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nikkisreadingx's review
1.0
Angus is a knight off to find a wife. Birdi is an orphaned pagan healer who can’t see past a foot in front of her and knows nothing of the world. Angus “kidnaps” her with the intention of dropping her off somewhere for “safety” while finding a wife.
Honestly, this book would normally rank two stars for me because I don’t hold any bad emotions for it, but I simply didn’t like it. At all. Whatsoever. I can’t even say I was disappointed because it didn’t lead me to anything to disappoint.
Birdi is annoyingly naive. It fits, it makes sense in the plot line, I get why she doesn’t understand anything — still frustratingly annoying.
Angus is a dunce. Still fits, absolutely makes sense, he doesn’t claim to be otherwise — *annoying*.
The plot line is good? It had potential. It lost me about half way through and then I was reading just because it was a quick read and I was curious if the smut made up for anything. Not the worst, not the best, not anything to write home about, literally comes at the end of the book and adds nothing to the plot or romance or anything.
The authors uses a lot of words I had to Google. Not surprising as I don’t read a lot of historical romances and even less with Scots, but for some of her word choices, the context in the book clashed with the information on Google and I don’t know enough about it to figure out who’s correct. (My gut says Google, but who knows? Not me.) Which is frustrating. I’m not dumb, I’m just unfamiliar, and it’s very off-putting to read books that remind me of how much I don’t know about historicals.
Overall, I just flat out didn’t like it. Nothing terrible about the book, nothing that made me angry, nothing that made me stop reading in the middle. But it’s definitely a one star for me.
Honestly, this book would normally rank two stars for me because I don’t hold any bad emotions for it, but I simply didn’t like it. At all. Whatsoever. I can’t even say I was disappointed because it didn’t lead me to anything to disappoint.
Birdi is annoyingly naive. It fits, it makes sense in the plot line, I get why she doesn’t understand anything — still frustratingly annoying.
Angus is a dunce. Still fits, absolutely makes sense, he doesn’t claim to be otherwise — *annoying*.
The plot line is good? It had potential. It lost me about half way through and then I was reading just because it was a quick read and I was curious if the smut made up for anything. Not the worst, not the best, not anything to write home about, literally comes at the end of the book and adds nothing to the plot or romance or anything.
The authors uses a lot of words I had to Google. Not surprising as I don’t read a lot of historical romances and even less with Scots, but for some of her word choices, the context in the book clashed with the information on Google and I don’t know enough about it to figure out who’s correct. (My gut says Google, but who knows? Not me.) Which is frustrating. I’m not dumb, I’m just unfamiliar, and it’s very off-putting to read books that remind me of how much I don’t know about historicals.
Overall, I just flat out didn’t like it. Nothing terrible about the book, nothing that made me angry, nothing that made me stop reading in the middle. But it’s definitely a one star for me.
sadie_rae's review
2.0
This book sadly though enjoyable, was a far cry form the first in this series. I was very confused and though I did like Birdi well enough she came off a bit of a lack wit. While I have read other books where the Hr raised themselves, most of these other characters had a basic sense of survival. Birdi on the other hand, I can appreciate how she has overcome that which handicaps her, she just seem's a bit too simple for the roll that was cast for her. idk, 2.5 stars in the end.
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