Review: Excellent historical meh romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I love most of Alex Beecroft's works and this novella certainly made me travel to another time and place. The settings are vivid, the adventure reminds of me the stories from my childhood (some of the characters even have Slavic names).Adventure was good, but romance was just too underdeveloped for me. Funnily, this novella (of course off the top of my head I cannot remember for sure) feels like one of the most sexually explicit stories from this writer. Usually hers anything but, and when I say explicit I would estimate that it probably has two or three sex scenes (there is certainly a story here, and sex does not become plot). But despite that, I felt no chemistry between the leads, likeable and interested as they were. I have read novels from her which almost did not have explicit sex and I felt more emotional connection to the characters. I could not emotionally connect with the guys in this one. Maybe too much crammed into novella?Three stars for the writing.