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When I first started to read this book, I felt Outlander vibes. Very faint but there nonetheless. Like Outlander, this book has a dual time line (in Outlander, it's time travel), in this one, it's a story within a story (one set in contemporary time and one set in 1708). The whole Jacobite thing connects them in my mind but there the similarities end. Our heroine, Carrie MacLelland is an author and she travels to Scotland for the christening of her agent's child. Enroute, she takes a detour and
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The book has an intriguing premise: can a fiction writer really see and feel an ancestor's experiences through genetic memory by being in the same places she experienced them? Carrie comes to Scotland doing research for her book on the 1708 Jacobite rebellion and starts to know Sophia's story and write it all down. She knows she's researched some of the basics, but she knows details about lives and it's uncanny how the details keep being proved correct. It's a great book that alternates between
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I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. I want to love it, & while I did, for the most part, there were a few things that left me wanting. Overall, I really liked it, & the longer I read, the more caught up in the story I was. The book is divided into two different, yet similar stories - one set in the present of a writer working on her current novel, while the second is the novel/account of the past. I found the "story within the story" fascinating & well written. I loved the characters
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What a disappointment! I've had this book on my shelf for several years, and finally the time seemed right for a historical fiction romance with a touch of the supernatural that promised to sweep me away to another time. Consider me unswept. The characters both in the present and in 1708 Scotland are thin as cardboard. Carrie is a modern-day historical fiction writer working on a story about the 1708 Jacobite uprising, which she's been working on in France because that's where the rebel Scots we
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