Review: A sweet story, more realistic than most of the romance genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
I reserve 5 stars for those books I would read again.  While that may not be true of this story, it is still a fine book, a well written small slice of the life and times in Regency England as it fights the Napoleonic wars.  I'm a sucker for regency romances, but this focuses more on the war of that time than on the society and glitter of feckless ton debutants and crowed balls or house parties.  The hero and heroine here are not of the nobility.  In She's a master seamstress and he's a second son.  They carry on a one-sided romance, and the tension of the tale is, just how will they make it to a happy ever after?The story is short, the few characters are its focus, and are well developed.  They're much more believable, not to mention likable, than the women and men of the ton, and you feel as if you know them or people like them. This is a good way to pass a rainy afternoon.