Wee William's Woman: The Clan MacDougall Series

I have just finished reading, back to back, Laiden's Daughter, Findley's Lass, Rowens Lady and Wee Williams Woman. I try not to read reviews before writing my own, but I did notice in getting to the place to enter a review that some of the same complaints as I have were in several of the first reviews on this book. I will be extensive and specific in hopes that the author will see this review and realize she really, really needs someone to edit these books. I could not tell if these were self published or if she has a publisher, but someone, other than the author needs to go through these books and edit them. These mistakes interfere with reading the books as you constantly have to stop, re-read to determine what the author means. In interrupts the flow of the books and can get quite irritating having to constantly think about what the author should have written rather than what she wrote.First of all, there are punctuation errors, throughout. Commas when a comma is not needed, and no commas when one is needed. This makes the reader have to stop and reread the sentence to determine what the author means in many cases.There is too much use of modern language, making the books not believable as being in medieval times. One that is especially annoying is the use of the phrase "no worries" which is quite a modern phrase. She should have used something such a"dunna worry" or something similar in those sentences. There are other times when she really seems to stray from what would typically be medieval Scottish language, so much so that you feel like you are reading a novel in the 21st century. She uses entirely too many modern sayings. I suggest she read "The Seasons Series" by author Denise Domningfor a better sense of how to make you feel like you are indeed in medieval times, and believability is a huge factor in writing or reading a book not set in current times. Domning is a very good medieval era writer who researched the time period for 15 years before putting pen to paper so that her books truly feel like you are in medieval times. It is clear this author has very little knowledge of that era, but reading Ms Domings books may give her a better sense of how her medieval era books should be written in order to make the reader feel like they are truly in medieval times. The author even inserts (in one of the books) modern psychological theory regarding survivors guilt. The author constantly is placing her characters in the 21st century, not the 14th century.At other times the author seems to lose track of what she said in the previous 2 pages...one specific instance is when in one of the books she says the men are going to a table with set mugs of ale, then two pages later she has them pouring the beer out of kegs...in two pages she lost track of what she had said? Anyone who had edited the book surely would have caught that. In another place there is a child being held captive away from their family , and within 2 pages she names that child as being with their family.Many of her errors seem to be coming from re-writing a sentence, but she does not fix the entire sentence so that there are extra words or words missing, again making you stop and re-read trying to figure out what the sentence is supposed to say, interrupting the flow of your reading.In some cases she used the wrong words, that sounded similar to the word that should have been used. I suggest the writer keep a dictionary handy when writing to make sure the word she is using is correct for the meaning she wishes to convey.One thing this writer consistently does is incorrectly use words that are meant to be written together vs when they should be separate words. Specific examples:anyone vs any oneoverdue vs over duewherein vs where inand of course the infamous to vs too rears its ugly head as well.She consistently has errors like that, indicating she does not know when the words should be joined or separate, and it DOES make a difference. These structure of such words cannot be used interchangeably.There are other things that just don't make sense such as a character being fed leeks for dinner towards the end of winter. No vegetables would be found in a medieval larder other than root vegetables which keep well. That would probably be potatoes, carrots, turnips etc. It is these type of things that make the story not believable. The author needs to pay attention to detail, as these type of minute details make the difference between a believable story and one that is not believable.In these books it is as if she wrote these novels in modern language and times, with a few "dunna's" thrown in to try to make it sound authentic.The stories are good, this writer shows promise--but there were at least 20 typos or other problems in Laiden's daughter ( I was not paying attention to comma placement in the first 3 books) 19 in Findley's Lass, 27 in Rowen's Lady, and a whopping 39 in Wee William's Woman when I also started making note of comma's used incorrectly. (I love being able to track problems with a kindle so that you can be specific in reviews.)The author needs to employ a GOOD editor. One simply cannot edit their own books as the mind glosses over the mistakes, reading the book as the author meant it...the brain simply does not pick up on the mistakes.I did enjoy reading these books, however, although I enjoyed Laiden's Daughter the most. Perhaps because I was new to the series or perhaps it is just a better story line. The characters are fun, the story lines good, but this author really should go through the books she has written and at the very least correct the plethora of typos etc. She has written so many books that total re-writes would be quite time consuming, but she needs to slow down and hone her craft, rather than churning out book after book with these kinds of problems in the,I DO hope this author reads her reviews as she seems to be cranking out a lot of books...and unless she tackles the above issues, she'll never be considered a great writer. She'll just be another kindle writer, churning out mediocre books.I'll not be falling for "oh, I just have to read the next one in the series" anymore. This author need to become more professional.

Out of Ms. Suszan Tisdale’s clan MacDougall series this is the one I really like the best! Ms. Tisdale is such a wonderful storyteller and weaves quite a spellbinding novel! I usually think it’s hard to imagine Ms. Tisdale’s characters but in trying to imagine Wee William there is really no problem in that. A huge nearly seven foot tall, handsome, brawny, sensitive with a heart of gold highlander and hero of the book Wee William was just hard not to like not only his love of children and his compassion to not only his men but women as well made me just instantly be charmed by him. Yes, I would probably run in the other direction when faced with a giant such as himself but I still would do everything I could to be his friend without upsetting him. That’s what makes the physically abused, beautiful, headstrong courageous heroine Kate much to be admired at least for me. She stands her ground and doesn’t run in the other direction when it comes to William or anyone for that matter.Wee William and a group of the MacDougalls head to England to retrieve priceless treasures for the laird’s daughter come upon Kate who is physically being beaten daily for attempting to run away by her husband Horace. Wee William and the men from the MacDougall clan decide to take the treasures and Kate back to Scotland. Can Wee Willaim after swearing off love avoid falling for Kate and her for him? The book is filled with very serious somber parts and some laugh out loud moments making it a book that is quite a page turner and hard to put down.Ms. Tisdale brings back some much loved characters from her previous books Angus, Isobel, Tall Thomas, Black Richard, David, Daniel and the rest whom I liked previously in Laiden’s daughter and Findley’s lass have come back in this one. I still think it’s odd that people still call him wee when really there is truly nothing wee about him. I guess our nicknames stick with us no matter how old we get. It even made me laugh when his manly part was even described as a tree root! The only thing is there were several spelling errors which don’t really bother me I can overlook them and didn’t really detract from the story. I sometimes think that it is the problem of my kindle more than if I would actually buy the paperback book. So even with the spelling errors I am giving this book a five star rating not because it is my favorite thus far but I will keep it in my library to reread again, can recommend it and will get more books from Ms. Tisdale!

Action pack through and through. Lots of twists and turns, a real roller coaster of a story. Loved Wee William in the previous book so very goals he falls in love. More characters falling in love, who feature in later books. Great Series, great writer.

I am really cheesed off with this book. The story is very good but at every new chapter there are the first few pages missing. I paid almost £3.00 for this book I am really regretting buying it. I don't know what the procedure is to get my money back.

Enjoyed reading the book takes you through the twists and turns of the main characters keeping you entertained tHank you.

I enjoyed this book although it was a bit unbelievable most of the characters were likeable and funny and the storyline was ok. Might read it again.

I loved this book and would definitely recommend to family and friends,it's reasonably priced and so well written..it kept me glued to my kindle for hours