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A review by justaromancereader
Mackenzie's Mountain by Linda Howard
3.0
2.5/5
I struggled a lot with Mackenzie's Mountain. It's been sitting on my currently-reading shelf for nearly three weeks. It was like a neon sign, flashing "READ ME, READ ME". So in between some of my reads, I read it little by little... Until I decided to just get it over and done with to help clear my shelf.
It wasn't really a bad book, but I'll explain.
I'm more of a contemporary romance gal but this read kind of like a historical. I like contemporary romance, to me it reads smooth and I guess in some way, I can relate more to the characters. This one had its moments where I thought that they seriously needed mobile phones.
So that, coupled with the fact that in the beginning, there was so much distrust from the townsfolk and a brooding Wolf, so they didn't endear themselves to me. Up until around the 40-50% mark I only really liked Mary and Joe. I did warm up to the other characters eventually, like Clay and the other people in town. Especially when they slowly realized that Wolf and Joe were a decent people, and in fact, people to be admired.
Then there was also the predictability factor. We all knew Mary was going to get attacked and at some point get kidnapped/taken for doing something or considering doing something either extremely brave of extremely stupid. Sometimes I don't really think some authors consider their books to be complete without that signature TSTL moment. But it's all good, those kind of heroines don't really bother me as much as they amuse me. I just found this one a little too predictable for my taste.
Mackenzie's Mountain was a little predictable, but if you stick with it, you'll eventually warm up to a delightful cast of characters. Mary was a heroine brave enough to stand up for what she wanted and believed in, and I liked how it only took one person to start changing deep-rooted prejudices and misconceptions in a town determined to stay away from two people for simply being different. The process was one that I enjoyed, but some parts I felt I could easily step away from to read another book. Overall, it was one of those 'meh' reads. Maybe my expectations were too high.
I struggled a lot with Mackenzie's Mountain. It's been sitting on my currently-reading shelf for nearly three weeks. It was like a neon sign, flashing "READ ME, READ ME". So in between some of my reads, I read it little by little... Until I decided to just get it over and done with to help clear my shelf.
It wasn't really a bad book, but I'll explain.
I'm more of a contemporary romance gal but this read kind of like a historical. I like contemporary romance, to me it reads smooth and I guess in some way, I can relate more to the characters. This one had its moments where I thought that they seriously needed mobile phones.
So that, coupled with the fact that in the beginning, there was so much distrust from the townsfolk and a brooding Wolf, so they didn't endear themselves to me. Up until around the 40-50% mark I only really liked Mary and Joe. I did warm up to the other characters eventually, like Clay and the other people in town. Especially when they slowly realized that Wolf and Joe were a decent people, and in fact, people to be admired.
Then there was also the predictability factor. We all knew Mary was going to get attacked and at some point get kidnapped/taken for doing something or considering doing something either extremely brave of extremely stupid. Sometimes I don't really think some authors consider their books to be complete without that signature TSTL moment. But it's all good, those kind of heroines don't really bother me as much as they amuse me. I just found this one a little too predictable for my taste.
Mackenzie's Mountain was a little predictable, but if you stick with it, you'll eventually warm up to a delightful cast of characters. Mary was a heroine brave enough to stand up for what she wanted and believed in, and I liked how it only took one person to start changing deep-rooted prejudices and misconceptions in a town determined to stay away from two people for simply being different. The process was one that I enjoyed, but some parts I felt I could easily step away from to read another book. Overall, it was one of those 'meh' reads. Maybe my expectations were too high.