Review: Riverbreeze: Part 1 (Riverbreeze Triology)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Twelve year old Robert and ten year old James are the half brothers of the new Earl.  Unfortunately, their half brother treats the boys as little more than servants.  They are taken from their fancy bedchambers and forced to share a bed in the servants quarters.  Robert is forced to work in the fields, and when James refuses to follow his brother's lead, the Earl whips the young boy, attempting to beat him into submission.  Disgusted with their treatment and knowing they have no chance for a happy for future with the Earl, Robert devises a plan to help him and James escape to America.  They travel to Virginia where they become indentured servants for a man who owns a prosperous tobacco plantation.  The older man treats them kindly and adopts them as sons, eventually giving them their own land to farm and raise horses.Now older, the boys are looking into the possibility of marrying.  When their adoptive father's nieces arrive from England, Robert and James are intrigued by the lovely twins, Elizabeth and Evelyn.  The girls are happy to now be living with their uncle, who treats them more kindly than their father ever did.  Eventually interest develops between the brothers and the twins girls.While I think this story had potential, it was exasperatingly sloooowwwwwww. I felt like it took forever for the story to go anywhere.  There would be pages and pages and pages and pages of paragraphs describing a given characters emotions, thoughts, feelings, background, etc, and often these descriptions were very, very repetitive.  There was very little dialogue and nothing seemed to ever happen.  And this book is only the first of three.  The entire story must be somewhere between seven and nine hundred pages.  And to complete the story you'd have to pay for Parts 2 and 3, which I definitely won't be doing.  The story is just way too long and drawn out.  I think it could have been shortened quite a bit.I also found it strange that the twins Elizabeth and Evelyn were gifted with what was described as "prophetic dreams".  I don't know, it was just a little weird to me.  I found it a bit disconcerting and that type of story line just doesn't seem to fit with a historical romance set in Colonial America.Overall, I was really disappointed by this novel.  It could have been so much better.