Review: Different historical romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
This book started out in what I thought was an exciting way--Averill, a half-Egyptian orphan, is an artist dressed as a boy.  The hero, the British soldier Tennison, finds her and takes her off the streets. She will be his artist on their journey.  I was waiting for some very exciting plot lines--however the journey through the desert almost made me stop reading.  I also had a hard time with how the author made Tennison out to be so cruel in his treatment of her--all because he supposedly was trying to save her from himself.  Those scenes just didn't do anything for me.  Of course when he finally succumbs to his feelings, and they do get together, she becomes pregnant.  Then the terrible fire pushes them apart, and she has to be all alone for the birth of the baby.  But amazingly, Averill's artistic talent, which brought them together in the first place, brings them together again, and they all live happily ever after...I can't justify recommending this book because of all the chapters that went on and on and on and on and on, and well, you get the point.