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yasminwooldridge's review against another edition
2.0
Robbie Burns in this came off as far too naive and almost childish in his lack of awareness of just about everything. I note that low Scottish isn't the author's strong suit or much in the way of research about Burns. Due to ill health as a child it's unlikely that Burns could have been half as spry as the character in this book is. He falls around in water and comes out dry and not in the least impacted by the water he sploshes around in and the token rain fall near the end.
otherwyrld's review against another edition
3.0
This was was something of an oddity, in that it is a mash-up in the vein of books like [b:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter|7108001|Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|Seth Grahame-Smith|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1291165397s/7108001.jpg|6596168], which takes an historical person and put them into some kind of supernatural setting. It works - just about - because [a:Robert Burns|75831|Robert Burns|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1209473267p2/75831.jpg] would have been surrounded by the supernatural in 18th Century Scotland, and it is just conceivable that he might have encountered something unworldly that led to some of his most famous poems. That his muse might turn out to be a red-haired female witch hunter is darkly amusing, and altogether this was a fun story, if a little slight.
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