Review: Re-Imagined History & Romance with Wit
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2012
I haven't read Susan Sizemore for years. So glad I picked this book to get back to her fabulous writing. Anyone who enoys a feminist view of history, with echoes of the issues still facing women today(especially in light of the renewed battle against insured birth control)will enjoy this book.The heroine is a doctor fighting for respect and recognition in an alternate world which is richly and lovingly imagined. Every nuance is 'right', the reader feels supported in belief by Sizemore's absolute immersion in this world, its history and customs.Her lively sense of the ridiculous heightens the enjoyment, with the heroine's view of the pageantry and pomp of the nobility, and the foolishness of clinging to custom because 'that's the way we've always done it'. Human nature held up to the light, with humor and truth.The romance is an integral and delightful part of the story, delivered in doses just big enough to keep one waiting for the next meeting with the hero.