So a woman who's been sequestered to an Abbey for 10 years and is a devote believer in G-d and all things good and pure her Mother Serenity taught her is really a hot tempered, blood thirsty brazen woman who wishes her clan's enemies be eaten by a pack of wolves and bleed to death with no reservations? And doesn't think twice about hurling insults or attacking anyone? Really?? Uh huh... 
 The characterization of the heroine was so jarringly contradictory, unrealistic and mishandled IMO. Her personality and actions made no sense given the environment she grew up in. I had issues wrapping my mind around how a former nun could be so angry, hostile and argumentative like Mairin is 80% of this book. Like red-in-the-face-hollering-body-shaking angry. Not cute. There's being rebellious then there's just being idiotically difficult for the sake of being difficult. Very contradicting and made no sense. This girl needed some serious anger management therapy. Too bad the McCabe clan didn't offer that service. LOL. 
 Also didn't care for Ewen and his overbearing heavy-handed attitude. It was too much and made him come off like an insufferable jerk rather than a concerned protective husband. I found him one-dimensional in many ways. And the couple's incessant bickering and squabbling I didn't find funny but tiring and obnoxious.