Review: Good Story But Too Much Profanity
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2012
Others have given summaries of the plot, so I'll just tell what I thought of the novel. I don't think I've even read a book so filled with profanity. It would have been a much stronger story without this. Sometimes the misunderstandings between Susanna and Adam get frustrating, but they were all believable. There are also very explicit sex scenes after Susanna and Adam are married.There were incidents of children becoming indentured at 11 or 13 years of age in the book. According to English law, an indentured servant had to be 21 years old. There were also point of view changes within the same section.Regardless of these problems, I found the story to be riveting. I really liked both Susanna and Adam and was pulling for them all the way. I just wish it had been a cleaner book.