Goddess of Legend

Title: Goddess of Legend
Author: P.C. Cast
Series: Goddess Summoning (Book 7)
Genre: Romance



Isabel is doing what she does best, taking photographs, when on the way home she accidentally goes over a bridge. This is a death situation. She is intercepted by a water goddess and brought to Camelot to help Arthur find love so Merlin can live. Isabel and Arthur fall in love.

This book was slightly disappointing. I love when authors take well known mythology or other legends and put a modern twist to them. But in this case, Isabel was not the character for it. I usually love that P.C. Cast puts modern day references in her stories, but this time there were just too many.

I also kept waiting for a conflict, but it never really happened. Guinevere got sick and I thought for sure it was some magical meddling making her turn against Isabel, but that was definitely not the case.

On a related note...how did I miss books 3-6?

Much Ado in the Moonlight

Title: Much Ado in the Moonlight
Author: Lynn Kurland
Series: MacLeod (Book 9)
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Ghosts, Time Travel



At the end of My Heart Stood Still Thomas decides that he thinks Victoria and Conner should meet, and maybe drive each other a little crazy. Thomas "gives" Victoria his haunted castle for her to do a production of Hamlet in with her troupe. She sends them all over to Scottland and soon starts having ghostly encounters.

She and Conner meet and seemingly effortlessly fall in love. Victoria, much like her brother, needs to go back in time to save Conner from before he was murdered.

Even though there is a book between MHSS and MAM, I am glad that I read them one after another. It seemed like a fantastic transition between the two couples. I was, however, left with a little lackluster feeling in the romance department between Victoria and Conner. Where with most of the other couples I have felt the longing, I just didn't feel it between these two. I also felt that Conner wasn't the same gruff Conner that we met in MHSS. This is not to say I didn't enjoy the story, I just felt it wasn't as superb as the rest of the series.

That being said, I'm done with the MacLeods and on to the De Piaget.

My Heart Stood Still

Title: My Heart Stood Still
Author: Lynn Kurland
Series: MacLeod (Book 7)
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Ghosts, Time Travel


Iolanthe MacLeod is murdered by the man her family sold her to when she's a young woman. She haunts the keep where she died for the next 600 years, living a fairly unremarkable existence. Until He comes.

Thomas McKinnon has bought a castle unseen. His sister Megan (The Three Wise Ghosts) owns the little inn just by it. Thomas has decided to come and restore his castle. Then he meets Iolanthe.

The two start to have a meaningful relationship and eventually fall in love. How unfortunate the Iolanthe is a ghost. Thomas learns the secret of the time traveling gates and visits Jamie to learn swordplay and how to swear in Gaelic. He goes back in time to save Iolanthe, and when he does he brings her back to the future. The only problem is, since she never spent her time as a ghost, she doesn't remember him.

Although this story started out a little slow, I felt as if it's one of my favorites in the series. It's such an unique storyline. I love that not only did Iolanthe come to the future and have to learn her way there, but that we got to watch Thomas and her struggle to have the relationship that once existed before.

I am really starting to see more of the connections between the two books. Characters that show up again and again. Only one more left in the MacLeod series.