Letters from Skye in Around the World

Jun 30, 2013 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebooks, around-the-world, location-scotland, cold-weather-islands, netgalley, read2013

Some of the books and movies I love pull back the veil and reveal me to be a hopeless romantic, and this is going to be one of them. I sat and read this cover to cover without a break, except for when the emotions got too intense and I flipped over to check my e-mail. The entire book, set during both world wars, is written in letters. During the first world war, the letters are between a female poet living on the Isle of Skye and a slightly younger male fan of her work. The second world war lett ...more

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Aug 28, 2014 Lilisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: around-the-world-2014, 2014, historical-fiction, skye

A story that unfolds entirely through letters, Letters from Skye is a simple, yet touching novel that spans both world wars – I and II. In the years leading up to World War I, Elspeth Dunn, a poet on the isle of Skye receives a letter from across the pond from American fan, David Graham. So begins a poet/fan relationship through the art of letter writing that over the months and World War I years transitions into a deeper one, one in which Elspeth and David get to know each other through the wri ...more

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Aug 23, 2014 Andrea rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-foreign-locale, around-the-world-2015

I was a bit disappointed with this one, and wanted to enjoy it more than I did, so 2.5 stars rounded up to 3. Overall I found it to be a bit too sentimental. On the plus side, the story was successfully told via correspondence. It's not a unique device, but one that I tend to enjoy. On the downside, I found the language to be lacking in authenticity - a stretch for the 1940s letters, but rather implausible for the 1910s. I also questioned the brevity of the some of the letters. Would you really ...more

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Apr 03, 2018 Barbarac rated it liked it

Shelves: wwii, women-protagonists, uk

Since this book tells the stories of 2 women, one during WWI and the other during WWII (more or less), I have averaged the rating between the 2 stories. Well, mostly it's about one's love story, and the other one finding out about it.
I loved reading about Isle of Skye. It sounds like a beautiful place to get lost in for a few days.And while one of the love stories in the book is definitely more romantic and passionate than the other, neither one felt very convincing to me until the very end of t ...more

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Jul 26, 2013 Nancy rated it liked it

I was really looking forward to reading this book but was a bit disappointed. It was an easy light read but the entire book is written as letters and was set in two time periods and sometimes I found myself confused when it switched between the time periods. I found this style of writing was not the most enjoyable although the story was good and the characters were interesting.

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Jul 12, 2013 Toni rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, scotland, epistolary-novel

I don't know why, but I have a thing about epistolary novels and also with novels set on islands. Put them both together, you have Letters from Skye and I am instantly sold on reading the book. This was good, not great, but very satisfying.
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Mar 13, 2014 Rachel rated it liked it

Shelves: scotland, dual-timeline, gr-choice-awards-2013, read-in-2014, romance, ww2, ww1, set-in-1940s, set-in-1910s, american-authors

I had mixed feelings on this one. While the letters between poet Elspeth on the Isle of Skye and young American David Graham were at times poignant, sweet, amusing, I confess I felt sorry for her husband Iain.

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May 15, 2014 Emily Goenner Munson rated it really liked it

I was afraid this book would feel gimicky with the two settings (WWI and WWII), but the characters and story were so richly drawn in the letters I was enchanted.

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