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A review by rjordan19
The Ranger: A Highland Guard Novel by Monica McCarty
5.0
Edit to add steam stats 11/17/21
Still adored this book on my quick reread! It was a bit slow, but McCarty just really wraps my emotions up and has that amazing angst I love.
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes
Pg 126 – first kiss, brief breast play
Pg 218 – fingering orgasm for her followed by almost sex – but interrupted
Pg 299 – missionary sex (virginity loss for her)
Pg 334 – he kisses her, but she resists and he eventually stops
Pg 389 – fade to black, alluded to sex
Pg 391 – remembered scenes – nothing explicit – just that they’ve done it a number of times over the past 2 months
Pg 392 – remembered blow job that is a paragraph long (5 sentences)
Total pages - 398
Original review 6/14/2019:
Arthur’s been deep undercover for Robert the Bruce, pretending to side with the English. When Arthur senses something wrong with a mission, he ends up saving a woman’s life.
A year later they are thrown together again, as Arthur poses as a knight helping John MacDougall, Lord of Lorn. His mystery woman is Anna, Lorns Daughter.
The daughter of his enemy, he should have had no problem ignoring and avoiding her. But she is so happy and filled with pure enjoyment of life he can’t help but be drawn to her. Arthur has lived with the thought of revenge for his fathers death and it’s what has powered him through living a lie with no close friends, in the death and destruction of non stop battles, playing both sides. She is a salve to his dark soul.
Something I feel like Monica McCarty does well is character description. I love her paragraphs about how her heroes look. I feel like I can usually get a good vision of them and...mmmm. Do you ever read a book and get like halfway through and think that you don’t even know the color of the heroes eyes? I don’t ever feel like that with her.
Arthur tries to be downright cruel to Anna to keep her away from him. I don’t feel like he came across as a total jerk though. Probably because most of those interactions take place from his view and you see and feel how much he is struggling with it, and it tears at his heart as he tries to continue it.
You’ll wait over 120 pages for the first kiss, but it’s so good. May have been fanning myself after that one
Still adored this book on my quick reread! It was a bit slow, but McCarty just really wraps my emotions up and has that amazing angst I love.
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes
Spoiler
Pg 126 – first kiss, brief breast play
Pg 218 – fingering orgasm for her followed by almost sex – but interrupted
Pg 299 – missionary sex (virginity loss for her)
Pg 334 – he kisses her, but she resists and he eventually stops
Pg 389 – fade to black, alluded to sex
Pg 391 – remembered scenes – nothing explicit – just that they’ve done it a number of times over the past 2 months
Pg 392 – remembered blow job that is a paragraph long (5 sentences)
Total pages - 398
Original review 6/14/2019:
Arthur’s been deep undercover for Robert the Bruce, pretending to side with the English. When Arthur senses something wrong with a mission, he ends up saving a woman’s life.
A year later they are thrown together again, as Arthur poses as a knight helping John MacDougall, Lord of Lorn. His mystery woman is Anna, Lorns Daughter.
The daughter of his enemy, he should have had no problem ignoring and avoiding her. But she is so happy and filled with pure enjoyment of life he can’t help but be drawn to her. Arthur has lived with the thought of revenge for his fathers death and it’s what has powered him through living a lie with no close friends, in the death and destruction of non stop battles, playing both sides. She is a salve to his dark soul.
Something I feel like Monica McCarty does well is character description. I love her paragraphs about how her heroes look. I feel like I can usually get a good vision of them and...mmmm. Do you ever read a book and get like halfway through and think that you don’t even know the color of the heroes eyes? I don’t ever feel like that with her.
Arthur tries to be downright cruel to Anna to keep her away from him. I don’t feel like he came across as a total jerk though. Probably because most of those interactions take place from his view and you see and feel how much he is struggling with it, and it tears at his heart as he tries to continue it.
You’ll wait over 120 pages for the first kiss, but it’s so good. May have been fanning myself after that one