SENSUALITY RATING: No PROFANITY (unless you count “Shite”); Yes SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS; Not completely clean but tolerable as emphasis "was not" on sex.

GENRE: Scottish Historical Romance

SETTING: Scotland 1441; Loch Moigh, home of the MacKintosh clan.

CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTER: MEGHAN McGLADREY - Skilled with weapons in a woman’s body. Proud and courageous with a yearning for…….

CENTRAL MALE CHARACTER: HUNTER of clan MacKintosh - Foster son of the clan leader; Knight and skilled warrior; mind set on accomplishing goals; does not understand how to get close enough to love.

SYNOPSIS: After many years, the little boy in Book one is now an adult in his 20’s. He has made a mistake and brought her to his time. He makes a vow to return her to her own time. She does not need his protection as she is quite skilled in weaponry and the martial arts.

WHAT I LIKED: A man making a Judo kick in a kit; humor AND Robley’s protectiveness; humor.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE: Where did the guys disappear to in the beginning of the book. A crack in the plot that should have been sealed up.

OVERALL RATING: (5) stars because a woman lust after a man rather than the other way around. It made for an interesting plot and made a difference in how most Historical Romance books are written. HOWEVER, more humor makes for interesting romance book plots. ( )

I hate to say that I had a few issues with this book. I grabbed this one from NetGalley a few years ago because the premise sounded like something I would enjoy since I usually love time travel stories. For some reason, I didn't get around to reading it right away but decided to pull it out of my virtual stack a few weeks ago. There were some things that I did like about the book but the things that I disliked did hamper my overall enjoyment of the story.

I enjoyed the time travel aspect of the story. I thought that the way Meghan is pulled back in time by Hunter was rather unique and added a fun twist to the story. The influence of the fae on events was also a nice twist that easily made everything impossible quite possible after all. The time travel in the story was easily accepted by all of the characters since it has happened before to people that they know and I kind of liked that it was a big secret or something to be disbelieved.

My big problem comes in with the characters, namely Hunter. By the end of the book I kind of wanted him to be sent to a place and time where we wouldn't ever have to see or hear from him again. I haven't disliked a lead character quite so much in a very long time. He was attracted to Meghan but he still planned pursue another woman that clearly didn't want him. He also didn't want any of the other men to have Meghan and wasn't doing a good job of keeping things hands off. I guess he was thinking that she should be stuck in his time period without love while he was free to pursue others. His stupidity seems to almost increase as the book progresses and by the end of the book he has given her all kinds of mixed messages and doesn't seem to even know what he wants.

Meghan wasn't quite as bad but I didn't like how she seemed to fall deeper and deeper for Hunter despite how he treated her. There were a couple of other men that were interested in Meghan and treated her very well but she only had eyes for Hunter. I did like that Meghan was tough and able to hold her own in a fight but I wish we could have seen her demand that Hunter treat her a whole lot better or move on to one of the other more appalling men angling for her attention. I have to admit that I spent a lot of the book rooting for the other guy who never had a chance so you know there was just something off about their romance.

I thought that Phil Gigante did an acceptable job with the narration. I thought that he was easy to listen to but I was not a fan of some of the voices that he used. I thought that all of his female voices sounded really off and it tended to pull me out of the story just a bit.

I think that other readers may enjoy this one more than I did. It is the third book in a series but I thought it read perfectly fine as a stand alone. I do still want to read other books from the series and think I may have more luck with those as long as the characters are somewhat likeable.

I received a digital review copy of this book from Montlake Romance via NetGalley and borrowed a copy of the audiobook from Kindle Unlimited. ( )