Review: Well researched and constructed story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
Cowboys and Kilts is a short story so there isn’t a great deal of time to build a backstory for American rancher Hugh and Scottish Laird Graeme. Therefore, I was glad that I read that this story is the author’s response to a publisher call for a short story based on the way a tattoo played a role in a mm relationship. How she worked two tattoos into the story is nothing short of amazing.Then I read the dedication, in which the author discusses the petroglyphs of Nevada, the home state of the character Hugh, and the carved stones of the Picts in Scotland. Ms O’Quinn wove all of these together into a wonderful story of love of homeland and another man. There is a mystical element to the tattoos and stones that is at once thrilling and mysterious.Hugh and Graeme are like magnets, sometimes repelling each other, sometimes drawing one another in until they click. They have to figure out how to approach so they click instead of drive away.I was particularly happy to be reading this on my Kindle because it was so easy to look up words, terms, and historical facts with which I was unfamiliar. I learned a lot while I read this story. I also loved the sheet-scorching sex scenes Ms O’Quin writes.  This was a great story and I look forward to reading more by this talented author.