{"id":160,"date":"2022-08-23T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T02:03:48","slug":"a-secret-scottish-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"A Secret Scottish Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7845881.Julie_Shackman\">Julie Shackman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2021<br><strong>ISBN:\u00a0<\/strong>9780008455774<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Scotland\u2019s sleepiest hamlet becomes the centre of hot gossip, Layla Devlin finds herself caught in a mystery\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Layla\u2019s fianc\u00e9e has an unexpected heart attack and dies \u2013 in another woman\u2019s arms, no less \u2013 Layla is determined to pack up and leave Loch Harris, the village she\u2019s always called home. But an unexpected inheritance and love for her quiet corner of Scotland send her down a new path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Layla finds herself facing a whole new kind of drama. Rumours swirl that a celebrity has moved into Coorie Cottage and Layla is determined to have him headline her opening night at local music venue The Conch Club. But the reclusive star is equally determined to thwart Layla\u2019s efforts. Rafe Buchanan is in hiding for a reason, and soon his past comes to Loch Harris to haunt him\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Review: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book annoyed me for quite a few chapters, I have never read this author before and whilst her writing is very easy to read it seem a little too simple and predictable from the outset. It improved as I moved through the chapters but it is still predictable. I got the feeling that everything was thrown at us in the first few chapters with no anticipation . It came across to me like a child wanting to know all the detail straight away and been given and then it disappointment.<br>I have read other reviews on this author and would like to try one of her other books to see how it compares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Shackman August 2021ISBN:\u00a09780008455774 About: When Scotland\u2019s sleepiest hamlet becomes the centre of hot gossip, Layla Devlin finds herself caught in a mystery\u2026 When Layla\u2019s fianc\u00e9e has an unexpected heart attack and dies \u2013 in another woman\u2019s arms, no less \u2013 Layla is determined to pack up and leave Loch Harris, the village she\u2019s always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}