Review: I am giving this a five star review because....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2012
it was smartly written and as far as I could tell historically accurate. I appreciate that in a novel. I also appreciated the fact that this was a book I could easily encourage my teen daughter to read without inwardly squirming a bit because of graphic sex scenes - because there weren't any!There was definitely love and passion present - but I didn't have to read through a 30-page graphic sex scene to figure it out. This was a classy, well-researched read. Could it have been better? Yep - maybe a little more humor - but it was good enough to make me search out more works by this author and read them as well.