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Seduction of a Highland Lass
by Maya Banks
First off, I am not one to typically write reviews for books. Instead, I am usually content with rating them and moving on to the next book. However, Maya Banks’ McCabe Trilogy deserves so much more. For as long as I have been reading, I have found only a couple handfuls of books/authors/series that I can say I truly love. More often than not, the majority of those that fall in that category, I have stumbled onto on my own. As is the case with the McCabe Trilogy. According to goodreads, none of my friends have read or reviewed these books. Something I plan on rectifying as soon as possible.
The McCabe Trilogy is my first step into the Highlander world. And even though I gave the first book in this series three stars, I am inclined to go and change it to four after reading the entire series. And the only reason I am hesitant to give it five is because as the books progressed, I fell more in love with all of the brothers whereas in the first book I wasn’t as enthralled or enraptured by Alaric or Caelen (the brothers of the last two books).
This series is not one filled with supernatural/paranormal beings, nor one filled with magic or mythology. They are filled with gruff, hard, stoic warriors and their clans. And while the books are named for the McCabe brothers, it is the women they find themselves married to that make this series stand out. Each woman and brother have their own strengths. At times they do tend to be cut from the same cloths, (the women in their ways of not being spineless damsels in distress, and the men with their ‘I am the man, you will do as I say’ attitudes) it is their attitudes, backbones, love, and sacrifices for their significant others that made these books stand out among others.
The series builds the storyline through each book. With the villain(s) climatic ending doesn’t become resolved until the final book. Which by then, the author had my anger and hatred built up to match that of the McCabe brothers and their wives. Not to mention that each book held twists and angst that had me gasping in outrage or shock, or had me crying so hard that I couldn’t see the words on the pages to keep reading.
I would highly recommend these books to all of my friends and fellow readers… that is if they can get to them before I start reading them again!
The McCabe Trilogy is my first step into the Highlander world. And even though I gave the first book in this series three stars, I am inclined to go and change it to four after reading the entire series. And the only reason I am hesitant to give it five is because as the books progressed, I fell more in love with all of the brothers whereas in the first book I wasn’t as enthralled or enraptured by Alaric or Caelen (the brothers of the last two books).
This series is not one filled with supernatural/paranormal beings, nor one filled with magic or mythology. They are filled with gruff, hard, stoic warriors and their clans. And while the books are named for the McCabe brothers, it is the women they find themselves married to that make this series stand out. Each woman and brother have their own strengths. At times they do tend to be cut from the same cloths, (the women in their ways of not being spineless damsels in distress, and the men with their ‘I am the man, you will do as I say’ attitudes) it is their attitudes, backbones, love, and sacrifices for their significant others that made these books stand out among others.
The series builds the storyline through each book. With the villain(s) climatic ending doesn’t become resolved until the final book. Which by then, the author had my anger and hatred built up to match that of the McCabe brothers and their wives. Not to mention that each book held twists and angst that had me gasping in outrage or shock, or had me crying so hard that I couldn’t see the words on the pages to keep reading.
I would highly recommend these books to all of my friends and fellow readers… that is if they can get to them before I start reading them again!