Review: Does really deliver what's promised
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
Look, there is good story in here. As is though, the book is something of a mess. Based on the description and comments I was expecting something along the lines of "The Griswold's inherit a Scottish village" or a John Candy movie set in Scotland. Comedy, cutout characters, scheming bad guys and a competition where the everyman triumphs in the end. All of those elements are there but there's nothing holding them together. I was left feeling like I'd completed enough of a jigsaw puzzle to see what it was supposed to be and then I ran out of pieces. All the big elements are there but the threads that hold the story together are very thin.Also, the book devolved pretty quickly into straight slapstick. It avoids that as the book goes on but I almost quit reading early on because of it.The story needs a good editor, not a line editor. I'd take a longer version of it if it were really well put together.