Christmas in Three Quarter Time review

 Title:   Christmas in Three Quarter Time

Author:   Rachel McMillan

Ch: 13 plus epilogue

Pg:  164

Series: Three Quarter Time

Genre:   Christmas Romance, Slight Rom Com

Rating: 5 Stars

Publisher: Rachel McMillan

 

Christmas In Three Quarter Time gave me the Christmas romance I didn’t know I needed this year. I had been looking forward to hallmarks Christmas in Vienna and was disappointed.

But Rachel McMillan came to the rescue with this Three Quarter Time series Christmas romance. Complete with an actual Austrian hero who recuses bunnies. What’s not to love. Felix was the perfect Austrian hero which quite frankly we need more of. And a strong heroine Johanna who secretly wants a Christmas romance. This book helped make up for missing out on a chance to go the Christmas markets if I couldn’t go in person at least I could go in the pages of a book.

Review of Rose In Three Quarter Time

Title: Rose In Three Quarter Time

Author:   Rachel McMillian

Pg:179

Series: Three Quarter Time

Genre: Contemporary

Rating:  5 Stars

Rose in Three Quarter Time is the second book in the Three Quarter Time series by Rachel McMillan and is my favorite of the series so far. I first discovered Rachel’s writing with the Herringford and Watts Mysteries which is basically a female Sherlock and Watson retelling and I was hooked. This is Rachel’s first Contemporary series set in Austria. A country I’ve always wanted to visit, first in part because of its musical heritage and after watching The Sound of Music many times as a child. Plus, this a modern marriage of convince story which is new for me.  

I have to say that Rose NcNeil is one of my favorite new contemporary heroines, mainly because I can relate to her character in many ways. Like Rose I also play the violin but not at the level that Rose plays at, and after reading this book I’m upset that I haven’t picked up a violin in years. Rose’s drink of choice the Shirley Temple is also a favorite of mine.

The hero of this book is Oliver Thorne who just happens to be a loveable dork. My kind of hero who has a habit of doing and saying the wrong thing at times.  But after being forced to give up his dreams he doesn’t want Rose to have to give up her dreams. He wants to do whatever is in his power to make that happen.

This is a sweet Contemporary read that I recommend to anyone who loves romance and contemporary novels.  

Review of Love in Three Quarter Time

Title:  Love in Three Quarter Time

Author: Rachel McMillian

Series: Three Quarter Time

 

Chapters: 7 plus Epilogue

Pages: 109

Genre: Contemporary

Rating: 4 stars

Evelyn Watt ends up working in Vienna Austria for four months helping Rudy Moser prepare family heirlooms for auction all because she fell in love with him at first sight.  The auction will be held on the same night as the Opera Ball on Valentine's Day.  But once in Vienna Evelyn starts to fall in love with the city, the music, the antiques and the Einspanner coffee at Cafe Mozart where she meets Klaus Bauner mainly because she had stolen his table at the Cafe. Whom Evelyn kind of compares to Professor Friedrich Bhaer from Little Woman.

The more Evelyn spends time with Klaus and falls in love with the city of Vienna the more she starts to see Rudy for who he really is. When an old secret comes to light involving Ruby's family as well as the family of a friend of Klaus, Evelyn is thorn on what to do. But in the end she makes the right choice, but at a cost to her. But what she ends up gaining is so much more. 

Reading Love in Three Quarter Time its easy to fall in love with the city of Vienna Austria.  It's also apparent that Rachel did her research on the city.  I have to say that it took me a bit to warm up to Evelyn but l loved Klaus from the start.  This is Novella is the first Contemporary    novel from Rachel and the first in a series of three. But it is not the first book I've read by her. I enjoyed her Herringford and Watts Mysteries series and well as the first book in the new Van Buren and DeLuca mystery series.   I've come to enjoy Rachel's writing style and know that she puts a lot of research into her novels, starting with trips to those cities for in person search.  Rachel her are a clean enjoyable read, and I look forward to reading the next book in this series. Rose in Three Quarter Time.