[Reveiw] Legend of the Highland Dragon by Isabel Cooper

Legend of the Highland Dragon
Isabel Cooper 

December 3, 2013

Sourcebooks Casablanca


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He Guards a Ferocious Secret


In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out that Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called to London on business, he'll have to be extra vigilant—especially between sunset and the appearance of the first evening star.


Mina just wanted to find out more about the arrogant man who showed up in her employer's office. Some might say it was part of her job. She never thought the stranger would turn into a dragon right in front of her. Or that he'd then offer her an outrageous sum of money to serve as his personal secretary. Working together night and day to track a dangerous enemy, Mina comes to see a man in love is more powerful and determined than any dragon.

 

This is going to be short review and I am apologizing up front for this.  The reason is because I just don’t have much say about Legend of the Highland Dragon and the only nice thing I could of think of think of as soon as I finished the book was to give thanks I finished this book because there were times I thought I wouldn’t.  This book isn’t bad but for me it was just plain boring.  I felt like the story moved slow and I don’t know I just couldn’t make myself care about the characters.  

The book is about Mina a secretary for a professor in the late 1800s around the Victorian era.  One day a mysterious man comes in to warn the professor his friend.  Mina is curious sort and goes to the man’s house to find out what sort of man he is from the people who would know, his servants.  While there the house is attacked and she discovers the man is not really man but a shape shifting dragon.  Lord MacAlisdair offers Mina a hundred pounds to stay and be his secretary until the whole life threatening bossiness is over and they have man set to kill him in jail or dead.  Mina agrees because it is exciting, a considerable amount of money and now the man threating the Lord knows what she looks like it is better to keep her family out of the mess.

Of course the book takes on a Beauty and Beast plot because Mina and the Lord become attracted to each but fight it the entire book.  The love story was something I have read a thousand times and even the suspense of the final showdown was blah.  I don’t know if was just me because I have seen reviews for people who love this book.  I found it slow, boring and I skim read parts of just so it would move faster there was just something missing in this story that for me makes a great read.  I think it was that I didn’t really like Mina.  I couldn’t connect with or really care about the love story between her the Lord because after a while the constant should or shouldn’t we got old.  I was just like do it admit you love each other already.  The story line isn’t horrible and I liked the happy ending.  I give Legend of the Highland Dragon 2.5 laser pistols and round it up to three.