A #review of Highlander's Bride by Lexy Timms

A review of Highlander's Bride by Lexy Timms, a time-travel Historical Romance set in the Scottish Highlands. YES, he actually says Birthday Suit.

Pages -  265 

Publisher -  Dark Shadow Publishing

Published - October 10, 2016

Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC

Genre -  Historical Romance/Time Travel/Scottish Highlands

Series -  Moment in Time Book 1 of 5

Language -  0/5

Sexual Content -  4/5

Narrative -  3rd

She shouldn’t be here… She can’t even recall how she got here.

Except for the dream. Mya Boyle remembers the dream. She knows it’s somehow connected to her past, her present and the future.

Mya woke one morning in a field, a stag grazing close by as if it didn’t even notice her. She lay bare, like a babe from the womb, except for a wool blanket wrapped around her tightly.

A grown woman with no memory, no family, no money, nothing. Kayden McGregor found her while hunting. He was after the stag and nearly shot her with his arrow instead. Unable to leave her to the wolves of his clan, he took her to his home.

He resents her. She can’t bare to look at him. Or stop herself from staring when he doesn’t notice. Trapped, and yet somehow destined to be together.

Remember enough of the past… You may be able to control your future.

First off, the title is misspelled.

Secondly, and while the author did go out of her way to explain how this is a 'series' of novels based on one character in particular, and that you are required to read them all in order to unravel and then reveal the truths,

NOTE: This is a series. In order to understand the time travel aspect, you will need to read the series to find out what is going on and put the pieces of the puzzle together.

it was still too vague and ambiguous a novel for my enjoyment.

And, this is yet another Historical Romance mislabeled as Highlander or Scottish when that isn't true.

She meets a man in the Scottish Highlands but ends up in a different time period at the end of this cliffhanger.

The author made it a point of mentioning several things before the story begins, and then again when it abruptly ended, including her tag line:

Remember enough of the past… You may be able to control your future.

However, Mya only remembered ONE thing before she was transported to another time in our history, so I'm guessing if you read all five novels, you'll get a total of five clues before Mya discovers the truth?

FIVE?

There was no substance to this first novel, which is sad considering the premise is terrific and held such promise.

Also, too modern in both language and attitude.

An ancient Highland warrior is hunting with bow & arrows when he sees a white stag near a clearing, but also (according to the author) a naked female, whom he proceeds to send an arrow zinging towards as opposed to the white stag...

which the female, completely naked and in another time period, runs towards in order to save from said hunter's arrow.

And, NOT that I want the ancient warrior to behave depraved and attempt to rape said modern, naked female...

it's just that the way he behaved upon seeing her screamed Castrated 21st Century college boy and NOT ancient, savage Highland warrior.

Too stupid to be believed, much less enjoyed.

Yet another feminist author who bought all of the post-modern beliefs bullsh*t hook, line, and sinker, without a thought of her own, and who then infused all of that mumbo-jumbo into an Historical-context ROMANCE novel.

B.O.R.I.N.G.

It is just so stupid!

Why don't women who think like this write murder mysteries, thrillers, or biographical novels about people they look up to instead of warping the Romance industry with their modern, completely UNromantic notions about life, love, and sex?

And, if you've read one novel by a woman who thinks this way, you've pretty much read them all.

Meet & almost greet, insta-love, animal sex every other chapter that lasts pages upon pages to describe, relatively little to no actual intrigue, suspense, or danger to sort through, and then... boom, it's done.

NO ROMANCE.

None.

Just two people who meet, make eye contact, behave as if everything is just fine (because God forbid we have a man act like a man or a woman act like a woman... even when they actually DID do this all them years ago), and then start copulating like rabbits in between some mundane and too modern dialogue.

And then it is Cliffhanger time.

Yes, the author warns us it is written that way, and she even ended up capitulating by 'adding' a few chapters from the second novel as a way to somehow attract us into purchasing the next one?

All it did was rip this girl out of one time period and into another, and under the exact same circumstances.

Believe it or not, I think she has ended up with two lesbians in Victorian-era England.

Regardless, we have no idea who 'Mya' is, why she ended up time-traveling, or any further insight into the White Stag references.

And, no, like a lot of other readers who downed this book, I am not interested enough to buy them all in order to find out the answers.

If you are, they run in this particular order:

Moment in Time Series:

#1 - Highlander's Bride

#2 - Victorian Bride

#3 - Modern Bride

#4 - Royal Bride

#5 - Forever the Bride

And, again, I feel it bears reminding that the author warns at the start and at the end of her first novel:

NOTE: This is a series. In order to understand the time travel aspect, you will need to read the series to find out what is going on and put the pieces of the puzzle together.