This book is basically everything I could have wanted from a contemporary m/m romance about a lonely Scottish sheep farmer recovering from loss and finding love again in the form of a mysterious late night trespasser.
Years after Nichol Seacliff escaped his family's sheep farm on the Isle of Arran for university and a career as a translator, he returns to help his grandfather run the farm after the death of his mother and brother in a bus crash. Still numb from grief, it takes a young man breaking into the barn one night to breathe some life back into him. Cameron stays on the farm to help Nichol and his grandfather through the lambing season, but he has secrets in his own past, of course.
This is the second book by this author I've read, and I find her style to be so incredibly readable. This story does basically exactly what you would think a book with this premise would do, but there's a depth to her writing that doesn't always go along with these stories. I can get frustrated with romance novels that focus on two people who seem to exist totally independent of any other real people in their lives except for each other, but in this case it works exactly the way I want it to. It's not revolutionary, and some of the plot twists and revelations go pretty hard on the melodrama, but it delivers just the way a book like this should. I mean it's gay sheep farmers finding love. I am in.
Grade: A
Years after Nichol Seacliff escaped his family's sheep farm on the Isle of Arran for university and a career as a translator, he returns to help his grandfather run the farm after the death of his mother and brother in a bus crash. Still numb from grief, it takes a young man breaking into the barn one night to breathe some life back into him. Cameron stays on the farm to help Nichol and his grandfather through the lambing season, but he has secrets in his own past, of course.
This is the second book by this author I've read, and I find her style to be so incredibly readable. This story does basically exactly what you would think a book with this premise would do, but there's a depth to her writing that doesn't always go along with these stories. I can get frustrated with romance novels that focus on two people who seem to exist totally independent of any other real people in their lives except for each other, but in this case it works exactly the way I want it to. It's not revolutionary, and some of the plot twists and revelations go pretty hard on the melodrama, but it delivers just the way a book like this should. I mean it's gay sheep farmers finding love. I am in.
Grade: A
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