Review: Beautiful story of falling in love while traveling in Spain
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
I love travel stories and Ms. Knightley did a beautiful job of describing several tourist sites in Seville, Spain. She made me want to travel there!Libby is visiting Seville with her friend Amelia and her husband, Viscount Winters. Libby speaks several languages and comes to the aid of Philip and his brother Nigel. Philip is really the Duke of Gillingham, but is traveling incognito in an attempt to remove his brother from the bad influences of his life in London. Libby and Philip immediately feel a connection and have the opportunity to get to know each other over the next several weeks. Libby is intelligent, spirited and beautiful. Philip is caring, handsome and confident.For a novella, this book does a surprisingly great job of character development for Libby, Philip and even Nigel. I felt like I got to know them and just enough about their past and their dreams for the future to understand their motivations. It also helped that I perfectly agreed with the sentiments the author assigned to the characters, like: "if we had everything we want in life, then what would be left to strive for" and "sometimes a person has to make mistakes for himself before a lesson can sink in" and others I won't spoil by quoting.Just when you think the relationship is on the fast track to a HEA, there's a twist in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed the resolution and didn't want to stop reading until I found out how it worked out. The ending is sweet and satisfying and there wasn't anything I didn't like about the story. Not sure if I'll read it again, so giving 4 stars, but would definitely recommend it.** Clean story with a few brief kisses.