Kate’s 2¢: “The Mountains Wilde” by Sarah Stewart Taylor

“The Mountains Wilde” by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

    Many of the stories ( or the publishers) I’ve read during 2018, 2019, and 2020 seem to prefer the format of a prologue, alternate an old date  chapter with a current date chapter, then reconcile them in the end

   Taylor used this strategy, as well as inserting childhood flash-backs. At times it get confusing. At the end of the story, I would have deleted the final childhood flash-back, letting the reader wonder about Maggie and her Irish lover.

   Marisa Calin’s Irish dialect got so thick sometimes, I had to slow the reading speed down to catch what she was saying, only to find that it was Galic or something.

From sarahstewarttaylor.com

Sarah Stewart Taylor is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D’arcy series. She grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied Irish Literature. She has worked as a journalist and writing teacher and now lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The mountains wild DB101158

Taylor, Sarah Stewart. Reading time: 10 hours, 52 minutes.

Read by Marisa Calin.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Twenty-three years ago, Maggie D’arcy learned from the Dublin police that her cousin Erin was missing. Maggie spent weeks in Ireland, but no trace was found. When Maggie–now a divorced Long Island detective–learns that Erin’s scarf has now been found and another young woman has gone missing, she returns to Ireland. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

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