Forged in Dreams and Magick by Kat Bastion – a Review

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Description:
Isobel MacInnes wakes up in present-day California, lunches in medieval Scotland, and by ten days’ end, falls in love with a man and his country, only to lose them in a heart-wrenching twist of fate . . .

Found in the arms of her second soul mate . . .

Forced to balance the delicate strands of time between two millennia . . .

Shocked by revelations rewriting the very foundations of history . . . of everything.

Isobel, a rising-star archaeology student, is dropped into two ancient worlds without warning . . . or her permission. Her fiery spirit resists the dependency thrust upon her. Amid frustration at her lack of control, she helplessly falls in love. Twice.

She struggles to adjust to the unimaginable demands of two leaders of men—a laird in the thirteenth-century Highlands and a Pict chieftain in a more ancient Scotland. Isobel transforms from an academic, hell-bent on obtaining archaeological recognition, to a woman striving to care for those she loves, and ultimately . . . into a fearless warrior risking everything to protect them.

Review:

Isobel MacInnes is an archaeology student that finds an amazingly ornate box after she veers off the road to avoid a flock of sheep.  She was excited because she thought she had found something that would propel her archaeology career to new heights.  Little did she know that she would be propelled into another time and place.  Twice. 

While Isobel was at the archaeology department, waiting to show her professor the box, she met her Highlander friend there, Iain Brodie.  Ohhhh what a man.  Isobel was so attracted to him she could hardly stand it.  She had invited him to the department so she could show him the box she found.  She thought he might know information about it because the box had the same symbols that she had seen Iain wear on his Scottish plaid. One minute they are discussing the box, the next he is kissing her.  Their hands accidentally touch the box and they both get transported to thirteenth century Scotland. 

WOW. I need to find a magical box like that……..just sayin’. 

Considering that Isobel just got poofed into another time and place, she actually handles the news really well.  Iain knows a lot about the magical, time traveling box but he doesn’t reveal what he knows right away.  He tells her the box has the power to help the lairds of his clan (Iain is a laird of his clan, by the way) find their soul mate.  Time travel. Thirteenth Century Scotland.  Soul mated with a sexy Scottish Highlander.  Hmmm.  Interesting. 

Isobel spends the next days absorbing all about Iain, his clan and his castle. She falls for Iain and loves being with his family in Scotland.  They marry and Isobel feels like she has found her home.  So you know what that means???  Time to mess things up!  Isobel touches the box again and gets zapped through time and wakes up still in Scotland but during the ancient reign of the Picts.  A loooong time ago.  No Iain. 

She meets Velloc and in the beginning she resisted him but eventually she fell in love with him.  Apparently the box poofed her to Velloc’s time to be HIS soul mate.  Isobel is in love with two men.  She doesn’t want to choose between the two but she doesn’t even know if she can get back to Iain, but she has to try.  Ok, that’s all I’m saying about the story, I don’t want to give too much away.  Now here’s my review of the book.

I love Highlander stories.  Hunky men, soul mates, forever love……every young girl’s dream.  The time traveling made the story really interesting. I’ve read other Highlander books where the Highlander time travels or has lived for centuries, but never where the heroine gets to time travel. The most unusual part was Isobel having two soul mates.  It’s such an unexpected element and it made me realize that I had no idea what to expect as I turned each page.  Isobel is a strong character and handled traveling through time like a champ.  She’s tough and she fights for her men. The writing is so descriptive, Kat made it very easy to picture the scenes as I was reading.  This was a great story that I enjoyed very much.  Who does Isobel end up with?  You’ll have to read and find out!

Reviewed by Tricia

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