Kerrigan Byrne - The Highwayman

Author: Kerrigan Byrne

Title: The Highwayman (Victorian Rebels #1)

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 3 stars

No of pages: 379

Read: 28.07.2018

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They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards—dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster…
STEALING BEAUTYDorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of London’s wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who’ve wronged him…and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception—and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands…
COURTING DESIREBut Farah is no one’s puppet. She possesses a powerful secret—one that threatens her very life. When being held captive by Dorian proves to be the only way to keep Farah safe from those who would see her dead, Dorian makes Farah a scandalous proposition: marry him for protection in exchange for using her secret to help him exact revenge on his enemies. But what the Blackheart of Ben More never could have imagined is that Farah has terms of her own, igniting a tempestuous desire that consumes them both. Could it be that the woman he captured is the only one who can touch the black heart he’d long thought dead?

I'm sorry to say but I wasn't overly impressed. Did I enjoy the story? Yes. To an extent that is. There were some plot points that seemed over the top or unbelievable to me in that time and age.

Murdoch's story for example? For real? Not possible to be that naive and trusting in that time and age if one has already been imprisoned once for being attracted to people of the same sex. And now to go and tell a perfect stranger that? Suicidal.

I'm usually a big sucker for broody heroes who aren't all that into the heroines at first, but Dorian simply didn't do it for me most of the time. His attraction to Farah seemed mostly physical (and vice versa), and it just doesn't do it for me for the romance to be believable. I want there to be an emotional connection that cannot be had in a matter of days (which is actually the span of the most of the novel) as the hero and the heroine don't actually *know* each other at first. I want to see and feel the emotional connection growing, don't care much for his nether region's reaction to her to be frank.

Not all that interested in the rest of the series for the time being.