Agnes Moor's Wild Knight by Alyssa Cole5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() RELATED: Royal Romance: A Princess Finds Love in This Historical Thriller I don’t have a lot of patience for badly written Scots dialect, in particular (I promise you all that we don’t say “och aye” or “bonny lass” anywhere near as often as we do in these books!) I tend to have a pretty low tolerance for Highlander romances that rely on the most expected elements and stereotypes of my nationality. This is not unique to Scottishness, but being an actual Scot who reads a lot of romance novels, my past with this comes with a lot of pitfalls. It’s an odd experience for any person to see the specificities of their own culture and history diluted into a handful of tropes for the purposes of titillation. Of course, if you’re actually Scottish, like me, then this subgenre can be very strange to read. RELATED: Kilty Pleasures: 8 Scottish Romance Novels Imagine a stoic alpha stridently dedicated to his family and his love, then add a mega-sexy accent and penchant for wearing kilts without underwear, and how can you resist that? Some of the biggest names in romance have written stories set in Scotland or centered on Scotsmen, and it sells. ![]() There’s something about that hot Scot trope that is wholly alluring to many romance lovers. Sexy Highlanders and their passionate trysts atop the rolling hills of heather is one of the genre’s most prized staples, and it’s not hard to see why. Scotland is a big deal in romance novels. ![]()
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