Review: Mixed feelings on this one
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
Liked the book but felt that the love (lust) began too soon and lacked the development I would have liked to see.  I found it unrealistic that a woman, a little girl, a young boy, and four "aunts" traveling together and settling in to a new towm would not have aroused more suspicion.  I could not believe that Faith married Duke without telling him the truth.  Where was her faith in him?  His gifts to her were beyond comprehension - building walls in her house, buying lovely gowns, parasols, etc.  Couldn't quite understand why Faith's Mom would live the way she did and not try to get out of her situation.  Hard to believe she would turn down a marriage proposal to save a man's career.  Duke was a little bit too good to be true.  The aunts all finding love so quickly is also unrealistic....but I guess it worked for the author's purpose in bringing the story to an end.  Adam and Rebecca are too young to be experiencing the feelings they are for one another and it was tacky describing the scene they saw between Iris and Patrick.  The sex scenes are too descriptive.  A good read if you don't expect realism and don't mind the love scenes.