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adventurous
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
In America, we are following Lieutenant Carter Porter, who seems to be always is in the wrong place at the wrong time, if we considered also his alcoholism, we'll think, as the police, that he is involved in several crimes: a late-night break-in at the United States Naval Academy, and several murders in the United States and Scotland. At some point in the story, he received a letter from a Scottish inn, discovered that someone paid off a first-class ticket to Scotland and decided to book a room at that same inn to try to figure it out how this stranger knew about his late father belongings in an unknown safe deposit box, while his career future is falling apart.
In Scotland, we are following Hassie Douglass, a teen who works in the Scottish inn from where the letter to Carter was sent and whose grandfather is very ill. In one of her usual walks at the shores of Loch Ness near the inn, she found four old gold coins in the Loch while praying for help to find a way to get her grandpa access to private care.
During this adventure story, we witness how Hassie and Carter fates join while trying to escape from a well-armed group of Russian mercenaries who are looking for the Jacobite treasure lost so many years ago.
In this book you will find a group of people trying to solve an ancient mystery against the clock, with a lovely coming of age ending, and maybe a time loop?
Regarding the audiobook itself, congratulations to the narrator for her success on the many different accents to differentiate each character (British, Scottish, Russian and American English).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Cancer, Gun violence, and Violence
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