Gwen’s review of Highland Guardian (Daughters of the Glen Book 2) by Melissa Mayhue
Paranormal romance published 30 Oct 07 by Pocket Books
This book is set in modern day Scotland and England. The characters are Scots and Americans – some normal “mortals” and some the fae. This is a story of how a couple of half-mortal/half-faes meet and fall in love. It even has “soul mating.” Read Sandy’s review of Book 1 in this series, Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband, also by Melissa Mayhue.
Here’s the book blurb:
Ian McCullough is neck-deep in his own trouble. A half-mortal descendant of Faeries, he’s been a Guardian for more than six hundred years, but he’s never encountered a woman like Sarah. Assigned to protect her, he finds the job tougher than he could have imagined. Oh, he can handle the stalker, and even the renegade Faeries trying to kidnap her. But falling in love means forsaking his role as Guardian — which is some-thing he could never do.
But there is no denying the passion that exists between two souls fated to be together.
Read an excerpt.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I love Mayhue’s writing style. For example, she doesn’t drag us thru a shopping trip to a small village to buy some clothes. Instead, she has the hero (Ian) mention that the next day he’s taking the heroine (Sarah) on a shopping trip to buy some clothes. End of chapter. The next chapter opens with the shopping trip over and the heroine thinking about the strange sighting of an odd man over a lunch they shared earlier in the day. THANK YOU!! It was nice to read a book where the plot kept moving forward, instead of dithering over minutiae. (Could also be the sign of a fabu editor.)
This book had a tightly drawn plot with some satisfying emotion and fun characters. The story arcs from scene to scene were logical and smoothly linked. I could have done without Ian being such a putz toward the end, but he worked it out.
This is a very fun book and highly recommended to paranormal/fantasy fans. You can read it without having read the first book in the series (I did) but it might be more fun if you read 30-Nights first.
Grade: A-
What’s next for Melissa:
Soul of a Highlander (DotG, Book 3) – Mairi’s story – June 2008
