Friday, October 14, 2011

Some Like It Kilted by Allie Mackay

9780451228932My Opinion Might Not Be Yours but I didn't really like this book as a matter of fact it was all I could do to finish the book. I've read a couple of books by Allie MacKay before and they were pretty good but this one just wasn't getting it for me. The book seemed to be all over the place, it would start to get good and then it would go off on a whole other aspect to the story. It was almost like reading the first rough draft of a story, there were lots of good ideas but it didn't have any structure or flow to it. I also was not feeling the romance or the fantasy/paranormal aspect, it wasn't really there, almost like it was just out of reach. A hint and that was it. I liked the ghosts, Scottish ghosts at that, but they seemed to be the only well developed part of the book. I liked the small amount of humor in the book and the cover of the book was pretty nice too, but that was it. I don't know that I would recommend this book to anyone except maybe a Scotophile who will read any and everything that has to do with Scotland. Of course even they might not feel the book was worth the time. 

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5 comments:

  1. Woooo hooooo! You hit 50 lady!!! I love an honest review and I felt this way about the last Allie MacKay book I read. I felt it was too cutsie or maybe trying to do too much. It just lacked something. Good call.

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  2. Hooray! *happy dance* Glad you like the review, I agree it just didn't seem to have "it".

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  3. I really hate when this happens with a book, hope your next one is better, thanks for the review

    Lainy http://www.alwaysreading.net

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  4. As a Scottish 'lass' myself this sounds like a bit of a let-down :-/

    ...Great cover though!

    Honest review, cheers for the heads up

    TToria
    xo

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