![]() The story gets a breath of fresh air when heroine (and assistant extraordinaire) Jane pops in at the beginning of the second chapter, and it gets even better once we start getting chapters from her POV. The first four chapters are from Michael’s POV alone, and this drags a wee bit. ![]() The Taming of a Scottish Princess opens in London, where Michael, just arrived back in England, is trying to secure funding for his next Egyptological expedition, and making a hash of the socially-aware role that this requires. The other books involve his sibling’s attempts to rescue him, each attempt coincidentally ending in marriage to an attractive Scotsman or – woman. Reading The Taming of a Scottish Princess was a bit like this – I had a good enough time, but I spent a lamentable amount of it wishing I had read the four previous novels in the series, and possibly also the five books in the related MacLean series, and the original novella.įrom what I understand from both this book and the cover copies of the other books, the hero of this story, Michael Hurst, has spent the rest of the books in the series imprisoned in the Middle East. ![]() It can be fun, but part of you is distracted by the need to work out the backstories and interrelationships of the other guests. ![]() Picking up the last book in a series without having read the earlier stories is a bit like showing up to a party populated by friends-of-friends. ![]()
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