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"Norse invasions, Scottish fights for independence, and the plights of the mystical isles' people come together in The Hundred Trilogy."

Generally speaking, I liked this saga of Gwen and Simon and their descendants as fictional characters weaving their lives through very real times. The romance was a little too much at times but overall, an okay read.

2.75☆

I don’t usually read historical romantic fiction, but was drawn to this trilogy set in Scotland, and I wasn’t disappointed. I enjoyed following the MacCoinneach family through three generations and the associated curses each one had to overcome. I think my favourite book in the trilogy was the first one, A Hundred Breaths, and I really rooted for the gutsy heroine, Gwyn, a Healer, and hero Simon MacCoinneach - initially seen as an enemy of the family and a rather bloodthirsty one at that. However, their relationship as it develops feels true and believable. The second book in the series, A Hundred Kisses, follows Gwyn and Simon’s daughter, Deirdre MacCoinneach, who feels the lifebloods of people around her. Alasdair Montgomerie is on a mission to get pivotal information for a claimant seeking the Scottish throne, but is waylaid at the MacCoinneach castle and provides an alias to hide his mission. Both he and Deirdre are keeping secrets which threaten to tear them apart even as they grow closer. The third book in the trilogy, A Hundred Lies, was my least favourite of the three. This follows Deirdre’s son, Domhnall, who is a Seer, and Rosalie who is a fortune teller. I found it difficult to warm to Rosalie for some reason, and the book itself felt different to the first two, but I cannot put my finger on exactly why it felt different. Nevertheless, I did enjoy A Hundred Lies, and it provided a satisfactory ending to the trilogy, while leaving it open for the possibility of more books following the MacCoinneach line. I did enjoy this trilogy by Jean M Grant and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical romantic fiction, and historical Scottish romantic fiction. I shall certainly keep an eye out for any further books in this series.