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Title: Charming the Highlander by Janet Chapman ISBN: 0-7434-5306-9 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: engaging time travel romance
Comment: In 1200 AD during a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands, a wizard casts a spell that sends several MacBain and MacKeage warriors into the twenty-first century. The ten time travelers include the MacKeage brothers Greylen and Morgan.
A pregnant Mary Sutter fled her lover Michael MacBain when he insisted he was born in 1171. She stays with her sister Grace in Norfolk before deciding to return to her beloved Michael. Instead she dies in a car accident. She gives birth to a son, makes Grace promise to take the child to Michael, and asks for her ashes to be spread in Maine.
Rocket scientist Grace receives a sabbatical to complete her sister's dying wishes. Flying over Maine with one other passenger besides herself and her nephew, the plane crashes killing the pilot. The other flier Greylen keeps Grace, who he recognizes as his soul mate, and the baby alive by using all he learned in the highlands almost a millennium ago in real time, but not too long ago in his biological time.
This engaging time travel romance occurs after the displaced Highlanders have some time to adapt to their new environs. Still the audience observes the discomfit of Greylen when he flies on the commuter plane as this goes against all he knows (if God wants man to fly he would have given him wings attitude). It is this type of detail to the feelings especially of the lead couple that turns this into a delightful tale.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique Time Travel
Comment: The book starts off, on the sad side, as our heroine Grace Sutter, is at the bedside of her younger sister Mary, who was in an accident and just delivered a baby. In her last dying breaths, Mary tells Grace, the rocket scientist, the incredible story of why she had fled the baby's father; and makes Grace promise to bring the baby back to his father who is all alone in the world. Further she is to promise to sprinkle Mary's ashes on their childhood home on Tarstone mountain on the day of the summer solstice which is four months away. Taking a sabbatical to grieve and care for 'Baby' Grace travels home during a winter ice storm. The charter plane crashes into a mountain but Grace, the baby, and another traveler, Greylon MacKeague survive the crash and through superhuman effort, Grey is able to bring both Baby and Grace, to safety.
It is of course, no consequence that Grace and Grey have met or have this incredible 'lusty' attraction to one another - very sensually described! Also, in the background you have this delightful wizard who cast the spell (after a few mishaps) that brought this 12th century warrior, along with a few others that were not necessarily planned for, to the 21st century to find Grey's soul mate who would bear the child, that would one day be the wizard's heir. Grace, in the meantime, has secrets of her own and continues the deception that the baby is hers, while trying to determine if the Baby's father is sane enough to raise the child - being a scientist, Grace does not believe in time travel! Discovering that the baby's father is an arch- enemy of Grey's makes the complications of her attraction to Grey and growing love of 'Baby' all that more heartbreaking. The relationship between Grey and Grace as the scientist, comes to terms with this purely alpha male is divine.
What I found unique in this book was that the 12th century warriors had four years to become acclimated to modern day life prior to the time period the story takes place in. As such, you didn't have the normal 'awestruck' behavior that most time travel books would depict. This initial offering from a new author was very charming and sensual and I look forward to the sequels as Grey's band of 'merry men' get on with their lives in the 21st century. Excellent read, fast moving, humorous and intelligent. Bravo on this first book from an author who I predict has a very bright future!
Rating: 3
Summary: Flat and Hard to Swallow
Comment: This book was far better on the blurb on the back then it was reading it. Sounds very intriguing and hard to put down, but I found myself bored and waiting for the interesting parts and was let down.
The main character Grace Sutter is in a fateful plane crash on an icy mountain in the middle of Maine. Her only companion is the only other survivor a large man named Greylan MacKeage.
With the sheer help of this man, she survives the crash and trek down, barely. What they find is a love that was destined to be by the stars above and Grey is a little older than she thought...far older....is he her destiny?
That about covers it. She is a rocket scientist and seems to harp on this fact. IMO, I thought it was a little rude to point it out DOZENS of times and make it seem as though the 'simple' people in town were just that, along with her sister who lived such a 'simple 'life.
The romance between the two was too fast and seemed to come out of nowhere. I wasn't convinced in the end they were so fated to be as one and still never warmed to their 'love' for one another.
Grey is very vague. We don't get to know him very well. Kind of cardboard-cut-out character. Big, strong, Highlander from another time comes to find his destiny. Nothing really interesting about him or his past. He comes off as a little too domineering at times and then too one dimensional. I can say I don't really know who he was or anything about him other than where he came from...vaguely.
The mystery in the story isn't much of a mystery and seemed thrown in like some last minute ingredient that doesn't mix well. There are loose ends that never get tied and I was left feeling frustrated and lost and mostly bored and uninterested in reading the sequels.
Tracy Talley~@
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Title: Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman ISBN: 0743453085 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Garden in the Rain by Lynn Kurland ISBN: 0425192024 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Born in Sin: A MacAllisters Novel by Kinley MacGregor ISBN: 038081790X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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