Review: "It would be compromise indeed to settle for something other than love now that she knew its powers"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2012
Plot:In London for the Season before returning to the country to marry her childhood friend, blind Sarah finds herself wooed by two cousins - Beauty (Stewart) and Beast (Hawkes).Comments:- Historical (Regency-ish) romance. Clean.- 3214 kindle locations- m/f but clean. No bedroom encounters. Just a few kisses.- Sarah suffered a childhood illness resulting in her losing her sight.Opinion:I wanted to like it. I really did. But the writing style failed to engage me; I was bored. There are fleeting glimpses of prose that engaged me - like the visit St Pauls. The joy in the writing as Lydia explores the carvings, and Hawkes describes the dome, is inspiring. But those momentary glimpses are not enough. It's still slow. It was a nice enough story with some novel concepts, but slow...The author dealt with a lot of things well. Sarah's handicap, the gentle acceptance of it by Hawkes, the historical aspects of matrimony, as well as descriptions of locations and events. I just didn't find myself inspired.-CR-