Title: A Scottish Ferry TaleAuthor: Nancy Volkers
Genre: Romance, adult fiction
Publication: 2009
Source: For review, Chick Lit Plus Blog Tours
Summary: Cassie is a young and in love college student, visiting her boyfriend who is studying abroad in Scotland. When he breaks up with her almost immediately after her arrival, she has to get away. She boards a ferry to a small island off the coast of Scotland, and meets Ralph, an older Scottish man with whom she feels an instant connection. When she encounters him hours later at the Bed and Breakfast she checks into, it seems that fate is intervening somehow. Their connection grows deeper in a mere two days, and soon they are in love. Cassie, however, has never accepted true love into her life, and has always shut people out. Will she lose the love of her life over fear of the unknown, or will she find a way to make things right?
My Thoughts: What a charming and delightful love story! The setting in Scotland was amazingly vivid and desperately made me want to go visit. How I'd love to stay at that little island's bed and breakfast!
I really liked Cassie, despite her cynicism and the frustration it caused in me as a reader. I constantly felt like saying, "what are you doing?!" I could understand and grasp her fear and apprehension, though, and I felt that she made a strong narrator. Even better was Ralph, the lovely and charming Scotsman who sweeps her off her feet in just days. Can I have one, please?
The writing was beautiful and flowed quite nicely. The details and descriptions had a real way of drawing me into the story and making me feel like I was there myself, watching the waters off the shore and seeing all the crazy sheep.
This book was so romantic and features the kind of love that every girl dreams of. It was a true delight to read. I found myself constantly rooting for our heroine and her prince, despite the miles and years between them. There's just something about a good romance that puts a smile on your face and hope in your heart, and this book did just that for me. I am definitely looking forward to reading the sequel, Scotland by Starlight, which is out now.
My Rating: 4/5
I hadn't heard of this book but it's on my TBR list after reading your review. Thanks!
ReplyDeletethis sounds like the perfect book to be reading during the week of the romantic royal wedding!
ReplyDeleteSounds splendid. I love things set in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteI love books set in Scotland but if it wasn't for your review I never would have given this a second glance. The cover is horrible.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really good book! I will have to check it out!
ReplyDelete-Steph B.
Thanks for your review- glad you enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review, Steph!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard that the cover is horrible... ;-) But I guess it doesn't really convey "love story" as much as it conveys "sheep."
Great review :) I really liked this one too and am looking forward to the sequel!
ReplyDeleteI love the cover! The sheep are cute. And the story inside the cover is great-I have read this book more than once.
ReplyDeletethanks for highlighting this one! My Dad is from Scotland and I always look for books set there (there are surprisingly few of them outside of the bodice ripper genre).
ReplyDeleteThis book and its sequel are .99 cents at the Kindle store - I have already downloaded them!