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Somewhere My Lass (2000)

by Beth Trissel(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Romance

series

Somewhere in Time

review 1: This is definitely one of those books that you need to suspend disbelief to enjoy. I am the type of reader who enjoys to be entertained, and I try to not nitpick about inconsistencies. Since this is a story that deals with time travel, that says it all, doesn't it? In 2009, Neil Mackenzie returns home to find the door ajar to his home in Staunton Virginia. He finds his dear housekeeper, Mrs. Dannon, slain at the entryway of his Victorian home! Stranger still, a young woman with fiery red hair and old time Scottish garb, was knocked out on the stairs! He figured she must be the niece Mrs. Dannon was expecting to visit from Scotland. With the help of his friend Fergus, a tech genius, and Fergus' mother, who is a seer, Neil discovers that this very sheltered Mora Cam... morepbell might actually be from another time, as she came in through a door that leads no where, and she warns them that the great Scots warrior The MacDonald is coming after him! With Fergus' gadgets out of a Star Trek episode, and portents that he must go back and find his ancestor Niall Mackenzie, whom he resembles as if he is a twin, to save him from certain death, Neil still finds the time to fall for this fiery tempered Scottish lass!For me, this was a fun, escapist, romantic time travel adventure. Even though they never told Mora what time she ended up in, her POV lets you know that she knows she's not in Scotland anymore. This was actually a quick read, and the story seemed to wrap up a little quickly as it came to the climax, but I was okay with that. I was in the right frame of mind for this type of story, and will definitely look for more in this series!
review 2: 1.5 stars. One MC in this time-travel romance is a 16-17th-century Scott, so her speech is understandably strange. The others are supposed to be from modern-day Virginia; they have no excuse. I had no patience for the dialogue or the story line; it all seemed rather silly and insipid to me. For one, it's never really explained to Mora that's she's in 21st century, or about our technology or that she doesn't need to be concerned about witchcraft. When the all-knowing psychic sends the party back to 1602, there should be no reason that they aren't properly prepared or clothed or armed. There are a few so-not-hot kisses and as for sex, it only happens once and is G-rated. The book is also unrelentingly repetitive. You start a conversation you can't even finish it. You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything. When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once, why say it again? Psycho Killer, Qu'est Que C'est. Oh, sorry - I got distracted there for a moment.There are a few humorous lost-in-translation bits with the juxtaposition of modern vs. ancient. Also, the ending is pretty exciting. All in all though, I can't recommend it; I can hardly believe I finished it. I guess I'm just not cut out for these kind of badly written romance novels. less

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