47. Some Like It Scot. Pepper Basham. 2025. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars, christian romance, contemporary Christian]
First sentence: I'd love to say I became famous because of my excellent writing skills.
Premise/plot: Katie Campbell is a travel writer for an international magazine, World on a Page. In her spare time when she's not having MISadventures, she is secretly writing a children's book series that is also about world adventures and traveling. She goes to Scotland to participate in a three-week cosplay of sorts for the Edwardian period. She meets a Scottish man, Graeme, who is of course the 'hot Scot' and the two go viral because of course they do. He is a carpenter hired on as a butler and extra dance partner.
Narration alternates between Katie and Graeme. Some scenes overlap and you get both perspectives.
My thoughts: Three stars is generous. Reading is subjective. What almost worked for me: the setting and some of the side characters, particularly Graeme's family and some of the villagers. What didn't work for me? The premise of this three-week 'Edwardian' experience. It came across to me like the author was confused at times as to what was Edwardian. Or maybe Katie was? But they kept slipping into a lot of Regency and Austen references. I also didn't particularly like the objectification of Graeme as the 'hot scot' and how she's essentially tagging a complete stranger on social media and 'using' him to go viral.
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