Her Scottish Mistake by Michele de Winton

Title: Her Scottish Mistake

Author: Michele de Winton

Publication Date: April 10, 2017

Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC

Blurb I Created:

Janie is just looking for one last hoorah before she has to settle down in her tiny Texan town and take over the family business.  Thailand seemed like the perfect trip.  When she meets a handsome Scot she starts to wonder if a vacation fling isn’t just the memory to take back home with her.  What she doesn’t know if that her good-looking friend is really Blaine Galloway, popular Scottish television star, incognito.  Blaine is hiding from the paparazzi and his pretend fiancé for a spell until he can head back home a free man.  He has no intention of possibly ruining his life by being caught with a woman on his vacation.  But Janie isn’t the sort of woman he thought he’d be trying to avoid. She’s bright, and funny, and more innocent than he knows what to do with, but there’s something about her that makes it so he can’t stay away.

Review:

Are you heading on a vacation soon and need a funny novel to keep you entertained while you’re doing all your relaxing?  Then look no further.  Her Scottish Mistake by Michele de Winton is a delightful romantic comedy that will having you chuckling and wondering if maybe your life wouldn’t be better if you had a hot Scot in your life, too.

Romantic comedies aren’t really my go-to sub-genre of romance novels, but every once in awhile it’s nice to read something that’s got more laughs than drama.  I’m so used to reading romance novels with murder, mayhem, and mystery in them that it was enjoyable to read something that was more on the innocent side as far as problems go.  There will be no ‘edge of your seat’ moments or scenes that have you wanting to reach through the book and pummel a character (my personal favorite).  But I acknowledge that many people don’t like that type of novel.  Those people should read Her Scottish Mistake.

The book was an easy-breezy read which, in light of everyone going on in the world and on television and in our newspapers, was a delightful change of pace.  It’s the sort of book you could finish in one sitting if you had a couple hours and have a pleasant smile on your face the entire time (unless smiling during a book is something you prefer not to do, in which case look elsewhere).

I did feel that de Winton did a great job creating her characters and building their emotions, desires, and motivations.  Blaine and Janie are nicely rounded characters with positive and negative qualities.  This is good because who wants the perfect character inside their novel?  I always hate when there’s not a single thing about a character that has you groaning because there’s not a person out there without some irredeemable quality.  Plus, de Winton adds some fun quirks to the characters that really had them jumping off the page. 

If happy-go-lucky beach reads are what delight you, then I think this is a book you should add to your shelf or Kindle. I feel like there should honestly be a sub-genre of romance novels called “Plane Reads” and this would be top of that list!  Michele de Winton definitely has talent when it comes to creating stories and devilishly handsome characters.  For comparison, this book was like reading Debbie Macomber with wayyyyy more sex (like a lot). Grab a cocktail because Her Scottish Mistake comes out tomorrow, April 10^th.

Note: I received an Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review.