Review: Not Bad
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
This is an interesting story about an upper-class English lady who meets a Scot while on the run from freeing some Scottish prisoners at her castle from execution and eventually falls in love with him. While other readers have mentioned grammatical errors and other issues, I felt that they did not really detract from the interesting story between Jacqueline Renold and Ewan MacKinnon. On the one hand, you have a courageous and plucky heroine who cannot stand to see any human being get mistreated and risks her own life and way of life to save some prisoners that she has never met. On the other, you've got a handsome Scot with great fighting skills who also has a decent personality and heart who does his best to protect Jacqueline from harm and capture, even though that is the last thing that he wanted to do in the beginning; he only seeks to do what is right which is protect the innocent.Some things did bother me, besides the grammer a bit: the story seemed a bit stilted and disjointed at times which does not provide a smooth transition for certain scenes with the conversation being a bit off. Jacqueline and Ewan also seemed to have fallen in love too quick and almost, towards the end of the book, it felt like the story was being rushed a bit.Overall, I think, the premise of the story is a winning one which makes readers like myself ignore some of the grammatical errors, stilted and awkward conversations in the book and the almost unrealistic time in which the couple falls in love. Escape To The Highlands would be a fiver or a sixer, in terms of stars, once those issues get fixed. Other than that, the book was not too bad.