Highland Sinner Book

Sigh, what do I say to this book?

I have tried and tried with Howell's Murray series. Every time I finished the book, read about all the 4 and 5 stars ratings and wondered: what did I miss??

I actually made it far in this book. Tormand, was what I call a man ho. He slept with women, so many, that he was ashamed of himself when he had to list all the women he slept with to catch a murderer. Morraine was a witch/healer. My typical issue with Howell is that her characters do nothing for me. I felt nothing for neither of them. Their interactions seemed fake to me. I tried and tried, pushed myself to see past the pages. But they remained the unfeeling characters that they were in my eyes. Tormand's past lovers were being killed, most brutally too. It seemed someone was out to frame him. At the same time Morraine and Tormand started having sexy dreams about each other (how convenient) (why do I never have sexy dreams like that? Naturally I'd prefer sexy dreams sans the murders.

So to seek Morraine's help, because she had special powers, Tormand and his brother came to Morraine. And of course they just felt the connection. Not that it's not cool. I mean I think it's normal to feel a special connection with THE ONE. But something has to happen so that they could get to know each other, turn that connection into affection. However Tormand and Morraine just started dreaming about each other naked, and that was pretty much all that happened between them before Tormand "felt the need to kiss her". My eyes were rolled probably all the way to the back of my head. They had had close to zero romantic encounters with each other and all of a sudden they felt jealous and wanted each other.

Suffice it to say that the book didn't work for me. I shall stop trying with the writer's works. It is probably a style clash and the reading experience isn't fair for either the writer or this reader.

*This review is for an ARC I received from the publisher on NetGalley.