Review: UNFORGETTABLE!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
This book was beyond my expectations. I am a big fan of England in the 1800s. I picked up to book and thought it would be just another book to breeze through, over the weekend. But OMG!!! Joanna Lloyd did an amazing job with the plot. I was glued to the pages from the beginning to the very end. I walked around the house holding my IPad with one hand trying to do my work with the other. I just could not put the book down.I fell in love with the characters, especially with Electra and William. Electra was a strong woman that endured the worst and enjoyed the best. Her horrible uncle, Viscount Gascombe abused her as a young woman, and when she threatened to expose him, he charged her with embezzlement, and she was sentenced to sever years in prison. Her fiancé abandoned her and she was left alone to walk that long hard road. She was in prison for 4 months and then transported to the penal colony of New South Wales, Australia on a ship where she endured the torment from the other prisoners because she was different. She was a lady.I was overwhelmed with emotions of pain, hurt, embarrassment, anxiety, agony, and passion. Electra longed to find love, someone to help her out of the horrible situation and she found that in William Radcliffe. William was strong, wealthy, warm, honesty, and he fell head over heels for Electra. The author has done a spectacular job introducing each character and letting you feel their inner thoughts, while you are moving through the plot.William had his own trials to endure. His father betrayed him and his fiancée married his father leaving him utterly devastated by the betrayal. He left England to get away, and try to heal the pain and misery. He found a new life in in the colony and never thought he would be happy again until his eyes fell on breathtaking Electra. They married each other for convenience. She needed her freedom and he needed an heir for his estate but he didn't need any emotional attachments to the woman. But oh was he ever wrong!!!Electra became his one and only true love. She aroused feeling in him that he had never known he had. The sexual encounter was alluring and intense. They both survived immeasurable trials, from people that wanted to see them utterly destroyed. Their love was so strong, and their desire for life so unbelievable, that they endured. I only wish there was more to the story. I absolutely loved it!! Joanna Lloyd is now one of my favorite authors.