Review: Different, but that's not always a good thing...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
Lissa seems to be rather immature. She hangs out by a river, hoping to catch the attention of a reclusive gentleman so that she can start a ghastly rumor about herself to discourage all the fortune hunters who are hanging around since her father's death. Of course the maligned nobleman doesn't appreciate this young woman hanging about constantly, and he moved to the countryside to get away from society's rumors about him. The story is sweet in some ways, since Lissa does get under his skin, and the introduction of fly fishing is certainly different. The book is okay, but it seems as if the author tried to include as many tried-and-true romance staples (rakish villain with rumors/secrets, a mysterious child, a past love, fortune hunters, a cowardly maid, a villain, secret meetings, etc.) with a new twist: courtship by a country river with fly fishing. Sometimes odd.