My Immortal Protector by Jen Holling (2008, Paperback)

BACK OF BOOK SAYS:

A FIERY WITCH ABLE TO communicate with animals, deidra mackay longs to relinquish her powers they bring her nothing but misfortune and danger. so when she learns that years ago her ancestors signed a blood pact with a vampire cursing the mackay clan with witchcraft she presumes that a member of the undead can also take her magic away. so she embarks on a quest to find the one who can hopefully ease her misery.

an embittered and cripple scotsman stephen ross lives as a recluse hiding from the world in a dreary castle. but when the intriguing and adorable deidra arrives at his door hoping he is vampire and he is intoxicated and aroused by her company. he joins her on her journey hoping a vampires magic might also heal his wounds and soon finds himself enraptured in the heat of passion with deidra an affair that could both their lives at stake.

i will confess that i read to escape, i read for pleasure.
so when i read a book where the main character is supposed to be a doc dolittle type but ignores animals. it bothers me. when a starving animal walks up to her and begs for food and she ignores it, it bothers me. when one of the main characters is crippled and the other main character abandons that character in the middle of the forest, that bothers me.
when there is talk of burning witches at the stake it bothers me.

i will be honest i stopped reading this book at chapter 5.

and then i sneaked a peak at the ending and that really bothered me.
so i'm sorry i didn't like this book.