Review: Remarkably well written
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
I bought this book for 99 cents during an Amazon special. I've bought a lot of free and discounted Kindle books recently. I'm generally a bit less strict with these books. Most of them have not been through the kind of editing that the major publishers give a book. But in this case I don't have to.I know that the book has gotten some very bad reviews. I'm not sure why. It is a historical romance set in a period we know very little about. Some of the historical details aren't quite right. One of the places in the book is a bit too castle-like. Some of the clothes are a bit too medieval. Some of the politics aren't quite right for a world that is still Roman. The heroine goes on about freedom just a bit too much and I'm not sure exactly what she means by it. But none of that pulls you out of the story, or breaks your suspension of belief.This is a historical romance. Boy meets girl in a less than optimal way. She has just been raped by someone else. Her home is about to be totally destroyed. Her father has just died in a particularly ugly way. And he is living in a particularly unhappy arranged marriage of state. It takes the two of them almost the entire book to reach a place where they are both happy with one another.The story held my attention from beginning to end, and lately not all books can do that. I'd read another one by the author. And I think that is the real test of one of these books. Would you buy another one at the regular price. The answer is yes.The cover, by the way, is really awful.