Review: A Romance Novel
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
This book belongs in the  category of romance novels.  A noble and dedicated knight and a beautiful young woman meet and it is love at first sight.  In keeping with typical romance novels, it takes the entire novel before they realize that.  Geoffrey De Mortagne has sworn an oath to a dying man that he will protect his daughter, Alleyne De Bellac. Geoffrey feels duty bound to do his best to keep his oath but is frustrated by Alleyne who keeps making wrong decisions and jumping to erroneous conclusions.The writing has less to do with the politics of the times and more with emotions. For page after page one sees:"Her stomach fluttered.""Heat rose to her cheeks.""Her cheeks grew hot.""Her cheeks flamed.""An icy shower prickled her back.""The heat rising to her cheeks..."This sounds more like a woman suffering from the Black Plague than a women seeking to regain her inheritance.  But then, Geoffrey and his hardened sergeant, Guy, also suffered from heat shooting into their cheeks and color being sent into their faces.  It all gets a bit tedious.