singerofstories 's review for:

Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year by Rochelle Bilow

4.25

lighthearted

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Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year was a charming romance novel about a main character who leaves the US with the intent of spending a year in Scotland, licking her wounds after her latest book proposal (for a cookbook) has been rejected. Ruby rents out a cozy cottage in a small village in return for helping out in the local pub kitchen and she is immediately taken in. There are nods to Outlander and travelling to Scotland to find a fine, handsome Scotsman even though Ruby has sworn off men. But of course, the town handyman catches her eye and--spoiler alert, but no surprise--her heart. There is more at stake though, as the pub is soon to be bought by a major company, thus putting her friends out of house and work. Ruby tries her best to meddle-without-meddling. At the end of the day, this was a sweet read about not just found family but found home-away-from-home. There was a third act breakup but it was very nicely redeemed and oof, those few scenes of spice were a bit unexpected! ((some like it SCOT, as they say!))