I'll be very honest upfront, that I much prefer KMM's Fever series than this Highlander series. Perhaps it may have to do with the fact that the two series are slight different genres - Fever is more UF while Highlander is more PNR, and I'm usually more of an UF fan... Anyway, I still thought that this was an easy read.

Sometimes I thought the stubbornness of Jillian, the female lead, was actually quite funny. Her initial interactions with Grimm were always bickering and bantering, but meanwhile it was obvious that she was still immensely attracted to Grimm regardless of his aloof attitude. The internal struggles that Grimm experienced were also well described. I think KMM had a way with words, which captured the readers' attention and enabled vivid imaginations... Also, given that this is a PNR book, it certainly fulfilled its share of hot romance...

Even though I enjoyed this book and will definitely continue onto the next installments in the series, I could not bring myself to giving it any higher rating than 3 stars (I was actually tempted to only give 2.5). The plot was extremely predictable and the "hidden" villain was so obvious that the hints literally screamed in your face! So there were no surprises and excitement from a plot perspective.

Furthermore, perhaps it was my logical mind at work again, or may be I was just being picky with things in general, but I found the following issues with the book...

(1) Errors - there were glaring editing errors in several places. They were so conspicuously wrong that I couldn't just forgive and move on... Seriously, how can you ignore a sentence when the subject should be a "he" but it got printed as a "she"??!! There were a few similar editing errors found throughout the book and they really bothered me.

(2) Inconsistencies with the characters... So let's see, the book prologue opened in year 1499, when Grimm was in a battle and at the time he was only 14 years old. Then it was forwarded to present-day year 1515. So, by simple addition Grimm should be 30 years old (or at the very least 29 years, since the book kept mentioning that he had been away from home for 15 years since the battle). Now, let's look at Jillian, a beautiful girl who grew up with Grimm and she was 21 years old in present-day year 1515. So again, simple math tells me that Grimm and Jillian should be AT LEAST 8 years apart in age, right? But no, wait, in the middle of the book, Jillian recalled a kiss that she shared with Grimm when she was 16 years old and he was supposed to be 22 years old at the time... Okay, guys, does this make any sense? So they were supposed to be 6 years apart in age then? But hey, didn't I tell you already that he should be at the very least 8 years older?!?!? Like, how does this add up?!?!? I know this seemed like a trivial thing and most people probably wouldn't even notice, but sorry, this really bothered me... Why? Well, that would lead me to the third issue that I have...

(3) Moving on, to talk about my last issue... So, for the moment, let's presume that these two characters were only 6 years apart (instead of 8 years). Grimm met Jillian when he was 15 or 16 years old. And they supposed to have fallen for each other then (according to the story)... Ewwww.... that's just gross!!! Jillian would have been only 9 or 10 at the time, doesn't this seem a little odd to you?!? Yuck! I would have felt better if she were only a year or so younger, but not THAT MUCH younger!!! Geez... Honestly, I had to consciously tell myself to just ignore that "growing up together" bit because it was just, kinda... ewww...

Really, I'm not complaining... I really thought that this was an easy, fun read, aside from those little itsy bitsy things that buggd me...