Review: I would've enjoyed this more if it would have been fleshed out more.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
Firstly, I do not love the title.But I love Scotland!All right, I’m going to dive right in. This wasn’t terrible, but it could have been a lot better. For one thing, the characters have feelings for each other way too fast. I can more or less understand her insta-lust/ (hello, sexy bare-chested Scot in a tartan), but I didn’t get why he instantly wanted to kiss her unless it was just because she was naked, which…not so romantic. Then following the insta-lust was insta-love, which also didn’t feel justified. Too soon.(Also, Claire-lass gets to be a really annoying name after you see it a couple dozen times. Why not just lass, or Claire, or switch it up? The combination just bugged me after a while.)There were other little nitpicks here and there—i.e. I get that you’re trying to be romantic/infatuated with this guy you’ve known for roughly a week, whose babies you want to have—bad idea, by the way—but how is a modern day woman with a fascination with history (presumably familiar with it enough to know there wasn’t so much modern medicine back in the day) excited at the thought of childbirth in 1672? If that doesn’t scare you, you might have a couple of screws loose—but I stopped making note of them since there’s really no need to list them.The gist of it is, I didn’t really enjoy this story all that much. This isn’t my first time travel romance, but it is the first one that felt so rushed. There’s so much you could delve into with time travel, things I expect given the time gap/the character’s curiosity/adjustment, and I didn’t get those things. As soon as the story started they fast forwarded a week? Why? There’s no reason for these two people to give a fig about each other aside from the obvious—if a time traveler pops up out of nowhere—from the past or future—you’re going to notice them. But that was it. On a personal level, there was no basis for this love story. Even by the end I just wasn’t invested in what happened to them/how their story was resolved.Perhaps it if would have been a full-fledged novel that would have been more fleshed out, I would have enjoyed it more, but I just felt this one wasn’t developed as much as I would have liked for it to be.