Review: SO glad I don't live in this time period!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
*May contain spoilers*I wouldn't live in the Medieval ages for all the money in the world. Why? Because as a woman I wouldn't be allowed to keep it! For all the crap women still have to put up with today, at least we're able to make our own money, buy our own homes and tell a guy to go F himself if we want. I'm so not one of those "damsel in distress" types. I'll stay in 2013 thank you.Here's why (and here also is why "chivalry" was actually crap):Synopsis: When Amica's beloved husband dies, she becomes a ward of the king and her money/properties are given to a a male trustee. In the king's custody she will remain until she is married to someone else who then will gain her funds. Her current trustee wants her as his wife, for that obvious reason, but there is also a commoner-turned-knight, Sir Michel who wants her for the same reason: her dowry (any guy who has the nerve to call women gold diggers needs to look up this word 'dowry'!).Sir Michel sets out after Ami who counters him by reminding him she is higher ranking and though she may be a woman, she isn't going gently into anyone's bed and she certainly isn't keeping her opinions to herself. There is betrayal of a high ranking woman (hey we weren't allowed to do anything back then, so we had to entertain ourselves somehow), a game/wild goose chase set forth to the trustee, Amica and Michel by the king, sword fighting, some misunderstandings between Michel and Amica, blood and a good name and reputation to protect. (Note, it's only rape if you're not married and the offender is only punished if he is a lower social rank than the female. A suitable "punishment" would be to marry his victim. Oh super...*Eyeroll* Seriously, If I wanted to read this kind of garbage I'd read the bible).As the book progresses, Michel and Amica eventually do fall in love and choose one another, but Michel does remember the king's statement "being married to Amica will be like riding a wild stallion". Michel's thought goes to "the most wild of horses make the tamest in the end". Great, so he loves her but over time she'll be tame. Yeah, that's not love jackass. I guess for that time period it's a happy ending. I mean Ami and Michel do love each other, and Michel does admit it's more than her properties he ends up wanting. Her was but one of her choices, and she does choose him. Amica's as strong as any woman could be in this time period.Domning is actually a very good writer. I can't blame her for writing how it actually was back then. She's very descriptive and a very good researcher of the time period. As angry as I was at the male characters, I did want to keep reading to find out what would happen next. I wish there was a little bit more to the ending, but it's satisfactory enough.