Search - The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, Bk 6)

This was definitely my least favorite books in the series so far. Especially since they keep stressing how the Fae are aliens without a soul and it's their understanding of advance technology that allows them to do what they do.

Puck is one of my favorite fairy-tale characters of all time and I can't say that I care for the author's version of him. Adam Black may be hot, but that's until he opens his mouth. Some of the things he says while trying to seduce Gabby are just so corny that I wanted to gag and found myself rolling my eyes repeatedly. And, call me crazy, but I don't find getting gifts of items stolen from department stores and jewelers to be romantic.

After reading this book, I'm also wondering if the author will ever have a lead heroine that doesn't start out as a virgin while the guy was a raving man-slut before meeting her.

The author is also getting redundant in her anti-climatic closings of her books. (I've just read up to this book in the series within a couple of weeks, so I've been over-exposed to her plots.) They're the kind of endings where the hero is separated from the heroine and then she goes into mope-mode after his disappearance because she's so grief-stricken. And then they get back together and it's all hunky-dory.

Needless to say, I was disappointed in her ruination of one of my favorite Fae characters at the end of this one. It's like declawing a kitty.

WITH HIS LONG BLACK HAIR, AND DARK, MESMERIZING EYES, ADAM BLACK IS TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T. IMMORTAL, ARROGANT, AND INTENSELY SENSUAL, HE IS FREE TO ROAM ACROSS TIME AND CONTINENTS IN PURSUIT OF HIS INSATIABLE DESIRES. THAT IS, UNTIL A CURSE STRIPS HIM OF HIS IMMORTALITY AND MAKES HIM INVISIBLE, A CRUEL FATE FOR SO IRRESISTIBLE A MAN. NOW ADAMS'S ONLY HOPE FOR SURVIVAL IS IN THE HANDS OF THE ONE WOMAN WHO CAN ACTUALLY SEE HIM. ENTER LAW STUDENT GABRIELLE O'CALLAGHAN. FOR GABRIELLE, CURSED WITH THE ABILITY TO SEE BOTH WORLDS, MORTAL AND FAERY, IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG, DANGEROUS SEDUCTION. BUT AS ADAM'S QUEST TO REGAIN HIS IMMORTALITY PLUNGES THEM INTO A WORLD OF TIMELESS MAGIC, THE PRICE OF SURRENDER COULD BE THEIR VERY LIVES. UNLESS THEY CAN THWART THE CONSPIRACY THAT THREATENS OTH MORTAL AND FAERY REALMS...AND GIVE THEM BOTH A SHOT AT A DESTINY FEW MORTALS EVER KNOW: GLORIOUS,WONDROUS, ENDLESS LOVE....

I love this book! It's the first Moning Highlander book I read ( I had to go back and read the others), and it's my favorite. Adam is - whoo!! The story kept me engrossed, and the ending was so touching, I re-read just the ending many times.

I have enjoyed each book in this series. This one was even better - the main character was Adam Black, who played a part in the earlier books but the character was never completely developed. I also liked how some of the characters were brought back in this book so you got an idea of what has happened to them since their stories ended.

This is only the third book I have read by Moning and I have to agree that she does do the same thing over and over again. But since this is only my third time, I am not quite sick of it yet. I'm sure if I read the series in order and this is my sixth book of the same thing I wouldn't like it either.

That being said, it was just such a fun book. Adam (aka Puck) was just so silly and had the worse pick-up lines. I'm pretty sure that was on purpose and I couldn't help but laugh at him. I enjoyed Gabby. She had a lot spirit and was such a survivor. I also love that she beat him senseless all the time.

The side characters were great. It didn't matter that I haven't read Chloe and Gwen's stories, Moning gave enough background information to have everything make sense.

It's pretty lighthearted, cheesy but a great fun read.

I have to say that the last book in the Highlander series went a little too far but I have always thought that Karen Marie Moning was a good read