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May 08, 2010
This book was very hard to get into. I kept setting it down and then forcing myself to pick it up later. I should have just stopped reading it, but I paid for it and kept hoping it would turn around and I'd get my money's worth.
So the book opens with Patrick and Anne showing up for a meeting with Queen Victoria. They have a past together and while Patrick would like nothing better than to be together again, Anne is very bitter about the past. Queen Victoria charges them with travelin More...
So the book opens with Patrick and Anne showing up for a meeting with Queen Victoria. They have a past together and while Patrick would like nothing better than to be together again, Anne is very bitter about the past. Queen Victoria charges them with travelin More...
May 03, 2009
My first Jillian Hunter stand-alone, and while it fared better than the later Boscastle books, there were still some pretty big issues that kept me from really enjoying it. The first issue I had was the idea that Queen Victoria would have called the two protagonists together to solve a murder in the Highlands. OK, sure, QV was all big into the Highlands like tweens today are big into the Jonas Brothers, but come on. The death of a minor noble in the Highlands would not be cause for QV to call
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May 30, 2011
Some of the dialog was laugh-out-loud funny, but I couldn't get into either the love story or the mystery they're supposedly trying to solve. Too much suspension of disbelief required.
Sep 14, 2011
D read. The antagonism between the two main characters was irritating in chapter 2 but by chapter 9 it was just plain old. Couldn't even finish it.
Aug 02, 2011
Interesting read, takes place during queen Victoria's time. Two former lovers are forced by the Queen to look into a mystery in Scotland.
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