{"id":1093,"date":"2011-09-21T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:06:11","slug":"book-review-the-dark-highlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Dark Highlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Dark Highlander\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1298966170s\/112755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daegus McKelter broke an oath &#8212; he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother&#8217;s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and especially Celtic. Her curiosity gets her in trouble when she snoops in Daegus&#8217; apartment and discovers that he is the thief behind many recent robberies of ancient texts. <\/p>\n<p>This book is the sequel to Kiss of the Highlander, and is very similar in terms of the dominant, larger than life man. This is a specific sort of fantasy for a specific type of romance reader &#8212; one who likes possessive, protective men. It doesn&#8217;t hold back in any way.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this is a guilty pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride, and it&#8217;s the sort of book I might even pick up again one day. <\/p>\n<p>Rating: 4\/5 stars<\/p>\n<p>Title: The Dark Highlander<br \/>\nAuthor: Karen Marie Moning<br \/>\nGenre: Fantasy\/Romance<br \/>\nISBN: 9780440237556<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daegus McKelter broke an oath &#8212; he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother&#8217;s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over. Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}