Review: The Path of True Love is Never Easy but this one is fabulous!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
The setting is 1348 AD. A time when the king held total sway over his people and could alter their lives in a second. And it's a time when life was uncertain and you lived in the moment, because tomorrow you could be dead.This is the first of three books following the lives of Alyce, Geoffrey and Thomas. Alyce comes to the king's court in search of a husband.  At  the age of ten and seven, she is much older than most of court maidens looking for husbands. She quickly falls for the suave Lord Thomas Braeton. While Thomas is supposed to be looking for a wife, in truth, he spends most of his time pleasing other men's wives.Disappointedly, Alyce is betrothed to Thomas' best friend, Geoffrey, who has just arrived at court. He is a giant man who sets Alyce's body on fire with just a simple touch. She doesn't like it all. Or maybe she does, but it unsettles her for certain. She asks Geoffrey to give her more time to accustom herself to him. Instead, he gets permission to be in her company more often than what is usually allowed. Her time with Geoffrey teaches her many things about her future husband. Some good: He proves to be gentle, kind, and generous. But some bad: Her partiality for Thomas brings out an intense rage in Geoffrey. They are also plagued with a great deal of misunderstandings.Yet after many 'two steps forward and one step back', they fall  in love and move ever closer to forming union of true love rather than the typical arranged marriage of the time.Jenna doesn't just tell you about the past, she entrenches you into the middle ages. You'll feel you are there with them, in their hearts and minds. Every scene and word rings authentic. She makes you believe in a young maiden's ability to truly love a man she barely knows and a seasoned warrior's intense desire to protect and love his young maiden. Their feelings ring true from beginning to end and constantly pulls the reader forward.The path to true love is never easy nor straight forward, but these two fabulous people deserve a bright future, so I will travel this journey through three books with them, just so I can finally have my extraordinary HEA.