Review: Intelligent, well-written historical romance.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2012
I'd never read anything by Alicia Rasley before and was pleasantly surprised by this e-book.  Rasley is a more than competent writer.  Her book flows better than books written by much better known HR writers.  She also appears to bother with research into the time period, so the reader doesn't feel that a modern Jack and Jill have been sent back in time to put on period costume and then behave just as they would in modern day.I had just seen the movieAnonymous, which deals with the identity of William Shakespeare, before downloading this e-book, so it was all the more interesting to me.  As a matter of fact, this book is much better than the movie and doesn't have all that possible incestuous behavior on the part of Elizabeth I to annoy me.Rasley's plot is well executed, the dialogue is intelligent and not full of anachronistic vocabulary, and the characters are multi-dimensional.  The reason I have given this 4 stars, not 5, is that the romantic attraction  between the H and h isn't as strong as I like in a romance.  But plot and writing is much better than average and that makes up for it.I have, since reading this one, also downloadedRoyal Renegade, a Traditional Regency Romance Novel (Regency Escapades), which is the romance of two secondary characters in this one.  It preceded this one but I believe there'll be no problem in reading these out of order.