Review: I had a problem with the heroine
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
I liked the book overall.  I've read all this author's books, and have enjoyed all of them.  It may just be that the heroine was a little too rigid for my taste that made me not love the story.  She is an unusual character.  Her life from age 16 to age 30 was a series of disasters.  Her father was embroiled in a scandal and took his own life, and his family was disgraced.  I think because of that, she was unusually sensitive to being held up to public scorn or gossiped about.  I was really surprised that she took the word of the unkind neighbor who ran to her to tattle on her husband's misdeeds.  She already knew that this lady disliked her husband's family intensely.  I would have liked her more if she had broached the subject to Jack in her letters, and asked him to be more discreet.  They were strangers at this point, and I thought her disappointment was overblown and too bitter. LIkewise, with the one night stand that he did not confess to her.  Jumping all over him about exposing her to unpleasant situations - yet, let it rip.  However, given the circumstances of their marriage, I thought her reaction was overblown about his 'infidelity'.I also was not crazy about the epilogue. Travel is good, but for years and years on end?  At some point, you need to settle long enough for the sons to go to school in England and for the daughter to learn how to go on in English society.