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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I picked up When a Scot Loves a Lady when I was trolling the library aisles for new historical romances authors and thought, “That name is familiar,” so I looked up Katharine Ashe’s books and grabbed the first in the series. As one does when armed with Goodreads on one’s phone and an appetite for historomance.
But I’m not exactly sure what happened in When a Scot Loves a Lady. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoyed reading the book. I even stayed up late to finish. But I often found myself confused by the hero and heroine as they often seemed to jump back and forth between their feelings toward the other and it was difficult to sort it all out.
Then there was Leam’s Scottish brogue. It wasn’t fun to read. At all. Oh, I’m sure he sounds wonderful and he does, indeed, give Kitty tingles of heat with that voice. But a lot of his lines required reading more than once to figure out exactly what he was said, and that’s never fun. If you have to read a sentence more than once to understand it, it’s not a good sentence.
But, you know, the book ended well, and that’s always a plus in its favor. Has anyone else read Katharine Ashe? What would you recommend?
But I’m not exactly sure what happened in When a Scot Loves a Lady. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoyed reading the book. I even stayed up late to finish. But I often found myself confused by the hero and heroine as they often seemed to jump back and forth between their feelings toward the other and it was difficult to sort it all out.
Then there was Leam’s Scottish brogue. It wasn’t fun to read. At all. Oh, I’m sure he sounds wonderful and he does, indeed, give Kitty tingles of heat with that voice. But a lot of his lines required reading more than once to figure out exactly what he was said, and that’s never fun. If you have to read a sentence more than once to understand it, it’s not a good sentence.
But, you know, the book ended well, and that’s always a plus in its favor. Has anyone else read Katharine Ashe? What would you recommend?
Alright before I start this review, I just have to rant a bit about something that has entirely to do with myself. Why is it that I continue to purchases books that I already have a copy of? Like why can't my mind latch on to the fact that I've already bought the book. Maybe it's because I have too many to keep count?
Anyway I started this book a few days ago, I immediately made a note of the fact that Kitty was not a virgin. Do you know what the ratio of virgins to non-virgins are in the romance genre? I mean from my experience it's pretty freaking high.
The second thing that caught my attentions was that Leam spoke in a Scottish accent. This caught my attention because I sort of have a thing about accents. When I'm listening to them they are perfectly lovely, but in print? I can't stand them because I have a hard time adjusting to the patterns. But I was soon appeased when it came that Leam could turn off his accent.
Kitty and Leam's relationship was sweet and it was passionate and though they had met three years previous and hadn't seen each other a day since until they met up in one of the shires I could believe the relationship.
But there was something about the book that I did not entirely love. It was perfectly fine, but I wasn't really excited to click to the next page. I don't know how to explain it, but that's how I felt.
But the book was still enjoyable, so I rate it three stars. Good, but something was missing for me personally.
Anyway I started this book a few days ago, I immediately made a note of the fact that Kitty was not a virgin. Do you know what the ratio of virgins to non-virgins are in the romance genre? I mean from my experience it's pretty freaking high.
The second thing that caught my attentions was that Leam spoke in a Scottish accent. This caught my attention because I sort of have a thing about accents. When I'm listening to them they are perfectly lovely, but in print? I can't stand them because I have a hard time adjusting to the patterns. But I was soon appeased when it came that Leam could turn off his accent.
Kitty and Leam's relationship was sweet and it was passionate and though they had met three years previous and hadn't seen each other a day since until they met up in one of the shires I could believe the relationship.
But there was something about the book that I did not entirely love. It was perfectly fine, but I wasn't really excited to click to the next page. I don't know how to explain it, but that's how I felt.
But the book was still enjoyable, so I rate it three stars. Good, but something was missing for me personally.
50 pages in, I wanted to hit myself. I stopped reading.
1. I have issues with the overuse of dialect. It doesn't bother me when it's one or two words, just to remind readers. It doesn't bother me when a secondary character goes hog wild, but I read romance to escape the headaches of being a post graduate history student reading philosophy and eighteenth century documents. I translate French and German for school. I'm not going to spend a great deal of time translating this author's inane idea of a heavy Scottish brogue.
2. The jumping around early on, from 1813 to 1816 was annoying. Was the brogue an affect? Because when he's talking with the ridiculous Falcon club, there's nothing. Every time he's around Kitty, you can't understand him.
3. Kitty is a moron. There's nothing remotely interesting about her in the first 50 pages. I'm supposed to feel sorry for her because she gave her Virtue (the author capitalized it like I'm supposed to be impressed) but there's no explanation of the event, just a statement, and then no information as to how the ton found out. She apparently gets him arrested for treason, but it's all explained in a paragraph. I'm not reading further than 50 pages to find out why a society chit has access to information apparently the government couldn't find.
4. If the reason we start in 1813 and then go to 1816 was to see the first meeting of Kitty and Leam, then perhaps the meeting should have been a little more damn interesting.
5. If this is the first book in the Falcon Club story, then this author is not particularly skilled at either setting up series or explaining what the hell this club is. I've read so many spy novels set in the Regency period, I think they're going to start bleeding out of my ears, and this is, hands down, the worst one I've ever read.
I put this book down at 50 pages. I never do that. Ever. But I'm not spending a day of my life reading such drivel. You don't get me in 50 pages, I'm not going to be hooked in. Slow starts are fine. Bad starts don't keep me going. As it is, I'm never getting back the hour I wasted.
Maybe it gets better. Who the hell knows? I'm never going to find out. Life is short, books cost money. I want mine back.
1. I have issues with the overuse of dialect. It doesn't bother me when it's one or two words, just to remind readers. It doesn't bother me when a secondary character goes hog wild, but I read romance to escape the headaches of being a post graduate history student reading philosophy and eighteenth century documents. I translate French and German for school. I'm not going to spend a great deal of time translating this author's inane idea of a heavy Scottish brogue.
2. The jumping around early on, from 1813 to 1816 was annoying. Was the brogue an affect? Because when he's talking with the ridiculous Falcon club, there's nothing. Every time he's around Kitty, you can't understand him.
3. Kitty is a moron. There's nothing remotely interesting about her in the first 50 pages. I'm supposed to feel sorry for her because she gave her Virtue (the author capitalized it like I'm supposed to be impressed) but there's no explanation of the event, just a statement, and then no information as to how the ton found out. She apparently gets him arrested for treason, but it's all explained in a paragraph. I'm not reading further than 50 pages to find out why a society chit has access to information apparently the government couldn't find.
4. If the reason we start in 1813 and then go to 1816 was to see the first meeting of Kitty and Leam, then perhaps the meeting should have been a little more damn interesting.
5. If this is the first book in the Falcon Club story, then this author is not particularly skilled at either setting up series or explaining what the hell this club is. I've read so many spy novels set in the Regency period, I think they're going to start bleeding out of my ears, and this is, hands down, the worst one I've ever read.
I put this book down at 50 pages. I never do that. Ever. But I'm not spending a day of my life reading such drivel. You don't get me in 50 pages, I'm not going to be hooked in. Slow starts are fine. Bad starts don't keep me going. As it is, I'm never getting back the hour I wasted.
Maybe it gets better. Who the hell knows? I'm never going to find out. Life is short, books cost money. I want mine back.
