The Chief

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Robert McNab

Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Monica McCarty transports listeners to the 14th-century Scottish highlands in this dazzling novel. Warrior Tor MacLeod is picked by Robert the Bruce to lead the fight against English rule. Despite Tor’s rigid disposition and devotion to his craft, his new bride is determined to warm his heart.

©2010 Monica McCarty (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

Enjoyable book.

I really enjoyed this book. Robert McNab does a great job at narrating. This book makes me want to go back and visit Scotland again.

No fluff and No spoiler Review

Reviewing the Series: This is just the most interesting historical romance series I've read/listened to - and the fact that it is on Escape and free to listen - makes it even better.
The narration in the first few books is just plain awful - but the content is really really good. So just power through. For instance, in this book the The Chief is made to sound so old and feeble when he is the most brawn and sexy man.

The idea of this series is absolutely great - the historical content is so fascinating. Picks up right where Braveheart ends and tells the most interesting story. I found myself looking forward to the Guard content and the story of Robert de Bruce much more than the "romance" content.
There are some books in the series where I wasn't too interested in the characters or their romance, but you really cannot skip any of the books. It is important for the historical content to go in order and not skip.
Some books are more battle orientated and some are more romance orientated - but for the most part I think you will find that all the main characters (the Guard) are pretty interesting and have interesting back stories.
Just a fascinating overall story and some of the romances are great and some are really sexy and some are just not.

I could not recommend this enough to fans of historical romances.

Love love love love!

Well written, love the narrator and such and interesting tale with a fair amount of historical accuracy. Top notch in all regards!

About Average

I was disappointed with the weak female lead - sounded a bit whiney,self-centered, and immature. It's hard to empathize or relate to a young female lead who is narrowly focused. It didn't help that the reader made her sound weak, fluffy, and flat. I did like his deep baratone rendition of the male lead's voice, although his dialogue was read very slowly and had a flat aspect or monotone to it also. The author had the male lead often reconsidering his decisions and changing his mind on things he had said. Lots of repetition. The best parts are the training for battle scenes in my opinion.

ruined by outlander. .

The story's ok.. Yes just ok. I love Scottish books, But i guess ive been ruined by outlander.
I also don't like the narrator, I thought he should've had a Scottish accent, maybe thats just me, the main characters 31 and he makes him sound like a bitter old man, a highlander with no accent, wth..

Great story

Really like the story but but the narrator was not very good with Scottish accent and a lot of the intonation was not very good or accurate. So unfortunately will look for another series to listen to.

Good

I’ve been waiting to read this book for quite awhile ( I need to check my tbr list more often).
It was excellent, history, story and characters made my day!

Listened out of order and still good

I listened to the books in this series out of order, starting with those available with my membership. I enjoyed those so much and I wanted to hear how it started, and thus used a credit to purchase. Now I know why the Chief and Christina are a power (but loving) couple.

I really enjoyed this start of the guard. Unlike other reviewers, I appreciated the additional historical background as well as the author’s notes at the end about where liberties and interpretations were used.

What a series!! Can't wait for book 4 on audio

I've listened to the first three in the series. I love the story behind the books. The secret guard, their women and Scottich history. Some chivilry, some great stories and some wonderful highlanders. Robert McNab is wonderful. It does take some getting used to him speaking as a woman but in time you get lost in the story and you don't even notice it. I can't wait for the 4th in the series to come out. These are definitely worth a listen.

Highland Masculinity defined

The story had a very slow start and I almost stopped reading it. However I gave it another chance which the story began to move. The Highland Hero, and the Lass come together and apart throughout the story. I will go on to read the next book in this series.