Then he spends an inordinate amount of time deciding whether he should go. Ailsa waits for days before she sends any note to Nik letting him know that his grand-mother has been kidnapped. In this book in particular there doesn't seem to be any urgency in finding the victims. You know, the older I get the less I like kidnapping plots in Romanceland. I thought she made an awful lot of wrong decision and I couldn't really figure out why any of the men on the estate would follow her. She was stubborn, but I wasn't inclined to view her as being very savvy. I never figured out what it was about Ailsa which would indicate that she was qualified to be in charge. Her father is still alive and she has older sisters, but they all seem to be in London. Now for some reason 22-year old Lady Ailsa seems to be in charge of a large rambling Scottish estate. Natasha happens to be visiting her friend Adana when Natasha is kidnapped. In Scotland we have Lady Edana and her granddaughter Lady Ailsa. Anyway, he and two other tall men are off to Scotland to find his grandmother and they are being stealth-like - sort of – except when he’s regal-like. I had to think he's really not much of an intriguer. He's the tall one in the group and he walks regally and doesn't act like a groomsman, so his disguise pretty much sucks. What's a prince to do? He'll go, but he'll go in disguise - sort of. He has to decide whether he stays and intrigues or goes off to find his grandmother. He's in Edinburgh involved in some kind of intrigue which has to do with his country, but then he gets a message from Lady Ailsa that his grandmother, Natasha, has been kidnapped. Anyway Mad for Plaid is Nikolai Romanovin, a royal prince of Oxenburg's story. Give me a fake duke/earl/marquess anytime. I feel as if I'm being talked down to or should I say written down to.

I don't know why - maybe I feel that creating a 'prince' is a little too close to a fairytale for me. About it, I'm not too keen on made-up royalty - dukes I can handle, but not fake rulers.

Mad for the Plaid by Karen Hawkins