Review: To Love a Highland Dragon – Ann Gimpel

A modern day psychiatrist and a dragon shifter stranded in time can’t escape their destiny, no matter how unlikely it seems.

Blurb:
In a cave deep beneath Inverness, a dragon shifter stirs and wakens. The cave is the same and his hoard intact, yet Lachlan senses something amiss. Taking his human form, he ventures above ground with ancient memories flooding him. But nothing is the same. His castle has been replaced by ungainly row houses. Men aren’t wearing plaids and women scarcely wear anything at all.

In Inverness for a year on a psychiatry fellowship, Dr. Maggie Hibbins watches an oddly dressed man pick his way out of a heather and gorse thicket. Even though it runs counter to her better judgment, she teases him about his strange attire. He looks so lost—and so unbelievably handsome —she takes him to a pub for a meal, to a barbershop, and then home. Along the way the hard-to-accept truth sinks in: he has to be a refugee from another era.

Never a risk-taker, Maggie’s carefully constructed life is about to change forever. Swept up in an ancient prophecy that links her to Lachlan and his dragon, she must push the edges of the impossible to save both the present and her heart

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Release Date: September 5th 2013
Publisher: Taliesin Publishing
Source: Provided by Author/Publisher via Manic Readers
Reviewer: Kim
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

3.5 Cocktails

I love Dragons and Dragon shifters, but I can’t say I really loved this book…nor did I dislike it though.  It was just OK.  I had a hard time relating to the main characters, I felt like I didn’t really get to know them and the story was lacking in depth and the plot and world building felt incomplete.  There was a lot going on but it was hard to follow.

I felt that Maggie and Lachlan lacked chemistry together and there was really no build up to their relationship.  Everything just happened way to fast and easy for them .  Her characters were very interesting on their own but together they just don’t have that spark.  Lachlan is a sexy and hot dragon shifter from the past and Kheladin is his dragon half, together they are the perfect pair.  Maggie is a strong independent woman who makes her own decisions.  Relying on anyone is hard for either of them, but they have to learn how with eachother.  The secondary characters were interesting and very funny, but again not enough information about them considering the roles they played in the story.

I did like the idea behind the book and I would like to see what happens next in this world that the author created.   There were some great sex scenes, which were well written.  There was some very good humour and witty comments thrown in as well.  The author could have done more with the world building and the character building though and that is what I have based my review on.  I will read the next book, just because I do like Dragons, magical worlds and the paranormal.  It was still a fun read just not a book that really grabbed my attention and kept me riveted.  For a fun afternoon read this would not be a bad book to pick up.