I agree about the unbalanced-feeling of this book, as well as the extreme unconvincingness of the twist ending about Olivia. I actually quite liked how the 'forbidden love' thing with her and Ian was set up—it's not just 'oh no, Campbells BAD', her (adoptive) father actually commanded the soldiers who killed Ian's brother at Culloden, that's a pretty understandable reason to have second thoughts about marrying someone... but apparently it's all fine if he's not her biological father, never mind that he still raised her and she probably still loves him as a father, no complications here!