A Highlander in a Pickup (Highland, Georgia #2)
by Laura
Trentham
Blurb:
When a gorgeous
new man—in a kilt—comes to town, life in Highland, Georgia will never be the
same…
Iain Connors is the poster boy for the strong and silent type. Growing up a loner at Cairndow Castle in
Anna Maitland is
ready to step up for her best friend Isabel Blackmoor, who can’t run the Games
in their hometown this year. Surely Anna, a dance instructor with boundless
energy, spirit, and charm, is up for the challenge? What she doesn’t anticipate
is a man in a kilt who turns up claiming he’s the one in charge. What’s worse
about this Iain? He’s so infuriatingly handsome that she can’t help but
fantasize about him whispering sweet-nothings in her ear in his rumbly, sexy
brogue. . .
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 3.75 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
So
the small town with a big Scottish heart gets another dose of Scottish
greatness in a new adventure. Highland Georgia
is not the typical southern town, a small town that has embraced its somewhat
odd Scottish history and found a niche in marketing its town for tourists with
a huge Scottish festival. I enjoyed the
first book in this series and the second was pretty good too, but I am still
having a bit of trouble connecting with the characters and their romance, the
emotions just seem a bit to superficial but I continue to hope they deepen as
the series continues. This story picks
up where the first ended with the next year’s festival in need of a new leader
in the form of Anna, seeing as the primaries are all currently in the true
highlands for the birth of the next generation.
Anna is determined to make this year’s festival amazing, because she
needs prove she can be a good mayor, but she is truly overwhelmed with all the
is needed to make the festival run smoothly.
When Iain is sent by their friends to make things easier on her, she
initially refuses his help, determined to prove she’s got this but he refuses to
just sit around twiddling his thumbs and soon they are true partners. Iain is attracted to the sexy dance teacher
but she frustrates him how she refuses to let him assist and is working herself
to the bone. When worlds finally do
collide, they both know their fling comes with an end date, but the newer of
them truly want it to end even though they can’t see a way to get everything
they want. So I just have to say, Anna
annoyed the hell out of me through most of this story. While I fully understand her need to prove
herself, anyone that refuses the hand outstretched to them when they are
drowning is just an idiot, sorry. Once she finally embraced the greatness that
was Iain and saw how well they could work together I began to like her a lot
more, because to me the truth is not that a woman needs a man in front of or
behind her, but having anyone (male or female) to walk beside them and help
them in life is the greatest blessing a person can have and nothing to be
turning your nose up at. Iain has a few issues with his fears about giving up
what he considers his duty to his family in order to go after what he wants,
but it doesn’t stop him from giving his all to his assignment helping Anna,
even when she turns him away, and to being the man that Anna needs. I loved Iain and would love to have a strong,
smart, and sweet man like him willing to work his butt off beside me any day of
the week. There was enough passion
between them with their attraction to keep things fun and interesting, but Anna
was so self-wrapped and selfish that I wonder if love is something she truly
understands so I found the HEA harder to handle than others I have read, tough
I don’t doubt Iain for a moment. The
only thing that really brought this story up was the strength and sweetness of
Iain’s characters and the laughs that I got out of the antics these two got up
to in the story. I am holding out hope
that the next story has a deeper emotional connection between the H/h and I can
truly say I love it, but until then I hold my opinion of this author.
*ebook provided by publisher (via
NetGalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.
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