Review: Sweet Start to Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
FIRST KNIGHT is the first novella in a four part series by Connie Brockway and Christina Dodd.  The series is built around the story of an enormous antique bed and four couples through history.  In this story, the framing story is introduced.  The mansion museum in which the bed resides has been sold and the curator is giving the last to tour.  As part of the tour, the reader is presented with stories of the bee's past.In FIRST KNIGHT, we learn the origins of the bed and the couple who first occupied it in the thirteenth century.  Sir Nicholas returns from the Crusades to the land and manor which he gained through marriage.  He has forgotten, however, that he also has a wife.While it is strains credulity that Nicholas would not remember that he had a wife considering that is how he gained the land, that can be forgiven as it is just the trope to introduce the conflict in the story.  For a novella, the story is interesting and I really liked the characters.  I read this story after the second one, and I recommend reading them in order.  While not vital (I understood the second novella just fine) the stories do tell a larger tale when read in order.