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Snowbound With A Stranger
Far from spending a cosy Christmas with her highflying boyfriend the arrogant Douglas, aspiring actress Megan finds herself snowbound in a cottage in the beautiful but frozen Highlands of Scotland. Prepared to wait until the snow melts, Megan is surprised by a knock on the door by the handsome Jamie, also stranded in the snowy wilderness. With little in the way of Christmas treats to share between them, they survive and prosper with Jamie's wit and Megan's creativity. But come the melting of the ice and a return to the real world, will they find a way to continue the fun they shared in each other's company?
Also available on Amazon by bestselling author Patricia Keyson: THE MAGIC TOUCH, HOLIDAY ROMANCE, and SUZI LEARNS TO LOVE AGAIN.
152 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 6, 2013
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May 19, 2014
oh this book was awful!!! The writing was so immature. I felt like Megan had no personality. It was so weird how when she was on the phone we only heard her side of a conversation like on a movie. LAME! I really had to force myself to read this one. Ugh. Sometimes when a book has low reviews I try to give it a shot and usually like it. Not this time. This book was missing something. I think it was because she kept saying "oh you are so funny." But if he was really funny we wouldn't have been needed to be told that. Also they were so mean to each other. Well mostly her. She was cruel!
December 24, 2013
From the blurb I thought the story sounded intriguing and a perfect Christmas read. I ended up a little disappointed. I finished it because I hardly ever leave books unfinished, but I couldn't feel a connection with the characters. I felt the story dragged a lot from the moment Megan left the cottage until the end. I didn't like all the pushing and pulling for no particular reason other than not talking to each other and telling how they felt. The part in the cottage was okay, although I couldn't just feel the connection, but after Megan leaves I couldn't stand the way she and Jamie acted. One minute they were friends, then they didn't speak to each other for months. It was confusing. I couldn't understand why Jamie didn't keep in touch but then when he saw Megan he was all cute and cuddly. I felt some parts didn't really bring much to the story itself and only dragged it along towards the end.
I also felt the end was a little too rushed. They had barely spoken to each other and a minute later they were talking about forever.
I'm sorry I cannot rate this book higher, but it just didn't hook me.
The good thing was that it's a clean romance. Glad I got it as a freebie.
I also felt the end was a little too rushed. They had barely spoken to each other and a minute later they were talking about forever.
I'm sorry I cannot rate this book higher, but it just didn't hook me.
The good thing was that it's a clean romance. Glad I got it as a freebie.
December 9, 2013
I received this book free as part of an Amazon UK promotion.
It isn't very often that I can't bring myself to finish a book but I admit this one has me stumped and if I'm completely honest, I'm not even sure WHY I can't finish it. Perhaps it is the constant mood swings of the main female. Or the complete lack of chemistry between the two. Or maybe it's hearing repeatedly how little there is to eat but what they're going to eat anyway.
I have been looking forward to this and it is currently a 4.4 star rating on Amazon UK and 3.19 on Goodreads. I'm sorry, I know that others have enjoyed this book and said that it is a perfect winter romance but there is too much whinging and not enough chemistry to make this 'romance' a keeper or even a reader for me.
It isn't very often that I can't bring myself to finish a book but I admit this one has me stumped and if I'm completely honest, I'm not even sure WHY I can't finish it. Perhaps it is the constant mood swings of the main female. Or the complete lack of chemistry between the two. Or maybe it's hearing repeatedly how little there is to eat but what they're going to eat anyway.
I have been looking forward to this and it is currently a 4.4 star rating on Amazon UK and 3.19 on Goodreads. I'm sorry, I know that others have enjoyed this book and said that it is a perfect winter romance but there is too much whinging and not enough chemistry to make this 'romance' a keeper or even a reader for me.
December 6, 2013
Another free Amazon book. I thought it was kinda cute for most of the book. It jumped right into them meeting, their adorable experiences stranded in the cottage but then they left and there was nothing's no connection, heaps of misunderstandings, and then WHAM they want marriage and babies and you get the end of the book in the last 3 pages. Wtf? Uh. Definitely left something to be desired on that ending. Maybe the writer should have evened it out a bit, less ignoring or missing each other and more meat in her ending... Blah.
July 4, 2020
Always a happy ending
A tale of
A girl who has been broken by a love gone bad. She keeps doubting herself as she discovers a love that leaves her with so many unanswered feelings. Readers keep thinking ...just tell him she loves him and get on to the happy part.
A tale of
A girl who has been broken by a love gone bad. She keeps doubting herself as she discovers a love that leaves her with so many unanswered feelings. Readers keep thinking ...just tell him she loves him and get on to the happy part.
January 16, 2021
The plot itself is good, but the first half of the story lacked any depth with the characters and flittered from one part to the next. Also very frustrating how unlikely it all is too.
February 10, 2014
What can I say, I really wanted to like this book but I just couldn't get past a few things. In reading this book the writing felt sketchy and rushed. Scenes didn't feel played out enough to move the story along smoothly. Now as I said in my introduction I don't give spoilers but I think I can use this part of the book as an example of what I am talking about without it being a spoiler.
Megan felt foolish. The cold and isolation must be addling her brain. She must get away from here as soon as she possibly could. Minutes later, Jamie was back in the kitchen cheerfully whistling and bustling around finding mugs and spoons.
“I can’t bear people who are cheerful first thing in the morning,” Megan said, as she drifted back into the living room . She stabbed at the fire with the poker, hoping to stir some more life into it.
Jamie followed her in, carrying the steaming mugs. “Well, we’re both up now so we might as well make the most of it.”
KEYSON, PATRICIA (2013-11-06). SNOWBOUND WITH A STRANGER (romance books) (Kindle Locations 258-262). Not So Noble Romance Fiction Novels. Kindle Edition.
I'm sorry but even with my electric kettle it takes more than a few seconds to boil water and brew a cup of tea. It say that Megan drifted back into the living room. She stabbed at the fire... to bring it to life then jumps straight to Jamie followed her in, carrying the steaming mugs. It's about the relationship of time. This is but only one example of the writing being jumpy. A few more words or a single sentence could have made it flow smoother for example just adding 'while waiting for the tea' to the beginning or end of the sentence She stabbed at the fire... would show a passage of time and made it flow better.
The premise of the book was far fetched but I thought it could work. Last year I read another book with two strangers being snowbound together but how they became that way worked out better than in this book. I'm sorry but a woman all alone in a cabin in the woods just let's a stranger come and stay with her. Maybe it's my modern since of survival but I don't think I would do that, I don't care how handsome a man may be. The most dangerous person can also be the most charming. I understand that this is fiction but there has to be some element of true behavior to make it work.
Also who goes to a mountain cabin and not bring your own food. She says the owners promised a Welcome basket but usually something like that does not have enough in it for one day let alone several. Maybe it's the Girl Scout in me but I feel you should always make yourself prepared for any situation. Also doesn't the owner of the cabins maintain them if they are in the business of renting them out. Old furniture, food left buy previous tenants and pipes that freeze are not good for business. Also she booked a 2 bedroom cabin and ended up with a one room shack. I would definitely be contacting the owners for an explanation and possible refund.
Another thing that annoyed me was the miscommunication between Megan and Jamie. This seems to be a technique used by a lot of romance novel writers to keep or I should say to extend the story.
Lastly I felt the characters were too one dimensional. They just had no substance to them.
That's my take on this book. I gave it three stars on Good Reads because I was able to get though the book in one day. I have read books where the writing was so bad that I couldn't even finish reading it but not this one.
Megan felt foolish. The cold and isolation must be addling her brain. She must get away from here as soon as she possibly could. Minutes later, Jamie was back in the kitchen cheerfully whistling and bustling around finding mugs and spoons.
“I can’t bear people who are cheerful first thing in the morning,” Megan said, as she drifted back into the living room . She stabbed at the fire with the poker, hoping to stir some more life into it.
Jamie followed her in, carrying the steaming mugs. “Well, we’re both up now so we might as well make the most of it.”
KEYSON, PATRICIA (2013-11-06). SNOWBOUND WITH A STRANGER (romance books) (Kindle Locations 258-262). Not So Noble Romance Fiction Novels. Kindle Edition.
I'm sorry but even with my electric kettle it takes more than a few seconds to boil water and brew a cup of tea. It say that Megan drifted back into the living room. She stabbed at the fire... to bring it to life then jumps straight to Jamie followed her in, carrying the steaming mugs. It's about the relationship of time. This is but only one example of the writing being jumpy. A few more words or a single sentence could have made it flow smoother for example just adding 'while waiting for the tea' to the beginning or end of the sentence She stabbed at the fire... would show a passage of time and made it flow better.
The premise of the book was far fetched but I thought it could work. Last year I read another book with two strangers being snowbound together but how they became that way worked out better than in this book. I'm sorry but a woman all alone in a cabin in the woods just let's a stranger come and stay with her. Maybe it's my modern since of survival but I don't think I would do that, I don't care how handsome a man may be. The most dangerous person can also be the most charming. I understand that this is fiction but there has to be some element of true behavior to make it work.
Also who goes to a mountain cabin and not bring your own food. She says the owners promised a Welcome basket but usually something like that does not have enough in it for one day let alone several. Maybe it's the Girl Scout in me but I feel you should always make yourself prepared for any situation. Also doesn't the owner of the cabins maintain them if they are in the business of renting them out. Old furniture, food left buy previous tenants and pipes that freeze are not good for business. Also she booked a 2 bedroom cabin and ended up with a one room shack. I would definitely be contacting the owners for an explanation and possible refund.
Another thing that annoyed me was the miscommunication between Megan and Jamie. This seems to be a technique used by a lot of romance novel writers to keep or I should say to extend the story.
Lastly I felt the characters were too one dimensional. They just had no substance to them.
That's my take on this book. I gave it three stars on Good Reads because I was able to get though the book in one day. I have read books where the writing was so bad that I couldn't even finish reading it but not this one.
January 25, 2015
Clean contemporary romance set in Scotland with two recently broken-up singles get stuck together in a snow storm and become friends.
Megan has just been dumped the same week that she finds her isolated in her Christmas cottage rental when a stranger, Jamie shows up stuck in the snow just like her. So they make the most of the situation and become friends and then more. Megan starts to compare her nasty selfish ex-boyfriend, Douglas with the sweet smart Jamie as the days pass. A year passes where she gets over the past and makes a new future with the smart Jamie.
Totally clean and I did like the trapped with limited food in a snowbound cottage episode because it was clearly not romantic, but definitely something that would bring out the worse in a person so that there wouldn't be any horrible surprises in their friendship. Something about extreme events to bind strangers together.
Kind of boring but still well edited and written so it gets a barely 2 star mark.
149 pages and kindle freebie
2 stars
Megan has just been dumped the same week that she finds her isolated in her Christmas cottage rental when a stranger, Jamie shows up stuck in the snow just like her. So they make the most of the situation and become friends and then more. Megan starts to compare her nasty selfish ex-boyfriend, Douglas with the sweet smart Jamie as the days pass. A year passes where she gets over the past and makes a new future with the smart Jamie.
Totally clean and I did like the trapped with limited food in a snowbound cottage episode because it was clearly not romantic, but definitely something that would bring out the worse in a person so that there wouldn't be any horrible surprises in their friendship. Something about extreme events to bind strangers together.
Kind of boring but still well edited and written so it gets a barely 2 star mark.
149 pages and kindle freebie
2 stars
January 3, 2014
This was a sweet, clean romance with sympathetic characters and a lot of potential. The author has a pleasant writing style, when she is at her best, but the writing was rather uneven and much of the time the story failed to keep my interest. The snowbound part was pretty good but after that the novella was a chore to wade through. For a romance to work any obstacle keeping the lovers apart has to work and in this case it surely did not. There were no obstacles, except for some neurotic crap that made no sense--what was that about! Fortunately this novella was saved by the fact that it is short, so the stupid stuff had to be kept to a minimum, but the novella would have been way better if it was so short that the author cut out the stupid stuff all together.
June 22, 2014
This story was really cute and heartwarming, I liked it.
Jamie was so helpful, kind and sweet. I found Megan was a tad of a bitch at times, but was glad when she would get over it and set things right.
This book would have been 4 stars but unfortunately I really really don't like
If only there was more to come from Megan and Jamie...! I really want to know where the author imagined there would be in 12 months time!
Jamie was so helpful, kind and sweet. I found Megan was a tad of a bitch at times, but was glad when she would get over it and set things right.
This book would have been 4 stars but unfortunately I really really don't like
If only there was more to come from Megan and Jamie...! I really want to know where the author imagined there would be in 12 months time!
August 26, 2014
This book was an okay way to spend an evening. There was nothing completely riveting that kept my attention, in fact, I found it a bit long winded considering the cliche used in its plot. The two meet, fall in love, but neither have the courage to make the next move. I found the hero preoccupied, nit making his heroine feel truly wanted. I find the heroine weak, unable to stand up for herself to get what she wants.
The characters were fairly flat, but I did enjoy the hero's sense of humor. His humor is whatgot me through the book.
Its not a book if really chose to read if I had a better idea about what it entailed, but it was okay as a free Amazon book.
The characters were fairly flat, but I did enjoy the hero's sense of humor. His humor is whatgot me through the book.
Its not a book if really chose to read if I had a better idea about what it entailed, but it was okay as a free Amazon book.
May 12, 2014
Looking aside the difficult-to-read British-English terms, I found the book choppy and hard to follow. The heroine was decent enough, as was the love interest, but overall the relationship between them made me a little stabby. One minute, everything was heated and moving forward and the next, the embers were cold again. I'm being generous with three stars simply because it was a feel-good story with a happy, yet predictable ending.
January 17, 2015
The story kept me interested every minute.
I enjoyed the storyline. The down to earth situation Megan has to deal with Jamie's not staying in touch with her, kept me reading and wondering just how this story would turn out in the end. It was very interesting. Thanks Patricia.
I enjoyed the storyline. The down to earth situation Megan has to deal with Jamie's not staying in touch with her, kept me reading and wondering just how this story would turn out in the end. It was very interesting. Thanks Patricia.
January 10, 2016
I didn't really enjoy this book I don't really understand how the couple fell in love and stayed in love a hero who made no effort to contact and get to know the heroine. A heroine who made the tinist bit if a effort but nothing more. He couldn't even be bothered to talk to her when he hadn't seen her in months.
I just didn't feel the love between them which was very disappointing.
I just didn't feel the love between them which was very disappointing.
February 3, 2014
Snowbound with a stranger by Particia Keyson is a nice cozy read. It's not the greatest that I have ever read by it's a nice story with an okay story line. Actually quite romantic, and it has good characters.
December 4, 2013
Super sweet love story that I thoroughly enjoyed. This is a romantic' s dream. it's very well written.
December 5, 2013
Not very well written, and dragged. I did not appreciate the flip and abrupt writing style, and the lack of commas. The main characters were likeable but inconsistent.
December 7, 2013
sweet story
January 29, 2014
Just wished it didn't drag so much.
August 15, 2014
Nothing really happened to be honest. Megan and Jamie acted like immature prats - more like teenagers than adults.
September 6, 2014
This book was really popular so I checked it out and could immediately see why. A very cosy romance.
October 14, 2014
very immature writing. poor transitions.
November 4, 2014
This was a cute book. I enjoyed it.
December 28, 2014
A great read. I couldn't put it down. Will definitely look for this author again.
March 16, 2015
I enjoyed this book in the four book box set I had. What would you do if you were stranded in a cabin with a stranger?
October 6, 2015
Wonderful contemporary romance. A very pleasant page-turner. Enjoying Keyson's book at the moment.
February 29, 2016
Just a very sweet romance..
That was a short read. I liked that it was not the same old plot and the couple were pleasant.
That was a short read. I liked that it was not the same old plot and the couple were pleasant.
May 19, 2015
Just could not finish. Not very believable characters.
July 11, 2016
This book I liked because of the words used. HAHA it's very British, and I adored it!
September 10, 2016
Cute book, but the misunderstandings to keep the couple apart can be a bit over the top.
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