Date published February 2008
ISBN 978-0-425-21899-0
Medieval Romance/Time-Travel
Mass Market Paperback
Reviewed by Danny
During a stroll through the Scottish Highlands, Lily Hamlin discovers a stone maze in which she soon is lost and feels a sudden quaking of the earth. She looses her consciousness and when she awakens she finds herself in the year 1654. Ewen Cameron discovers her wounded and helps her to make sense of her current situation; it seems that she is part of a prediction. No matter that there is the threat on an eminent war which endangers their lives they grow and grow closer to each other.
MASTER OF THE HIGHLANDS has all of the elements that a good romance and especially a good time-travel have. There is a good action, interesting characters, a blossoming love story, sensuality and funny moments. Ms. Wolff has such a descriptive telling voice that you get the feeling that you become part of the story.
The cast of characters play also an important part in making this book a good story. Ewen is the typical example of today’s view of a Scottish chieftain in the 17th century. Lily is a sweet and funny person, but lonely before she met Ewen. They really need each other to finally find happiness.
It’s interesting to see that Ms. Wolff used a maze as the way of time-travelling and not the usual stone circle, that’s what sets this book a little apart from the other Scottish time-travel romance. She tries to set her story apart and is successful with it. In my opinion she delivered a good debut novel with MASTER OF THE HIGHLANDS and I am looking forward to see with what she comes up next.
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