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A review by woodsybookworm
Kilt Trip by Alexandra Kiley
adventurous
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Addie is a tour guide consultant hired to assist The Heart of the Highlands tours, a Scottish family run tour led by Logan Sutherland. The Heart need help and lots of it. Its website is dated, it ignores the main tourist attractions, and most of the brothers have left the company for other ventures.
But to Logan the tours are about more than gift shops and photo ops, the Heart is about history and meaningful connections. Can these two vastly different people create the best tour Scotland has ever seen and maybe find love on the way?
This book has one of my least favorite tropes used not once but twice - miscommunication (liar's reveal). Addie lies about her identity at the beginning of the book, which starts off the enemies to lovers trope, and then lies again (about a different element) consistently for the remainder of the novel.
I feel like enemies to lovers could have been utilized without bringing in the miscommunication trope and the third act liar's reveal is always rough to read.
I was hoping for a quick, Hallmark-esque, fun and cozy read about a travel agent falling in love with a man and a country but this book is much heavier (Addie speaks frequently on grief and loss) and lengthier than I expected. It wasn't for me but I'm sure it's a good read for someone else.
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC copy of this novel.
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC copy of this novel.
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent