Everybody loved this book. Everyone. Me? Not so much. It wasn't bad, but it was just so...average. 
 Logan wants to redeem himself because he spent the last few years as a mercenary and part of a shady group of men that did shady things. To do this, he joins an elite group of warriors in their super secret training camp. Not everyone accepts him because they know of his past but Logan doesn't care. He has a traumatized sister that he failed to protect, so he knows the camp is the safest place for her. His sister's traumatized state of mind also adds to his "I don't deserve love" mentality. Then we have the heroine Helena, who is beaten by her betrothed because he is terrible and he found out from her feverish father that she visions. This kind of bothered me because I would think that Helena could dispute this and attribute it to her father's fevered ramblings. Anywhos. Helena sees her own death so she flees. Just as she's about to take a dirt nap (snow nap? It was snowing), Logan finds her near their camp and rescues her. They both have secrets but fall in love and have to learn to trust each other. The time comes that Helena has to the fate that she fled and Logan has his own demons to deal with. 
 This book was just so predictable. I suppose the best word would be formulaic. Considering the fact that Helena's visions added a touch of the supernatural, this shouldn't have been an issue. Yet even with that unusual twist thrown in, I was never really sucked in. In fact, I skimmed a few chapters in the middle. I reached a point where I knew exactly what the characters were going to say and how they would react to each other and it started to get old. 
 Like I said before, it wasn't a bad book, it was just so boring. I don't use that word a lot to describe books I review because I'm not the kind of person to really power through books that bore me. I made an exception here because I really enjoy this genre. Give me a protective hero, a bunch things like "dinna fash yerself" and "lass" and I'm in. Unfortunately, that was pretty much the only good thing about this book. 
 Logan and Helena had zero chemistry. None. Ziltch. Nada. It was very easy to believe that had they never met one another, they would have been happy with other people. Logan was very protective. Well, so were a bunch of the other men in the book. Logan was a gifted warrior. There were a lot of those. He was great, don't get me wrong, there just wasn't anything special about him. I wasn't really invested in their relationship and honestly, I wasn't even rooting for them to get together. The sex scenes were underwhelming and honestly, felt really out of place. For a man that was doing everything in his power to redeem himself, deflowering a virgin just didn't make sense. Especially considering the possible ramifications. 
 I probably won't read anything else from the series. My issues with this book were more writing-centric than plot. In fact, the plot was my favorite part. It was heavy on the history and I always enjoy learning about this time period. Unfortunately, there was a lot of telling instead of showing, which made the characters difficult to connect with or really care about. It just wasn't for me.