The Highlander Brothers #2
Margo Maguire
Historical Romance
Published in 2013
H/h - Lachann MacMillan/Anna McIver
Setting: Scotland, 1720.
Read in March/April 2014.
My rating:
[spoiler alert]
So, I finally finished Margo Maguire’s The Highlander’s Desire,
book 2 of the Highlander Brothers series. Sadly, it was a sore
disappointment for me. By the last few chapters, I was willing this to
end just because I’m still stubborn enough to not DNF-ing a book. I
wouldn’t say the author’s writing is bad but this was nothing
exceptional either. The storytelling was way too full of clichés to hold
my attentions for a longer period, hence at about half-way through, I
found myself drifting towards other books.
I liked book 1, The Warrior Laird.
It was rather good, with some nice paranormal twist to go with it. We
meet the McMillan siblings and learn of their tragic past. I don’t
remember much, but their father, the Laird of their clan and one of the
brothers died very young on an attack one night, treachery of a guest
staying with them at that time. Their mother, too, died that winter,
alone and cold, while trying to move her remaining offspring to her
father’s clan, the MacMillan. They finally did arrive and their
grandfather took them in (3 boys and a girl). Hence Dugan and his
brothers and sister are known to be MacMillans today. Dugan has become
the Laird after their grandfather’s death. One of their brothers is
already married. In Dugan’s story, we find him owing a huge amount of
money, something that is looming over his head. This becomes a cause for
concern to the well-fare of the clan and a headache for him. Then, he
hears of this treasure somewhere and a desperate Dugan decides to go on a
hunt for it. On the way he meets Maura, a noblewoman. Maura was a bit
of a TSTL who thought she can traipse through the Highlands all by
herself in search of her mentally challenged younger sister. With
Dugan’s help, she flees from her guards and tags along with him and his
men. In here, we also meet Lachann, Dugan’s younger brother. He was said
to have ‘the auld eyes’ or someone having very sharp sense and
instinct. He intrigued me a lot, when, at the end, after Dugan and Maura
marry, he’s sent on a mission of his own that would secure his own
future. But would you believe that I read none of the mysterious ‘auld
eye’ in the Lachann I saw here? Total nada. Let me tell you why...
