Monday, March 25, 2024

26. The Island Cottage by Jane Lovering

listened on Audible
250 pgs. (8:33)
2024
Adult British romance, very clean
Finished 3/24/24
Goodreads rating: 4.46
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary Orkney Islands

My comments: One of the slowest moving novels I've read in a while, there were absolutely no surprises or twists, you knew exactly what was going to happen.  Very close to boring, but the charm of the Orkney Islands and Magnus, the handsome male in the light romance allowed me to push my way through.

Goodreads synopsis:  When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative.

Her mother has inherited a cottage from her Great Aunt Jennet which has been unlived in and unloved for decades, and the time has come to make it habitable and saleable. Easy, right?

But Midness Cottage has other ideas. For one thing it’s rather more ‘fixer upper’ than Country Living, with a resident goose and her goslings who have made themselves at home. And Brid definitely hadn’t planned for the strongly-held local belief that the cottage is meant to be the home of the Orkney Witch, and whomever lives in it must fulfil this role. Not the best message for the estate agent brochure and of course Brid doesn’t believe in magic, let alone have healing powers.

But Orkney does have healing powers. Its beauty and peace are enchanting, its people welcoming, and Brid’s handsome new friend Magnus is rather charming too. When her life back in York starts calling her home, will Brid sell up and ship out? Or did the last Orkney Witch cast a spell and leave a legacy of love if only Brid believed in magic…

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