Wishing for a Highlander Highland Wishes Volume 1 Jessi Gage 9781941239018 Books
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Single-and-pregnant museum worker Melanie voices an idle wish while examining a Scottish artifact, that a Highland warrior would sweep her off her feet and help her forget her cheating ex. The last thing she expects is for her wish to be granted. Magically transported to the middle of a clan skirmish in the sixteenth-century Highlands, she comes face to face with her kilted fantasy man.
Tall, handsome, and heir to his uncle's lairdship, Darcy Keith should be the most eligible bachelor in Ackergill. Instead, thanks to a prank played on him in his teenage years, he is known for being too large under his kilt to ever make a proper husband. "Big Darcy" runs his deceased father's windmills and lives alone at his family manor, believing he will never marry.
But a strangely dressed woman he rescues from a clan skirmish makes him long for more. When the woman's claims of coming to Ackergill by magic reach the laird's ears, she is accused of witchcraft. Darcy determines to protect her any way he can, even if it means binding her to him forever.
Wishing for a Highlander Highland Wishes Volume 1 Jessi Gage 9781941239018 Books
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Wishing for a Highlander Highland Wishes Volume 1 Jessi Gage 9781941239018 Books Reviews
This is the first time-travel book I have read. I didn't think I would like it, but I enjoy stories about Scotland, so I read it. I was most pleasantly surprised when I found myself loving this book. Melanie was a wonderfully sweet yet strong character, and I loved the way she always spoke her mind. Darcy was such a kind and loving man, that I would have married him myself if I didn't already have a husband. This book was a great example of literature full of escapism, and I loved losing myself in this story every time I turned a page. Great job!
I would give this more stars just for the light, fun read. However, there are jarring mistakes that are like a slap to the face. i.e. Melanie is supposed to be a history teacher of the time period she's transported to, yet doesn't know the basics of women in that time. Then, when writing a history piece and trying to use the old words, please, please look up the meanings!! "the box was made 25 years anon"....Anon means right away, immediately....should have used "the box was made 25 years hence"...for 'later'.....small details like lanterns vs. candles....or elaborate bedrooms and furniture. (nothing was permanent, it was all portable. so, unbelievable in the story)
As a first try, this is pretty good. I would offer, if you're going to write a period piece, educate yourself on the period you will be writing about.
If you're a fan of the time travel/Scottish Lord/romance genre, then this is a book you will most likely enjoy reading, and feel that you've not wasted your time in doing so.
What woman hasn't fantasized at some point about a tall, good looking man, maybe one in a kilt, or perhaps going back in time and being lady of the manor in a fine gown with servants attending to every need? What if it happened, though? Really happened, out of the blue, when you were just being a bit silly, and not trying to do anything on purpose? What if it hadn't been carefully planned, and you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a bloody skirmish between clans, and suddenly had to make a life or death decision - your life, and someone else's death?
Jessi Gage has done a pretty fine job on this one, in my opinion. The characters are as believable as any would be in a novel of this kind the hero is properly tall, good looking, delighted to have saved the life of a mysterious beautiful young woman who is already preggers, and will be more than happy to continue risking his own life to save hers. She, eventually realizing that a) she can't go back anyway; b) this is a really hunky guy; c) the baby daddy was a jerk in any case; handily falls in love with the man who cares for her. That is only the beginning of their troubles.
The quality of the writing is more than satisfactory, and I can see that care was taken with editing and proofreading. I'd give it four and a half stars if I could. The only reason it's not five, well, you know, there's that certain spark I just didn't feel. But,I've already read it a second time. So go ahead and get it. Read it, and enjoy the ride!
I read lots of good books. Lots of non-fiction. Today, I’m reading Toynbee’s A Study of History. It has characters who figured long ago in far away places with strange sounding names. Judas Maccabaeus. Bar Kokaba. Mithradates, King of Pontus. Spartacus. There is a lot in history that parallels what we are currently experiencing that I find interesting.
My fiction choices range from LitFic (Toni Morrison, Umberto Eco, Virginia Woolf, etc.), through MythFic (Tolkien, Rowling, Kay), to SciFi/Fan (Outlander, The Expanse, Vampires, Werewolves, and Anything by Bernard Cornwell).
What I don’t read – never did, really – are out and out Romance. Bodice Rippers. Manly Men and Buxom Beauties. Never having been buxom, I didn't relate.
And then I decided, on a whim, to read the first of Jesse Gage’s (USA TODAY) best seller series, Highland Wishes, titled appropriately enough Wishing for a Highlander. Even the title made me feel a little curdled. If I was reading it on a beach, I’d probably hide it in a copy of The New Yorker. I’m just that kind of arrogant. Not that I’m proud of it or anything. Serves me right, then, to bury my arrogance in a Bodice Ripper.
I met Jessi Gage in my Seattle Writer’s group, Writers’ Cramp, and critiqued the book that I think will turn out to be Volume 2 of Highland Wishes, which I will read before the year is out. Jessi is charming, funny, and as buxom as her heroine, who is also charming and funny and whose bodice does get ripped, but not by the hero. The hero runs the bodice-ripper through in a most satisfying way, and the book is off to the races.
I enjoyed the bloody hell out of it. Did it smack a little too much of Gabaldon? Yes. There’s time travel. Were there cliched plot twists? Of course. This is a genre book, and genre books need to give the reader what they have come to expect. What is delightful about Wishing for a Highlander is how much over the top Gage goes – things you wished that Gabaldon had put in, Jessi puts in and it’s fun (what did the Tinkers do with the car, Jessi?). There is a mystery to be solved by series’ end, I hope. And in the meantime, you just read yourself into a mythical medieval Scotland that never was but should have been.
And all the while you are in this never-never land, you have not given whatsisname a single, solitary thought, and when you drift off to sleep, you drift off with a dream already tucked inside. Ya know, The New Yorker has never, ever done that for me.
The story was going ok until the part where the car dropped out of the sky and the main character (hero) got in and started driving, how utterly ridiculous, well my 12 year old might think something like that was cool, but me it’s utter nonsense
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