One thing she is clear about, though, is that her daddy is forever. Sure, her reaction isn’t completely unreasonable, as people in love can be such silly geese at times, but it doesn’t make for an interesting character or story. She doesn’t believe in love, but she wants him to love her, or maybe she doesn’t after all.

For a long time, she waffles and dawdles, often in a bitchy way, because she doesn’t know what she wants at all. He’s cute, he’s nice, and while he may not be the deepest pond in the county, he’s charming enough to be a hero of a story of this length.Īgnes, however, feels like a poorly drawn character. The rest of the story is basically a series of cut scenes from the longer story, as Felix and Agnes take what seems like forever to get married. I’m sure folks can imagine Agnes’s response to his proposal. Marrying her isn’t a bad idea at all, despite her lack of money. Or is that two-point-five base? I’m not good at keeping scores when it comes to these things, so I don’t know whether I’m supposed to cheer or cringe when our heroine bares her headlights for a polish or two while begging for a full body check-up.įelix believes that he should do the proper thing and marry Agnes, once he’s sober. Her story begins shortly before A Scot to the Heart, when she is reunited with her childhood friend Felix Duncan.Ī few drinks at a party turns this daddy’s girl into a give-it-to-me-daddy type she ends up going to second base with Felix.

Yes, I made it clear in my review of that other story that I don’t think much of Agnes St James, and even when she gets her own story here, she doesn’t succeed in elevating my opinion of her. Well, I’ve read that one and I’m not able to fully appreciate this one, sigh, but that’s because of the heroine.

It shares the main plot threads of that longer story (neighborhood break-ins), so I suspect that folks that have not read that longer story may not be able to fully appreciate this one. Oh well, I suppose my money is going to Jeff Bezos’s alimony payments, so it’s somewhat of a good cause.Īlso, this is described as a “companion novel” to Caroline Linden’s A Scot to the Heart, and yes, this story takes place shortly before and concurrently with that story. I have to pay for the print version instead, on top of shipping fees. I paid $7.99 for this because, even in the current year, I am not allowed to purchase the digital edition from Amazon. How the Scot Was Won costs $7.99, but note that this is not a full length novel, more of a series length-ish story.

A Scot to the Heart by Caroline Linden