Review: Not as good as the first, but it was okay.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2013
When I read the first one, I loved it. I hoped this would be the same, but I did not enjoy it quite as much.The beginning of the book was slow for me, to the point where I actually put it down for a few days before I picked it back up. The story itself is fine, but there is nothing about it that really sticks out for me. The love triangle was really played out in this one, and there is a 4 year time gap between the parts that felt awkward to me. Eleanor did develop more as a character in this book and we see more of what's important to her, but I just don't find her to be a super likeable character anymore. And of course, Gregory is awful, as he is intended to be. The end of the book was very abrupt, not really like an ending, and I didn't feel like anything at all was resolved.I think one of my favorite things about this book was the description of the bordello and the characters who encompass it. That was a moment where it really brought home for me the kind of life women were living in those days. It was interesting to read about why a woman might prefer to be a prostitute in a bordello than work at the palace as a servant.This book felt like it had more typos and grammatical errors than the last book did as well, and I think better editing would have made a world of difference.Even if you loved the first one, I don't know that this one is really worth reading. The story does not move forward enough to really make it worth it.