Review: Really wanted to love it.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
I have always loved this era - knights and castles and, oh, the clothes - so I jumped with glee when I found this book. This could have been one of my new favorite books. It almost was. While Lady Adele wasn't always right, I learned to love her and wished Kate had listened to her more.The downfall of this book was the sex scene. I don't like sex in my books - most often it slows the plot down - and I really don't like stupid, selfish, lost control, premarital sex. That aside, it was just dumb. After rescuing her from the kidnapping villain, and knowing full well there's an army amassing to stop the him as well, he pulls her down into a pile of soggy leaves in the middle of the forest during a horrific rain storm to sate their lust. Yeah, that's romantic. Let's risk our health and recapture for a quick romp 'cause we have no self-control. Oy. She regrets it almost immediately, wishing she'd listened to Lady Adele. Hmmm . . .Otherwise, it was fun and fluffy and just the right amount of angst. Don't believe I'll seek out the rest of the series, though.