Review: Highlander: Scimitar - by Ashley McConnell

Highlander: Scimitar - by Ashley McConnell

Another entry in the Highlander book series, this one dipped more into the old ultra violence for some of the action scenes, much to my surprise while reading the first 20 pages over lunch at Vietnam. I will give credit to the author that they took pains to leverage the immortality angle perhaps a little more effectively than the first title I read in this series (Shadow of Obsession) and the indestructibility of the swordsmen was used to great effect a number of times. Now, things got a little fast and loose while explaining how their bodies would recover from an episode of dying by thirst in the desert - namely waking up fully healed and I guess full of another 3 days of water that would then start to expire - but employ that willing suspension of disbelief!

Certainly the staging and pacing of the book was good, and accomplished a lot in the short number of pages. The city of Petra - a real place about which I need to read further - was a fun diversion in the last 15 or so pages, as the book came to what felt like a bit of a rushed but complete conclusion. Overall, a decent read, and a fun, exotic tale of high adventure!