Title: The Chieftain's Daughter
Author: Leigh Ann Edwards
Series: Irish Witch #3
Genre: Fantasy/Magic/Romance
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Publication Date: September 20th, 2016
Edition: Kindle Edition, 259 pages
Source: NetGalley
Synopsis:
Young, pregnant witch, Alainn McCreary, is forced to rely on her mysterious and unpredictable magical powers in an attempt to protect the life of her strong and courageous new husband, Killian O’Brien, and the life of their unborn child, battling against all odds waged by a powerful and corrupt chieftain, a vengeful curse, and malevolent dark forces unleashed by a scheming demon.
Review:
I am really enjoying this series. It's a bit more romance based than I normally read, but it works for this series. It's not trying to pretend that it's about so much more, even though there is another plot that is connected to the romance. It's just done well, this is how to weave a romance through the rest of the plot, without the romance getting annoying and start to feel shoehorned into the story.
Alainn, a name I can never remember how to pronounce even though it's been mentioned more than once, is a really nice character. For a character that has magic, she is one of the more realistic characters in a romance series that I have read. Her goals are relatable, her motivations make sense, she's a great character because she isn't emotionless. She is, in a way, what people mean when they say they want a "strong female character." She isn't physically strong, but she is strong in her resolve. She cares deeply for others, even those who have wronged her. A character doesn't need to be emotionless and physically strong to be a strong character.
Killian, he's mostly a typical male love interest. His overbearingness, while still annoying to read, is historically accurate for the times. I like his character, but other than what he feels for Alainn, I haven't seen much to his character. Which is a shame, I feel that there could have been a little more done with his character. Give him a connection to this big mystery and ancient power. But so far, he's a pretty typical character.
The overall plot of this book was a bit all over the place in my opinion. And there were about three chapters near the middle that not a whole lot was going on in. It was three chapters of Alainn and Killian in a fairy glade, making love and arguing. It slowed the book down a lot, I don't think all three chapters were needed because I didn't feel like it really added anything to the story. We already knew they were in love with each other, and everybody knows what people do on their Honeymoon.
After they got back from a Honeymoon that in the book seemed much longer than it ended up actually being, this goes back to why I didn't think it needed to be that long, the story picked up a lot. And I really enjoyed how things wrapped up in this book. It took me longer than I wanted to finish this book because life got in the way, but I am really looking forward to reading the next book in this series.
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