Pearl's World of Romance - Reviews with a Passion: The Dark Highlander

May 11, 2007

The Dark Highlander - Karen Marie Moning

8:24 PM |

I read this book in March 2007

Journey to a world of ancient magic, breathtaking sensuality, thrilling time-travel.... Journey to the world of The Dark Highlander. Crisscrossing the continents and the centuries, here is a novel as gripping as it is sensual--an electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless....

I am Dageus MacKeltar, a man with one good conscience and thirteen bad ones, driven to sate my darkest desires…

From his penthouse lair high above Manhattan, Dageus looks out over a glittering city that calls to the darkness within him. A sixteenth-century Scot trapped between worlds, he is fighting a losing battle with the thirteen Druids who possess his soul, dooming him to an eternity of sexual pursuit. When Chloe Zanders, student of antiquities, is drawn into his world, she finds the insatiable alpha male an irresistible lure.Before long, she is caught up in an ancient prophecy that will sweep her back into time to medieval Scotland. Plunged into a world of timeless magic and dark seduction, she will soon face the challenge of a lifetime: fighting thirteen evil spirits for the heart of one irresistible man....

What is the only thing that can save a Highland Druid fighting not to lose himself to the darkness of evil?
The love of his true mate...

For me this is the best in the series so far.
The explosive emotions are back, the book excited me as well as made me tear up. The previous two didn’t quite succeed in doing this.
Dageus was the perfect hero, handsome and fierce, romantic and dark and don't forget: sinfully sensual!
I would have liked Chloe a bit more fiery than she was, but this still didn’t make the book any less good.
Again Moning delivers a wonderful plot, again we briefly meet Adam, he’s such an enigma...and I really can’t wait to read his story.
Again the secondary characters complete the story.

I was enthralled by the world of the Tuatha Dé and the Prophecy. Moning pens down such a vivid world you just get sucked in, and it’s hard to come down to earth again.
Then she entwines this all with a lovestory so beautiful and powerfull and you find yourself utterly lost in the world of a dark highlander fighting to find his light and in doing so he finds true love.

This story was so fast-paced I finished it in a day, I just kept turning and turning the pages wanting to know where it was leading to and how it was going to end.
There is nothing I appreciate more than unpredictability in a book and this series really deserves my appreciation because not a single book has been predictable.

Move over on the keeper’s shelf cause there’s going to be another treasured addition.

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