Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs, #1) by Maya Banks Series: The Montgomerys and Armstrongs
Published by Ballantine Books on September 25, 2012
Pages: 418
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Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her “touched.” Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn’t speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty—unprepared for the delights to come. Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and skilled that he stirs her deepest passions.
Graeme is intrigued by the mysterious Eveline, whose silent lips are ripe with temptation and whose bright, intelligent eyes can see into his soul. As intimacy deepens, he learns her secret. But when clan rivalries and dark deeds threaten the wife he has only begun to cherish, the Scottish warrior will move heaven and earth to save the woman who has awakened his heart to the beautiful song of a rare and magical love.
Ugh, just some evidence of my tiny, hard, shriveled heart. I had some issues with this book, and none of them were necessarily the issues you’d expect from this type of set up. Everything was just so perfect.
After decades long feud (or more) you come to realize these fighting clans are just made up of the best people. except for the mean girls in the Montgomery clan. Without the mean girls, there’d be no conflict. NONE. Absolutely none. Because the hero is a perfect patient man who says all the right things, repeatedly and is astounded by just how sweet and beautiful the heroine is. And she’s astounded that she can hear his vocalizations and just how sweet, patient, and loyal he is. It’s just so happy. And they are just so perfect. And just so beautiful.
It was SO repetitive between discussions on their beauty, the conflict between the clans, the fact that Eveline tried so hard and Graeme did too, and then that we’d repeat that within the same page in just a different order I feel like the author missed putting any depth or content and just went straight for word count (I could handle this better in audio cause I could kind of space here and there).
It was beyond sentimental. Between the repetition and the sentimentality, I wish I could show you a video of how many times I scoffed. Graeme declares his love to Eveline’s dad. Then he repeats it to her mom. Almost the exact same phrasing. And it was, like, so sticky.
Complicated family drama just brushed aside in favor of this beautiful beautiful love.
I was so disappointed for what could have been. Maybe just a tiny bit more reluctance between characters and their families. Maybe not the outrageous mean girls from the Montgomery clan as a method for conflict & the ex-fiance as the final culmination. Plot devices, all. At first, I couldn’t believe this was the same author that I weirdly stumbled across that wrote about the woman savior for the Colter Brothers (and yak, don’t get me started with that one). Turns out, this is about another woman savior. Everyone just loves her so damn much that nothing else, Nothing Else, matters.
Never Seduce a Scot was an easy read. The beginning was really promising. Then it went rapidly to pot.
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