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Remembering Jamie by Nichole Van
5.0
As the final book of the Brotherhood of the Black Tartan series, this was a beautiful way to finish.
At the end of Making a Marquess you get to see the temperature of things between Jamie (Eilidh) and Kieran, and they are not anywhere near warm. We start the book in much the same way.
Eilidh Fyffe is missing her memories from a full year of her life, six years prior. She remembers the death of her brother and father, but after that, very little. She doesn't know how she ended up being found in the ocean, half way around the word.
Kieran MacTavish had given up hope that Jamie had survived the wreck of The Minerva. Jamie, his wife, was lost to him, and their babe as well. But when there are survivors found, his hope can't help but bloom. When they find out that Jamie (Eilidh Fyffe) was alive, he goes to find her, only to see that she has no memory- of him, their love, or their handfasting. But Kieran is not going to give up after all these years and fights to ignite that same light between them. If only Eilidh would let him.
Crippled with grief and fear for what she may remember, she is reluctant to recapture those memories. When Kieran tells Eilidh about their handfasting, she has to answer some hard questions. Does she want a life with the intriguing and alluring Kieran, or a simple life she had always imagined she would have. As Nichole writes so well, "Is your love still your love if the person they once were no longer exists?"
I have enjoyed all of the Brotherhood of the Black Tartan books, but this one had some wonderful moments that grabbed my heart. I was captured instantly. The love that Kieran has for Eilidh is pure and beautiful. He loves her enough as both Jamie and Eilidh to let her decide what she wants. Eilidh is a deep complex person. She doesn't remember this person that Kieran says she is, she doesn't want to know. As she tries to remember those moments, she is gripped with fear and it rips her apart.
Nichole writes in her author notes about her decision to have Eilidh/Jamie lose her memory. I am so grateful for the path she took. Instead of a more medical memory loss from injury, I appreciated the take on PTSD. Eilidh definitely had those signs of PTSD from the deaths of many people in her life in such a short span of time. I don't want to spoil a big plot point, but I do feel that there could be some triggers for some people, so I will put that below, but not go into detail. With the sensitive topics this book brings up, Nichole handles it with such love and care.
If you have read any of the other books in this series, don't miss out on this one. It is a special one, and a satisfying conclusion to the full story (that full story being Jamie).
*Content warnings:
-PTSD and memory recovery
-Miscarrage
At the end of Making a Marquess you get to see the temperature of things between Jamie (Eilidh) and Kieran, and they are not anywhere near warm. We start the book in much the same way.
Eilidh Fyffe is missing her memories from a full year of her life, six years prior. She remembers the death of her brother and father, but after that, very little. She doesn't know how she ended up being found in the ocean, half way around the word.
Kieran MacTavish had given up hope that Jamie had survived the wreck of The Minerva. Jamie, his wife, was lost to him, and their babe as well. But when there are survivors found, his hope can't help but bloom. When they find out that Jamie (Eilidh Fyffe) was alive, he goes to find her, only to see that she has no memory- of him, their love, or their handfasting. But Kieran is not going to give up after all these years and fights to ignite that same light between them. If only Eilidh would let him.
Crippled with grief and fear for what she may remember, she is reluctant to recapture those memories. When Kieran tells Eilidh about their handfasting, she has to answer some hard questions. Does she want a life with the intriguing and alluring Kieran, or a simple life she had always imagined she would have. As Nichole writes so well, "Is your love still your love if the person they once were no longer exists?"
I have enjoyed all of the Brotherhood of the Black Tartan books, but this one had some wonderful moments that grabbed my heart. I was captured instantly. The love that Kieran has for Eilidh is pure and beautiful. He loves her enough as both Jamie and Eilidh to let her decide what she wants. Eilidh is a deep complex person. She doesn't remember this person that Kieran says she is, she doesn't want to know. As she tries to remember those moments, she is gripped with fear and it rips her apart.
Nichole writes in her author notes about her decision to have Eilidh/Jamie lose her memory. I am so grateful for the path she took. Instead of a more medical memory loss from injury, I appreciated the take on PTSD. Eilidh definitely had those signs of PTSD from the deaths of many people in her life in such a short span of time. I don't want to spoil a big plot point, but I do feel that there could be some triggers for some people, so I will put that below, but not go into detail. With the sensitive topics this book brings up, Nichole handles it with such love and care.
If you have read any of the other books in this series, don't miss out on this one. It is a special one, and a satisfying conclusion to the full story (that full story being Jamie).
*Content warnings:
-PTSD and memory recovery
-Miscarrage