Sarah's Library

As another reviewer said "Adam Black is a hero you either love to hate or hate to love."  I'm in the love to hate camp.  My view of him is tainted by his actions in Moning's first book in the Highlander series, Beyond the Highland Mist.  In his first appearance he is seductive but only as a means to take the heroine, Adrienne, away from the hero, Hawk.  He only wants Adrienne because he can't stand the idea that she might want Hawk more, that it might be about more than pure lust between Adrienne and Hawk.  Because of this he rips Adrienne out of her time and dumps her in Hawks, and then, when it seems to be going their way he forces her to forsake Hawk to save his clan and takes her back to her time again, leaving Hawk to originally believe she chose to leave him.  And that's why I found it difficult to warm to Adam or to believe he truly loved Gabby.  All I could think of while Gabby was listing why he was not a bad man, just misunderstood, was his cold cruelty and amusement when he forced Adrienne to leave Hawk for the sake of his clan.  Other than that, as with all of Moning's Highlander books, I loved it.  But for my dislike of Adam Black I would have given the book 5 stars.  I really like the fact that Gabby is intelligent, not just beautiful.  In fact, not beautiful if her opinion was asked.  I would be very interested to know what happened to Darroc once he became human - maybe he has a romance story waiting to be written.  I felt the ending was spot on, it wouldn't have felt like a completely, permanently happy ending if they hadn't been able to say the Druid binding vows.