Reviews for Dark Highlander (Highlander Series #5)

The average rating for Dark Highlander (Highlander Series #5) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-11 00:00:00 James Pierce Warning this review contains spoilers. Actually, no just one big spoiler. And it's not really a spoiler, but you know how precious some people can be. This cat just had the ending of Shadowfever spoiled... Okay, so this is a romance novel. You pretty much know how they all end, right? Happily Ever After with lots of sex and pregnancy/babies. So far this is the only one I've read that HASN'T ended with pregnancy. All I can say is THANK YOU! What the hell is romantic about meeting a man and finding out a month later that you're pregnant? Or, according to a previous book, being pregnant with TWINS?! Twins. Two bodies. One soul. One very evil soul... I wouldn't wish twins on my worst enemy! Why do people think parenthood is romantic? Allow me to illuminate what parenthood basically is: "Harry, put your pants on." "No flashing your willy, Harry." "Put your willy back in your pants!" "Why are you crying?" "Do you want a drink?" "Why did you throw your drink on the ground?" "Why are you crying now?" "Are you sure you want a drink this time?" "Why did you throw your drink on the ground AGAIN?!" "Do you need to go potty?" "Are you sure?" "Why is there stinky poo in your pants?" "WHY IS THERE STINKY POO ON MUMMY'S WALLS?!" "No mummy doesn't want to kiss the shark anymore." "I'm sorry, mummy will kiss the shark now." "Why did you hit mummy with the shark?" "You can have ONE train." "No. One." "Now you broke the train." "Why are you crying?! You're the one who broke the train!" "Okay, mummy fixed the train." "Why are you crying?" "Well then you shouldn't have broken the train, AGAIN!" "Where's mummy's phone?" "No, that's not mummy's phone, that's a carrot." "Why is mummy's phone in the veggie keeper?" "Do you want to watch thomas?" "No, mummy doesn't want to watch Aristocats again." "Because mummy will do bad things if she watches Aristocats. AGAIN." "Fine, we'll watch Aristocats." "No mummy's not crying." "Don't run away!" "No, mummy said not to run away!" "It's not funny!" "Come back!" "Thank you, stranger, for returning my beloved child." "You are in so much trouble!" "Do you want some cheese for lunch?" "Okay, here's your cheese!" "Why did you throw your cheese on the ground?" "But this is mummy's cheese!" "It's exactly like the cheese she gave you!" "Fine, have mummy's cheese." "WHY DID YOU THROW MUMMY'S CHEESE ON THE GROUND?" "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "No, don't touch that." "I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH THAT!!!!!!!!!!!" Rinse. Repeat. Do it all again tomorrow. Do you want to know the truth? Children are evil. Now, I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that they're little Stewies in the making. Though I won't dismiss the theory... But babies do three things from the moment they're born. 1) Struggle to learn their mother-tongue so that they can use the same word, 'No!', over and over again. 2) Struggle to learn to move, walk and run so that they can throw things at you and then run away while cackling with fiendish laughter. 3) Study you to learn your weaknesses. They don't have anything else to do! They eat, sleep and poop and they're learning how to bring you down and crush your spirit while doing all three of those tasks - all the while knowing that if you ever chose to, you could crush them with your giant adult fists. Look at that... pure, malevolent evil... And yet, people still procreate, why? There are childless people reading this right now. And I bet you. I BET you that they will probably still have children despite everything that I have said. You know why? WHY?! Because either they think I'm exaggerating and "it won't be THAT bad!" Or they're cocky little bastards who think that, "Sure, kids CAN be like that. But not mine. MY kids will be fantastic." Yes. You keep thinking that. That's what I thought too. Certificate III in childcare and a childhood development course and I thought I would be Mummy Extraordinaire. My best friend, who is a trained and practising Child Psychologist, thought so too. She thought I never saw her look of contempt at my screaming child and that I couldn't see the idea as plain as day in her head, "Well, MY child won't do that!" Hahahaha! I got the last laugh on that one, bitch! ITS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK! There is NOTHING romantic about having babies. Nothing. You will get a massive belly, need to pee all the time. Then you will go through childbirth and while recovering from this "experience" you will be tending a newborn. You will bleed constantly for six weeks while your nipples leak and you can't remember the last time you got a good night's sleep. Your hormones will trick you into thinking your grandpa-faced little newborn is beautiful and people will lie to you because they realize that with the birth of your child has begun your decent into insanity. People will coo over your child who will be perfectly well-behaved until they bugger off and then you're left alone with a screaming infant WHO CAN'T BE REASONED WITH! Yes, I love my son, he's the light of my life, blah de blah, blah. But I can't take anymore of these Happily Ever After WITH BABIES endings! Why can't we have Happily Ever After, with a lot of money, sex and freedom to travel the globe, eat in expensive restaurants and have even MORE sex except this time on the kitchen floor, endings? No. Instead we get this: The little jerk... I keep ending these novels with super-happy couples petting their lovely pregnant bellies and all I can think is, "Poor bastards! Don't even know what they're in for..."

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-28 00:00:00 Mandi Nichol This book oozes hotness from every pore! Wow. Well done. The recipe for a great book? Hmm what could it be? In a large bowl of Scotland, put in two brothers. Add a bit of druid extract, and mix it through time and space. When you are done with mixing, separate the brothers in two bowls, each will get his own book. Now, in each bowl add a seriously intelligent woman who's not affraid to believe in the impossible. Mix some more, for the ingredients have to fall in love. Are they in love yet? Yes? Stop mixing and pour it in the mold, then to the oven because they need to be extra HOT for a while. Are they sizzling and burning up the pages? Yes? Get them out, now they are ready to be read. And the reading will be absolutely delicious! This is a story of the second brother, Dageus. In the previous book, he goes back in time to prevent the death of his brother, and because he used his power for selfish reasons, he became the vessel for 13 most evil druids that existed. He became dark. Chloe is an antiquitarian (or something like that XD) and has to deliver a translation of an ancient book to some unknown rich guy. That turns out to be Dageus. After she discovers he is the famous thief who steals books, Dageus must keep her locked in his apartment, because he can't risk being arrested. Every day, he slips more and more into the dark, and is at his end trying to find a solution to break the curse. Chloe - another virgin in need of a cherry-picker (I mean, what's up with that? Is every girl in this series a freaking virgin???) she is very intelligent, and knows her antiques and ancient languages :) She is seriously attracted to Dageus, and even though he kept her locked in his room for a while, she ends up helping him in the search for other books that might explain how to return the 13 druids back to where they came from. Dageus - He's one of the sexiest characters I've read. I just want to him heheh A Scottish Highlander gone dark, tortured hero, who only finds himself through sex, I mean wow He actually needs his sex therapy, it keeps him from embracing the dark druids in him. And MAN. Was he hot! The foreplays were steaming, and the first sex, my oh my, I kinda got the feeling he's quite into domination, and boy :O HOT! Ok now that I said HOT about a million times, I can go on XD Loved the rest of his character too XD He's alienated himself from his family, the further from Scotland he is, the more peace he can find. But he's losing time, soon the druids will take over him, and then there would be world destruction and he must not allow that to happen. They were lovely together and I love the fact that they were actually together for a good part of the book, not being separated by villains or some other stupid sh*t. The most beautiful moment in the book is when Chloe takes his hand when he tells her he and his brother are not in good terms, I just have to put it here: "A few moments later, she slipped her wee hand into his. He tensed, startled by the gesture. He was accustomed to women reaching for many parts of him, none of them his hand. He glanced at her, but she was staring straight ahead. Yet her hand was in his. He closed his fingers around hers before she might snatch it away. Her wee hand was nearly swallowed by his. It meant more to him than kisses. More even than bedplay. When women sought him for sex, it was for their pleasure. But Chloe's small hand had been given without taking." beautiful So I loved this book, it had everything, a great story, a tortured hero, a smart heroine, sensuality to burn the pages and then some XD <3 Moving on to the next