The Highlander’s Bride
By Michele Sinclair
The McTiernays Book #1

This book started out great with the McTiernay brothers traveling through the Lowlands after attending their other brother’s wedding. They are traveling to the Highlands to their home when they find Laurel Cordell, an English woman, who had been beaten and had escaped from the clutches of one of the McTiernay’s enemies, Keith Douglas. Keith had stolen her and tried to force her to marry him but she killed him…she thinks…and escaped.

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The brothers had just told a story about the Laird of the MacInnes clan had his granddaughter coming to visit from England; how his daughter had married an English man and how beautiful the daughter was supposed to be. And up pops Laurel but nobody connects her with the story. Laurel did not tell the brothers who she really was. She just let them believe she was English because, apparently, Keith and his father threatened to do harm to her grandfather. I wasn’t clear exactly on what the threat was or why Laurel thought that if she kept quiet about who she was, how she was protecting her grandfather but she planned on traveling with the McTiernays, staying the winter with them and then in the Spring, traveling back to warn her grandfather about the Douglas threat.

Anyway, Connor McTiernay is a self-professed bachelor because he doesn’t have to marry to make a strong alliance since his clan already was strong and he believes all woman are after is his power. He is instantly attracted to Laurel. Actually, attracted isn’t a strong enough word. I think he was more obsessed like a dog with a bone. He was jealous when anyone talked to her and bossed her around. I found Connor to be a bit boorish and spoiled but I guess men of power were probably like that back then.

The book just stops progressing around 30% through it. Nothing of importance really happens until close to the end. I was bored to tears. I think the author could have cut out two-thirds of the book and still told the story. If she just would have kept the pace up, I would have enjoyed the book more but because I was so bored throughout most of the book, I can’t rate this book very high or recommend it.

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This is my 2nd Michele Sinclair book, having previously read "The Christmas Knight" (which I loved). "The Highlander's Bride" was a little bit of a let-down for me. The story was entertaining but the writing was a little amateurish (if that is a word!) or simplistic. I had loved "The Christmas Knight", but THB was her first book, and this makes me want to re-read it(TCK) to make sure my impressions were correct. I still want to read the next book in the series, to see how it is. ( )

I liked the cat and mouse the main characters played, really exciting relationship. The story is really about them too rather than about something that occurs to them. really refreshing ( )

First book I've read by Michele Sinclair & I loved it. Conor & Laurel had strong personalities & sparred often. They learned to compromise which made this an interesting story. I will be starting on the 2nd book right now. ( )

I really enjoyed reading The Highlander's Bride. I've always enjoyed the historical genre and have become especially fascinated with Scotland and the Highlander's thanks to the hit show Outlander. The author did a great job painting the picture of the life taking place and what it would have been like to live among them. I'm excited to continue on in the series- hopefully each brother will get their story - If you are like me and have loved every minute of Outlander (minus the time travel :)), I think you will really enjoy this book. I chose to go back and forth between listening to the audio book and reading along digitally and I thought it brought the word to life with the rich accents and dialogue that I would have not been able to create in my head.

Happy Reading. ( )