Review: What Nonsense...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I couldn't stay interested in Eliza and Edward as much as I tried I stopped somewhere in Chapter 5.  Too much nonsense and the story line was a bit far fetch. The heroine  spends her time in the beginning being tracked down by somebody. Eliza is a bar maid in a tavern in a shady part of town. Edward is a man on a mission to locate the elusive Jemima his brother-in-law Peter's lover. It's unclear whether Edward is married to a sister of Peter's or if Peter is married to a sister of Edward. Well Edward ends up at the tavern where Eliza works. He thinks that she is Jemima and doesn't believe Eliza when she says that she is Jemima sister. Well the sister's are running from someone and Eliza doesn't really trust Edward. Eliza just wants find her sister who by the way has taken off without telling Eliza where she was going or when she will return. Leaving Eliza to fend for herself in the hell hole of the tavern in which she works. The owner of the tavern also has a brothel upstairs and he trying to force Eliza to become a hooker for him. The owner hasn't been paying Eliza any wages so she doesn't have any money to leave. She stays in a room upstairs where the brothel is. Well when Edward comes into the tavern on a lead that Eliza maybe Jemima he starts to ask questions. He finds out that Eliza knows Peter and that Jemima has fled somewhere. Eliza is being really vague on the details giving Edward more reason to believe she is Jemima. Edward ends up seeing the owner of the tavern mistreating Eliza who he thinks is Jemima. He's kind of sweet on her and doesn't like seeing her mistreated. So he attempts to rescue her by acting like a customer looking to be serviced. But Edward goes about it the wrong way and ends up with a headache for his troubles while Eliza makes a daring escape from the tavern. For some unknown reason the owner of the tavern sends out some men might be his customers to track her down and bring her back. Not sure why strange men would want to borrow trouble and take off to find a woman who they don't really know and could probably careless about. Anyway Eliza escapes and runs into Edward who helps her escape. They are being tracked by the three unknown men from the tavern. At one point they are tracked down and forced to fight. Edward ends up fatally shooting one of the men and instead of the other two leaving they decide to fight Edward. Why? They admitted to not even knowing the woman and have no attachment to the owner of the tavern. Why risk your life for nonsense even if paid. Well they got paid alright Edward ends up killing all three men. Edward and Eliza take off and take one of the dead mens horse with them to ride. A couple of hours later they are being hunted again and this time the men are well armed and on horse back and looking for Eliza. These men are hunting her down because their boss is who she and Jemima are running from. Eliza and Edward split up so that the men will follow Edward and Eliza and get away. They agree to meet up at an old barn that Eliza knows. Except Eliza has no intention of meeting up with Edward. She leaves and heads in a different direction leaving Edward to wait from her for no reason and she doesn't seem to care if he will be okay. Well several hours later she ends up at an inn. She lies to the innkeeper and says she strayed from her party and would like a room although she doesn't have any money. The innkeeper is friendly and takes pity on her. A strange turn of luck Edward ends up at the same inn he notices that the horse he took off the dead man is in the stable so he goes into the inn in search for her claiming she's his wife and that she is lost. Well he locates Eliza and he's not happy when he finds her. He storms into her room like fancy meeting you here scaring her half to death while she is eating her meal. She wonders why he's upset. I'm thinking "Really". She's put his life in danger then instead of meeting up with him at the barn she leaves him out there to wait and is wondering why he is upset. Somehow he prayed for strength because he didn't kill her on the spot. They end up talking and she wants to leave the inn and head to her family's home. She says there is a secret hiding spot with money for her to live on while she finds Jemima and that she and her sister agreed to leave messages there in the event they become separated. Well the home she speaks of is back the way they came and they run the risk of coming in contact with the people trying to hunt them down. Edward offer's to give her money and bring her to Peter's home where she will be safe. She doesn't even know if there is any money there or even a message. Jemima could have taken the money to live on the run. Eliza is just gambling with her life and hoping that she comes out on top.Well there too much nonsense and senseless antics in this book. I stopped reading a little after them leaving the inn. If the rest is anything like the beginning it will be full of nonsense, mayhem and foolishness. Eliza's character is only looking out for number one and Edward is following her around with the wrong part of his body and it's not the head on his shoulders.