5 out
of 5 gnomes
Feeling
after Reading = Giddy with a side of happy :)
This was
a perfect holiday read and well a pretty great read for any time of the year.
Scotland
+ Winter time + a reality show + a wedding to prepare for = a heck of an
interesting ride.
The
writing and chemistry of all the characters is what really drew me in and kept
me reading. The familial dynamics felt true and the romantic chemistry was
really on point.
From the
title alone you can guesstimate more than a little bit about where the book is
going. But while reading even if you can guess what’s going to happen you don’t
care and are having too much fun reading and taking it all in to mind.
Quotes to Show You What You Can’t Miss:
* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
“You don’t
marry someone you just met. Did they not have Frozen in Scotland?”
“I was
not the type of person who did well left alone with her thoughts.”
“I was
happy I had finally warmed up but disturbed that I was so easy to kidnap.”
“It’s
heartwarming when it involves singing crabs. Say what you will about Walt
Disney, that man knew how to jazz up a real bummer of a story.”
“Hands of
a baby angel is creepier. Why is the angel a baby? Why is it touching me? Am I
dead? If the giant squid is touching me, I’d assume it was by accident. Like, I
swam into its space.”
“We were
getting good at having our own conversations outside of everyone else’s.”
“Ah,
“unusual,” the even less polite cousin of the bitchy “interesting.”
“I
considered it. But I also considered the possibility that you’re full of crap.”
“He
raised an eyebrow. Ugh. The jealousy continued. I wished I had better control
of my eyebrow muscles. Was that the kind of thing you could train for? At,
like, a face gym?”
“Yes, he
does, you twitchy li’l owl. It’s so obvious that even you must notice it, Miss
Never-Had-a-Boyfriend.”
“Maybe
you really could get high on life.”
“Damn
that Princess Bride-ing mofo!”
“He
wasn’t,” I hastened to explain as I scrambled over Jamie and out of the sleigh. “I mean, it was a
consensual ravishing.”
“Jane
Austen would have peed all over this date.” “That is a truly horrifying mental
image.”
“It was
at that moment I reached the horrifying
conclusion that my dad had absolutely no idea who I was.”
“In
America you can use anything as a verb!” I retorted shrilly, scrambling to my
feet. “You can verb whatever you want! Thank the goddamn Smurfs for that!”
“Don’t
judge a book by its pink cover,” I said smugly. “Now pony up.”
“So tall!
A real, proper-sized girl. And those cheekbones! She’s like a Roman statue!”
“His Royal Highness Prince Gillecroids
Edmund Alexander James,” he said heavily.”
