Publisher: Forever
Date published:
January
1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0446561785
Genre: Historical Romance
Book format: Paperback
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com
The Glen of Many Legends has a long history filled with turmoil,
angst and battles to the death. Three clans hold the glen, each believing they
hold the true owners. For decades upon
decades the MacDonalds, Camerons and MacIntoshes have claimed the glen as their
own. Word of the on-going tensions has reached the king and he is ready to be
done with the never ending strife. To that end he has ordered the clans fight
to the death. Whichever is standing at the end of a day of fighting will own
the glen. The lairds are none too pleased with the king’s order, yet they will
obey. It is their women, the sisters of the clan leaders who decide to take
matters, as it were, into their own hands. Led by their hearts—their love for
their clans, their brothers and the men they wish for their own they devise a
plan to save all involved. Despite their best efforts the day of battle
arrives. There is bloodshed, but not as much as there could have been had the
women not intervened.
It is Catriona MacDonald who leads them leads the way to save
the glen and all who share it. She has long been attracted to James Cameron,
the man who they say is the Devil himself. James has always made her heart beat
a little faster. James who is the man she would most like to spend her life
with. James who is the man of her dreams.
But James has no wish for a bride, especially a hated MacDonald.
Yet there is something about Catriona that draws James to her. She begins to
appear in his every thought, his every wish, his every desire. Can he put aside
a lifetime of hatred to listen to his heart?
One of the things I love about Sue-Ellen Welfonder’s books is
how she not only captures the reader’s imagination but how she seemingly
transports you through time and space to the valleys and glens of her tales. In
SINS OF A HIGHLAND DEVIL she not
only brings those that lived in a long ago time to life, she transports you to
stand by their side—or at least you feel if you look about you will see those
characters standing beside you. There were any number of times while reading SINS OF A HIGHLAND DEVIL when I would
close my eyes for a moment and when I opened them expected I would be in the
Glen of Many Legends. The descriptions of the mist, the creatures, the
variances in climate are so vivid you truly believe you are there.
The characters are wonderfully drawn but I have to say I
especially liked Scandia. I hurt for her when the truth of her death came about
but even ghosts can have their happy endings.
The premise of the story is an interesting one and I liked how
she drew on the Viking lore and heritage in the telling. The resolution to
decades upon decades of fighting is wonderfully revealed and leaves you eager
for the next two books to find out what happens to Isobel and Marjory’s
stories.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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