Review: Interesting idea
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
I was intrigued by the description of this the first part of 4 stories, where the main 'character' is the huge bed located in a manor house in England. At the beginning we have a modern day museum guide giving her last tour of the manor house to some tourists because the house has been sold. There is a handyman working on the house, who the guide is sort of attracted to. As the guide is giving her tour she explains the history of the bed. The first story is set in the 13th century and the house and lands have been given to a knight because of his proxy marriage to the h. The H (the knight) returns from a Saracen prison and meets the h for the first time.***Spoilers***I really didn't buy the fact that the H 'forgot' about his proxy marriage as it is the main reason that he was given the property he returns to. The h discovers him in bed with a doxy and I truly hated that as the start of their relationship. This is a short story and it's hard for the author to redeem the character in a limited time. I think she did a fairly good job of it but the h does keep remembering the incident, which didn't help me forget it.I think I'll probably take a chance on the next story, which is being released next week. I do think the price of the novella is a bit steep for a short story though.