Book Review: Highland Wolf by Lynsay Sands

Highland Wolf by Lynsay Sands
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lady Claray MacFarlane was about to marry someone she really didn't love, until her real betrothed swooped in and saved-well, more of he got off his horse and snatched her up-and off they went to her father's home. Claray was confused for a moment, but then she got the spirit as they kept traveling. The man who snatched her from her so-called husband, she was about to marry? They call him the Wolf, a mercenary who has courage and powess in battle and his handsome face and black-as-sin-hair....

Breaking the review to say that I pictured Drew McIntyre as Conall/Bryson MacDonald because that's who kept popping up in my head while I was reading this book.

Anyway, it turns out that Conall is Claray's betrothed. He was thought to be dead when he was a boy when his family was killed, but thanks to his uncle, he survived, and now he's back to claim Claray and to rebuild his home and reclaim his birthright. She thought so too, and her family thought to keep it that way, until he came to take her to wife.

Throughout the ride to the castle, Claray had picked up some furry friends, like a bunny, a fox whose ears were eaten off, a stoat, a baby deer, and a pet wolf she named Lovey. One time she was riding her horse, and she yelled, "Stubborn Bastard!" and I started to laugh, mostly because Conall looked at her like, "I haven't done anything to be called a stubborn bastard, why are you calling me that?!" but it turns out that it's the horse's name, which was funny af.

But the one thing that made this book go down a star was the ending. It reminded me of a really old In The Heat of the Night episode that was about sin and how the woman wanted to cleanse the world of sin, and that's what this lady Mhiri tried to do, harping on one verse the preacherman said about sex and how it was disgusting, so she poisoned the whole MacDonald clan because of it.

Which....I can kind of understand why, but TBH, if people wanna smash, it's their business, not hers, definitely not her son, who had threatened to do harm on Claray, which made me so dang mad...

But I'm glad they knew that it was someone close to Conall, so they could get rid of them, and then the two of them got their HEA. This might be my favorite highland romance I've read, and I might read more soon.

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Book Review: Oathbound (Legendborn Cycle #3) by Tracy Deonn

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

GOOD NIGHT, WHAT A RIDE.

I was gasping, mouth dropping, sometimes yelling into the book and telling the characters not to do it-but in a good way. Because Bree DID THAT, Nick and everyone else DID THAT, and THAT ENDING HURT MY SOUL IN WAYS I DIDN'T EVEN THINK IT COULD HURT MY SOUL. And the quotes? I was writing them down like crazy because they hit so hard. I even cried one time at a quote that hit me so hard-and most of the time, books don't make me cry as much as this one did. I was cheering for Bree to win, and she did--but once again, as I can't wrap my head around it right now--THAT ENDING?!

Oh. My. God.

One, it hurt. Reading the ending, then flipping the page like "No.", then doing it again and again, to see if I read it right. I won't spoil it here, but if you read the part, then you know. YOU KNOW. That hurt my soul in ways I didn't even think it would.

I really enjoyed meeting the new characters and seeing them interact with Bree, and Sel's mother appearing in the book was well done. I thought she would get Selwyn, MY SELWYN, under control after everything that happened to him....I thought it would work. I guessed wrong, and I got sad for a moment, but then when she rescued Bree's father, I was so happy that she did that. Thank you, Sel's mother.

The whole thing at Prenumbra and how they got the crown was pretty cool, but it left me with only one question: where in the hee-haw was Ava? Why did she just up and leave and not release Nick? I don't understand it one bit. But all I know is that this series has now become my infinity star series because of how good this book was, and I need everyone to read it. EVERYONE.

Cannot wait till the next book because THIS BOOK HURT MY SOUL.

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