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“Fun!!!!!”
Amber P wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very good, I liked the reappearance of Adam Black in this story. ”
Faerie Mel wrote this review Sunday, November 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Karen Marie Moning is the best paranormal romance author in publication today. Her stories are so much more complex and intricate then your average bodice ripper. I love how she threads mythology, history and science throughout her stories. An added bonus is that she is an exception story-teller and a wonderfully detailed and engrossing writer.”
Linda M wrote this review Sunday, November 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I liked everything except the connection they had. I know, ironic. I just didn't see how Lisa and C could sense each other. Good book though. Adam made another appearance too. Aww, I love Adam. ♥”
Krissy A wrote this review Sunday, November 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Adam Black was the best part in this book. We find out he has a heart and an interesting past. Lisa is boring as a female character,week and floppy minded. ”
Debbie P ..aka Yodamom wrote this review Friday, October 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Another GREAT book in this series!”
Amy wrote this review Thursday, October 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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With a mischievous dark elf around, how can he expect her to find the garderobe, much less use it?
Before there was the Fever series, there was the Highlander's. A fun, light read, The Highlander's Touch is part of a time travel romance series by Karen Marie Moning. In this book, fiercely independent but down-on-her-luck Lisa got caught up by a curse placed on a magical flask. Having fallen into 14th-century Scotland, in the castle of a forbidding warrior, she must learn to trust her captor as well as navigate a highly feudal and tumultuous time, while trying to figure out the finer points of using a chamber pot.
In tone, and, definitely, in emphasis, this one is very different from the darkness and violence of the urban fantasy that was my introduction to Moning. Though it does contain the same Celtic, Irish, and British mythological references that I encountered in Fever, minus much of the peril.
Because I had really liked Fever, I figured that her Highlander books wouldn't be bad. Well, this book doesn't have the tight pacing of Fever, but it's got humor, and a bed scene that didn't offend my sensibilities that much, not because it wasn't explicit (It was! It was! ), but because the events leading up to that moment were carefully orchestrated so that when it did happen I didn't feel that the heroine gave in out of the publisher's demand for smut but as a natural choice influenced by events and emotions in the book.
” maydiwayatangnawawala wrote this review Saturday, October 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“As a fairly recent but HUGE fan of Moning's Fever series, I thought I'd give the Highlander series a try. I knew going in that the two series are vastly different, but hoped that some of the things that truly make the Fever series stand out to me would cross over. I was pleased that they did.
Tracy wrote this review Friday, September 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I won't bother with a synopsis of the story - that's been done and done well. What I will tell you is that while I used to be a large fan of historical romances and time travel romances, I've been out of that passion for at least a decade and only my love of Moning (and yes, my pining, gnashing, and wailing for Shadowfever) drove me back to one such book. I'm glad for it, too.
I found the characters to be compelling and Lisa Stone in particular to be a lovely protagonist. Circenn was sexy, totally alpha male, and wonderfully mysterious in his own right - and now I understand the reference to Adam that V'lane made in Dreamfever. I very much liked that particular Seelie. Lisa's emotional struggle with a mother dying of cancer struck a very real and true and grief laden chord with me, too. I thought the story was paced well and there was enough depth in the secondary and ancillary characters, as well as the plot, that Highlander's Touch was a a full, rich delight to read. And there's NEVER a disappointment in Moning's character's dialogue - it's always fun, witty, and sarcastic as each scene warrants. My only true criticism was the ending - I wasn't fond of the direction it went to get to a resolution and I thought it was wrapped up a little too quickly, given the care and thorough detail given to the first 80% of the book. Still, it's a light and engaging read without too much angst or misery and as always, Moning's attention to detail and her ability to embelish on fae folklore is in fine form here.”
“It is taking me forever to finish this book. It is just sooooo sllllloooooowwww.
CoffeeAddict wrote this review Wednesday, September 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Adam Black is confusing the hell out of me, in some books he is evil, in some he is an ass, here he is semi-positive and quasi-nice.
I am finally done; it took longer than it should have. What usually takes me a day or two to read, took me about a month. This book did not pull me in or keep my attention at all. The story developed slow, but toward the end felt rushed. Was not one of her best books.
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