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Karin Karin _arin_ — Read this for some research--and it served its purpose. I learned a lot about the lobster fishing industry from an island richly steeped in its history. The story was ok at times. I appreciate learning about the perspective of this simple lifestyle. I am also newly aware of another culture who appreciates the balance between give and take of humans and their environment. The book paints a great picture of this contrast of care (by the islanders, who must sustain their livelihoods) and disregard by the industrial fishermen, who can merely move elsewhere once they have squeezed what they can from the area. :(

Joseph Renny connectren5131 — When I read my daughter the title, she couldn't wait to find out exactly what a biblioburro is. Cute story about a travelling librarian in Latin America. Very colorful intense drawings kept her interest and she loved the handful of Spanish words sprinkled in.

Liana Mikah liana — A fabulos series. So good I read it twice. Although this series is done, I can't wait for the next saga.

Nadine Kostiuk nks4thewildones — ***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS*** Colin MacAllister is a fairy descendent of the Prince Pol and cursed by the Fairy Queen to forever feel the pain of the united souls crying out for their soulmates, with the knowledge that he’ll not find his own within this lifetime even though that would be the only thing that could break the curse. When he finds himself 700 years in the future naked and in the bed of Abigail Porter he’s no idea why or how he could have been brought there. Abby must have been pretty drunk after her girl’s night out because she doesn’t have a single memory of meeting the naked man in her bed before she wakes up to find him there. When he asks her what year it is she cringes thinking she picked up a crazy man, it gets worse when she learns he’s the cousin of her favorite college professor and to get him gone she’ll have to call her former professor to tell her what she’s done. When Colin later returns with stories of her having magic and being descended from Fairies she’s certain he’s insane and despite her dreams about him, she wants nothing to do with him. However when Colin saves her from her creepy boss she takes a chance on what he’s saying in hopes of surviving the encounter only to wake up naked in his bed 700 years in the past. Now that he’s home Colin’s determined to use the knowledge he gained on adventure to save his Scottish King from certain death. Can Abby prevent him from changing the past and possibly eliminating her future? Will she ever figure out how to return to that future if she can? After finishing the last novel in this series which despite how my poorly written review sounded I really did love, I couldn’t wait another minute to read this one. A Highlander Cursed by the Fairy Queen? Oh yeah, can’t miss that one. I wasn’t disappointed with my purchase in any way. First lets recap what I’ve say about pretty much all of Mayhue’s works – it’s a well written close third person with a fast pace. While it connects with the other books through the characters there isn’t as much set up for this novel in previous books as was done with the previous novel. Unlike Mayhue’s other novels in the series this one doesn’t offer an epilogue to tell us how the characters lives are going after their adventure was over and I can’t help but be a little let down by that because I really like that feature she offers in most of her novels, but the adventure she creates within the pages of this book was still worth reading. I’m not sure if this is to be the final book in the series or not, but all of the past MacKiernans and MacAllisters are now paired off and all of the current members of their clan we’ve been introduced to are also paired off so this could be the conclusion to the series though I hope it’s not. I know a spin off series is planned for other characters we’ve met in the series so I’m looking forward to that, but I’d hate to think I’d seen the last of Pol or Dallyn. What I think would be interesting is if Mayhue did a book like Christine Feehan’s Dark Celebration which brings back all the characters we’ve met in the series for another adventure. Also there’s been so much mystery surrounding Cate and Connor’s daughter Rosie that I can’t help but think she needs a novel. However considering the planned released of a spin off series and the fact that all of our adult characters are now paired off this could quite possibly be the last book for the Daughters of the Glen, I’m not sure, but like I said I hope not. There were a couple things in this book that did bother me. First of all the main villain in this novel is Flynn who we first met in the second novel in the series. Flynn seems to have broken off on his own for this book away from Servans and Adira. In Destiny and Jesse’s novel Adira discovered that by drinking human blood the Nuadian fae could commit violence and feel pain and should that blood be of a fae descendent then they could share in that descendents power. However the downside to this was that they could be killed and they lost their ability to put a human under compulsion. In that novel it sounded like these side effects were permanent. However in this novel Flynn’s ability to commit violence goes away after not having had blood for a period of time, also he retains the ability to put humans under compulsion even after having drunk blood. So obviously this bothered me as it was quite contradictory. Additionally when Flynn is in the past and it’s mentioned at Drew and Leah’s keep there is no reaction whatsoever from Leah. I mean the man was part of the crew that held her captive in the future you’d think she’d have some sort of reaction, and that Drew might have joined Colin in the search for no other reason than to avenge his own wife. It gives me the impression that Leah still hasn’t told Drew about her past and soul mate or not I can’t help but question the stability of their relationship. I still don’t like the mixing of fairy lore with vampire lore but it had already been done three books ago and it would be pretty much impossible to backtrack on that lore now. I did also have some believability issues with this book. Colin seems to hate the fairies and he has every right to considering the curse bestowed on him by the Fairy Queen, but when he ends up in the future he doesn’t put up much of a fight about going with Pol and becoming a Guardian. Additionally other than marrying Fae Descendents and guarding the portals between Wyddecol and our world I still don’t know what the Guardians actually do. I mean the idea’s been glossed over in a bunch of the novels but details or what a Guardian really is would be really nice. Also the love story between the characters actually seemed kind of secondary in this novel for the most part, other than having sexual type scenes and being told their soul mates they really didn’t spend enough time together for love to have occurred in my personal opinion. While the sex scenes are still used sparingly it’s almost as if she’s relied upon those scenes and the character’s dreams to be the love story and sex and love are not the same thing. Colin barely spends any time on earth in the future but instead spends most of his time hiding out with Pol in Wyddecol trying to figure out how to get home. They dream about each other yes, and with an added new twist that he started receiving physical evidence on his own body of her injuries which was weird, but until they go to the past they really don’t spend a lot of time together and they’re only in the past a couple days before they start professing their love for each other. It’s like they’re in love because someone told them they were soul mates. If my mom told me said guy I just met a few days before was my soul mate I can’t see myself deciding to be in love with him because he’s hot, great with foreplay and they told me I was supposed to be. I’d have liked more interaction between the characters outside of dreams so that I could see real reasons they fell in love beyond someone told them to and they’re really attracted to each other. My final complaint is that there was this big build up between Pol and Dallyn about how important Colin was and I never did really figure out the why of that or besides being cursed what made him different from the other male descendents so that kind of left me a little confused as well. However despite my complaints listed I really did enjoy this book. What’s really neat about this book is sort of ties together the worlds we’ve met in this series. Colin starts out in the past before being whisked to the future by Abby’s wish. Since she doesn’t know how he got there he goes with Mairi and Ramos where he then meets Colin, Cate and Pol. Pol takes him to Wydeccol which we’ve only seen briefly before in Jesse and Destiny’s book. In that setting he runs into Dallyn. Meanwhile Abby’s employer is the Nuadian Flynn and he drinks her blood again a follow up from Jesse and Destiny’s novel. For protection Abby wishes them into the past to the MacKiernan Keep where we get more of our past characters and for the most part these two characters encounter almost everyone in the series though the scenes with those secondary characters are short. There’s a few plot woven into this novel the conflict between Abby and Flynn, the love story of Colin and Abby and the danger of Colin in the past since he’s trying to change history using his knowledge gained in the future. With the mix of stories, each of which would be individually strong this book can’t help but be interesting. Like all novels it has its issues but it was overall an enjoyable page turner. As with all her novels the leading characters in the novel are well developed interesting and easy to relate to. Mayhue has a knack of bringing the reader inside her leading characters minds and to make you really feel for their plights. Her characters are realistic in that they’re far from perfect and do experience growth during her novel. Since this is a series novel she’s recently take to using past novels to serve as most of her secondary character development, however her characters do stand as individuals rather than becoming a blend of names and faces when they reappear in later novels. We do get more insight into Flynn in this novel then we had in past novels and what’s nice about this villain is that in some ways you can’t help but feel sorry for him. He’s made a mistake that he’s spending eternity paying for. He wants nothing more than to go home and live a quiet life. His character doesn’t really seem to take a bad turn until he accidentally cuts Abby then can’t resist the lure of her blood. It’s as if his addictions are more responsible for his villainous actions than his actual character. You start to get the idea in this and a couple other novels in the series that maybe not all the Nuadian fae are actually evil, just fairies who like men who’ve made bad decisions. Not there’s no debating that Servans and Adira are downright evil, but even with Adira the insight into her past gained in Jesse and Destiny’s novel at least explains the why of the way she is. I can’t help but hope with the insights we’ve gained into some of these bad fairies such as Wynn in Mairi and Ramos’s story that some of them might gain forgiveness somehow and be allowed to return home. The characters that we don’t seem to ever get character growth in are all the Fairies and I wonder if those characters will ever grow. Anyway my point is overall the characters in this novel are really interesting and memorable. In conclusion, I’m starting to wonder if I really should be reviewing series novels because it seems my reviews get worse with each novel. However despite that as always Mayhue’s Daughter of the Glen Series is not one to be missed. Highlander’s Curse is no exception to that rule and I’d highly recommend it to readers of paranormal and historical romance.