In Scot and Bothered, Alexandra Kiley’s follow-up to 2024’s Kilt Trip, we meet Brooke Sinclair, who left the University of Edinburgh under a cloud seven years earlier and has only recently returned. She’s co-writing a memoir for her dear friend and erstwhile mentor, Mhairi McCallister, who founded the Skye Trail, a famous and gruelling eighty-…
Laura Frantz has a solid grasp of history, and her inspirational historical romances are always enjoyable, even when they’re not perfect. The Indigo Heiress is at the high end of her oeuvre even with a few minor stumbles along the way. Juliet Catesby is a Virginia heiress whose life ought to be all satin and…
I love going through AAR’s Best of Lists since I am always guaranteed to find some great books. Thanks to Maria Rose’s list, my most recent discovery is the A Rip Through Time series starring Detective Mallory Atkinson and mortician and crime solver Dr. Duncan Gray. MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh…
On Circus Lane is the prequel to 2020’s Merry Measure, in which the central romance unfolded against the backdrop of a trip to Amsterdam in order to celebrate the engagement of Tom Wright (older brother of primary school teacher Arlo) and his boyfriend, Bee Bannister. Readers were captivated by the pair – so obviously happy…
With Halloween coming up, this month’s TBR Challenge theme is “Spooky (Gothic)”. I tried a couple of old gothics from my TBR, but neither of them stuck. So, I went in the direction of a darker-than-usual historical novel from an author whose historical romances I’ve enjoyed in the past. In a way, I would definitely…
Fantastically rich and deeply moving, A Wild and Heavenly Place is a love story about finding yourself and the place you truly belong – even if it means crossing an ocean to get there. Hailey MacIntyre is a Scottish high society girl and Samuel Fiddes is an orphaned tenement boy raising his little sister alone,…
Do Your Worst is Rosie Danan at her sparkling best. Ancient curses, American expats, mysticism versus reality – this book has it all, and it wraps it up in a spirited, fun-loving package. A couple of things kept this bubbling under a flat-out A for me, but it’s still a great read and a definite…
Using Power Search, it seems that there have been no reviews of Lizzie Lamb’s books at AAR. That’s a surprise. She is a buried treasure in my view who deserves some attention. Her newest book, Dark Highland Skies, was particularly poignant for me because one of the central themes is bereavement and how one deals…
It feels so unnatural to say I found the latest Julie Garwood novel to be just meh… three-stars on a scale of five, just okay … because Julie Garwood is the author who solidified my love of the whole romance genre. But the latest installment of her Buchanan-Renard series, Grace Under Fire, just didn’t have…
The Christmas Bookshop is a sweet, holiday offering about a woman finding the place she was always meant to be. It is loosely tied to Jenny Colgan’s Kirrinfief series and fans familiar with those volumes will recognize some of the characters – and plot motifs – from those books in this narrative. You don’t have…
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