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Blue Bells of Scotland Blue Bells Trilogy Book One Laura Vosika 9780984215102 Books

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Blue Bells of Scotland Blue Bells Trilogy Book One Laura Vosika 9780984215102 Books

Shawn is a character you love to hate. His only redeeming factor is an astounding musical talent that has brought him fame and fortune. It’s a wonder that Amy, the girlfriend he constantly cheats on, remains faithful to him because she sees potential that no one else can imagine. I was beginning to think I didn’t like the story until the author introduced Niall.

Seven hundred years earlier, Niall Campbell, who looks exactly like Shawn, prepares for war with England. He’s promised to Allene, the Laird’s daughter, and is as loyal as they come.

When the unthinkable happens, and they switch places in time, both men are confronted with a new reality. Will it change them? Will Shawn’s selfishness ruin Niall’s chances with Allene? Will Niall’s faith and integrity spoil everything for Shawn when he returns to Amy?

Laura Vosika gives the reader an entirely new perspective of the times we live in through Niall’s eyes, and brings 1300’s Scotland to vibrant, colorful life. Traditional Scottish music permeates both worlds. Shawn’s trombone and Niall’s harp weave history together in rousing, lovely melodies.

The author’s ability to seamlessly move from Shawn’s adventures to Niall’s is, in itself, like listening to two movements woven throughout one musical composition. Caught in unimaginably difficult circumstances, Niall actively pursues returning to his own time to change the course of history. Shawn’s acting skills help him survive as he comes to grip with the truth about himself. Do they manage to switch places again?

This is a well-written, well-researched story with a surprise ending that left me eager for the next book in the Blue Bells trilogy.


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Blue Bells of Scotland Blue Bells Trilogy Book One Laura Vosika 9780984215102 Books Reviews

This book had an interesting enough premise-- and coming fresh from reading several Susanna Kearsley books I was hoping to keep the historical time travel ball rolling. Unfortunately, this book feels as though it needed a serious round of editing. Not so much proof reading or line editing-- but someone to say that repeating the same ideas over and over again is tedious, redundant, and insulting to the reader. I don't need a character's personality explained to me 10 times-- in fact its better to not explain it at all. Show me what he's like through his actions and dialogue. And while it is believable that a person would show a certain level of incredulity upon discovering that they have traveled through time, having, not one, but two characters, incessantly thinking about how impossible it is and refusing to believe it despite abundant evidence is not enjoyable to read and not helpful to the story. I found the characters unlikable and their constant state of emotional overdrive annoying. I rather wish I had spent my $2.99 elsewhere.
Selfish and self centered...full of arrogance and charm. Shawn Kleiner is simply full of himself. He's a suave and debonaire cheat and a smooth talking liar. He's the full blown center of his own talented existence. He has everything, and he has nothing.

Niall Campbell...loyal and courageous. Sometimes headstrong and overly confident. A gentle man and a Highland Warrior. He's next in line to be Laird of Glenmirril. And he's living in the year 1314.

This story was such an original, adventurous delight. In a nutshell, self centered, arrogant Shawn Kleiner travels back approximately 700 years in time. Niall Campbell travels to the twenty-first century future at the same moment. These two characters are identical in appearance, but their persona's are as opposite as night and day. This is a story of each man trapped in the wrong era and their struggles to accept, adapt and deal with the horrifying nightmare which ensues, while trying to get back to their own time. Shawn struggles to survive - - Niall struggles to change history (The Battle of the Pools/Bannockburn) while coping with the shame and embarrassment of being mistaken as the scoundrel, Shawn.

What both of these characters deal with, and at first assume (in way of explanation of their predicament) is sometimes hilarious, even though frightening to imagine. Shawn at first assumes he's landed in the middle of an authentic re-enactment of living history before he begins to doubt and fear. Niall thinks he's captured by the English in an elaborate, confusing "ruse" to gain secrets and information from him, before he beings to doubt that theory. He of course cannot fathom where he is or whom he is suddenly living among. He begins to realize the English do not have wonders such as he was seeing.

I found this story magnificent in how this Author weaves authentic history within her fictitious characters and plot. There are several deep, profound tacit messages within these chapters that I found very sobering. The story is so very well developed with no loose threads. A solid effort with close attention to each detail. There was nothing flimsy or disjointed about this plot. A delightful adventure, and I anxiously close my review in order to move on to the next story of this amazing Trilogy...The Minstrel Boy (The Blue Bells Chronicles) Cheers!
Shawn is a character you love to hate. His only redeeming factor is an astounding musical talent that has brought him fame and fortune. It’s a wonder that Amy, the girlfriend he constantly cheats on, remains faithful to him because she sees potential that no one else can imagine. I was beginning to think I didn’t like the story until the author introduced Niall.

Seven hundred years earlier, Niall Campbell, who looks exactly like Shawn, prepares for war with England. He’s promised to Allene, the Laird’s daughter, and is as loyal as they come.

When the unthinkable happens, and they switch places in time, both men are confronted with a new reality. Will it change them? Will Shawn’s selfishness ruin Niall’s chances with Allene? Will Niall’s faith and integrity spoil everything for Shawn when he returns to Amy?

Laura Vosika gives the reader an entirely new perspective of the times we live in through Niall’s eyes, and brings 1300’s Scotland to vibrant, colorful life. Traditional Scottish music permeates both worlds. Shawn’s trombone and Niall’s harp weave history together in rousing, lovely melodies.

The author’s ability to seamlessly move from Shawn’s adventures to Niall’s is, in itself, like listening to two movements woven throughout one musical composition. Caught in unimaginably difficult circumstances, Niall actively pursues returning to his own time to change the course of history. Shawn’s acting skills help him survive as he comes to grip with the truth about himself. Do they manage to switch places again?

This is a well-written, well-researched story with a surprise ending that left me eager for the next book in the Blue Bells trilogy.