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I really enjoyed Elliot and Juliana's story. Ainsley is one of my favorite characters, so I was excited to read about her brother. Elliot and Juliana's commitment and concern for one another is very touching. I was happy that there weren't any contrived misunderstandings, just two kind and intelligent people trying desperately to work through the catastrophic challenges presented by Elliot's understandably vivid PTSD. The many interesting plot twists and secondary characters added depth and flavor to their story. Elliot and Juliana's faith in one-another pays off in a hard earned, but delightfully romantic HEA. Excellent addition to the series. Read it. You won't be disappointed.


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The Seduction of Elliot McBride Mackenzies Series Jennifer Ashley 9780425251133 Books Reviews

If you like a good, angst-driven story then this latest offering in the Mackenzies/McBride series will be just right for you. The central character, Elliot McBride, is suffering from what we know as PTSD after his imprisonment and torture in British Colonial India. The author spares us from a detailed, graphic accounting of the specifics of his imprisonment, but you get enough information to know that his experience was horrific and the lingering emotional after effects believable.

My only criticism with this novel lay in the core relationship and eventual reunion between Elliot and Juliana. Yes, they knew each other as children, yes he kissed her at her debut ball before he shipped out, but the 'destiny' of their great love that they each alluded to felt contrived to me. Given the few described instances of their being together, I struggle to see how her memory lay at the foundation of his survival. Further, as has been mentioned by some other reviewers, Elliot's 'keeping tabs' on Juliana for many long years seemed a silly, sudden contrivance to bolster his assertion of devotion. A lot of this story felt cobbled together and lacked the fluency and cohesion of previous works in the series.

Bottom line This is a good story, but it just didn't feel as solid as most of the others in this series.
Until this book the first one with Ian and Beth was my favorite. This one ties it. I loved this book. Most books in this genre the heroine has the tragic past and has to face her demons with the help of the hero. Well this series turns that idea upside down. It is the male lead , Elliott who has the horrible past and has to overcome it with the help of the female lead, Juliana. The story was well written, the characters multidimensional. I love this series one good book after another! Elliot and Juliana's story is mesmerizing. A great read! Don't miss it!
I have very much enjoyed this talented author's MacKenzie series (Victorian England and Scotland) and many of her paranormal Shifter series (modern urban fantasy) as well. In fact, some of the MacKenzie books, especially the one about Beth and Ian, are among my all-time favorite romantic historical fiction. Although their settings are very different, the best books in both these series have in common good writing, careful plotting, a compelling story, a little leavening humor, appealing and highly individual characters, and above all convincing emotional connections between lovers, family and friends. These are given time and reason to develop, so that falling into their world is effortless.

Unfortunately, none of these important elements are to be found in "The Seduction of Elliot McBride." It's awful, not a work of a mature writer at all, very far beneath the quality of the earlier MacKenzie series books in every way. In fact, I have a theory that this book may have been produced by quickly putting a few patches into an early unpublished work of the author and expected to coast on the quality of her MacKenzie books. If so, it sinks like a stone.

(A few spoilers ahead) The two lead characters knew each other slightly as children and each had a crush on the other. (The hero was having very graphic fantasies about her even when they were 16.) He goes off to India and becomes (1) extremely wealthy, (2) sort of a Scottish/Indian ninja, and (3) captured and tortured for years and years so that he has some kind of severe PTSD-like condition on his return. (Of course, the years of horrible torture have had no effect on his roguish good looks or his physical or sexual functionality.) He moves into a remote, falling-down fake Scottish castle that comes complete with a ridiculous stereotypic old Scottish grump with a musket and a stereotypic young, strapping red-headed Scots lad who insists on piping them into the dining room. But Elliot wants the woman he hardly knows but has fantasized about all these years so he goes to break up her nuptials. Meanwhile, she has grown into a pampered young lady fond of running her father's homes and making lists to organize everything. She obviously knows nothing of real emotion or priorities because she is at the altar waiting for a bridegroom whom she doesn't like or have any use for. Fortunately, he has eloped with his piano teacher without informing her. So she goes to an adjacent chapel to overcome her embarrassment and sits down -- right on the dozing Elliot! Surprise, surprise, she thought he was in India. So, since all the wedding guests are still waiting, they suddenly decide to marry each other instead and do so. He packs this pampered, hyper-organized virgin off to his falling-down remote castle and they immediately, and I mean immediately, start having wild, dress-ripping, roaring sex. Again and again. Everywhere. Including, the day after their arrival, on the dining room table, with yelling and ripping and everyone in hearing distance at midday. Oh, and later that day she finds out accidentally that the little girl who came with his Indian servants is his daughter! And those Indian servants are disturbingly servile stereotypes as well, which is unlike Ashley's better writing, just as the many extremely contrived plot lines (which I won't bore both of us with here) and unconvincing relationships are. There is nothing I can point to as a reason that makes this book worth reading.

Interestingly, Ainsley, who is a good heroine in the earlier (well-written) book starring her and Camerons MacKenzie, tells her husband in that book about the PTSD-like symptoms of her brother Elliot McBride of the current (bad) book to give him hope that he can heal from his own past terrors. This tends to reinforce my suspicion that the Elliot McBride book is a patched-up version of an old unpublished manuscript predating the MacKenzie books. There are also a few parallels with Ian MacKenzie's difficulty in being around people and being susceptible to "muddles." But that is as far as the similarity goes. I suggest you read the Mackenzie books by this author, starting with Ian's, but give this poor-quality, annoying book a miss.
I really enjoyed Elliot and Juliana's story. Ainsley is one of my favorite characters, so I was excited to read about her brother. Elliot and Juliana's commitment and concern for one another is very touching. I was happy that there weren't any contrived misunderstandings, just two kind and intelligent people trying desperately to work through the catastrophic challenges presented by Elliot's understandably vivid PTSD. The many interesting plot twists and secondary characters added depth and flavor to their story. Elliot and Juliana's faith in one-another pays off in a hard earned, but delightfully romantic HEA. Excellent addition to the series. Read it. You won't be disappointed.