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Riveted from the start, I struggled to put this book down. An expert storyteller, Ms. Preston has succeeded in interweaving the internal and external conflicts of her protagonists—Caitlin and Bern—amid the challenging and often frightening aspects of daily life in rural medieval Scotland. A departure from her previous novels, the Time Tumble Series has started on a very high note.
Snowflakes in Summer is hard to put down! Wow! this romance is filled with history, time travel, action, and suspense. I love the pace of the novel and how true feelings and emotions are conveyed through characters of two completely different times and cultures. I will be reading Preston's next book!
I enjoy time travel stories because I like seeing how modern day would people cope with life in the past. Really liked all the detail, made the story more gritty and real. A worthwhile read
👍4.5🌟stars 🌄 ⏳Time travel, 💜romance and Scotland go together really well in this story of modern girl Caitlin and her medieval hunk of a Highlander Bern. Well-written, with a good pace, some thrill of battle and danger, and a glimpse into the hardships of daily life in rural medieval Scotland when the Viking invasions are winding down and before the age of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. I thought the modern heroine's reactions to the lack of hygiene and health care in medieval times was realistic. Not too much angst but enough to inspire my sympathies for Bern, who suffers uncertainty about his ability to keep his odd but beautiful Caitlin from leaving him. The poor guy, used to being in control of his clan, finds Caitlin a sweet enigma with a vocal mind of her own. Not too racy, but the couple do have their moments...😉. And, a plus for me, the Highland dialect is present but not overdone so the conversations are easy to read and understand.
I read a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest review.
Caitlin, a modern Scot, finds herself thrust back in time to 1263 where things are NOT up to par for this modern woman. Never mind the fact that she's not fitting in well (and really doesn't want to) but she's also caught the attention of not one but two powerful men.
I love time travel because it's always fun to see how the author can make a person out of time feel really lost and this was no exception. I also like Highlander stories because anything is possible in the wilds of Scotland. But no one ever said 1263 was a good year for a modern woman and this was no exception. Characters were well developed, although I thought Caitlin was too much a modern woman (it's surprising she wasn't burned at the stake a couple of times). Still there was romance, twists and turns and battles while she's trying desperately to return to her own time and Bern is determined to keep her. Period. (I voluntarily reviewed an ARC).
I voluntarily read an arc of this book for an honest review. Wow what an emotional roller coaster, it was so good! This book is so different from other time traveling books I’ve read. Caitlin is an extra in a movie being filmed at Doral Castle. She gets tired and decides to lie down, next thing she knows she’s whooshed back in time to 1263 Scotland! She can’t believe it. This has to be a mistake. Is she still on the movie set? This can’t be real. There she meets Bern, Laird of Tor Castle. He’s immediately taken with her but she’s dressed as a Viking and Scotland is at war with them. This book will keep you interested and desperate to know if she’s able to get home. After being in medieval Scotland for months with Bern and meeting all the castle folk and peasants will she be able to go? This book has romance, adventure and tough times to be dealt with. The biggest thing you’ll come away with though is love. It was so good!
In general, I'm a fan of Highland romance and time travel romance, which is what inspired me to choose this book. However, I didn't find this particular spin on those two subgenres to be particularly appealing. I felt like I could understand Caitlin more before she was whisked away on her adventure to medieval Scotland. Some scenes seemed to be taken right out of Outlander, like Caitlin tending to a man’s wounds. The romance fell flat for me, probably because they fell into a sexual relationship very fast. The alternative viewpoints between Caitlin and Bern revealed him to be relatively simple minded and two dimensional. Just because someone is from medieval times doesn't mean that they're incapable of complexity, especially for a laird who is involved in difficult power struggles.
I found the language to be stilted in many places; the book didn't read naturally for me. At times, it felt like to me that the author was trying to mimic Outlander’s Jamie’s speech patterns for Burn. The author made some strange word choices, and for one in particular, I wondered if it was truly a word that a Scot would have said back then. The numerous sex scenes were often written in ways that made me cringe at the words chosen. There are many issues with grammar, punctuation, and usage. Commas seem to be particularly problematic.
With the popularity of Outlander, time travel Highlander romance has become a trendy subgenre of romance. There are some good ones out there, but this did not impress me as one of them.
I received a free copy of this book, but this did not affect my review.
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