I did overall find it to be a good and entertaining read (yet 18th century frontier life is brutal!), but I had a few moments of thinking, “Okay, let’s get to book 3 with the brother Connor MacKinnon. Perhaps if you like a romance with a slow build, this is the perfect book for you. But I guess overall it just felt a little sluggish to me.
I stand by my statement that this book still is beautiful prose and Clare creates vivid scenes that I feel as if I have my nose pressed to the window screen, watching and listening to everything going on instead of just reading it. The story seemed to go on for quite a long time with a lot of buildup but not a lot of forward motion in the plot and I kept thinking there’s only 200 pages left to go, let’s get this thing going. Was it the over 100 pages it took to get to some good steamy scenes? Maybe. I can’t quite put my finger on it and I wish that I could. But something was just off for me in this one.
In Untamed I enjoyed both the heroine and the hero. If you check out her website you can read about some of the real life events that characters or situations in her books are based on. One of the things I love most about Clare’s work is it is clearly evident she invests a lot of time in doing research for making her subject matter both accurate or so relevant like with her I-Team series. She just has a way of putting words together that is so beautiful, interesting, vivid, and downright sexy. Pamela Clare is one of my favorite authors. But the young Amalie must come to terms with the grief this man may have caused her, and is it possible all the rumors about the murdering and ruthless MacKinnon’s Rangers are true? Being nursed and cared for by the virgin Amalie, Morgan slowly begins to heal and come back to life. Set in North America during the French and Indian War of the 18th century, Morgan MacKinnon is Scottish but he’s a Ranger for the British when he is wounded and captured by the French. According to Clare’s website, this new version of Untamed features “25 pages of restored content along with a fresh edit”. This book is re-released from 2008 and has extra material added. Untamed is the second book in Pamela Clare’s MacKinnon’s Rangers series.
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