my heart's in the lowlands liz curtis higgs

On the other hand, Rose doesn't want to marry Jamie because she's too young but obeys her father and tries to find affection in her heart for her future groom. How is she the self-sacrificing one? The one full of love? She becomes obsessed with Jaime, stalks him after he's engaged to her sister, refuses to obey her father in marrying another, and then jumps naked into the bed of a drunk bridegroom. When that doesn't work, she hides herself under Rose's bride veil and presents herself in a completely darkened room as Rose to a sleeping, drunk Jamie who thinks his wife has finally arrived to consummate their marriage. After Jamie becomes engaged to Rose, Leeana professes her love to Jaime, asking him to marry her instead, and is soundly told by Jaime that he loves only Rose. Jamie rebuffs her attempts and tells her plainly he's not interested, yet she keeps trying to win his affections. First, when her father promises her hand in marriage to a man she is not physically attracted to, she doesn't try to love him and even refuses the marriage once Jaime comes to live with them - even though it is obvious from the first that Jamie is smitten with her younger sister Rose (Rachel). Let me tell me how in the story Leeana was the MOST SELFISH OF ALL. Over and over, the author keeps writing that Leeana should have been the choice of Jamie (Jacob) because she was the epitome of sacrificial love. Oh, and the middle English spellings of words was really annoying. The stories of the patriarchs should not be altered. The author was tediously paralleling Jacob's life in the beginning then heads into alternate Biblical history which I find disconcerting. I still do not understand why the author chose to place the story in eighteenth century Scotland. Then I got excited because the love story of Jacob and Rachel is one of the most beautiful in the Bible. When I picked up this trilogy I didn't know it was the story of the Biblical Jacob, but the author made it so obvious I picked up on this fact within a few paragraphs.

How I hate Leeana, let me count the ways.

My heart's in the lowlands liz curtis higgs