This one didn't take as long for me to read as the last one, mainly because I played lazy today after I got home from my doctor's appointment and read until about 4:30 p.m. EST. A Thistle in the Mist - Megan Denby for me, was a quick read. As most know or you may have figured out I am a big romance fan. I will read just about anything that is romance. It also has to be a page turner too. It can make me cry all it wants as long as it keeps me interested the whole way through the book.
What really irks me is when I think a book is going to push right on through, but in the beginning it lags and all it makes me want to do is toss the book and never touch it again. A lot of times I will trudge through those crappy beginnings and finish just because I want to know what happens. A Thistle in the Mist was not like that though.
It is actually a historical romance taking place in 1808 and 1809, maybe 1810 in the last chapter or so, in Scotland as well as Canada.
It starts out with a lassie name Meara. Her mother falls down the stone stairs dies from a bad head injury. Her father goes into a grief state of shock. Her sister morns deeply as well, but not like the father. Diedre, their supposed aunt then tells Meara that she has married their father so they have a mother. The father starts to become ill. Like he is being poisoned or medicated. Meara brings a doctor and confirms something isn't right, but can't say what. Meara decides she will take her father away from the prying of her supposed aunt and uncle who live under the same roof. When she wakes the morning to take him away he is gone and only her aunt Diedre and uncle Sloan knows where he is.
Meara then secretly marries her childhood playmate, Duncan. He is in the Scotland military and is training to fight against Napoleon, that is if he had decided to take Spain. Which he did and Duncan was sent off to war and was only suppose to be gone for a month and he said he would be back to take Meara and her sister Hannah to his home.
6 weeks after he takes leave Meara finds she carries Duncan bairn.
To find out what happens to these 2 loves, if Duncan comes back from war, if Meara survives through childbirth, what really is going in behind closed door? You will need to read for yerself A Thistle in the Mist by Megan Denby. I got my download copy at amazon.com for my kindle. I downloaded mine for free when it was available, I just check only a minute ago and so far it is still free. If you decide not to download it now then it could go back to being $2.99 for the download. You could also get it in paperback at $11.52 from amazon.com.
If you would like to know this author more you can drop by her website at www.megandenby.com. You can email her at writeherewaiting@gmail.com. She has a blog notyouaveragelassie.blogspot.ca. I haven't located a Twitter handle, but then I haven't checked out her website or blog yet. She does have a Facebook though. facebook.com/AuthorMegan.
I want to thank you for reading. I appreciate anyone who take a few moments to read whatever they can. I figure if I am interested in a book there maybe someone out they may not know about and I need share it so they know what is good in our own opinions. Might I remind you this is my own opinion about the books I read. I may or may not like a book, but that doesn't mean that has to make you like or not like the same things I read. You can sit there and say "Hey she liked it, so maybe I will like it" and that will get you to at least start it. If you think you might like and read it to find you do or don't like and wish to share your opinion with me I will not judge you. I ask in return you do not judge what I read. If like a book that you don't that becomes our own personal opinion about the book, but don't be harsh about those who like a book that you do not. Everyone likes something different. We all do not like the same things.
Before I forget if you like this book then keep watch for the next which will be out in August of 2013 called Lost to the Mist - Megan Denby. Meara is in that one as well.
Thank you for reading. Post any comments, questions, and even recommendations on some good reads!
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