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Original Title: | Wishing for a Highlander ASIN B00I6GNQBU |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Highland Wishes #1 |
Jessi Gage
Kindle Edition | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 3.57 | 2215 Users | 231 Reviews
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Title | : | Wishing for a Highlander (Highland Wishes #1) |
Author | : | Jessi Gage |
Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
Published | : | January 31st 2014 by Jessi Gage |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Time Travel. Romance. Historical Romance. Historical. Fantasy. Historical Fiction. Time Travel Romance |
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Single-and-pregnant museum worker Melanie voices an idle wish while examining a Scottish artifact, that a Highland warrior would sweep her off her feet and help her forget her cheating ex. The last thing she expects is for her wish to be granted. Magically transported to the middle of a clan skirmish in the sixteenth-century Highlands, she comes face to face with her kilted fantasy man.Tall, handsome, and heir to his uncle’s lairdship, Darcy Keith should be the most eligible bachelor in Ackergill. Instead, thanks to a prank played on him in his teenage years, he is known for being too large under his kilt to ever make a proper husband. “Big Darcy” runs his deceased father’s windmills and lives alone at his family manor, believing he will never marry.
But a strangely-dressed woman he rescues from a clan skirmish makes him long for more. When the woman’s claims of coming to Ackergill by magic reach the laird’s ears, she is accused of witchcraft. Darcy determines to protect her any way he can, even if it means binding her to him forever.
Rating Containing Books Wishing for a Highlander (Highland Wishes #1)
Ratings: 3.57 From 2215 Users | 231 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books Wishing for a Highlander (Highland Wishes #1)
I am definitely coming back to this book again and again. It is refreshing to find a new favorite series.I just found a new favorite author! Wishing For a Highlander is a gem. I happened to find it in Beta Heroes in Romance on Amazon. Time travel and Scottish romance aren't my thing until I read this lovely story by Jessi Gage. The brave but vulnerable heroine, Melanie, immediately captured my heart. I was rooting for her from page one! Darcy, the man she meets in 16th century Scotia, is every woman's idea of a romantic hero: brave, true and so very sexy! I immediately downloaded the follow up
I made it to page 99 and I am going to have to throw in the towel. It's just not a good read for me. I'm really disappointed. I wanted a good time travel romance and this sounded like a good bet, it just fell short on many levels. The dialogue is bad, on the verge of being ridiculous. The reason for Darcy's failure with women is laughable and Melanie is annoying. This was a good idea that got mucked up in the telling. DNF so no rating.
Yep, it's time travel romance that reminded me of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Melanie falls through a time portal due to her idle wish on a special box and ends up coming through the stone circles (think Stonehenge style) to old school Scotland. Like Gabaldon's book, Melanie meets a Highlander warrior who sweeps her off her feet. However, here's the big difference for me between the two tales: tongue in cheek humor and a heck of a lot less Scottish history lessons. While I love the
I liked this one.Uncomplicated. Just a really easy read.I've never read about a pregnant woman going back in time then add in a hero who is self conscious because he thinks he's too big (south of the border) and we have a cute read with very likeable characters.I thought Darcy was well developed, Melanie less so. We got a lot of moxie from her but not much depth. Honestly though, it fit the tone of the book. It didn't try to be anything other than it was. Much appreciated after my last read.
4.5 starsSo I just have to say it. Best. Premise. Ever.Seriously. Read that blurb and tell me it doesn't make you want to run out and buy this book immediately! I'm sorry big, handsome, Highlander dude - you're just too big to ever fit inside a woman and are doomed to spend the rest of your sexy life alone. Jessi Gage should get some kind of award for this premise alone. Plus she named her Highlander 'Darcy' -- I feel like she Jedi mind-tricked me into loving this.Modern woman Melanie gets swept
When I finished this book I had a book hangover that lasted about a day and than I had to read it again to make sure it was really that good. I have always had a soft spot for a man in a kilt and when that man is strong and stands feet above his fellow clansmen I am lost. Darcy is no alpha male he is heir but didnt want to lead. He isnt a man every girl in the village wants and he has no confidence in himself as husband/lover material. As a young man he was dealt a blow by a soon to be lover
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