🎧 Book Review: Journey to Bongary Spring by Kasey Stockton

4⭐
Genre ~ historical romance
Series ~Myths of Moraigh Trilogy #1
Setting ~ Scotland, 1743
Publication date ~ book ~ August 30, 2021, audio ~ November 4, 2022
Est Page Count ~ 248 (26 chapters)
Audio length ~ 6 hours 22 minutes
Narrator ~ Diane Brooks
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ unrequited love, marriage of convenience, revenge, no steamage

My review:

I just recently enjoyed Kacey’s book Beachy Keen, so when I saw this as a hoopla bonus borrow I figured I’d give it a whirl, even though HF is not my typical genre.

Isobel has always loved Kieran, but she’s supposed to marry Miles. Is there a way for her to get over her feelings and do what her chief has asked of her? We’ll find out when she sneaks out to a special well that is supposed to cure her of lovesickness. But seeing Kieran on her journey puts quite a damper on her plans.

I don’t know anything about the time period or Scotland, so I can only assume it was researched and written properly.

Overall, I enjoyed it and now I’m pretty much committed and will probably have to listen to the rest of the series to see what’s in store for these two.

Series notes:
The books are not stand-alone novels and must be read in order for full comprehension, but each novel has its own satisfying love story.

Narration notes:
She did fine with her almost perfect Scottish accent. Why not perfect? Because she doesn’t say “aye” with oomph like Jamie Fraser. Speaking of, it would have been lovely if he narrated the male parts.

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Book blurb:

He only has eyes for revenge, and she only has eyes for him.

Isobel McEwan has been beholden to her chief for eight years—ever since he took her in and gave her a home after her parents died. So when he asks her to marry a rival laird to aid the clans in finding peace, she has little choice but to agree to his request. The only problem: she’s desperately in love with another man.

To free herself from the burden of unrequited love before entering into a marriage of convenience, Isobel devises a plan to journey to the healing well that has helped so many others, certain that if she can drink from its spring, she will be healed from her lovesickness for Kieran and prepared to marry the rival laird. But her chief will never willingly let her go, so she must sneak out in the dead of night and cross through dangerous lands alone.

After watching a rival clan kill his father in an ambush, Kieran Buchanan’s only ambition in life is to see them pay for what they did. Biding his time until he can accomplish his goal, Kieran dedicates his life to helping his uncle’s clan train and defend themselves. He’s sworn fealty to his uncle, so when the man asks him to track down Isobel and bring her home, he complies.

With the man she loves close on her tail, Isobel must hurry to the spring if she has any hope of callusing her heart against him. But what can she do when he catches up to her on enemy territory?

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