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I am having trouble getting into this. It's very talky and jumbled and super bland. Jackson is a total dud too.

This is not good. I'm already extremely frustrated with the wholly unbelievable (and super annoying) way Jackson's mother is acting. Someone in the cast of characters needs to lay into her but it doesn't seem to be happening.

Giving up. Putting aside the annoying historical period problems with the book, it's just boring. And I glanced at some reviews finally and it seems like this is just going to get worse with a cookie cutter villain and NO SEX?! No thanks.

Oh jeez Louise. I don't know how much longer I can go on. A marriage proposal in medieval times that includes the concept of an open marriage?!?

How exactly does Rosalia have a Highland brogue when the author made an extensive point put of the fact that she has never been to the Highlands?

My sensor for anomalies already being on high alert after that name garbage, I'm seeing other things to irk (see, this is why at least a modicum of verisimilitude to location and time is required, authors). One example..Ciaran is praying to the "gods". Yes, it's a saying now but it wouldn't be thought or said by someone in an extremely religious Catholic (ie one true God?) country and time period.

The brothers names are Ciaran, Aiden and Declan, all great names but IRISH names, not Scottish ones. There better be a secret Irish mother disclosure coming up or I call bullshit on this author already. Yo, Ireland is a different country from Scotland. Might as well have named these fellas Jacques, Pierre and Alain.

Wow, this is incredibly stupid and frustrating to read this neverending inane conversation about who is going to go see about the woman's screams. Way to take all the urgency and suspense out of the story. The pacing in this book is so weird. Every scene is so overwriitten.

Well these I love yous came out of nowhere. Three days. Pfft.

Like other past unimportant scenes, this hair dressing scene has gone on for pages and pages with unending internal blather by the heroine.

Um, I'm not sure this author has any understanding of the rules of primogeniture at all. The duke's widowed mother would never be able to produce another heir regardless of his age. And a male cousin of the duke through his mother's side of the family is also not a possibility.

This book is like Groundhog Day with the repetitive plot. Heroine attacked, injured, carried unconscious into house. Lather, rinse repeat.

After taking a break to read some reviews of this book, I'm deciding to DNF right now, at least temporarily. A TSTL bratty heroine is not what I can deal with right now.

After taking a break to read some reviews of this book, I'm deciding to DNF right now, at least temporarily. A TSTL bratty heroine is not what I can deal with right now.