Review: Bolen always delivers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
I always enjoy sitting down with one of Ms. Bolen's works as she captures the culture of the times.  The Hero and Heroine Richard (the Duke) and Bonny Barbara are victims of an unwillingness to discuss their true feelings, as everything was very proper.  I was struck that while we can discuss many personal subjects with great openness these days; yet, when it comes down to our love relationships, at times, we haven't come that far.  We still worry about being the 1st one to say "I love you", and if they feel as we do.  Solidly married couples assume what their spouse is thinking and misunderstandings arise.  So for this, despite the time period, I actually found the story was very applicable to today.I like the H & h, though  one might want to shake them at times.Bolen transports me and everything I've read of hers.My only negative, if that, as a minor plot point was regarding Richard's cousin Stanley.  Things ended so civilized after all the thing Stanley did that my sense of justice wanted a harder ending for Stanley.