Review: An Untitled Lady
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
This book blew my mind. I was expecting the usual tame Recency story. While it started out that way it soon grew into something much bigger. Madeline finds out she is nowhere near who she thinks she is. Nash is out of the Navy and now runs a fabric/mill business. He isn't happy as a second son and is on the outs with his family. Deacon, as older brother, is to marry Madeline but doesn't want her. Nash likes her, doesn't really want to marry but does take her as a wife. That's the tame stuff so now here comes the deep stuff. This is the time that mill owners want to make more money by cutting weavers wages. They in turn want more money for their families and are fired. It was a heavy time as the match is set to the whole scene of one gigantic explosion. This was the Peterloo Riot when unarmed men with their families held a meeting and hot headed owners turned the army on them and mowed them down. This is a very hard read at the end. The government ignored them and on it went. This book literally took my breath away. I liked it a lot. Characters were well developed and I won't go deep into the descriptions. By that point in the book I could only read a couple of pages at a time. You read it if only for realizing how good we have it now.