Review: Very different - 3.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 16, 2013
I'm still not quite sure how I felt about this book. I'm not sure I'm convinced that a beautiful, rich young noble woman would sell herself into indentured servanthood on the off chance of trying to find her beloved in America. The idea that she'd be able to get out of the indenture seems implausible but without this plot device I suppose we wouldn't have a story. The h as I said, sells herself so that she can get across to America to find her young man. She is bought by an intriguing H, who is a Quaker but is clearly something covert as well. The h is pretty arrogant and the H deals quite firmly with her. There is an attraction between them and eventually they marry in name only as they are compromised.+++Spoilers+++I'm not a big stickler for minute details but several things happened in this book that were implausible and hard to overlook. The fact that the h was a servant and then is compromised was pretty hard to swallow. I know that her background came out but at that stage in history I'm not sure how important her nobility actually was. You'll see what I mean if you read the story. I also didn't love the fact that both the H and h were in love with other people for most of the book. The H had long loved the wife of a friend of his in America and knew he couldn't do anything about it but wanted to find someone like her to marry. He felt the h was too much of a shrew and he wanted someone loving and kind like his friend's wife. I'm not sure I didn't agree with his original opinion of the h.On the other hand the story was very different and gripping. I couldn't put it down and I think I'll definitely try another book by this author.