Anita Gordon

I won this book through the GoodReads first reads programme.

What is it about time travel romances, really? Is there something more appealing about older values, the ideals of the past and the fascinating world it was? Perhaps, but that's overlooking the fact that human nature is irrevocably human nature. This isn't the sort of book that I would typically pick up and read...

Nevertheless, I admire [a:Kathleen Kirkwood|210560|Kathleen Kirkwood|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1332456121p2/210560.jpg] for her attention to detail with the historical aspects of the novel. She did a marvelous job of capturing the shifting syntaxes of Victorian speech and, well, Scots. She did a good job of highlighting the appealing nature of the past without romanticizing it overly much. In particular, I liked how she actually showcased just how advanced people where in the late 1400s. Barbarians? Hardly.

While this book wasn't to my taste, I loved the history. This is a historical romance that is a great bit more respectable than I expected this genre to be.

Also, points for using real Scottish Gaelic. So many points.… (meer)

I really enjoyed this book! It's a bit of a different take, time travel not from present to past, but from past to further past. And in the Scottish Highlands, with a hulking highlander in the midst of it. I was able to predict the ending, for that matter most of it was fairly predictable, but comfortably so. If it had been different, I wouldn't have liked it as well! Four stars because there were places the language was a bit difficult to follow in places, either formal or dialect, but overall I'd recommend this.… (meer)