Review: Tactical Considerations of the Heart
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2012
When Lady Allegra chooses to distance herself from her estranged husband and stagnant marriage, her actions lead to more obstacles to her former wedded bliss. A battle of wills and hurt feelings threatens to put an end to everything, the way these two characters continually attack and retreat from one another.  Allegra becomes an unwilling part of an unsavory wager, which could push her jealous husband, Nicholas, over the edge, right when she needs him most.  Both are so caught up in their individual tactics that they may end up destroying their love instead of reigniting it.Alicia Rasley's exquisite prose brings us a glimpse of the Regency period's opulence as well as its ordinariness. Her characters only seem to be socially perfect but are in reality infused with human frailty. Readers cannot help but be drawn in by them. In some aspects, Allegra's Song is an easy read, but above all it is a testament of how we mere mortals tend to over-complicate our lives and loves.