Guest review by Dee
TITLE: The Keeper’s Daughter 
AUTHOR: Susan X Meagher
PUBLISHER: Brisk Press
LENGTH: 523 pages
Release Date: February 12, 2019
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Sometimes you just have to get away.
Even the best job can slowly drain your battery. When Gillian Lindsay realizes it’s time for a recharge, she impetuously decides to visit Scotland.
Knowing nothing about the country, she schedules a tour of Edinburgh Castle for the day she arrives, just to get the lay of the land.
After spending the afternoon with Torie Gunn, her very able tour guide, Gillian proposes hiring her for a week-long trip across the country.
Torie’s astonished. Gillian has done no research, and has no plans, placidly asking Torie to come up with an itinerary. That seems like the ideal way to create an unsatisfied customer. But Gillian certainly seems like a very easygoing person, and earning a week’s pay merely talking sounds like a dream. Torie jumps in, hoping she can satisfy Gillian’s desires.
Over the course of their trip, other, more romantic desires spring to life. Will they be satisfied too?
REVIEW:
I’ve read a number of Susan’s books, and have come to expect them to be long. Most of the time, that’s a good thing. However, this story was a long, slow, slog for me.
The first half felt like sitting in class taking a history lesson on Scotland. Not so much the scenery, but every ‘foreign’ word is explained in excruciating detail, often more than once. I love learning new words when reading books set in other countries, but at times I felt drip-fed, like the author didn’t trust her readers enough to figure out a thing or two for themselves.
So we have two heroines who meet when Gillian makes a trip to Scotland to learn about her ancestry. Over the week she is there, tour guide come bar tender, Torie acts as a chaperone and they form a bond. The trip comes to an end and they remain in touch, maintaining a long distance friendship. I say friendship as at that point, Torie encourages Gillian to date other people.
There’s some sex in this story but most of it is fade to black. In this instance, that was a good thing. The leads are so awkward around each other, it made the intimate scenes equally as awkward to read.
There are a few side characters but no one memorable.
I’m giving this book 3 stars due to being well written and edited, and because I believe it will definitely appeal to a number of readers.
If you enjoy lengthy books with languid pacing, give this one a shot.
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