Niki (mustreadalltheromance)'s Reviews > Highland Obligation

Ever since a violent attack in the past, Isobel MacLean only trusts herself to ensure her own safety and that of her family. But she has no interest in marrying Grant MacDonald, heir to the MacDonald laird and the very man who allowed the escape of the only man able to identify Isobel as a fighter in the Royalist resistance.

Grant MacDonald has no interest in marrying the woman responsible for his friend's death, no matter how attractive she is. He's determined to tame the wild hellion he now finds himself wed to, but the more he comes to truly know his new wife, the more Grant wonders if she's just misunderstood. Either way, he's determined to keep her distracted from her mission of vengeance and keep her safe lest she destroy them both.

I loved the previous book in this series, but this one fell just a bit flat for me. I still enjoyed it and I'm glad to have read it, but these two just frustrated me to no end. The main characters were both stubborn and bound and determined to hate each other for much of the book and that lack of communication caused most of the problems they faced or at least made them worse. I found some of Isobel's, and even Grant's, motivations to be a bit half-baked and not wholly sensible at times, but it is fiction so, oh well. However, I did appreciate that the heroine was fierce and capable and the hero did finally see that and they learned to be a team in the end, which I thought was gratifying. I'll continue with this series.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.