her writing that romance readers keep reading romance for. She brings two-dimensional characters to life through the power of her language and her understanding of emotion, and most importantly Moning knows what it is that reader's want in her hero. I would say that Dageus is my favorite hero, but that would be a lie, each of her Heros is my favorite when I read her work. "The Dark Highlander" is the most erotically charged of her novels and I enjoyed it greatly. My only complaint, which is one I have with every book I really enjoy, is that I wish it were longer.
Rating: Summary: Magical Review: All of Karen's books are great if you love romance and a little magic! There's nothing like a good time-travel book to go somewhere, and be someone we could never be!
Rating: Summary: 1/2* DARKER AND BETTER Review: Superior time-travel romance gems are few and by. Most fanatics of such genre would agree that the classic by Jude Deveraux A Knight in Shining Armour reigns incomparable. That is until Karen Marie Moning releases her latest The Dark Highlander to be a worthy contender. This is by far Ms. Moning's most complexed time-travel with its subversively darker tone and beautifully researched materials on Irish myths and historical tapestries - converging on the magical realms of Druids and a superior fairy-race Tuatha De Danaan. While the fairies indoctrinate the Druids on flourishing their civilization with science, 13 druids became avaricious and desired immortality like their otherworldly counterparts. The fairy imprisons them as dark souls trapped in the Stones - a time portal forbidden to humans and the chosen MacKeltars who guard them. Daegus, a 16th century Highlander in an attempt to rescue his twin brother, goes back in time to save him but ends up manipulated by the dark souls gradually. He is thrown to the modern times - and voraciously reads up the scripts relevant to removing the curse. Earthy and sassy curator Chloe Zander delivers a sacred book and accidentally stumbles upon his identity as the Gaulish Ghost - a moniker for the thief of Celtic relics. Dageus bounds Chloe as his mate and together they search for his panacea, with descendents of the evil Druids on their heels.... Ms. Moning cleverly eschews from bombarding the reader and inserts her materials aptly. Her prose is snappy, fast and instead focuses on the characterization to accentuate the loyalty of Dageus and the saucy Chloe. Their effervescent sexual chemistry zings through the page and offers a respite from the frenetic pace of their rollicking adventure. With so many developments at hand, it is all the more laudable that Ms. Moning, a former RITA winner strings them up coherently with her usual sleight-of-hand into an essential battle of overcoming odds with love. Of course Ms. Moning is deft after writing so many time-travel romance, but this passage through time is zippy, gleefully fun and darkly intriguing to give the best joyride I have experienced this year.
Rating: Summary: The Romance of a Lifetime Review: This was the first time travel romance. I didn't think that I would like it. This book kept me reading all day long. I did not want to put it down. I have to agree with some of the other reviews...it ended too soon. I wish the story would keep on going!
Rating: Summary: "If you're into time-travel books then this one's for you" Review: I enjoy something different in the way of romantic-suspense every once in awhile. Let me tell you this book really tickled my fancy in the 'unique' sense of the word! I will now make it a point to read all of Ms. Moning's books...I liked this one that much!
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