Review: very crisp read - highly enjoyable!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
Pleasantly surprised would be an understatement for my take on this book and the experience reading it.  It's an engaging story with extremely well thought our main characters. I wasn't sure it would be the kind of book I could sink myself into, but it only took about 20 minutes and I knew I had something very compelling in my hands.  It was very well researched and the effort to create realism based upon the time and setting was very impressive.  It would have been easy to wash details and/or historical aspects into the pages, yet the time was taken to bring such fantastic realism out.  Beatrice and Adeline's dialogue and developed friendship is done in such a way that the reader truly feels a part of their world.  This book is highly recommended.