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🎧AUDIOBOOK REVIEW 🎧

Thank you NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for the audio ARC

I did love the audio! The narrators did a great job embodying the characters. It flowed nicely and I loved their voices.

The story tho was a little juvenile for me. Katie was cute but I just had a hard time connecting. I know Piper is a Christian writer since I’ve read several books by her. I just felt like this story could have been told in half the pages. Want a bad book just wasn’t a book for me.

I was not able to get this in regular ebook, only audio. Otherwise it looks really cute and I appreciate the early read. Thank you to Netgalley and I Hope to read it soon!

•𝐀𝐋𝐂 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰•

“𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐.”

{𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗜𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁}

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Release date: April 8, 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Surprisingly enough, this was my first ever read by Pepper Basham and it certainly did not disappoint! As soon as I started reading, I could tell that I loved her writing style. It instantly pulled me into the story and kept me highly entertained until the end! Pepper’s talent with descriptive writing painted such a vivid picture of beautiful Scotland in my mind’s eye.

This book had some of my favorite tropes including a grumpy/sunshine trope that was absolute perfection! I loved that the FMC was not your average, petite character but rather 6’ tall and “well-built” 🤭 The fact that Graeme was able to make her feel small was the best! The meet-cute was one of the best meet-cutes I’ve read in a while; it really showed off the main character’s personalities to a T 😂

Katie didn’t have a place she considered home and traveling the world for a job certainly didn’t help matters. When she arrives in Scotland and falls instantly in love with the raw beauty of the country and possibly a local Scotsman, could she possibly begin to consider setting down roots? Katie’s life has had its fair share of pain and quite a bit more than its fair share of mishaps, or misadventures as she dubs them. Can she finally find peace and healing in the beautiful country of Scotland? Can she possibly trust someone enough with her brokenness and choose to stay with them?

Graeme was the perfect counterpart for vivacious Katie, with all of her wildness and misadventures. His was a calm and easygoing life now made a bit more wild by a certain redheaded American, but he was able to be that strong and secure presence she needed in her life. Graeme had his fair share of hurts and pain over the years as well and I love that they were able to finally find some semblance of healing together ♥️

This book showed such real and raw relationships of people with God. It’s one of those stories you can easily relate to because you’ve been through similar struggles. I love how the characters made such an effort to truly seek God and make Him an active part of their lives.

This book was breathtakingly beautiful ♥️ It gave off Tea With Elephants by Robin Jones Gunn vibes 🥹 I highlighted so many beautiful quotes in this book!

“𝙽𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚛, 𝚢𝚘𝚞’𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝.

“𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎. 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗. 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑.”

“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜.”

“𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝙺𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎. 𝙶𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘.”

The audiobook of this story was phenomenal! The narrator for Graham was superb and really brought him to life!
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I received a complimentary advanced audiobook copy of this book from NetGalley, Thomas Nelson Fiction, and Zondervan Fiction Audio. All opinions listed are purely my own.