Reviews

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

enur's review against another edition

1.0

Bitmesi hakkındaki en iyi şey olan o kitaplardan biriydi. İşte fiziksel kütüphanemden bir kitap daha okundu olarak işaretlenmiş oldu.

Yalnız büyümüş Lillian bir dükün vesayeti altına giriyor. Ama o dük ve ondan sonraki dükler de ölünce sıradaki 17. kişi Alec dük oluyor ve Lillian'ın vasisi oluyor. Neymiş 24 yaşındaki Lillian evlenene kadar düklük himayesindeymiş. Ama dükün Lily'den haberi yok. Lily'de yalnızlıktan ona ilgi gösteren ilk erkeğe aşık olup nü portresini çizdiriyor. Ama meğerse sevgilisinin onunla evlenme niyeti yokmuş, üstelik porteyi sadece kendisi bakmak için değil, kraliyet sergisiyle dünyayı gezsin diye çizmiş. 10 gün sonra herkes portreyi görecek. Düke haber salınıyor, senin vesayetinde bir kız var, büyük skandala karıştı koş yetiş diye. Dük geliyor, bunlar kavga etmeye başlıyor. Kız kaçmak istiyor, Alec kaçmayacaksın evleneceksin diyor. Çünkü 1834 yılındaki lordlar alt sınıftan nü portresi kıtaları gezecek kadınla kesin evlenir, evlenince de bu skandal ortadan kalkmış olur fsdsd Şu soruna bulunan çözüme bak. Bunlar daha çok kavga ediyor, sonra tabloyu çalmayı akıl ediyorlar. Sevişiyorlar. Adam bu süreçte ben sana layık değilim değilimmm diye kendini paralıyor.

Sonra SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: kızı terk ediyor, kız da bunun üzerine bir aydınlanma yaşıyor ve tabloyu geri koyuyor. "Benim bedenim, utanmayacağım. Çizen utansın." diyor. Kızın adı yüzlerce yıl hatırlanacakmış, ressamınki hatırlanmayacakmış. Alec de sen bu kadar cesursan ben seni terk edemem diyor. VAYY BE.

Yazara akıl fikir diliyorum.

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, Abandonment, Classism, Bullying, Cursing, and Sexism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

threegoodrats's review

4.0

My review is here.

aprilalwayswithabook's review against another edition

4.0

Sarah MacLean's historical fiction is the first historical fiction I ever loved, and still my favorite. My only true qualm with this book is the whole martyrdom of "I love you but I don't deserve you!" "No, I love you but don't deserve you!" Martyrdom is obnoxious. But I love Sarah's writing even when I wanted to smack the characters.

melli_sophie's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book. When a book makes me cry, love and forget that there's an end to reach because the journey is so entertaining, I can't but give it 5 Stars. Only thing I would critique was the lack of grovelling on his side. She really deserved it.

whimsicalmeerkat's review

5.0

Utterly, throughly, wholly brilliant. I seriously considered revising all of my ratings of every other Sarah MacLean book I have read downwards just to put this clearly at the top.

ellie_klemm's review

emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

ksaeng's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

friendofgosig's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

2.75

This was not a great example of this genre. The set up was clunky, the back storys were boring, and I did not believe the characters feelings for each other. Their motivations made no sense, and neither did the resolution. The caricature of Scotland was very cringe. He wanted to see the spray of the Firth of Forth in her face for gods sake.

I am finding MacLeans books more miss than hit at the moment, and this was an excellent example of how not to write a historical romance.

nothingforpomegranted's review against another edition

3.0

This has not been my favorite of Sarah’s books, and I think part of it is that I started reading it immediately after finishing the first one. Too much, too fast. in addition, I just don’t feel that connected to the characters in this one. I think that the plot was really clever. Lily was a different kind of heroin, and the fact that she had posed for a nude and had a former lover, was really unique, entertaining to unexpected, especially the revelation that he worked as an informal sex worker, in addition to his disdain for the aristocracy throughout the novel. what I was less impressed via was their chemistry. Don’t think that it seem that into each other and I’m always skeptical of the super brief timelines and romance novels, but this just seemed bizarre. They didn’t have any interactions seem to indicate falling in love and all of a sudden, they just loved each other and refused to let each other. I’m actually a bit surprised that one was because a protective and neck and that persona but it’s just wasn’t so much for me. I finished it. I’m excited to read the book, but I’m going to take a little break before I jump right into it.