*4.5⭐️
Do you love and miss Outlander? Do you wish to picture Sam Heughan for most romance books that you read? Well then READ THIS BOOK!

This book was so much fun! Addie and Luke had AMAZING banter, especially when they were in their pranking stage of their strangers with attraction to hate to love relationship! They also had really good chemistry and once they got together, they just felt so right together!

I also loved their backstories. Addie’s story of following in her mom’s literal footsteps in Scotland was both sad and heartwarming. I didn’t really love how her story with her dad was never really given closure (yes, it’s in the epilogue, but that didn’t seem like enough for me), but I guess life doesn’t always have closure. It just really annoyed me (on behalf of Addie) that her dad never takes accountability.

I really liked the side characters in this book! I’m really hoping that we get to see more of this family with Luke’s brother getting books!

If you love Scotland this is a fun read. Lots of chemistry and scenic views. Be sure to add this one to your spring reading list.

Looking for some literary travel plans? Come visit Scotland with a romance novel that will leave you with butterflies in your stomach.

Addie Macrae is a travel consultant coming to Scotland to save Logan Sutherland’s Scottish tour business. He’s resistant to change, she’s trying to prove herself in her new job and sparks are flying in the office as they try to sabotage each other with ridiculous pranks.

But Addie is also looking to reconnect with her deceased mother’s past - by trying to find the places in Scotland her mother loved best. As Logan helps her find the hidden sites in a bid to help her see things his way, they both share vulnerabilities and connect in ways they weren’t expecting (but we were because it’s a romance 😜)

I felt like I was traveling around Scotland with these lovebirds - the push and pull between them, the funny pranks, and the cast of secondary characters really made this romance stand out!

Are you planning to read it? If you already did read it, did you love it as much as I did?

KILT TRIP was full of wanderlust and romance. LOGAN: is a hidden gem tour guide in Scotland while ADDIE is a travel consultant with emotional baggage (loss of her Mom). The blend of swoony romance, scandalous kilts & a moving personal journey provided a lovely blend of depth and frivolity. BONUS: Found familyand he-falls-first.

I so enjoyed this book! While it took a little bit for me to get into, around the 20% mark I was totally locked in. Excited to read more from Alexandra Kiley!

Thank you so much to Netgalley, Alexandra Kiley and HTP for this ARC.

I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was a sweet, heartfelt read that would be great for most audiences. The FMC was absolutely adorable and I loved following her journey.

I received this book as an eARC and am leaving my review voluntarily and honestly.

The "Kilt Trip" got me out of my reading funk! This book was sweet and adventurous, with just the right amount of enemies to lovers pinning. I couldn't put it down. For those who love the movies "Leap Year" or "Letter's to Juliette" this would be the perfect read for you. I hope Alexandra Kiley will come out with books for the other Sutherland brothers, as I loved the family. By the end of this book, I really contemplated whether I should move to Scotland or not.

The Kilt Trip is everything you need in a rom com - overseas travel, gorgeous descriptions of locations, witty banter, rivals to romance with a little slow burn. This story was heartfelt and steamy but also packed a lunch with emotional depth that you don’t always find in a rom com. Highly recommend The Kilt Trip by Alexandra Kiley!

I wanted to love this books, but I didn’t connect with the characters. The Scottish element felt hokey, like the tours that Logan was trying to avoid. This was a like, not a love for me.

Thank you to the author and Canary Street Press for my ARC.

I ended up listening to the audiobook, and the narration was perfect! The male narrator had the smoothest and most enjoyable Scottish accent. I enjoyed Addie and Logan's story as they work together in this enemies-to-lovers romance to save the family-run tour guide business.

I would recommend this book, but especially the audiobook version.

Addie has the perfect job that leaves her with no strings to attach. She sweeps in, does her job, has fun with her clients, satisfies her travel lust, and sweeps right back out. With her familial ties to Scotland, she wants nothing more than to whiz through this next project out of Edinburgh, but the magic of a swoony kilt-wearing man and the mysteries of her mother's photographs get under her skin.
I felt for Addie, was smitten for Logan, and dreamed of Scotland. Alex's debut is not one to miss and I'm incredibly eager for her next book.
Thank you to HTP Books for the traveling arc. All thoughts are my own.

3.5 stars rounded up

A romance set in Scotland? Yes please!
Scotland is on my list of places I must visit, so I enjoyed reading this cute story with its descriptive writing and snippets of Scottish history/lore.

- Dual POV
- Addie & Logan both had inner complexities they needed to work out
- Almost all of the side characters were adorable and lovable
- Lots of great banter

I ordered a bottle of Benromach for my husband’s birthday after Addie ordered it in the bar. Hopefully she has good taste!

If you like workplace romance and some spicy scenes, this is a cute read.

Thank you @htpbooks and @Netgalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Romance and rivalry in the heart of the Scotland Highlands. Addie is a globe trotting travel consultant and her latest assignment brings her to Edinburgh to revamp a tour company struggling to get by with “hidden gems” tours bypassing tourist attractions, led by the handsome yet stubborn Logan. While Addie more than has her hands full with the job and taking on Logan for whose ideas are best for the future of his family’s business, she’s also got another goal of this assignment: find the destinations her late mother loved while in the country, documented only by old photos. As Addie and Logan work together more and start scouting out the photo background destinations, the chemistry is hard to deny between the two. However, Addie’s next assignment is always on the horizon, throwing a damper in any sense of a future.
This was a cute story full of great banter, romance, and some lovely anecdotes (shout out to the Sandia Mountains reference!)
Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

4.5 stars

I’ll be upfront and honest, since 2018 I have read numerous romance books set in Scotland and about 90% of the time I’ve been disappointed in them. 2018 was when I began planning a trip to Scotland for 2020 which was postponed to 2022 and I’m currently planning a trip for this August 2024, so I decided to give this one a go and I am so glad that I did. I was completely wowed by Alexandra Kiley’s debut novel, Kilt Trip. This one quote alone, “Sometimes we find a place we’ve never been before, but it feels like coming home.” is exactly how I felt on my first trip to Scotland. Yes, I have family history on both sides and in fact my mother’s side (English) fought my father’s side (Jacobite), and I found pictures of long ago relatives on castle walls while I was there. But for me, it was more than that as, I walked the streets of Edinburgh, traipsed through the ruins of numerous castles and cathedrals, danced in the ballroom at a castle with my husband, and visited “tourist” sites as well as those off the beaten path, it was as the country wrapped me in its arms and I knew when we left we would go back. Kilt Trip featured a local Edinburgh man whose family’s tour service is in trouble and an American woman whose company has been hired to streamline and change the tours to make them appeal to more people. Addie has ties to the country through her late mother and after one short tour with Logan she knows the country will be hard to leave and the man…well, time will tell.

While there were numerous funny moments, there were also many deep and emotional ones, and I found the pacing and development spot on. Both characters were dealing with grief – Addie the loss of her mother when she was a teenager and a father so deep in his grief he forgot he had a daughter and Logan the loss of his brothers continuing to work at the family business after he made a costly mistake and the fact the business is bleeding money. Both work through their grief as they try to one-up each other on the types of tours the company should offer, in addition Logan begins to realize that being so set in his ways about doing the same tours, he has missed some wonderful places his home country has to offer. As he helps Addie find places from photos of her mom and dad’s honeymoon, she begins to work through her feelings and he is there to offer support without trying to manage her grief for her and I loved that.

The biggest reasons for not giving this one 5 stars; I felt at times their bickering was over the top and childish. I hated how set in his ways Logan was and refused to work with Addie to change up his trips. And Addie, she was just so closed off at the start I had a hard time liking her character, but I did feel like we saw great growth throughout this book and I loved that after such a short time in Scotland and with Logan how alone she felt on her own.

As Logan with Addie along drove through many parts of Scotland, I had fond memories of the trip we took with our Edinburgh native guide. Ms. Kiley’s description of the land, the history of the castles, monuments, and Clans were all reminiscent of our time there and so very vivid it gave readers who have never been to Scotland a chance to discover it through her words.

For anyone who has been to Scotland or has dreams of going, I highly recommend Kilt Trip it is by far one of the best romance books I’ve read set in the country and a favorite book of 2024 for me.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book so much. It was wonderful!

This book gave me such wanderlust! Scotland was already on my list of places I’d like to go one day bur Addie and Logan’s story bumped it right up to the top.

This was a super fun and sweet romance between Addie, a travel consultant, and Logan, a tour guide for a local company who very much does not want this outspoken American in his business and ruining the magic of his under the radar tours. If you like enemies to lovers, you’re going to love their animosity (and how it thaws into something more once they start getting to know each other).

A fun, feel-good romance featuring Addie, who is in the travel/tour business, and Logan, whose family runs a tourist guide business in Scotland. The Scottish setting is beautiful, and the characters are completely relatable and lovable. I look forward to recommending this to readers who love a sweet romance with fun situations and characters.

Absolutely adorable! This combines everything I love about travel novels, enemies to lovers romance, and a self discovery novel! Super sweet with a moderate level of spice! Perfect!

Something was off with this book for me. It has all the tropes I love, but some chapters were just flat. The sense of time was also strange for me. Thanks Net Galley for the ARC.

I had been dying to get my hands on this book ever since I read about it in pitch wars! If you love Outlander or just locales abroad, this book is SO up your alley! An absolute joy and men in kilts. What more could you want?