Dacula Patch Book Club: Horror, Romance and Regrets in This Week’s Selections

During my last trip to the Hamilton Mill library, I checked out several new books hoping to have better luck than I did on the previous visit. Overall, I would say this week’s selections are an improvement, but given how bad the previous set was that isn’t saying much.

Anyway, here are my mini-reviews of what I read this week. Please let me know what you have been reading this past week -- good and bad -- by posting a comment below or sharing your thoughts in a blog.

“Some Like It Scot” by Donna Kauffman – Verdict: Pleasantly diverting. I passed by this book several times on various trips to the library before I finally gave in and checked it out. The plot is, even for a romance novel, ridiculous. A handsome, charming, rich Scotsman has to find a bride from another clan by a certain date in order to fulfill the terms of a 400-year-old marriage pact through which he is currently allowed to be the “laird” of a Scottish island. My Alabama-born eyes kept wanting to read that as “lard,” which is of course very different from what a laird actually is. Anyway, our handsome Scotsman heads to the U.S. of A. to track down a descendant of the appropriate clan and convince her to marry him. Naturally, it all works out and ends happily ever after as romance novels are wont to do. What made this novel refreshing was how honest the two main characters were with each other. You get so used to all the beating around the bush that typically transpires in these type novels, that it is actually surprising when both parties admit their attraction almost immediately. It was a fun read despite the somewhat weird parts involving visions of their past life together (parts which I suspect were some kind of homage to “The Outlander,” but am not sure since I’ve yet to read that book). By the way, if you are familiar with the song “The Scotsman,” I promise you’ll be humming it as you read this book. I’m pretty sure this Scotsman would be a blue-ribbon prize winner -- at least he would be the way I have him painted in my mind.

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