I really wanted to enjoy this book, from the very start I was sucked in to the world and loved reading about Scotland during that time. However, we then get given the “mystery” and it kinda derailed the book. We would have pages and pages of details about the time period and Sarah’s life and then a few sentences about the mystery, then back on to her life.

I think about 3/4 of the way through the book and we still hasn’t learnt anything more from the very start. When the ending came it was a shock as it was so random but it all wrapped up too quickly for it to have any impact.

I will say I did enjoy the writing, as I’ve said the descriptions of the time period are amazing and you can tell the author has really done her homework on this. However, as a mystery novel…yeah no. It’s too slow, nothing really happens and it just drags the story down

3/5 - a slow mystery