This is so boring. I would have dnf'd it if it wasn't our book club pick.

The two main characters have zero chemistry. Even their bickering feels forced.
His Scottish accent feels like it was written by someone who watched Brave one time, with just random words thrown in to remind you he's Scottish - but somehow understands her slang perfectly.
The whole premise felt flimsy, which I would have been able to excuse if the chemistry was there but I've never seen two more annoying people less attracted to each other.

The monster smut was fine

- although we never actually find out if he's able to partially transform during the deed anymore once the curse is broken. Feels like a waste if he can't tbh

The 3rd act break-up and the the "secret" that lachlan was keeping made literally no sense.

The poem/curse had a second verse that mentions "the end only comes with the daughter of mackay" and lachlan decides to keep that part from her. Why? Who fucking knows. He says it's because he doesn't know her/trust her yet but no one even knows what it means. He's pretending like it's any sort of information and when she finds out she's out of proportion mad, again, as if he actually kept anything vital from her.

Neither person makes any sense in this scenario.

The reasoning Duncan had for escaping to America with his daughter also made no sense. He said it was to protect his daughter, but protect her from what? Just because the poem says

the curse ends with her why does that mean she needs protecting? If anything you should be excited to have a daughter so she can end the curse your friend is under.

AND that's assuming he didn't read the full account from Sorscha

where she LITERALLY spells out that all it will take is a daughter of mackay to forgive them.  when we KNOW he did because it was his journal!

Also the grandmother sucked.