Title: Not too bad, but...
Review: ...it's not as tightly written as THE COUNTESS, a prior novel of Ms. Luellen's which I enjoyed very much. Sometimes (particularly in the beginning of the story) it's difficult to tell which character is doing the speaking or thinking. For the most part, that problem straightens out as the story progresses, but then the plot becomes a bit convoluted. I never quite "got" the love that grew between Niall and Maura (the Romeo/Juliet main characters). Niall is violent and foul to her before they fall in love, and there's not a whole lot of repentance for it on his part, I think.The author piles on the tragedy (which sort of overwhelms the love story)by almost superfluously adding the massacre at Glencoe (when the Campbell clan slew the MacDonald clan) at the very end of the tale. The story also ends very abruptly.It's not a horrible read, but it's not very deep or involving one either.
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