Deported: Part 1 of The McKinnon Saga

by James McDonald

After the battle of Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland, called ‘Sweet William’ by his admirers,
sent his army on an orgy of destruction through the Highlands of Scotland.
Arthur McKinnon was just sixteen when he saw the redcoats murder his father, rape his mother,
burn his house to the ground, scar him for life and deport him halfway around the world into servitude.
But Arthur had an indomitable spirit and set out to overcome everything and anyone that stood in the way of his freedom.

509 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 14, 2016

Reviews

[Lieschen · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot sounded great and I had hope for drama, action and a dark and dirty history story. But more than half of the book seems to consist of Arthur calculation profits, barrels and production - it reads like one giant math text problem. That bored me out of the story and it takes too much space in the book. And apart from that there were no real obstacles for our hero, everything just fell into place. I didn't make it until the end and never got further that pages long thoughts about finding a perfect house. Could have been great but reads more like a lesson in economy.

[Joan]

Not rating. The story has real potential, but needs a much closer proof-read to catch missing punctuation and erratic verb tenses. The errors kept pulling me out of the story.